margaret, Author at A Way To Garden

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IT’S TRYING SO HARD, the lawn is, to find its inner green. I’m trying so hard, I am, to find [read more…]

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I LOVE THE SCIENCE behind gardening, the stories that reveal what makes things tick in the natural world. A new [read more…]

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NO MORE “S” WORD, as in snow—the last tenacious piles finally relented overnight Thursday-into-Friday with a warm rain. And though [read more…]

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WHEN THE NEW SECOND EDITION of “Garden Insects of North America” arrived recently from Princeton University Press, I quickly went [read more…]

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TRUTH: IF NOT FOR THE brave beacon of the full-bloom Christmas rose—dear old against-all-odds Helleborus niger (above)—I would just have [read more…]

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TACKLING CANADA THISTLE, and the ethics of herbicide use. Reblooming amaryllis. Moss in the lawn or garden beds. Pesky squirrels. [read more…]

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I’M NOT THE MOST DIY type ever. But my friend Joe Lamp’l promises me that even I, armed with a [read more…]

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I’M STICKING to what I say each year at this time: We are not powerless over April–even though in most [read more…]

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REPORT FROM THE FRONT: I still can’t even find the hellebores and epimediums to cut them back—usually my first outdoor [read more…]

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THANKS ANYWAY, drone engineers, but I don’t really want to live to see the day when drones are used for [read more…]

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