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.

We're going to talk about collectibles today, but not the kind you scored a flea marketer

from an online auction.

We're going to talk about collectible trees. Yes, trees. A new book

by Amy Stewart called The Tree Collectors introduces us to 50 people whose lives have been transformed

by what she calls their arboreal obsessions. More in a moment but first these messages.

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Amy Stewart, who's based in Portland, Oregon, is a New York Times bestselling author whose

previous nonfiction books about the natural world also include The Drunken Botanist and

Wicked Plants. Her newest, The Tree Collectors, Tales of Arborial Obsession, is out this

month and I'm so glad to welcome

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