hard-working beauty: 3 eco-minded design webinars
HOW DO THREE MORE 90-minute distractions from the seemingly endless world noise sound right about now, with each session offering an updated look at an aspect of gardening I find most ...
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a 101 on poison ivy, with dr. susan pell (reprise edition)
IN THE AGE of climate change, my guest on today’s reprise edition of the podcast told me, we can expect “more poison ivy and meaner poison ivy,” and I’d say from what I see growing around me ...
scented geraniums, with well-sweep herb farm’s patrick mcduffee
PATRICK MCDUFFEE believes that everyone should have at least one scented geranium on their windowsill year-round, for an on-demand invigorating whiff of fragrance, or to admire its colorful ...
garden reference resources we rely on, with rebecca mcmackin
TODAY’S GUEST and I were sitting having a cup of tea together recently and talking about guess what? Plants. What came up pretty fast was how lately we both sometimes cringe at the results to ...
Page Not Found – A Way To Garden
Hello & Welcome! 'horticultural how-to and woo-woo' A WAY TO GARDEN is the latest horticultural incarnation of me, Margaret Roach, birthed in March ...
the magic of small-flowered clematis, with alla olkhovska
THE LAST TIME I spoke to Alla Olkhovska from her home and garden in Ukraine, she confessed to growing about 120 different types of Clematis—a number that after seeing her recently published ...
how gardeners can help in seed savers exchange’s preservation work
ON THE WEEKEND of Aug. 8-9, the beloved Seed Savers Exchange will celebrate its 50th anniversary of preserving our seed heritage with festivities at its homebase in Decorah, Iowa. I wanted to ...
getting to know nature close to home, with thor hanson
FOR EACH OF US, it’s probably safe to bet that our most familiar piece of the natural world is the outdoor space right beside the place we live – our own yard. But how well do we really know ...
how foliage saves the summer garden, with ken druse
THERE MAY BE no moment in the year when my friend Ken Druse and I are more grateful for the range of textures and colors of foliage we made room for in our gardens than we are right now – in ...
garden-design ideas from george schoellkopf of hollister house
GEORGE SCHOELLKOPF returned from a 1979 trip visiting English gardens inspired to do some garden-making of his own. His canvas was a Northwestern Connecticut hillside and not the Cotswolds, ...
the genius of crow and ravens, with dr. john marzluff
A COUPLE OF RAVENS have been shouting at each other across the garden each day this spring-into-summer, and their loud-mouthed antics reminded me of a somewhat less bawdy conversation about ...
beeches under pressure, with bartlett’s beth brantley
A BIG OLD copper beech tree is a focal point of my garden, and each time I look out the window at it admiringly these days, I feel the same love and gratitude I always have for its grandeur, ...
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