Latest Episodes
Native 'Weeds' with Renee Kemmerer - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Nov. 2, 2026
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...
The Art of Crevice Gardening - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Oct. 26, 2026
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...
Creative Use of Woody Plants at Stoneleigh - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Oct. 19, 2026
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...
Extraordinary Caterpillars with Sam Jaffe - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Oct. 12, 2026
“We’re so good at pretending the things around us are known and boring, or imagining that the worthwhile things are far away,” says Sam...
Awe-Filled Gardens with Nancy Lawson - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Oct. 5, 2026
One late-August day, Nancy Lawson—or “The Humane Gardener,” as she is perhaps better known—was making a video about a spicebush swallowtail butterfly when something...
Hannah Fries's 'A Forest Language' - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Sept. 28, 2026
In the introduction to her latest book “A Forest Language,” Hannah Fries acknowledges a fascination with the words we use to talk about trees...