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Margaret’s weekly public-radio show, from Robin Hood Radio in Sharon, CT, the smallest NPR station in the nation. Listen live at 8:30 AM EDT Mondays, to the replay Saturday morning, or stream the podcast anytime.

LISTEN OR SUBSCRIBE FREE: Get the Apple Podcasts version; find it on Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.

Browse past interviews below.

straight talk on native-plant cultivars, with mt. cuba’s sam hoadley

Eryngium yuccifolium (Ayinde Listhrop) image

resilient plants that meet the high line’s test, with richard hayden

what we can learn from ‘outsider animals,’ with marlene zuk

garden for birds, with cornell lab’s becca rodomsky-bish

creating habitat: wildlife gardening, with shaun mccoshum

life-changing lessons in a tree, with arnold arboretum’s ned friedman

‘plant this, not that’: swapping in more natives, with elise howard

‘let’s botanize,’ with ben goulet-scott and jacob suissa

grown-up lessons from ‘the weedy garden,’ with margaret renkl

tomato seedlings in basic peat seed starting mix under flourescent shop lights image

choosing the best seed-starting mix, with joe lamp’l

homegrown spice-rack herbs from seed, with sarah kleeger

a spectrum of colorful-podded peas, with peace seedlings

pick of the goldenrods, with mt. cuba center’s sam hoadley

top tomatoes, including ones that store for months, with don tipping

time to succumb to sweet peas, with matt mattus

natural dye plants, with grand prismatic seed’s james young

must-try seeds, with culinary breeding network’s lane selman

best practices in bird feeding, with julie zickefoose

tree care’s history and how-to, with nybg’s melissa finley

what about those ‘keystone plants’? with uli lorimer

holiday flowers with history, with matt mattus

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houseplants with big personalities, with rob moffitt of the haus plant

heritage apples: grafting, identification by dna and more, with jamie hanson

unusual sources of distinctive seeds, with joseph tychonievich

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'horticultural how-to and woo-woo'

A WAY TO GARDEN is the latest horticultural incarnation of me, Margaret Roach, birthed in March 2008 with my own words as its primary DNA, mingled with ideas shared in weekly expert interviews.

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 teach online, plus hold tours at my 2.3-acre Hudson Valley (NY) Zone 6A garden, and always say no to chemicals and yes to great plants.

radio podcasts

straight talk on native-plant cultivars, with mt. cuba’s sam hoadley

resilient plants that meet the high line’s test, with richard hayden

what we can learn from ‘outsider animals,’ with marlene zuk

garden for birds, with cornell lab’s becca rodomsky-bish

creating habitat: wildlife gardening, with shaun mccoshum

life-changing lessons in a tree, with arnold arboretum’s ned friedman

‘plant this, not that’: swapping in more natives, with elise howard

‘let’s botanize,’ with ben goulet-scott and jacob suissa

grown-up lessons from ‘the weedy garden,’ with margaret renkl

choosing the best seed-starting mix, with joe lamp’l

homegrown spice-rack herbs from seed, with sarah kleeger

a spectrum of colorful-podded peas, with peace seedlings

pick of the goldenrods, with mt. cuba center’s sam hoadley

top tomatoes, including ones that store for months, with don tipping

time to succumb to sweet peas, with matt mattus

natural dye plants, with grand prismatic seed’s james young

must-try seeds, with culinary breeding network’s lane selman

best practices in bird feeding, with julie zickefoose

tree care’s history and how-to, with nybg’s melissa finley

what about those ‘keystone plants’? with uli lorimer

holiday flowers with history, with matt mattus

houseplants with big personalities, with rob moffitt of the haus plant

heritage apples: grafting, identification by dna and more, with jamie hanson

unusual sources of distinctive seeds, with joseph tychonievich

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radio podcasts

straight talk on native-plant cultivars, with mt. cuba’s sam hoadley

resilient plants that meet the high line’s test, with richard hayden

what we can learn from ‘outsider animals,’ with marlene zuk

garden for birds, with cornell lab’s becca rodomsky-bish

creating habitat: wildlife gardening, with shaun mccoshum

life-changing lessons in a tree, with arnold arboretum’s ned friedman

‘plant this, not that’: swapping in more natives, with elise howard

‘let’s botanize,’ with ben goulet-scott and jacob suissa

grown-up lessons from ‘the weedy garden,’ with margaret renkl

choosing the best seed-starting mix, with joe lamp’l

homegrown spice-rack herbs from seed, with sarah kleeger

a spectrum of colorful-podded peas, with peace seedlings

pick of the goldenrods, with mt. cuba center’s sam hoadley

top tomatoes, including ones that store for months, with don tipping

time to succumb to sweet peas, with matt mattus

natural dye plants, with grand prismatic seed’s james young

must-try seeds, with culinary breeding network’s lane selman

best practices in bird feeding, with julie zickefoose

tree care’s history and how-to, with nybg’s melissa finley

what about those ‘keystone plants’? with uli lorimer

holiday flowers with history, with matt mattus

houseplants with big personalities, with rob moffitt of the haus plant

heritage apples: grafting, identification by dna and more, with jamie hanson

unusual sources of distinctive seeds, with joseph tychonievich

Books by Margaret

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Resources

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