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A WAY TO GARDEN is the horticultural incarnation of Margaret Roach
Finding our way toward a more ecologically vibrant garden can sometimes feel a bit challenging, and I’m always looking for resources to guid...
How confident are you about the use of color in your garden, and where do you draw your inspiration from for creating a pleasing palette? Th...
If we’re shopping for native plants with the most ecological impact—ones with the most pollinator appeal, for example—then simply choosing b...
Both gardeners and their plants have to be more resilient than ever these days in our changing climate, it seems. At the High Line in New Yo...
I’m privileged to observe a fascinating diversity of animals outside where I live, but the term “Outsider Animals” was new to me—and it’s th...
I always say that birds taught me to garden, as I watched their behavior here at my place, and added more of the plants and features they se...
We talk about pollinator gardens, and seek out the plants that provide that essential nourishment to bees and butterflies and moths, for exa...
I wish that when I was a college freshman, a course like Harvard’s seminar called “Tree” had been part of the curriculum, because since I le...
You’ve seen and heard the list of no-no plants that were showy longtime nursery and garden standards, but have proven invasive and nee...
When spring approaches and we get out into the garden again, it’s easy to get distracted by the to-do list, or just by the latest pretty thi...
Margaret Renkl’s newest book “The Weedy Garden: A Happy Habitat for Wild Friends,” is aimed at children, but it’s really for everyone, she s...
When growing from seed, the long list of decisions starts with what turns out to be the simplest question of all: which variety of bean (or...
What do you say we explore expanding our herb-gardening efforts to include some goodies to fill those jars in the spice rack, too? Most of u...
“The dream has always been a rainbow of peas,” Dylana Kapuler said to me more than a decade ago, and that dream continues to fuel a passion...
Goldenrods are powerhouses – keystone plants that serve as hosts for more than 100 species of butterflies and moths, and rich late-season so...
IT WAS 1 degree Fahrenheit outside when I looked at my electronic weather station readout this morning – a perfect time for some winter-defy...
Every year when I get to the sweet pea listings in the seed catalogs, I think this is the year, the year I’ll organize some supports in the...
Until I met today’s guest, James Young, early in 2025, it hadn’t really registered in my brain that some of the familiar annuals...
I’m letting myself be transported away from the winter scene outside my window, burying my nose not in the snow but instead in the spring-in...
I put out my first bird feeder of the season around Thanksgiving or so each year and get the party started. But there’s more to feeding the...
The earliest references to people cultivating trees date back to 6000 B.C., and there are records of tree-care tactics in the Bible, too, an...
Not so many years ago, relative to the history of horticulture, even a now-ubiquitous phrase like “pollinator plant” wasn’t part of our ever...
If I say: quick, name a holiday flower, you might first answer poinsettia. But the poinsettia wasn’t always synonymous with this time of yea...
I can’t imagine life without my admittedly oddball collection of houseplants, many of whom have been with me for several decades already. So...
When I bought my place decades ago it was nestled in a tiny piece of former farmland with a little 1880s house and no garden. There were, ho...
Once upon a time the seed catalogs came out around the start of the New Year, but these days the very first ones may arrive by Thanksgiving,...
Besides their native-heavier plant palette and looser style, ecologically designed landscapes have another difference: The way we maintain t...
Today’s guest didn’t have to convince me to be wild about woodpeckers, because I already am—utterly so. These charismatic, hardworking birds...
Every gardener has certainly heard the rallying cry each recent autumn to “leave the leaves”, invoking us to go gentler with our cleanup to...
Kevin West begins his newest book, called “The Cook’s Garden,” like this:  “This is a book about flavor,” he writes. “It is a book abou...
Almost 10 years ago on this program, I talked about making sourdough starter with today’s guest, Sarah Owens, on the occasion of the publica...
Most of us have something to hide – in our gardens, that is, some view of something we’d like to erase. It could be the telephone pole acros...
The “what plant goes where?” aspect of gardening is the hardest part for a lot of us. And as we increasingly shift our plant palette and gar...
In recent growing seasons, the “new normal” of a changing climate has sometimes been making me feel like my Northeastern garden has relocate...
The fall bird migration is under way, and that means the cast of characters we’re seeing and hearing in the garden is changing quickly – as...
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 i...
Today’s guest and I were sitting having a cup of tea together recently and talking abou guess what? Plants! What came up pretty fast was how...
Patrick McDuffee believes that everyone should have at least one scented geranium on their windowsill year-round, for an on-demand invigorat...
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—...
On the weekend of Aug. 8 and 9, the beloved Seed Savers Exchange will celebrate its 50th anniversary of preserving our seed heritage with fe...
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 l...
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...
Today’s guest returned from a 1979 trip visiting English gardens inspired to do some garden-making of his own. His canvas was a northwestern...
A couple of ravens have been shouting at each other across the garden each day this spring-into-summer, and their loud-mouthed antics remind...
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...
Today we’re going to do some pruning, but not the same old straight-forward kind. Instead we’re going to talk topiary, and its transformativ...
Some of us plant a row of particular annuals with the intention to cut them for bouquets in their moment of bloom – and some of us think big...
We may know one when we see it, but what word best describes an ecological landscape? Compared to traditional, more formal gardens, such nat...
I’ve answered a lot of garden questions in my time as a garden journalist, but nobody has asked more of them than today’s guest—who’s also t...
Again and again, as I was reading the recent book “Bad Naturalist” by Paula Whyman, I kept thinking: Good thing I only have a couple of acre...