MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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A WAY TO GARDEN is the horticultural incarnation of Margaret Roach
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United States
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A WAY TO GARDEN is the horticultural incarnation of Margaret Roach
Language:
English
Episodes
Foliage Power with Ken Druse – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 21, 2025
7/18/2025
There may be no moment in the year when my friend Ken Druse and I are more grateful for the range of textures and colors of foliage we made room for in our gardens than we are right now –... Read More ›
Duration:00:27:38
George Schoellkopf of Hollister House – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – July 14, 2025
7/11/2025
Today’s guest returned from a 1979 trip visiting English gardens inspired to do some garden-making of his own. His canvas was a northwestern Connecticut hillside and not the Cotswolds, and the home he’d just purchased wasn’t a grand manor house... Read More ›
Duration:00:26:03
Crows With Dr. John Marzluff – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 7, 2025
7/4/2025
A couple of ravens have been shouting at each other across the garden each day this spring-into-summer, and their loud-mouthed antics reminded me of a somewhat less bawdy conversation about crows and ravens that I had a decade ago on... Read More ›
Duration:00:24:54
Beech Diseases with Beth Brantley – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – June 30, 2025
6/27/2025
A big old copper beech tree is a focal point of my garden, and each time I look out the window at it admiringly these days, I feel the same love and gratitude I always have for its grandeur –... Read More ›
Duration:00:28:15
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 23, 2025 – Mike Gibson on Topiary
6/20/2025
Today we’re going to do some pruning, but not the same old straight-forward kind. Instead we’re going to talk topiary, and its transformative powers – not just on the plant that is the subject that’s getting clipped, or on the... Read More ›
Duration:00:28:02
Cutting Garden with Frances Palmer – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 16, 2025
6/13/2025
Some of us plant a row of particular annuals with the intention to cut them for bouquets in their moment of bloom – and some of us think bigger have a whole cutting garden within our landscape. I feel like... Read More ›
Duration:00:28:03
Abundant Landscapes with Kelly Norris – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 9, 2025
6/3/2025
We may know one when we see it, but what word best describes an ecological landscape? Compared to traditional, more formal gardens, such native-plant-forward designs are variously labeled as looser, or naturalistic, or wildish—all perfectly accurate. Is there perhaps a... Read More ›
Duration:00:26:48
Gardening with My Sister – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 2, 2025
5/29/2025
I’ve answered a lot of garden questions in my time as a garden journalist, but nobody has asked more of them than today’s guest—who’s also the person I’ve known longer than anyone else on the planet. My baby sister, Marion... Read More ›
Duration:00:27:57
Eco Adventures with ‘The Bad Naturalist’ – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 26, 2025
5/23/2025
Again and again, as I was reading the recent book “Bad Naturalist” by Paula Whyman, I kept thinking: Good thing I only have a couple of acres of land. Whyman tackled 200 acres on a Virginia mountaintop, dreaming of reshaping... Read More ›
Duration:00:27:53
Mosquitos with Nancy Lawson – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 19, 2025
5/16/2025
The first issue of “American Gardener,” the newly redesigned member magazine of the American Horticultural Society, arrived recently, and in it are lots of good reads—including an article by today’s guest, Nancy Lawson, aka “The Humane Gardener.” She writes about... Read More ›
Duration:00:27:15
Shade Treasures with Ken Druse – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 12, 2025
5/9/2025
When I first started gardening, it wasn’t unusual to hear other gardeners lamenting the shady areas of their landscapes – wishing for more, more, more sun. But my friend Ken Druse never looked at the lower-light areas that way –... Read More ›
Duration:00:27:50
Powerhouse Shrubs with Dan Wilder – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 5, 2025
5/2/2025
Woody plants—the trees and shrubs—can be pure ecological powerhouses, but most of us don’t have room for an entire forest in our backyards. So on a garden scale, which shrubs in particular really get the job done best? Dan Wilder, a longtime native plant... Read More ›
Duration:00:28:03
Trillium & More With Uli Lorimer – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – April 28, 2025
4/25/2025
I look forward to spring for many reasons, not the least of which is the emergence and bloom time of the trilliums. There’s a saying that good things come in threes, and trilliums are certainly proof of that. I talked... Read More ›
Duration:00:27:07
Marigolds & More With Peace Seedlings – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – April 21, 2025
4/17/2025
So you think you’re familiar with marigolds and zinnias? Well, it’s time to take another look, I think, as I have been longingly in the seed list from Oregon-based Peace Seedlings. Among their offerings are multi-toned zinnias in shades you won’t... Read More ›
Duration:00:27:28
Coleus With Rosy Dawn Gardens – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – April 14, 2025
4/11/2025
It’s hard to think of a brighter botanical bright spot than the one that Coleus creates—whether in a container design, or planted in a garden bed. And it’s hard to think of a more Coleus-filled place than Rosy Dawn Gardens,... Read More ›
Duration:00:27:11
Spring Flavors With Amy Chaplin – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – April 7, 2025
4/4/2025
I can almost taste it now: the flavors of the first spring crops, whether homegrown, or from your CSA share, or even ethically foraged…with the promise of a whole growing season of the freshest, tastiest produce to come. It’s the... Read More ›
Duration:00:27:23
Maximalist Design With Teresa Woodard – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – March 31, 2025
3/28/2025
More isn’t always better, of course, but in the case of the gardens profiled in the new book “Garden to the Max,” it definitely is, whether more color, more texture, more drama or all of the above, and then some,... Read More ›
Duration:00:27:06
Phenology With Theresa Crimmins – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – March 24, 2025
3/21/2025
Though the calendar says that spring started on March 20, the many clues that nature offers to those who watch and listen add up to a more complex and layered unfolding over time. Inspired by a new book called “Phenology,”... Read More ›
Duration:00:27:02
Garden Biodiversity at Chanticleer – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – March 17, 2025
3/14/2025
Anyone who has heard of or even better visited Chanticleer Garden in Pennsylvania knows that it is home to some of the country’s most exceptional examples of horticultural creativity and innovation. A multi-year biodiversity survey of the Chanticleer property has... Read More ›
Duration:00:27:33
Frog Gardens With Jim Sirch – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – March 10, 2025
3/7/2025
We’ve all heard about what plants and other features figure into making a garden for the birds, or a pollinator garden … but what about a frog garden? I’m crazy about frogs and would like to think my place is... Read More ›
Duration:00:28:10