Margaret Roach
Publisher and Blogger at A Way To Garden
Host at MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
Ex-Martha exec, now just mad gardener, rural nature addict, award-winning writer & podcaster, creator of https://t.co/kURkvx2VbL and matching book & podcast
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Margaret Roach
Learn to embrace both the visual and functional aspects of your garden to support diversity in your plantings. Rudbeckia hirta is a seasonal headliner in a dry meadow designed by Kelly D. Norris, supported by big bluestem grass (Andropogon gerardii Holy Smoke) and blue grama grass (Bouteloua gracilis Honeycomb). Credit... Kelly D.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Margaret Roach |Clark Hodgin
What you need to do when the blooming season ends to make sure next year's crop thrives. In season, lilacs are an extravagance of color and fragrance - especially when you have something like 437 plants, representing 138 different species and varieties, as the New York Botanical Garden does in its Burn Family Lilac Collection. After they finish blooming, though, lilacs can present an extravagantly messy aftermath, nudging the gardener to intervene in the name of tidiness.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Margaret Roach
The ecologist Douglas Tallamy says your landscape can help manage the watershed, support pollinators, bolster a viable food web, and sequester carbon. Each time I'm asked a question about some aspect of ecological horticulture, I hear another question triggered in my head:What would Doug do? My answer-formulating thought process starts by pondering that. "Doug" is Douglas W.
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2 months ago |
infobae.com | Margaret Roach
Flowers and PlantsSeasons and MonthsSpring (Season)Gardens and GardeningNational Phenology NetworkUnited StatesMe estoy tomando en microdosis este momento invernal de la historia de Estados Unidos, y mi droga elegida es el simple acto de buscar atentamente cada pequeño indicio de la inminente primavera. El nuevo libro Phenology de Theresa Crimmins, un manual sobre por qué y cómo fijarse más en qué es lo que ocurre y cuándo, me ha preparado una receta infusionada con naturaleza.
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2 months ago |
myheraldreview.com | Margaret Roach
I’m micro-dosing my way through this wintry moment in American history, with the simple act of looking closely for each tiny hint of spring-to-be as my drug of choice. The nature-infused prescription was laid out for me in the new book “Phenology” by Theresa Crimmins, a primer on the why and how of taking sharper notice of what happens when.
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If I had it as together as @NikiJabbour, even w/the snow piled up outside I'd be harvesting carrots and greens and more. In today's @nytimes, I wrote about her "vegetable-garden toolkit" of simple gear we all need to season-extend and pest-prevent. https://t.co/Kn5xNTkQDS
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