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.

If I say English Garden, you probably conjure a mental picture of colorful mixed borders

and garden rooms enclosed by hedging.

But what's the essence of an American garden?

That was what a new book called American Roots set out to explore, profiling 20 home gardens around the nation for design inspiration, and also for how to advise gear to gardening success.

One co-author of the book is here today to talk about what they learned, so more in a moment,

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Garden designer Nick McCullough and his wife Allison are the team behind in Ohio based landscape design firm

and also behind the new book American Ro Roots, Lessons and Inspiration

from the designers reimagining our home gardens.

Nick's here today to talk about some takeaways he gleaned

from the process of making the book.

Hi, Nick and thanks for making time for us today.

Hi, well, thank you so much.

It's really an honor to be here.

Yeah, congratulations.

And the book is just coming out.

And I should say we'll have a giveaway of a copy

with the transcript of this show over on away to Garden.com.

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