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  • Tomatoes With Craig LeHoullier-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach February 28, 2022

    Tomatoes With Craig LeHoullier-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach February 28, 2022
    Feb 26 2022

    Sick of winter? What I find helps, besides the occasional warmish, sunny day, is thinking about tomatoes. And that's what we're going to do today with Craig LeHoullier, author of the hit 2014 book “Epic Tomatoes,” who has over the years grown some 3,000 varieties in his home garden and adds new ones to his list every year

    Craig, who gardens in North Carolina, is a retired chemist with a longtime passion for tomatoes. He's the co-founder of the Dwarf Tomato Project, an advisor on tomatoes to Seed Savers Exchange, and the person who in 1990 named the popular heirloom Cherokee Purple from seed that had been passed down and eventually made its way to him. 
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    26 m
  • Trillium & More With Uli Lorimer - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - April 28, 2025

    Trillium & More With Uli Lorimer - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - April 28, 2025
    Apr 25 2025
    I look forward to spring for many reasons, not the least of which is the emergence and bloom time of the trilliums. There’s a saying that good things come in threes, and trilliums are certainly proof of that. I talked about trilliums and more with Uli Lorimer of Native Plant Trust in Massachusetts, where they’re about to celebrate their 10th annual Trillium Week, and the organization is celebrating its 125th anniversary, too. Uli is director of horticulture at Native Plant Trust, the nation’s oldest plant conservation organization, founded in 1900 as the New England Wild Flower Society. Uli, who is... Read More ›
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    27 m
  • Tomatoes With Craig LeHoullier-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach February 28, 2022

    Tomatoes With Craig LeHoullier-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach February 28, 2022
    Feb 26 2022

    Sick of winter? What I find helps, besides the occasional warmish, sunny day, is thinking about tomatoes. And that's what we're going to do today with Craig LeHoullier, author of the hit 2014 book “Epic Tomatoes,” who has over the years grown some 3,000 varieties in his home garden and adds new ones to his list every year

    Craig, who gardens in North Carolina, is a retired chemist with a longtime passion for tomatoes. He's the co-founder of the Dwarf Tomato Project, an advisor on tomatoes to Seed Savers Exchange, and the person who in 1990 named the popular heirloom Cherokee Purple from seed that had been passed down and eventually made its way to him. 
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    26 m
  • Marigolds & More With Peace Seedlings - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - April 21, 2025

    Marigolds & More With Peace Seedlings - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - April 21, 2025
    Apr 17 2025
    So you think you’re familiar with marigolds and zinnias? Well, it’s time to take another look, I think, as I have been longingly in the seed list from Oregon-based Peace Seedlings. Among their offerings are multi-toned zinnias in shades you won’t have seen before, with names like Day Glow mix, and Rainbow Eyes. And there’s a selection of not just at any little old marigold, like the ones in the garden center cellpacks—but instead extravagant 3 and 4 and even 6-foot-high plants loaded with flowers for cutting, or shrubby ones like ‘Red Metamorph’ that could form a beautiful garden hedge if... Read More ›
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    27 m
  • Coleus With Rosy Dawn Gardens - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - April 14, 2025

    Coleus With Rosy Dawn Gardens - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - April 14, 2025
    Apr 11 2025
    It’s hard to think of a brighter botanical bright spot than the one that Coleus creates—whether in a container design, or planted in a garden bed. And it’s hard to think of a more Coleus-filled place than Rosy Dawn Gardens, a Michigan-based mail-order nursery that for 23 years has specialized in Coleus, Coleus and more Coleus – with a collection at the moment of 200-plus varieties. Not just upright ones, but mounding and trailing varieties, too, and in every imaginable leaf color and pattern — and shape, size and texture of foliage, too. In case you haven’t guessed already, Coleus... Read More ›
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    27 m
  • Editing and Dividing Perennials With Toshi Yano - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach August 23, 2021

    Editing and Dividing Perennials With Toshi Yano - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach August 23, 2021
    Aug 20 2021
    Maybe you, like I do, have certain perennial beds that could use editing and some particular plants that need dividing in the process. That’s just one focus of today’s guest, Toshi Yano, in his role as director of horticulture at Wethersfield, a former private estate turned public garden in the Hudson Valley of New York, He’ll tell us the how-to, and also about visiting this special place.  Toshi Yano Toshi is in his third year as director of horticulture at the former estate called Wethersfield garden in Dutchess County, New York, with its 3-acre formal gardens plus 7 acres of wilderness garden and commanding views of the Catskills and Berkshire Mountains.  Toshi and his team are bringing the gardens back to life, and he told me about the place, and specifically about the tasks of editing and dividing that every perennial gardener needs to do, whatever their garden scale. 
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    26 m
  • Spring Flavors With Amy Chaplin - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - April 7, 2025

    Spring Flavors With Amy Chaplin - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - April 7, 2025
    Apr 4 2025
    I can almost taste it now: the flavors of the first spring crops, whether homegrown, or from your CSA share, or even ethically foraged…with the promise of a whole growing season of the freshest, tastiest produce to come. It’s the perfect time to think about adding some new recipes to our repertory that can really show them off, and who better to ask for inspiration on that score than Amy Chaplin, whose approach to cooking is nature-inspired and whole-foods based. It’s the 10th anniversary of Amy’s James Beard award-winning cookbook, “At Home in the Whole Food Kitchen,” and a special updated... Read More ›
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    27 m
  • Maximalist Design With Teresa Woodard - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - March 31, 2025

    Maximalist Design With Teresa Woodard - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - March 31, 2025
    Mar 28 2025
    More isn’t always better, of course, but in the case of the gardens profiled in the new book “Garden to the Max,” it definitely is, whether more color, more texture, more drama or all of the above, and then some, smartly used for maximum impact. The many faces of maximalist gardening, plus perhaps some inspiration for turning up the volume in your own landscape, is our topic today with the book’s author, Teresa Woodard, who gardens near Columbus, Ohio. With photographer Bob Stefko, Teresa has created “Garden to the Max: Joyful, Visionary, Maximalist Design,” which looks at 20 gardens around... Read More ›
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    27 m
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