Nancy Lawson Asks Is Your Yard Undergrown? - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Jan 29, 2024

As she often does, naturalist and nature writer Nancy Lawson—perhaps known better to some of you as the Humane Gardener after the title of her first book—caught my attention the other day.  “My yard isn’t overgrown and neither is yours,” Nancy wrote in a post on Instagram. What she went on to say is that words like overgrown are the kind that are often applied negatively to landscapes that don’t fit the manicured model, the one dominated by the mindset of the Great American Lawn. But Nancy Lawson takes exception countering with the thought that most landscapes are in fact... Read More ›