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BY LES BRAKE / Willow, Alaska, USDA Zone 3 NURSERIES OF NOTE Gardeners in south-central Alaska are fortunate to have Fritz Creek Gardens on the scene. Anyone planning a trip to Homer should stop by to see owner Rita Jo …

It’s easy to fall in love with these heat-tolerant, North American treasures by CARL SCHOENFELD IT’S NO SECRET THAT I HAVE A PASSION FOR RAIN LILIES, members of the genus Zephyranthes. This isn’t based solely on their jewellike flowers or …

BY KIM HAWKS / Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USDA Zone 7 CONTAINER TIPS I tend to use one plant type per container and place several differently planted containers together, so it reads as a mixed planting. In such groupings, try …

Blooming from spring to fall, astrantias are sophisticated additions to any garden by CAROL KLEIN photography by JONATHAN BUCKLEY THERE ARE FEW PLANTS THAT GIVE SO MUCH to the garden picture for as long a time as astrantias do. Stalwarts …

by NAN BLAKE SINTON ALL THE BOOKS AND PICTURES IN THE WORLD cannot compare with the experience of actually being in a great garden, witnessing the sense of proportion, the spaces and shadows, the importance of plant shapes and colors. …

(Epitrix spp., Phyllotreta spp.) These are tiny-about one-sixteenth of an inch–shiny black beetles with enlarged hind legs that enable them to jump like fleas. Flea beetles commonly attack the foliage of newly planted vegetable seedlings, especially tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, eggplants, …

4949 Tealtown Road Milford, OH 513-831-1711 www.cincynature.org PLACES TO VISIT What was Lob’s Wood is now part of the Cincinnati Nature Center, an institution whose mission is primarily educational. It has neither preserved nor entirely neglected Carl Krippendorf’s garden. The …

Roger Swain reads stories and statements in tree stumps left standing SO MANY POLITICIANS, so few real platforms. It used to be that a fellow had only to mount the nearest stump to make himself heard. Today there isn’t any …

Genus by genus, two Pennsylvania gardeners have blended their collections into a dazzling display AS DAVID CULP AND MICHAEL ALDERFER showed me around their garden last November, what I saw was, in many ways, typical of the season in southeastern …

Make your own eye-catching “pizzas” with colorful echeverias by THOMAS HOBBS photography by DAVID MCDONALD Echeverias are tender, rosette-forming succulents native from Mexico south to Argentina. Compact and easy to grow, they come in a rainbow of leaf colors, from …

In Marin County, California, a natural grassland provides the backdrop for an environmentally responsible design text and photography by SAXON HOLT illustration by GORDON MORRISON MOST OF US WANT A GARDEN THAT SEEMS COMFORTABLE IN ITS NATURAL SETTING. But gardeners …