Margaret Roach

From awaytogarden.com and robinhoodradio.com, this is A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach, your weekly invitation to dig in and grow.

It's not news that more and more gardeners are trying their hand at landscaping with native plants in recent years, often by converting a piece of lawn to something more diverse as a first step.

But how's it going? An environmental nonprofit headquartered in the western U.S.

And she spoke to me on this program back in 2021.

But the watershed event in the development of this project was an article about it, which was based on an interview with you by Margaret Roach.

And this appeared in the New York Times in 2023.

Can you tell me about the kind of reaction that brought?

Two of my favorite ladies teamed up to spread the love and habitat of wetlands.

Margaret Roach interviewed the humane gardener Nancy Lawson for her podcast and column in the New York Times.

Even a small pond can bring frogs, dragonflies, herons, and those moments of awe that fill our hearts.

Nancy has two wetlands that she dug and now has so much going on in her backyard that she has FOMO if she misses it for a day.

From awaytogarden.com and robinhoodradio.com, this is A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach.

Your weekly invitation to dig in and grow.

What's in a name, specifically when it's the common name of a plant that includes the word weed? When you hear of plants like jewelweed or pokeweed or clearweed, to name a few, what does it make you think? All of those are native plants, but they're also often treated more like that suffix in their names, like weeds, something gardeners are inclined to cast out.

From awaytogarden.com and robinhoodradio.com, this is A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach.

Your weekly invitation to dig in and grow.

I've never had a rock garden, I confess, but a book about a modern and extreme form of the art caught my attention when it was published.

And when they go, so does the food for the birds and everything else up the food web.

I first learned about Max's work through Margaret Roach from Away to Garden.

She featured Max in her New York Times column and did a podcast on it, but I knew right away I wanted to hear straight from Max himself and add my own questions.

So today, we'll get into what he found, what it means for your own yard, and how small changes this fall can make a real difference.

That's joegardener.com/ugs.

[upbeat music] Hey, Max, thanks for being on the show today.

I have been looking forward to this for over a year when I first read your, uh, interview with Margaret Roach, a, a dear friend of mine and a, and a great person to scoop out super topics with super people and, and she hit the gold mine with you.

So here we are a year later, and I wanna talk about the same thing, and that is the topic of leaving the leaves.

[upbeat music] From awaytogarden.com and robinhoodradio.com, this is A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach, your weekly invitation to dig in and grow.

There's power in numbers.

That's what the horticulture team at Stoneleigh, the historic estate turned native-focused public garden in Villanova, Pennsylvania, seems to be demonstrating time and again with its highly creative approach to using woody plants.