how-to slideshow: wake up, cannas, wake up
OUT OF THE BASEMENT THEY CAME YESTERDAY, the cannas I’d stored after frost last fall. It’s easy to keep these [read more…]
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OUT OF THE BASEMENT THEY CAME YESTERDAY, the cannas I’d stored after frost last fall. It’s easy to keep these [read more…]
ITELL EVERYONE I LIVE ALONE, but true confession: I’m shacked up here with a big hunk of a Farfugium (and [read more…]
TWO POTS OF BEGONIA BOLIVIENSIS, the straight species behind the flashy ‘Bonfire’ cultivar that we’ve talked about so much this [read more…]
I HAVE SO MANY BEGONIAS IN MY CARE OVER HERE, I could probably do a ‘Begonia of the Week’ series [read more…]
I AM DOING SOME SLIGHTLY LATE POT-PLANTING, piecing together plants gathered from here and there this spring into some impromptu [read more…]
AT MY PLACE EVERY MANNER OF PLANT CAN GO IN POTS: annuals, perennials, young trees, shrubs. And some of the [read more…]
FOR SEASON-LONG COLOR in containers, true annuals (like marigolds or petunias or zinnias) aren’t the only answer. I always keep [read more…]
IN MY NORTHERN GARDEN it is pansy-planting time, meaning the nurseries are filled with flats of pansies and violas, and [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.