Ecological Landscaping With Preston Montague - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Sept. 23, 2024

September 20, 2024 00:27:59
Ecological Landscaping With Preston Montague - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Sept. 23, 2024
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Ecological Landscaping With Preston Montague - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Sept. 23, 2024

Sep 20 2024 | 00:27:59

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Show Notes

If you have ever tried creating, and then caring for, a habitat-style garden with native plants … well, let’s just say it’s not exactly the same thing as combining a group of hostas with some astilbes an a couple of bleeding hearts.  In the process of writing a recent NY Times garden column about Wild Ones, the nationwide nonprofit membership organization that promotes native plants, I was introduced to today’s guest, the artist and landscape architect Preston Montague of Durham, N.C., who patiently schooled me in some of whys and how-to’s of naturalistic garden design and care that I wanted... Read More ›

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