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  • Beech Diseases with Beth Brantley - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - June 30, 2025

    Beech Diseases with Beth Brantley - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - June 30, 2025
    2025/06/27
    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 – but also a deepening twinge of worry. These are increasingly tough time for beeches – both European ones like my copper beech and on a far bigger environmental scale, the precious native beech trees of our Eastern North American forests. I asked Beth Brantley of Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories, who is speaking July 18 on the future of beeches at the annual... Read More ›
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    28 分
  • Topiary with Mike Gibson - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - June 23, 2025

    Topiary with Mike Gibson - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - June 23, 2025
    2025/06/20
    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 garden that the living sculpture will eventually adorn, but potentially on the creator, too. Topiary artist Mike Gibson is here to talk about the horticulture and the artistry in what he does, and also about the therapeutic properties of making topiary. Mike Gibson has been engaging with plants since his childhood in Ohio. Starting in late 2021, he contributed to... Read More ›
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  • Tomatoes With Craig LeHoullier-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach February 28, 2022

    Tomatoes With Craig LeHoullier-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach February 28, 2022
    2022/02/26

    Sick of winter? What I find helps, besides the occasional warmish, sunny day, is thinking about tomatoes. And that's what we're going to do today with Craig LeHoullier, author of the hit 2014 book “Epic Tomatoes,” who has over the years grown some 3,000 varieties in his home garden and adds new ones to his list every year

    Craig, who gardens in North Carolina, is a retired chemist with a longtime passion for tomatoes. He's the co-founder of the Dwarf Tomato Project, an advisor on tomatoes to Seed Savers Exchange, and the person who in 1990 named the popular heirloom Cherokee Purple from seed that had been passed down and eventually made its way to him. 
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    26 分
  • Cutting Garden with Frances Palmer - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - June 16, 2025

    Cutting Garden with Frances Palmer - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - June 16, 2025
    2025/06/13
    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 today’s guest, ceramic artist and passionate gardener Frances Palmer, thinks biggest of all – and that every plant in her extensive gardens – not just the tulips or zinnias or dahlias that you might expect, but even the herbs and her flowering vines and branches of ornamental trees and shrubs are all fair game for having their moment in a... Read More ›
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  • Tomatoes With Craig LeHoullier-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach February 28, 2022

    Tomatoes With Craig LeHoullier-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach February 28, 2022
    2022/02/26

    Sick of winter? What I find helps, besides the occasional warmish, sunny day, is thinking about tomatoes. And that's what we're going to do today with Craig LeHoullier, author of the hit 2014 book “Epic Tomatoes,” who has over the years grown some 3,000 varieties in his home garden and adds new ones to his list every year

    Craig, who gardens in North Carolina, is a retired chemist with a longtime passion for tomatoes. He's the co-founder of the Dwarf Tomato Project, an advisor on tomatoes to Seed Savers Exchange, and the person who in 1990 named the popular heirloom Cherokee Purple from seed that had been passed down and eventually made its way to him. 
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  • Abundant Landscapes with Kelly Norris - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - June 9, 2025

    Abundant Landscapes with Kelly Norris - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - June 9, 2025
    2025/06/06
    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 word, though, that really gets at both the visual and functional aspects that these beautiful, biodiversity-supporting plantings embody – a word that can help us set the intention for the plants we choose and where we place them? Abundant is the descriptor of choice and a primary design goal for today’s guest, landscape designer Kelly Norris. Kelly, the former director... Read More ›
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    27 分
  • Gardening with My Sister - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - June 2, 2025

    Gardening with My Sister - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - June 2, 2025
    2025/05/29
    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 Roach Smith, is an author and podcaster, a popular teacher of memoir writing, and like her older sister and the grandmother she is named for, a gardener in her own right. She is also the person who coined the phrase “urgent garden questions”—as in: “Margaret, I have an urgent garden question,” meaning that I needed to deliver on-demand answers to... Read More ›
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  • Editing and Dividing Perennials With Toshi Yano - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach August 23, 2021

    Editing and Dividing Perennials With Toshi Yano - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach August 23, 2021
    2021/08/20
    Maybe you, like I do, have certain perennial beds that could use editing and some particular plants that need dividing in the process. That’s just one focus of today’s guest, Toshi Yano, in his role as director of horticulture at Wethersfield, a former private estate turned public garden in the Hudson Valley of New York, He’ll tell us the how-to, and also about visiting this special place.  Toshi Yano Toshi is in his third year as director of horticulture at the former estate called Wethersfield garden in Dutchess County, New York, with its 3-acre formal gardens plus 7 acres of wilderness garden and commanding views of the Catskills and Berkshire Mountains.  Toshi and his team are bringing the gardens back to life, and he told me about the place, and specifically about the tasks of editing and dividing that every perennial gardener needs to do, whatever their garden scale. 
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