Bill Braun on Seed Saving – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 21, 2026
I look around the garden and I see it happening everywhere, on so many different plants: seed is forming. Seed is the start of most everythi...
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20 of 181 episodesA Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 14, 2026 – Exceptional Woody Plants from ‘Arnold Selects’
What makes a tree or shrub exceptional – something worthy of introduction into the nursery trade, and eventually maybe making its way into y...
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 7, 2026 – JM Fortier on Vegetable Garden Wisdom
When I heard that today’s guest, who’s been a guiding force in educating organic farmers, was finally publishing a book specifically for gar...
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 31, 2026 – Leslie Halleck on Home Greenhouses
Is a greenhouse in your future? I’ve never had one, and I have always been not-so-secretly jealous of friends who do—whether to propagate th...
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 24, 2026 – Timothy Pakron on What’s Fresh From the Garden
The opening pages of Timothy Pakron’s about-to-be-released cookbook aren’t pictures of plates of food, but rather gorgeous flower photos – s...
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 17, 2026 – Marc Hachadourian on Water Lilies
Rather than digging in, let’s wade in to our topic this week – because the subject is waterlilies. If you follow any botanical gardens on so...
Lane Selman on Radicchio – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 10, 2026
When was the last time you made room in your vegetable garden for something a little out of the ordinary that you’d never grown or may...
JJ Apodaca on Welcoming Amphibians – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 3, 2026
I don’t recall who tipped me off to the Amphibian and Reptile Conservancy’s email newsletter, but I am glad that I found it and signed up. T...
Adam Wheeler on Pick of the Hydrangeas – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 27, 2026
Trigger warning: Today’s segment will include mention of irresistible hydrangeas and may prompt severe plant-shopping binges in susceptible...
Talking Houseplants with August Laska – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 20, 2026
Are you a follower of fashion—houseplant fashion, that is—seeking out the latest variety that everyone’s after, perhaps the “it” plant...
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 13, 2026 – Craig LeHoullier on Tomato Troubles
I call the phenomenon tomato troubles: the yellow-spotted foliage that falls off, or the plant that produces all those misshapen fruits. And...
Lea Johnson on Conservation Meeting Horticulture – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 6, 2026
Today’s guest is a plant ecologist whose work, she says, is driven by this question: “All of the wild diversity of life on earth is he...
Doug Muller on Successions and Cover Crops – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 29, 2026
I know, it feels like we just planted the vegetable garden moments ago. But a close look around as summer really takes hold quickly reminds...
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 22, 2026 – Design Ideas from Madoo
The recently published book “Madoo: The Making of an American Garden,” reminded me of the power of certain key design strategies that can ma...
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 15, 2026 – Christin Geall on ‘Flora Culture’
I’ve been digging into a diverse and compelling collection of essays in a recent book that’s centered on the subject of  flowers – ever...
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 8, 2026 – Elise Howard on Native-Plant Adventures
When today’s guest, Elise Howard, and I talked on the show in March, her new book “Plant This, Not That” was just out. The popular book offe...
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 1, 2026 – Hummingbirds and Red Flowers
If you’ve ever posted a photo on the massive community science project called iNaturalist and wondered how such contributions get used in re...
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 25, 2026 – Paul Bannick on Owls
Owls: They are birds we more often hear than see, exceptionally well-camouflaged creatures, many of whom move about in the hours of low ligh...
Jeff Epping on Gravel Gardens – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 18, 2026
The more that I see photographs of gravel gardens, and the more that I learn about this gardening style,  which besides its distinctive...
The Wildr App, Guide to an Eco-Journey – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 11, 2026
Finding our way toward a more ecologically vibrant garden can sometimes feel a bit challenging, and I’m always looking for resources to guid...