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 I first started gardening, it wasn't unusual to hear other gardeners lamenting the

shady areas of their landscapes, wishing for more, more, more sun.

But my friend Kendrues never looked at the

lower light areas that way. Well, maybe when he wanted to make room for a few tomato

plants each year, but otherwise not at all. Instead, he collected botanical treasures

of the Woodland floor, and set about making shade gardens, and even writing a couple of

books about the subject, helping the rest of us to stop all that lamenting.

Shade plants we've loved and continue to love is our topic today on the show with Ken

is my guest, so more in a moment but first these messages.

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Kendru's gardens in the shade in New Jersey and before that he did so in the shade of a Brooklyn brownstone.

Along the way among the 20 books he's written were the Natural Shade Garden in 1992 and in 2015 the new Shade Garden creating a lush oasis in the

age of climate change. Ken will be the guest expert on Thursday May 15th when I'm

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