september open garden tour: a giant botanical birdfeeder
I WASN’T CERTAIN everyone else would share my enthusiasm about what really amounts to a giant birdfeeder: grasses and forbs [read more…]
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margaret roach, head gardener
I WASN’T CERTAIN everyone else would share my enthusiasm about what really amounts to a giant birdfeeder: grasses and forbs [read more…]
RECIPE FOR A GARDEN TOUR: Shop ahead, then carefully clean and prep all ingredients and surfaces. Preset sky for sunshine; [read more…]
I READ ABOUT a smartphone app the other day in the newspaper, one that’s meant to help ID things you [read more…]
CAN ANYBODY RECOMMEND A LAWNCARE EXPERT? That was my first thought after 650 sets of feet marched on the garden [read more…]
IT WASN’T ONE OF THOSE “KA-POW!” YEARS in the garden, visually (well, unless you were my dear old rhubarb, above). [read more…]
YES, I KNOW: IT’S GETTING LATE. But among the parting glances of the fall garden, there are still some pretty [read more…]
WITH THE FIRST COLD NIGHTS (we hit 41 degrees F Monday!) I’m suddenly invigorated–and overtaken by two impulses: to nest [read more…]
BROWN PATCHES of lawn and garden widen daily, and the “grass” is now a minefield of yellow-jacket nests. Ouch! But [read more…]
SUMMER, NOT FALL, is the best time to order flower bulbs for fall planting (and garlic bulbs, too) to get [read more…]
I HAVE A LOT OF PLANTS (and a lot more that used to grow here somewhere live on in memory). [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.