Wayne Winterrowd and Joe Eck ask, What happened to my color scheme?
THE PERENNIAL GARDEN at North Hill began over a quarter century ago (make that 25-plus, which sounds less mortal) as a riot of color. …

Extension Consumer Horticulturist, Clemson University
Where do the seeds of seedless watermelons come from?
-LD., by e-mail
Answer: Seedless watermelons were first developed at Kyoto University, Japan, in 1939. The parents are two seeded varieties. The male is …

BY MARTY ROSS / Kansas City, Missouri, USDA Zone 5
PLACES TO VISIT
Allen Centennial Gardens
620 Babcock Drive Madison, WI 53706 608-262-8406 www.hort.wisc.edu/garden2001
Allen Centennial Gardens, a tiny, two-and-a-half-acre jewel on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, has an …

BY SCOTT OGDEN / Austin, Texas, USDA Zone 8
TO DO IN THE GARDEN
Plant a Community
March and April are excellent months to set out warm-season grasses, the dominant plants in most Texas prairies, and to plant …

BY VALERIE EASTON / Seattle, Washington, USDA Zone 8
PLACES TO VISIT
Bellevue Botanical Garden
12001 Main Street Bellevue, WA 98005 425-452-2750 www.bellevuebotanical.org
The world-famous perennial border at the Bellevue Botanical Garden may seem like a summer destination, but …

BY JOE ECK AND WAYNE WINTERROWD / Readsboro, Vermont, USDA Zone 5
WORTH GROWING
Probably nothing is more the mark of Allen C. Haskell’s nursery than its many standards—small, mop-headed topiary trees fashioned from rosemary, geranium, myrtle, …

COMPILED BY MEGHAN LYNCH
WEB FINDS
WWW.RAREFORMS.COM
Amy Goldman, the author of the Compleat Squash (Workman, 2004) and Melons for the Passionate Gardener (Artisan, 2002), grows hundreds of varieties of heirloom fruits and vegetables every summer, in a …

Designing with Aster cordifolius ‘Little Carlow’
text and photography by CAROL KLEIN
IN OUR GARDENS, AS IN THE WILD, plants live together. Rather than leaving such associations random, however, the gardener must decide who lives with whom, …

How a passion for the Geraniaceae turned a collector into a nursery woman
by ROBIN PARER PHOTOGRAPHY by MARION BRENNER
ON BRIGHT SPRING MORNINGS, at my nursery, Geraniaceae, before the customers arrive, I wander around the plant …

An expert’s choice of the best tropical water lilies
text and photography by PERRY D. SLOCUM
A MOST BASIC DISTINCTION CAN BE MADE between tropical water lilies, those native to tropical or semi-tropical climates, and hardy water …

Dr. Richard W. Lighty
by BARBARA PAUL ROBINSON
photography by ED WHEELER
ALWAYS FASCINATED BY VARIATION IN NATURE, Dr. Richard W. Lighty says, “I knew by the age of 10 that I wanted to grow up to be …