Margaret Roach

WHEN I BOUGHT my place decades ago, it was nestled in a tiny piece of former farmland with a little 1880s house and no garden. There were, however, five giant apple trees, at least a

BESIDES THEIR native-heavier plant palette and looser style, ecologically designed landscapes have another difference: The way we maintain them is not the same as with more traditional, ornamentally-focused gardens. I’m asked again and again by gardeners

EVERY GARDENER has certainly heard the rallying cry each recent autumn to “leave the leaves,” invoking us to go gentler with our cleanup to support a diversity of beneficial invertebrates who call the fallen leaves

KEVIN WEST begins his newest book, called “The Cook’s Garden,” like this: “This is a book about flavor,” he writes. “It is a book about how to become a better cook by stepping into the

ALMOST 10 YEARS AGO on this program, I talked about making sourdough starter with today’s guest, Sarah Owens, on the occasion of the publication her book called “Sourdough.” Now a 10th anniversary edition of the

MOST OF US have something to hide—in our gardens, that is, some view of something we’d like to erase. It could be the telephone pole across the street that we can see from certain spots,

'WHAT IF THE first step in transforming your lawn-dominated home landscape into a place of enhanced biodiversity could be fun, educational, and free?” That’s how I began a recent “New York Times” garden column about

THE “WHAT PLANT GOES WHERE?” aspect of gardening is the hardest part for a lot of us. And as we increasingly shift our plant palette and gardening style to be more native and ecologically focused,

IN RECENT growing seasons, the “new normal” of a changing climate has sometimes been making me feel like my Northeastern garden has relocated farther to the South. So maybe that’s part of what caught my

THE FALL bird migration is under way, and that means the cast of characters we’re seeing and hearing in the garden is changing quickly, as we say goodbye for now to some species, and keep