I’VE ANSWERED a lot of garden questions in my time as a garden journalist, but nobody has asked more of them than my latest podcast interview, who’s also the person I’ve known longer than anyone else on the planet. My baby sister, Marion Roach Smith, is an author and podcaster, a popular teacher of memoir writing, and like her older sister and the grandmother she is named for, a gardener in her own right. She’s also the person who coined the phrase “urgent garden question,” as in: “Margaret, I have an urgent garden question,” meaning that I needed to deliver on-demand answers to the sister on the other end of the phone line and fast—or else. She joined me to talk about hand-me-down plants we’ve shared and garden lessons we’ve learned, like how her 18 dahlia tubers eventually turn into 175 (including massive clumps like the one in the photo below), and how that’s too many. And maybe we even asked and answered some more urgent garden questions. Marion Roach Smith is the author of various books including “The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing and Life” (affiliate link), which spawned a whole business at marionroach.com, teaching and […]

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