Gardening with My Sister - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

Gardening with My Sister - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - June 2, 2025

May 29 2025 | 00:27:57

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Show Notes

I’ve answered a lot of garden questions in my time as a garden journalist, but nobody has asked more of them than today’s guest—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 is also the person who coined the phrase “urgent garden questions”—as in: “Margaret, I have an urgent garden question,” meaning that I needed to deliver on-demand answers to... Read More ›

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