From away to garden.com and Robinhood Radio.com, this is Away to Garden with Margaret

Roach.

You're a weekly invitation to dig in and grow.

Even though I don't live anywhere near St. Louis, one of my most used and appreciated

resources for plant information over many, many years has been the Missouri Botanical

Garden, with

its world-class offerings to gardeners both in person and online.

One feature I look forward to each year is the Garden's annual Plants of Merit List,

and today we're going to talk about those standout varieties just in time to guide your

springtime plant shopping.

So more in a moment, but first these messages.

Underwriting support from color blends,, supplying top quality, spring blooming,

Dutch flower bulbs, to landscape professionals, and ambitious home gardeners.

More information on the web colorblends.com.

Programming and underwriting support from Royal Botanic Gardens,

publishers of QPACCAP books, small gift books, illustrated from Q's Vance

collection of Botanic Alert. The most recent book, Fungai, about the strange and singular world of mushrooms, toadstools, and their kin. In bookstores now. My guest today is

Daria McAlvy, supervisor of the Kemper Center for Home Gardening at the Missouri Botanical Garden,

where she oversees its extensive indoor gardens, its plant doctor answer service,

and a lot of the website features I mentioned that I rely on so much.

You are one busy person to area welcome.

And thanks for making time today and all that.

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