Margaret Roach has been writing about gardening for 25-plus years. She was garden editor at Newsday, a daily newspaper and then for Martha Stewart, where Margaret was the first garden editor of Living and later EVP/Editorial Director of Martha Stewart magazines, books and internet.

Margaret Roach is the author of three books: The Backyard Parables: lessons on gardening and life (2013), And I Shall Have Some Peace There: Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road (2012) and A Way to Garden (1998). She hosts a weekly public-radio show A Way to Garden from Robin Hood Radio in Sharon, CT; lectures and holds tours at her 2.3-acre Hudson Valley (NY) Zone 5B garden, and always says no to chemicals and yes to great plants.

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