how we and the trees grew together: ‘sprout lands,’ with william bryant logan
A BOOK I READ RECENTLY changed the way I think about pruning, and actually about trees in general in the [read more…]
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margaret roach, head gardener
A BOOK I READ RECENTLY changed the way I think about pruning, and actually about trees in general in the [read more…]
IN THEIR NATIVE HABITATS, Clematis don’t have that post holding up your mailbox to support them, or a piece of [read more…]
CONFESSION: I haven’t used my pricey, famous-name pruning shears in a few years. No, the garden’s not an abandoned mess; [read more…]
HOW TO KEEP ANIMALS out of the compost heap, or prune really overgrown shrubs back into scale, or deal with [read more…]
WHILE READING the new book “Nature’s Temples: The Complex World of Old-Growth Forests” by environmental scientist Joan Maloof, the expression [read more…]
I VIRTUALLY NEVER promise “fast and easy” in gardening, which involves worthwhile hard work and patience, but here’s the exception: [read more…]
I LOVE FINE GARDEN TOOLS: My edger that has lasted more than 25 years with no signs of wear; my [read more…]
SO MANY MAGNOLIAS, SO LITTLE SPACE. I sought recommendations from Andrew Bunting, president of Magnolia Society International and Curator of [read more…]
WONDERING HOW—and when—to prune Hydrangea paniculata shrubs whose blooms are browning off now as late fall takes hold? (That’s one [read more…]
‘IT’S ENDLESS,” plantsman Michael Dodge of Vermont Willow Nursery was saying over the phone, alluding to the possibilities of the [read more…]
Welcome! I’m Margaret Roach, a leading garden writer for 25 years—at ‘Martha Stewart Living,’ ‘Newsday,’ and in three books. I host a public-radio podcast; I also lecture, plus hold tours at my 2.3-acre Hudson Valley (NY) Zone 5B garden, and always say no to chemicals and yes to great plants.