Margaret Roach

THE MESSAGE has become increasingly clear: By shifting the palette of what we plant toward native, and refining the practices we employ in caring for..

SHE HAS HAD various job titles in her career, but writer Margaret Renkl says one consistent role in her life for decades has been that..

IT’S PRACTICALLY December, but like many gardeners I’m already thinking about spring. One big element of that thinking is how to maximize the power of..

I WAS INVITED recently to be a guest on a podcast called The WildStory that talks about plants, of course, and ecology. But unlike other..

WHEN COLD WEATHER approaches, we humans usually have it easy. We can retreat to the shelter of central heating, or pile on more layers of..

IN THE FACE of shifting weather patterns influenced by a changing climate, the garden can be a really confusing place these days. What stressors are..

THE GARDEN is my favorite escape from stress, of course, but as I have confessed before on the podcast, I sometimes succumb to the lure..

SARA WEANER COOPER and her husband, Evan Cooper, bought their first home a couple of years ago, and before long, undertook transitioning the front lawn..

IT WAS ALMOST two years ago to the day when Joan Strassmann last visited me on the podcast, right around the time her book “Slow..

WHEN I READ the other day that Native Plant Trust, the nonprofit plant conservation organization in New England, had successfully raised the money to complete..