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.

The first issue of American Gardener, the newly redesigned member magazine of the American

Horticultural Society, arrived recently and ended our lots of good reads including an article by today's guest Nancy Lawson

aka the Humane Gardener. She writes about the folly and hazard of falling prey to the promises of those mosquito control services

you're probably seeing advertised about now and where mosquitoes fit into the bigger environmental picture anyhow.

So more in a moment but first

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Nancy Lawson, whom you may know as the humane gardener, the title of one of her books,

is a naturalist and habitat consultant based in Maryland.

Nancy promotes animal-friendly planting strategies and challenges us to sharpen our awareness

that we're not alone out there, but actually just one part of a much bigger picture.

Nancy's more recent book is called Wildscape, and I'm glad to welcome her back to the show today.

Nancy, it's all so good to talk to you. How are you?

To Margaret. I'm doing great. Thank you. How are you doing?

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