A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 6, 2021 – Julie Janoski Gives a Caterpillar ClinicA Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 6, 2021 – Julie Janoski Gives a Caterpillar Clinic

<p>Today's guest answers even more Urgent Garden Questions each year than I do, in her role as plant clinic manager at <a href="https://mortonarb.org/">The Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois</a>—including lots each summer and fall about caterpillars galore, from bagworms to gypsy moths and fall webworms. </p> <p>Besides being an arboretum and public garden, The Morton is a world-class 1,700-acre research center, conservation and education organization, and it's preparing to mark its centennial in 2022.</p> <p>Last year, 17,000 questions arrived by phone, email, or in person at the plant clinic, questions representing consumers from 48 states. Julie is a former landscape designer who has managed the arboretum's free plant clinic for three years, after volunteering there for five years before that.&nbsp;</p> <p>Julie and I talked about the most common questions we each get from gardeners, including ones about Magnolia scale and about all those hungry caterpillars and what to&nbsp;do to&nbsp;limit them next year.</p>