meet travis cox, age 17, ‘the garden scout’
YOU KNOW HOW IT GOES: You open your email and have to weed out the invasive solicitations and spam first. [read more…]
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margaret roach, head gardener
YOU KNOW HOW IT GOES: You open your email and have to weed out the invasive solicitations and spam first. [read more…]
EVER WONDER ABOUT nest boxes–about which design is best, or where you should place them in the garden to attract [read more…]
LORI DESCHENE, AKA TINY BUDDHA, doesn’t claim to be anybody’s guru, and it was her lack of pretense and big [read more…]
IAM REMINDED AT THIS ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 of something else: of Philippe Petit’s 1974 high-wire act that temporarily connected the [read more…]
I WAS GOING TO SKIP ANY MENTION of 9/11, not because it’s not on my mind, but it’s tricky: Today [read more…]
HAVING DECIDED TO WRITE MEMOIR FOR A LIVING has its perils. For me, it has some extra-prickly ones, since my [read more…]
IMUST GO TO MY ROOM, WITHOUT SUPPER OR FURTHER DELAY. Right now—to my room. Which apparently is no longer in [read more…]
REGINA BRETT IS MANY THINGS: a breast-cancer survivor; a onetime single parent; one of 11 kids who shared a difficult [read more…]
IAM AFRAID OF FLYING, BUT RIGHT AT HOME WITH BIRDS. So Brad Kessler’s 2006 novel “Birds in Fall,” a story [read more…]
THOUGH A TAD EMBARRASSING TO SAY SO, song lyrics, like other poetry, get pasted up on the fridge or bulletin [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.