A Way to Garden : A Hands-on Primer For Every Season - Margaret Roach

A Way to Garden

A Hands-on Primer For Every Season

By: Margaret Roach

Hardcover | 30 April 2019 | Edition Number 1

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In this highly giftable, lushly-photographed guide, iconic garden voice Margaret Roach shows gardeners how to incorporate lessons from her glorious garden into their own home landscapes.

For Margaret Roach gardening is more than a hobby, it's a calling. Her unique approach, which she refers to as "horticultural how-to and woo-hoo," is a blend of vital information to memorise (like how to plant a bulb) and intuitive steps gardeners must simply feel and surrender to. For more than twenty years Roach has shared her deep garden knowledge with an appreciative audience, first at Martha Stewart Living and now on her popular website and podcast. Now, with A Way to Garden, she explores how she and her way of gardening have changed over the years.

Throughout, she shares helpful advice on seasonal gardening, ornamental plants, vegetable gardening, design, and organic practices. She also challenges gardeners to think beyond their borders and consider the ways that gardening can enrich the world. Lushly illustrated with hundreds of photographs, A Way to Garden is a must-have for home gardeners everywhere.

Book Features:
  • Margaret Roach is one of the most trusted and recognizable personal brands in home gardening. Her website and podcast (125k-200k monthly users), newsletter (31k active subscribers), and social media accounts (93K followers on Facebook) have robust followings, and her consistently relatable and timely content invites rich engagement with her fans.
  • Roach shares everything she's learned over 40 years of gardening - the best ornamental and edible plants, new organic strategies, simple tricks and techniques, design ideas, and much more.
  • Hundreds of lavish photos make this a very giftable package. Shipping in time for the launch of the season, it should be the centerpiece of all spring garden displays.
260 colour photographs

About the Author

Margaret Roach, one of America's best-known garden writers, creates awaytogarden.com and the public radio show by the same name, which has been called a "top-5 garden podcast" by The Guardian and is the winner of multiple Garden Writers of America medals. She was the first garden editor of Martha Stewart Living magazine, where she also co-hosted a weekly call-in radio show on Sirius for several years. She lives in rural New York State, and her garden has been open for Garden Conservancy Open Days for more than 20 years. She is the author of three other books, including The Backyard Parables.
Industry Reviews
"A Way to Garden--sensitive, wise, deliberate, thoughtful and splendidly bossy--prods us toward that ineffable place where we feel we belong; it's a guide to living both in and out of the garden." --The New York Times Book Review

"A gorgeous, helpful, and tenderly funny book for anyone who likes putting plants in the ground. I love the fact that it's 'A Way to Garden' not 'THE way to Garden.' Less Hubris, more mulch." --Ann Patchett, author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder

"Roach's conversational tone showcases her personal experiences while highlighting important horticultural information, making it a compelling book to read straight through that is also useful as a reference for particular details. Readers will appreciate Roach's focus on gardening as a way anyone can help make the world a better place."--Booklist

"I love plants and flowers and adore this brilliant gardening guru and her beautifully written new book, just out. It's useful and gorgeous, a great combination." --Kurt Andersen (@KBandersen), host of NPR's Studio 360

"Unquestionably brilliant! I am so impressed with the wisdom of Margaret Roach's experience and the things she writes about that most garden books ignore." --Deborah Madison, author of Vegetable Literacy and The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone

"Margaret has an intimate grasp of her subject, along with an appreciation of the microcosm of life within the spaces we garden. Her sparkling wit makes her a joy to read." --Fergus Garrett, Head Gardener at Great Dixter House and Gardens

"Her voracious curiosity has kept Margaret on the leading edge. This updated classic distills decades of learning from one of gardening's keenest minds. It is delightfully free of ideology but brimming with ideas and inspirations." --Thomas Rainer, author of Planting in a Post-Wild World; principal of Phyto Studio

"If I could keep just one gardening book, the beautifully written A Way to Garden would be the treasured title. This is Margaret's finest work to date and why she is my gardening superhero!" --Joe Lamp'l, Emmy Award-winning creator and host, Growing a Greener World, PBS

"A great book to curl up with . . . Margaret shares insight from her decades of gardening: the ups and downs are laid bare for gardeners to learn, empathize, and find inspiration." --Tony Avent, garden writer and founder, Plant Delights Nursery

The perfect reading companion for those of us who feel that gardening is an unstoppable addiction. It will draw you even further in, while confirming what you've always known in your heart: you must have more plants!" --Jane Perrone, host, "On The Ledge" podcast; former gardening editor, The Guardian

"An indefatigable researcher, Margaret Roach is a whirlwind of enthusiasm for and knowledge of the natural world. This update of A Way to Garden gives us the benefit of so much new information. Thank you, Margaret." --Marco Polo Stufano, founding Director of Horticulture, Wave Hill

"Now that I am starting to dig into my own land, I have found a trusted manual to create interest in every season." --Joshua McFadden, executive chef and author, Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables

"A comprehensive resource and a great book to cuddle up with in the winter while dreaming about your garden plans for the spring." --Alexandra Cooks

"Charming, eye-opening and educational. I can't imagine a better book to curl up with this winter and know I'll be referring to it throughout each garden year." --Susan's in the Garden

"One of the most fun garden books." --Country Gardens

"Brimming with photographs of her own garden, A Way to Garden is both practical and inspiring for any passionate gardener." --Michigan Gardener

"A lavish book...that invites you into her garden with wisdom on gardening. A Way to Garden approaches each season with a metaphor of terms to relate to the months of the year." --Empire-Tribune

"Roach's discussion of even the most onerous chore or persistent pest makes me a better gardener; her words inspire me to keep going." --The Seattle Times

"Margaret Roach encourages gardeners to view their yards less as outdoor decorating than as habitat creation, a trend that has gained force alongside greater environmental awareness." --Boston Globe

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