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 – organisms she calls the backdrop of her life. From our human vocabulary of forest ecology and botany Hannah has collected some of her favorite arboreal terms to fill the new volume, ones referred to in its subtitle as “Words That Illuminate the Astonishing World of Trees.” Do you know pitch from sap, for instance, or heartwood from sapwood? What’s a burl, a snag, a nurse log, a lenticel? In “A Forest Language,” Hannah brings to life... Read More ›