From AwayToGarden.com and RobinhoodRadio.com, this is AwayToGarden with Margaret Roach.

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

Mary Ann Wilburne appreciates the bold and often vertical element that some favorite tropical

plants add to her temperate garden.

But maybe the best of all are the ones that also provide that something extra, ingredients

for cooking, which is her other passion besides gardening.

We'll hear from her on growing tender edible ornamentals from turmeric and gingers to

lemongrass and more in a moment, but first these messages.

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com Mary Ann Wilburn a long time garden writer who gardens in Virginia, is a contributing editor

to the collaborative blog called Garden Rant, and she's also author of the 2021 book,

Tropical Plants and How to Love Them.

I'm so glad she's here today to guide us on which of these tempting tropicals at the

Garden Center to indulge in for visual and culinary enjoyment.

Hi, Maryann, how are you? Hi, Margaret. I'm great. Thanks for having me. It's good to talk to you again.

Yes. Yes. We recently did a New York Times column together, which was fun.

And I've been wondering, are you like getting ready to wake up some of your babies in the garage

there? What's going on there? That is exactly what's going on right now.

I am trying to juggle it with my travel schedule as well,

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