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.

Again and again as I was reading the recent book Bad Natural List by Paula Wyman, I kept

thinking, good thing I only have a couple of acres of land.

Wyman tackled 200 acres on a Virginia mountain top, dreaming of reshaping it she writes into

a native plant paradise, a model of conservation, a meadow that would inspire Julie Andrews to

break into song.

Well, but the natural world often has other things in mind than the ones on our to-do list,

doesn't it?

On any scale, learning all the lessons that nature delivers, lessons like ones about invasive

plants or about the unstoppable forward march of succession, about the impossibilities

of enforcing concepts like control or perfection, our lessons hard learned.

And Paul is here today to share some of her takeaways

from years of ecological experiments on the land.

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