garden design

What goes with what, and what goes where? Ideas from designers I have interviewed and other such inspiration are all here.

BufferBetweenYards Preston Montague image

naturalistic gardens: design and care, with preston montague

site preparations for meadow-making, with benjamin vogt

Spring Perennials by Timothy Schenck High Line May DSC 3810 image

the high line’s naturalistic gardening lessons, with richard hayden

do a garden audit, with arnold arboretum’s rodney eason

VERONICASTRUM culvers root DSC 0063 image

prairie and meadow plantings, succession and more, with neil diboll

VINTAGE TRUCK Patricia Kingsley Dr Don Kingsley's tailgate image

easy does it: adaptive reuse yields regenerative landscapes, with apiary studio

lessons from philadelphia gardens, with nicole juday and rob cardillo

POT BY PATHWAY Fertility vessel at Blithewold image

sculptural pots in the garden, with stephen procter

‘bio-productive gardens,’ with tim johnson of native plant trust

the state of the native-plant movement, with rebecca mcmackin

is your landscape ‘undergrown’? with nancy lawson

in brandywine valley gardens, the du pont family legacy

high-impact obsessions: using gold and variegated foliage, with ken druse

‘more plants is always better:’ immersive landscapes, with claudia west

natives in a formal garden, with stoneleigh’s ethan kauffman

reading the land (with the help of trees), with noah charney

making and maintaining meadow gardens, with owen wormser

natural garden design, with benjamin vogt

design tips from american gardens: ‘american roots’ with nick mccullough

cornell’s climate change demonstration garden, with sonja skelly

crevice gardens: brave new rock gardens, with kenton seth and paul spriggs

flowers that stand up to the heat, and growing lavender, with jenny rose carey

Epimedium versicolor v. versicolor foliage image

solutions for dry shade and other shady spots, with ken druse

gravel gardens, with jeff epping of olbrich botanical gardens

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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.

garden design

naturalistic gardens: design and care, with preston montague

site preparations for meadow-making, with benjamin vogt

the high line’s naturalistic gardening lessons, with richard hayden

do a garden audit, with arnold arboretum’s rodney eason

prairie and meadow plantings, succession and more, with neil diboll

easy does it: adaptive reuse yields regenerative landscapes, with apiary studio

lessons from philadelphia gardens, with nicole juday and rob cardillo

sculptural pots in the garden, with stephen procter

‘bio-productive gardens,’ with tim johnson of native plant trust

the state of the native-plant movement, with rebecca mcmackin

is your landscape ‘undergrown’? with nancy lawson

in brandywine valley gardens, the du pont family legacy

high-impact obsessions: using gold and variegated foliage, with ken druse

‘more plants is always better:’ immersive landscapes, with claudia west

natives in a formal garden, with stoneleigh’s ethan kauffman

reading the land (with the help of trees), with noah charney

making and maintaining meadow gardens, with owen wormser

natural garden design, with benjamin vogt

design tips from american gardens: ‘american roots’ with nick mccullough

cornell’s climate change demonstration garden, with sonja skelly

crevice gardens: brave new rock gardens, with kenton seth and paul spriggs

flowers that stand up to the heat, and growing lavender, with jenny rose carey

solutions for dry shade and other shady spots, with ken druse

gravel gardens, with jeff epping of olbrich botanical gardens

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garden design

naturalistic gardens: design and care, with preston montague

site preparations for meadow-making, with benjamin vogt

the high line’s naturalistic gardening lessons, with richard hayden

do a garden audit, with arnold arboretum’s rodney eason

prairie and meadow plantings, succession and more, with neil diboll

easy does it: adaptive reuse yields regenerative landscapes, with apiary studio

lessons from philadelphia gardens, with nicole juday and rob cardillo

sculptural pots in the garden, with stephen procter

‘bio-productive gardens,’ with tim johnson of native plant trust

the state of the native-plant movement, with rebecca mcmackin

is your landscape ‘undergrown’? with nancy lawson

in brandywine valley gardens, the du pont family legacy

high-impact obsessions: using gold and variegated foliage, with ken druse

‘more plants is always better:’ immersive landscapes, with claudia west

natives in a formal garden, with stoneleigh’s ethan kauffman

reading the land (with the help of trees), with noah charney

making and maintaining meadow gardens, with owen wormser

natural garden design, with benjamin vogt

design tips from american gardens: ‘american roots’ with nick mccullough

cornell’s climate change demonstration garden, with sonja skelly

crevice gardens: brave new rock gardens, with kenton seth and paul spriggs

flowers that stand up to the heat, and growing lavender, with jenny rose carey

solutions for dry shade and other shady spots, with ken druse

gravel gardens, with jeff epping of olbrich botanical gardens

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