Best Margaret Weathers Podcasts (2024)

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Daniel Weitoish on Extreme Weather – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 12, 2024 28:07

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I suspect I’m not alone when I say that weather extremes in recent growing seasons have made me feel a bit like a stranger in a strange land in my own garden—wondering what will bloom when, and when to do... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 19, 2024 – Matt Mattus on Holiday Cactus 28:43

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I was scrolling through Instagram the other day – yes, sometimes I just cannot help myself – when I saw a post by Matt Mattus about Christmas cactus. Even though it was still high summer, it made me long for... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Carly Still on Medieval Herbs – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 5, 2024 28:14

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When most of us think of growing herbs each spring, what we probably put into our shopping cart, whether from online seed catalogs or at the garden center, are the culinary must-haves: the basil, the parsley, the dill and such. ... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Ken Druse on Hydrangea Time – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 29, 2024 28:36

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It’s Hydrangea season, and in the Northeast, in particular, this summer, it’s REALLY been a crazy hydrangea season in 2024, with billows of blue bloom from big-leaf hydrangeas on view everywhere, it seems—which is not always the case, in colder... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Amy Stewart on “The Tree Collectors” – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 22, 2024 28:20

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We’re going to talk about collectibles today, but not the kind you score at a flea market or from an online auction. We’re going to talk about collectible trees. Yes, trees. A new book by Amy Stewart called “The Tree... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Benjamin Vogt on Meadow Making – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 15, 2024 28:26

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Are you thinking about the possibility of transitioning an area of your lawn into something more diverse, like maybe a meadow? A question I’m asked a lot is how to go about it – the actual preparatory steps – so... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Sally Gillespie - Stormy Weather: Engaging with Climate Change 1:00:35

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This talk explores ways to engage in climate change conversations to facilitate conscious change. Sally draws on stories from facilitating in depth discussions in a research group, where participants shared their dreams, imaginings, frustrations, grief, hopes, fears and inspirations in relation to climate change. This process enabled participants t…

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Lessons from the High Line – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 8, 2024 29:17

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It’s one of the best-known naturalistic gardens anywhere, and yet it’s perched in the most unnatural spot imaginable, 30 feet high above New York City traffic on an abandoned elevated railway line. The High Line on Manhattan’s West Side is... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Hortus Arboretum’s Unusual Fruits – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 1, 2024 28:49

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Some of the many unusual fruits that Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano grow in their arboretum in the Hudson Valley of New York, like goji berries or maybe Schisandra, are ones you’re more likely to see on ingredient labels of... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Rodney Eason on Auditing Your Garden – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 24, 2024 28:46

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Nobody wants to get the IRS notice in the mail that they’re being audited, heaven forbid. But when it comes to gardens, Rodney Eason believes that the occasional audit is a very positive process, and encourages us to perform one... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Ken Druse on Garden Visiting – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 17, 2024 29:27

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What’s one of the best sources of inspiration and information about gardening you can get outside of a classroom, and that is also wonderfully entertaining? By making time to go visit other people’s gardens, we can open ourselves up to... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Hardy Kern on Neonic Dangers – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 10, 2024 30:40

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I suspect every gardener has for years now, over and again, heard the warnings about the most widely used pesticides in the US, neonicotinoids – or neonics for short. In 2013 the American Bird Conservancy issued a report, warning of... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Neil Diboll on Prairie Plants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 3, 2024 28:58

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Interest and awareness around native plants has been trending in recent years, and it makes them almost feel new. But of course natives are the original plants of an area—and even in certain specialty corners of the nursery industry they... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Basil Camu on Supporting Trees – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 27, 2024 28:59

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Most people call in an arborist when they think it’s time for a tree to be removed—a costly process both financially and environmentally, since trees are critical drivers of diversity. Today’s guest runs a tree-care company and also a tree-focused... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Apiary Studio on Regenerative Landscaping – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 20, 2024 28:44

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Landscape design may be part of the green industry, but sometimes rethinking a garden space, or creating a garden where there didn’t used to be one, can create a lot of very un-green waste material—especially true when you’re designing in... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Claire French - The Goddess Archetype 1:03:57

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This lecture discusses the loss of feminine representation, including in the changing myths and religious stories, and its impact on society. It explores challenges for women when they feel alienated from their instinctive femininity and for men when they are only able to connect with their femininity in private. There is a strong call to re-person…

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Peter Zale on Native Orchids – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 13, 2024 27:58

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Today’s topic is orchids, but not the ones you might be growing as a flowering houseplant. Our subject is native terrestrial types that are more often than not under great pressure in the wild, their numbers dwindling. Now, thanks to... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Philadelphia Gardens – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 6, 2024 28:25

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The area around Philadelphia is well-known for its richness of public gardens, including many historic ones, but the region is also home to an impressive roster of distinctive private landscapes—from formal 19th century European-style estates to mid-century modern residences and contemporary... Read More ›…

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Mary Phillips on Rethinking the Lawn – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 29, 2024 28:01

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You’ve probably heard the expression No Mow May in recent years, a campaign borrowed from an effort in the UK meant to increase diversity by leaving lawns unmown for the one spring month, but is that the answer for US... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Stephen Procter on Ceramic Garden Art – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 22, 2024 27:54

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It’s that time of year when we gardeners are shopping, shopping, shopping, often in hot pursuit of just the right plant that will make the design of a bed or the larger landscape hang together—that elusive missing ingredient. But what... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Hilton Carter on Propagating Houseplants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 15, 2024 27:41

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I for one have a number of houseplants that would look a whole lot better right now if given a pinch or two or three, plus I could potentially enjoy the benefit of more plants from those trimmings, whether to... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Tim Falkiner: The Zone of the Pokies Addict 59:33

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This lecture discusses electronic gambling machines known as “pokies” in Australia, “slot machines” in the United States of America and “fruit machines” in the United Kingdom. It explores their use of symbols, how players may be entranced by the promise of spiritual connection and let down by the lack of revelation. Regulations surrounding electron…

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Japanese Maples at Mr Maple – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 8, 2024 28:38

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I confess to something of a weakness for Japanese maples, and I suspect I’m not alone. Now, thanks to breeding work by experts like today’s guests, there are more and more varieties being made available that are suited to a... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Madeline Hooper on Staying ‘GardenFit’ – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 1, 2024 28:04

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You know how it goes, especially in those tempting first spring-like days: You’re barely out of bed before you’re out in the garden having at it. And then, by day’s end, your body’s screaming that maybe, just maybe, you overdid... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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David Mattern on Container Design – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 25, 2024 28:52

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Wait! Before you find yourself at the garden center grabbing up every irresistible thing that calls out to you, figuring you can somehow find a role for it in this season’s container designs, think again: What’s your plan for this year’s seasonal... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Tim Johnson on Bio-Productive Gardens – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 18, 2024 28:20

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In a recent phone call, today’s guest, Tim Johnson, used the phrase “bio-productive gardens,” and it stopped me. What does he mean by that, I thought? And then he explained: There are ways to manage our landscapes, he said, so... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Darryl Cheng on Collectible Houseplants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 11, 2024 27:40

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Some people collect art, others collect vintage cars, or maybe stamps or coins. Darryl Cheng collects houseplants, and in his latest book, “The New Plant Collector,” Darryl suggests some gorgeous possibilities, with detailed guidelines for figuring out how to make... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Frith Luton: Circumambulating the Centre - The Symbolism of the Bees, the Honey, and the Hive 1:12:13

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This lecture explores the alchemical union of opposites through the symbolism of bees including love and war, sweetness and bitterness, the individual and multiplicity, regeneration and death. Circumambulating the hive is linked with mandala symbolism and the archetype of inner order.By The C G Jung Society of Melbourne

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Sam Hoadley on Amsonias – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 4, 2024 28:33

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Early on in making my garden decades ago, I bought a nursery pot of bluestar, or Amsonia, at a native plant sale, and planted it in a border here. It has never asked anything of me, never had any pests... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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K Greene on Herbs – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 26, 2024 28:11

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When shopping the seed catalogs, I realize I’m probably more likely to consider a tomato or pepper I haven’t grown before, or some unusual annual flower, than to try some new-to-me herb. But what a shame. I need to modify that... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Rebecca McMackin on the Native Movement – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 19, 2024 27:56

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Maybe more than any other topic, the use of native plants has consistently figured among the top garden trends in recent years. Just how popular is the movement toward a more ecological focus in the way we design and care... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Be a Better Bird Watcher – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 12, 2024 28:38

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Watching birds lifts my spirits, as it has for decades, and who couldn’t use their spirits lifted right about now? But there’s another much bigger potential benefit, which is that sharing my sightings helps scientists understand what’s going on with... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Robert Johnson: Dionysus the Forgotten God 1:44:43

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Dionysus the Forgotten God discusses myths of the complex and fragile God, Dionysus - born of both parents and a third time reborn of the underworld. Both the last Olympian and the first to be cast out. Where the qualities of his brother Apollo fit more easily into a patriarchal framework, the qualities of Dionysus as, the sensuous god, are often r…

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Don Tipping on Diversity of Zinnias – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 5, 2024 27:55

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What’s not to love about zinnias? Organic seed farmer and breeder Don Tipping of Siskiyou Seeds and I both vote an emphatic “yes” in favor of making zinnias a part of every garden year. But what goes into creating the... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Nancy Lawson Asks Is Your Yard Undergrown? – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 29, 2024 28:01

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As she often does, naturalist and nature writer Nancy Lawson—perhaps known better to some of you as the Humane Gardener after the title of her first book—caught my attention the other day. “My yard isn’t overgrown and neither is yours,”... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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David Culp on Snowdrops – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 22, 2024 27:42

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David Culp is a self-professed Galanthophile—a lover, and passionate longtime collector, of snowdrops in all their various incarnations. He is also a host of the annual Galanthus Gala symposium, which happens the first weekend of March in Downingtown, Pa., and... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Ken Druse on Seed Planning – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 15, 2024 28:11

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If you think nothing’s on the to-do list in winter, fellow gardeners—that we’re all meant to be dormant like the cannas in the cellar and the herbaceous perennials outside in the flower beds—well, think again. Most of us in colder... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Matt Mattus on Sweet Peas – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 8, 2024 27:28

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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 garden for them, and indulge in their unmatched extravagance of color and... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Mary Duffy: Illness, Symptom & Individuation 45:06

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Illness, Symptom & Individuation approaches the process of integration and healing through experiences of illness and trauma in the life of the body. Mary shares a personal experience of serious, prolonged illness that evaded medical diagnosis for some time. This experience led to an intense period of change where symbolism of the inner world mirro…

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Uli Lorimer on Ecological Resolutions – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec 25, 2024 28:03

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Like everyone around this time of year, I get into a “looking back while looking ahead” combined mindset. Today I want to do just that, but with a sort of ecological filter, taking stock of how things in the garden... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Jennifer Jewell on Beloved Seed Catalogs – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec 18, 2023 28:23

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Ho-ho-ho: It’s seed season, among other festive reasons to celebrate in December. Today I invited a similarly seed-obsessed friend, Jennifer Jewell, to help me curate some seed-catalog recommendations you might not otherwise browse, and to talk seeds in general. Jennifer’s... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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New USDA Hardiness Zone Map – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec 11, 2023 28:31

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You no doubt have seen news that the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map was just updated, and that half the country once again got reclassified a half-zone warmer—just as many of us did after the previous update of the map,... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Seed Shopping with Turtle Tree – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec 4, 2023 27:50

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Let the seed-shopping season begin! The 2024 offerings are being loaded into seed-catalog websites, and the earliest print catalogs are already arriving in our mailboxes, as if to help soften the separation anxiety we may feel if we’ve already put... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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‘Gardening Can Be Murder’ Book – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov 20, 2023 28:02

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I don’t think I’ve read a mystery novel since the “Nancy Drew” books of my long-ago childhood, though I will confess to having watched more than a few who-done-it TV series over the years, most of them from the BBC. ... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Eric Lee-Mader on Milkweeds – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov 13, 2023 28:05

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Most of us may automatically think “monarch” after hearing the word “milkweed,” or vice versa. And that’s in fact a critical and intimate relationship, the one between monarch butterflies and native milkweed plants. But the genus Asclepias offers sustenance to... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Ken Druse on Fall Cleanup – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov 6, 2023 27:40

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Yes, it’s time or almost time to do some raking, and to dig the dahlias to stash – time to perform the rounds of the so-called “fall cleanup” and put the garden to bed. But today Ken Druse and I want... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Byron Martin on Citrus Houseplants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 30, 2023 26:52

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Are any of your houseplants edible? A new book by the owners of the beloved rare plant business called Logee’s Greenhouses suggests that we make room for some delicious candidates among our potted indoor plants, including a range of citrus.... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Cornell’s Natural Lawn – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 23, 2023 27:06

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Reducing the footprint of our lawns has been a key environmental message for gardeners in recent years, since lawns lack biodiversity, and involve huge amounts of pollution between fertilizers, herbicides and the gas used in mowing. But what to cultivate... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Brandywine Valley du Pont Gardens – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 16, 2023 27:50

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It’s hard to think of another place so rich with major gardens as the Brandywine Valley in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and an adjacent portion of Delaware. Five of those gardens have a historic connection—a family connection—as they were all by... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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