It’s that time of year when we look both ways. Not left and right, like we’re crossing the road, but back and forward at the year just wound down, and ahead at the one coming into view. It’s a moment... Read More ›

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 2, 2023 – Marc Hamer on a Garden Life

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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 ›

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

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 ›

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

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 ›

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

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 ›

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

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 ›

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

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 2, 2023 – Marc Hamer on a Garden Life

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