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Margaret Roach

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Margaret Roach has been a columnist at the New York Times, fashion editor at Newsday, the first garden editor for Martha Stewart Living magazine, and the editorial director of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. In 2008 Roach left New York City for her home upstate, where she is a consultant and avid gardener, keeping fans up to date on her blogs A Way to Garden and The Sister Project. Roach is the author of A Way to Garden, named Best Garden Book of the Year by the Garden Writers' Association of America, and Groundcovers, part of the Burpee American Gardening Series, and co-authored The Natural Habitat Garden.

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rainy forecast for my june 2 open day

GARDENERS LIKE TO COMPLAIN about the weather, so I will: Looks like my Garden Conservancy Open Day tomorrow (Saturday, June 2 from 10-4) will be a very soggy one, adding to 1.7 inches of rain that fell in a 24-hour period a couple of days ago. Feeling brave, and have an umbrella? Details and directions are on the Garden Conservancy site at this link, and there are two other local gardens open a...

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Published on June 01, 2012 04:14

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Books by Margaret Roach

Average rating: 3.04 · 253 ratings · 92 reviews · 5 distinct works

	And I Shall Have Some Peace There: Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road 2.93 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	My rating:
	A Way to Garden: A Hands-On Primer for Every Season 3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Groundcovers 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	The Natural Lawn and Alternatives 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1993	My rating:
	Great Landscape Evergreens by Vincent A. Simeone, Margaret Roach (Preface), Bruce Curtis (Photographs) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	My rating:

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“SHE OF NOBODY ELSE'S BIDDING: That is who I am now--someone who has not done what anyone else said since July 2008, though not because I am either disobedient or a slacker.”
― Margaret Roach, And I Shall Have Some Peace There: Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road

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