A Way To Garden

'horticultural how-to and woo-woo' with margaret roach, head gardener

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our native ‘weeds,’ with the brandywine’s renée kemmerer 30 Oct 2026
WHAT’S IN A NAME—specifically when it’s the common name of a plant that includes the word “weed”? When you hear of plants like jewelweed or pokeweed or clearweed, to name a few, what does it make you think? All of those are native plants, but they’re also often treated more like…
the art of crevice gardening, with kenton seth & paul spriggs 24 Oct 2026
I’VE NEVER HAD a rock garden, I confess, but a book about a modern and extreme form of the art caught my attention when it was published. It’s called “The Crevice Garden: How to Make the Perfect Home for Plants from Rocky Places,” and its authors joined me in a conversation in…
a snail’s tale (win ‘the sound of a wild snail eating’) 24 Oct 2026
IT WAS NO ORDINARY SNAIL; far larger than any familiar native species in my cold zone, and obviously out of place. It was fall 2013, and fearing it would not survive, I scooped it up, found an old aquarium in the shed, brought it into the house along with soil and moss, and made…