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.

When most of us think of growing herbs each spring, what we probably put into our shopping

cart, whether from online seed catalogs or at the garden center, or the culinary must-have, the basil, the parsley, the dill, and such.

At the Met Cloisters in Upper Manhattan, a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art focused

on the medieval era, the herb collection is far vaster, with possibilities for culinary

use, sure, but also for purposes like dying in other crafts or for household uses or for medicine,

for magic and ceremony and even herbs for promoting love.

Each one has a story to tell and some of those stories along with various plants you'll

want to try are our topic today.

So more in a moment, but first these messages.

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Today's guest is Carly Stil, the managing horticulturist of the Met Cloisters in New York City,

where she oversees the three main gardens that hold the museum's living collection.

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