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.

One thing that canjus and I are certain about when it comes to plants, that they will

often surprise you.

Some grow bigger or stay smaller than the catalog promised and some are

better or worse behaved or tougher or more tender than expected. Some plants that

have surprised us over the years for better or worse is our subject today but

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Kendrues who gardens in New Jersey is the author and photographer behind 20 garden books,

and a long time friend who grows lots of plants that definitely surprise me.

He's back today to talk about plants that in one way or another weren't quite what we expected as

in surprise. Hello, Ken.

How are you? I'm Margaret. Well, I'm waking up. Good for you. Good, good. That's a good thing to do in the morning.

Yeah. So yes, so surprise, surprise. And we've been gardening a long time that each of us has. And it is interesting, you know, as much as sometimes we did our homework before we acquired something.

And obviously sometimes we all impulse shop and so forth and don't do any homework.

And that's always a surprise then what you bring home.

But it's always a surprise.

Yeah, but even with homework, it's like sometimes it's, you know, the plant tells you

what it wants to be in your garden, right? As opposed to what the catalog or well, even some online

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