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.

As many of us heavy up on native plants and transition larger areas of our landscapes

towards more naturalistic styles of design, there's a lot to learn.

Or maybe unlearn if our

gardening experience up until now was a bit more traditionally formal and ornamentally

focused. A new book called Your Natural Garden by Garden Designer Kelly Norris asks and

answers a lot of the questions we may find ourselves encountering along the way. He's

here today to share some advice on making and maintaining an ecological garden, so more in a moment but first these messages.

Underwriting support for a way to garden provided by Colorblends, wholesale flower bulbs,

a third-generation bulb company offering top-sized flower bulbs directly to landscape professionals

and ambitious residential gardeners at wholesale prices. On the web, colorblends.com

And by High Mohing Seeds, Wolcott Vermont, professional quality vegetable, flower, and herbal

seeds that are 100% organic and non-GMO project verified.

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And by Whiteflower Farm, offering a wide range of carefully selected and expertly grown garden plants. Kelly Nora, Space Tindamoyne Iowa is an ecological garden designer and author whose latest

book is Your Natural Garden, a practical guide to caring for an ecologically vibrant

home garden.

Kelly is the former director of

horticulture and education at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden and I'm so glad to

welcome him today. How are you? I'm well. Thank you for having me. Yes and congratulations

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