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 area around Philadelphia is well known for its richness of public gardens, including

many historic ones, but the region is also home to an impressive roster of distinctive private

landscapes from formal 19th century European-style estates to mid-century modern residences and

contemporary ones. Now a new book takes us inside the gates of 21 of them, places filled with ideas

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Private Gardens of Philadelphia is the new book from Garden Rider, Nicole

Jude and photographer Rob Cardillo. Both of them are Pennsylvania gardeners in

their own right. Its pages welcome us into a rich world of horticulture and landscape architecture.

And I'm so glad they're here today to tell us

about some of what they saw and learned

in creating the beautiful book.

So welcome, nice to have both of you.

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