A Way to Garden: A Hands-On Primer for Every Season by Margaret Roach

“A Way to Garden 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 For Margaret Roach, gardening is more than a hobby, it’s a calling. Her unique approach, which she calls “horticultural how-to and woo-woo,” is a blend of vital information you need to memorize and intuitive steps you must simply feel and surrender to. In A Way to Garden, Roach imparts decades of garden wisdom on seasonal gardening, ornamental plants, vegetable gardening, design, gardening for wildlife, organic practices, and much more. She also challenges gardeners to think beyond their garden borders and to consider the ways gardening can enrich the world. Brimming with beautiful photographs of Roach’s own garden, A Way to Garden is practical, inspiring, and a must-have for every passionate gardener.

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From the Publisher By becoming a gardener, I accidentally—blessedly—landed myself in a fusion of science lab and Buddhist retreat, a place of nonstop learning and of contemplation, where there is life buzzing to the maximum and also the deepest stillness. It is from this combined chemistry that my horticultural how-to and ‘woo-woo’ motto derives. On the second half of that equation, I think of my garden and myself as the two main components of the same organism. That perspective makes me think about the gardening year as roughly parallel to the six seasons of my own life, from conception through birth and on to youth, adulthood, senescence, and finally death and afterlife. Moving from phase to phase takes months or years (if all goes well) in the case of a human; in the garden, it’s all packed into a single year, and then starts over, and over, even long after the gardener is gone. —Margaret Roach This must-have guide shares decades of garden knowledge Gardening with ornamental plants Growing vegetables and fruit Designing for four seasons Attracting birds and beneficial insects Praise and Acclaim for A Way to Garden