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August 18, 2023
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free q&a webinar 8/31 with me and ken druse

I CALL THEM Urgent Garden Questions, because when you have something you can’t sort out in the garden, it certainly feels like an emergency. This..
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August 12, 2023
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fruitful landscapes: the start of a food forest, with michael judd

THE TERM “food forest” from the permaculture world sounds big—like if I suggested you start one, you’d probably say, “I don’t have room for a..
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August 4, 2023
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how to grow shallots (+ some late-season succession tips), with k greene

I SAW A VIDEO REEL on social media the other day of a harvest of shallots, and it made me realize that I haven’t grown..
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July 29, 2023
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ripening tomatoes—and saving seed, with craig lehoullier

AROUND THIS TIME each summer, I look forward to the onslaught of fresh tomatoes while at the same time hoping against hope that what I..
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July 21, 2023
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lost, but not forgotten: plants we once loved, with ken druse

WE GARDENERS ALL KNOW the experience of the loss of plants that don’t make it for one reason or another, from a tomato felled by..
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July 20, 2023
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‘meet your next favorite plant,’ a free webinar with ken druse aug. 10

MEET YOUR NEXT favorite plant…and learn how to make it work for you. That’s the topic of a free webinar Thursday, Aug. 10, at 6..
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July 13, 2023
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versatile succulents, indoors and out, with wave hill’s harnek singh

SUCCULENTS: You probably already grow some perennial ones in your garden, and perhaps others that aren’t hardy are among your favorite houseplants. But what if..
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July 7, 2023
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natives in a formal garden, with stoneleigh’s ethan kauffman

CAN A HISTORIC formal space become the home to a forward-thinking landscape of native plants? The team at Stoneleigh, a five-year-old public garden on an..
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June 29, 2023
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the garden as healer, with ‘the therapist’s garden’ author erik keller

NO DOUBT all of you gardeners would agree that interacting with plants and with nature has a restorative benefit, that it has the undeniable power..
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June 23, 2023
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editing the start-of-summer garden, with ken druse

SUMMER HAS just officially arrived, and with it a whole new to-do list of tasks aimed at keeping the garden going in the best possible..
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June 17, 2023
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reading the land (with the help of trees), with noah charney

HOW WELL DO YOU really know the piece of land on which you live and garden, or the bigger landscape context it sits within that..
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June 10, 2023
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weed-fighting natives, with ‘wildscape’ author nancy lawson

WHEN I SPOKE to naturalist and nature writer Nancy Lawson recently about her adventures in wildscaping at her Maryland garden, there was one topic in..
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May 27, 2023
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growing primula from seed, with ken druse

I WAS REMARKING to my friend Ken Druse earlier this spring about a garden I’d just visited, and how the stands of primulas in it..
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May 17, 2023
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for the love of pineapple lilies: eucomis, with jenks farmer

I’M CRAZY ABOUT pineapple lilies, bulbs in the genus Eucomis. And though in my zone 5 garden, they aren’t hardy, I can’t imagine a growing..
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May 6, 2023
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dahlias galore, with ceramic artist frances palmer

SOME OF US plant a row or two of annuals for cutting, but Frances Palmer has taken the phrase “cutting garden” to the most delightful..
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Buddha and the Beast: A backyard water garden visit from Big Bird, who either is a Buddhist and was communing with the guy up on the wall, or thought the frog buffet was intended for him/her. I begged to differ re: the latter and invited the bird to leave…multiple times. Apparently I don’t scare anybody. #awaytogarden #greatblueheron #birdsofinstagram

Buddha and the Beast: A backyard water garden visit from Big Bird, who either is a Buddhist and was communing with the guy up on the wall, or thought the frog buffet was intended for him/her. I begged to differ re: the latter and invited the bird to leave…multiple times. Apparently I don’t scare anybody. #awaytogarden #greatblueheron #birdsofinstagram ...

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Did someone say #pearly? Because of the way my head works this Pearly Wood-Nymph moth gives me a flashback to @stevewinwood performing the song Pearly Queen in 1968ish. Other than that it is also a charming small #moth whose host plants include two (wild grape and #virginiacreeper aka #parthenocissusquinquefolia) that are all around here for its larval stage to dine on. So now you know: I love moths and the band Traffic was pretty swell, too. #awaytogarden #lepidoptera #woodnymphs

Did someone say #pearly? Because of the way my head works this Pearly Wood-Nymph moth gives me a flashback to @stevewinwood performing the song Pearly Queen in 1968ish. Other than that it is also a charming small #moth whose host plants include two (wild grape and #virginiacreeper aka #parthenocissusquinquefolia) that are all around here for its larval stage to dine on. So now you know: I love moths and the band Traffic was pretty swell, too. #awaytogarden #lepidoptera #woodnymphs ...

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A very choice selection of Astilboides tabularis I am naming var. frozeniensis. It took me decades of growing #astilboidestabularis and a 31-degree mid-May night to achieve this. Good job, Margaret. #awaytogarden #shadegarden #hellonwheels

A very choice selection of Astilboides tabularis I am naming var. frozeniensis. It took me decades of growing #astilboidestabularis and a 31-degree mid-May night to achieve this. Good job, Margaret. #awaytogarden #shadegarden #hellonwheels ...

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A really cut guy at the gym said anabolic steroids really make you bulk up fast so I gave them to the asparagus. #truestory #ohsure #awaytogarden

A really cut guy at the gym said anabolic steroids really make you bulk up fast so I gave them to the asparagus. #truestory #ohsure #awaytogarden ...

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FROM THE WEEKLY PODCAST

rethinking the lawn, with dan wilder

THE LECTURE that he’s been giving for a number of years is not-so-subtly called “Kill Your Lawn.” Ecological horticulturist Dan Jaffe Wilder knows that starting over and creating an entire native habitat instead of a lawn isn’t for everyone. But Dan just wants to grab our attention and get us to start to make some changes at least in the way we care for the turfgrass we do want in our landscapes. And maybe give up a little square footage of it to some other kind of more diverse planting, too, like the wild strawberries (Fragaria virginiana, inset). Alternative, more eco-focused styles of lawn care, along with some lawn alternatives is what he and I talked about on the podcast. Dan is Director of Applied Ecology at Norcross Wildlife Foundation in Wales, Massachusetts, and its 8,000-acre sanctuary. He’s also co-author with Mark Richardson of the book “Native Plants for New England Gardens.”

(Stream it below,  read the illustrated transcript or subscribe free.)

https://robinhoodradioondemand.com/podcast-player/29859/rethinking-lawn-with-dan-wilder-a-way-to-garden-with-margaret-roach-june-27-2022.mp3

Welcome! I’m Margaret Roach, a leading garden writer for 30 years—at ‘Martha Stewart Living,’ ‘Newsday,’ and in three books. Since April 2020, I have been the garden columnist for “The New York Times,” where I began my journalism career decades ago. I host a public-radio podcast; I also lecture, plus hold tours at my 2.3-acre Hudson Valley (NY) Zone 5B garden in “normal” years, and always say no to chemicals and yes to great plants.

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