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In the Magazines Nov Dec 08

Garden Design Nov Dec 08

• This issue highlights the top winners of residential design awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA).  Ten gardens are profiled, from Maine to California, along with two international gardens in Lebanon and China.  OR -- to see all the winners, go to the ASLA winners' website.
• Six "way hot" plants to bring indoors for winter.
• Plants with showy fruits for winter interest: winterberry, mountain ash, coralberry, beautyberry and moe.
• Groundbreaker: profile of landscape architect Kathryn Gustafson.
• Martha Schwartz's new design for Arizona's Mesa Arts Center.

The American Gardener Nov Dec 08

• Profile of the late California author & plant hunter Lester Rowntree.
• Plants with striking stems for winter interest: redstem willow, black bamboo, ghost bramble, ocotillo and more.
• Great plant mutations: witches' brooms: one of the very enchanting ones is Ginkgo biloba 'Spring Grove,' with a compact habit and a maximum height of five feet in 10-15 years.
• Author Ken Druse with some fascinating tales of great plant explorers.

Fine Gardening Dec 08

• Fine-textured plants to perk up any garden
• Native grasses with spectacular features for gardens all over the country.
• How to prune shrub roses
• Design tips for light and shadow from landscape architect Raymond Jungles. 
• Narrow trees for tight spaces
• Great containers for shady places

In the Magazines Oct-Dec 08

 Horticulture Oct Nov 08

• Mary Stambaugh's 37 year battle to do away with the lawn at her 26 acre CT property
• Woodland lilies and fairybells for spring
• Great companion plants for bulbs

 

Fine Gardening Dec 08

• Landscape architect Raymond Jungles explains how to design with light and shade
• Great trees for narrow spaces
• Fine-textured plants that add space to gardens with wispy blooms, small leaves, seedpods and thin foliage -- and lists of those that will work in various regions of the United States
• AND -- an extra bonus:  a free 2009 calendar

In the Magazines Sept - Oct 08

American Gardener Sept-Oct

• Profile of Holly Shimizu, Executive Director of the US Botanic Garden in Washington DC.
• Native Magnolias, from the evergreens (southern and sweetbay) to the deciduous (Ashe, bigleaf, umbrella, cucumber). All you need to know.
• Orchids for temperate gardens.
• Selecting plants to relate to the site with a designer's eye.
• Species Tulips

Garden Design Sept-Oct

• The stunningly modern home garden of landscape architect Ron Radziner of Marmol Radziner
• A rooftop prairie in Chicago designed by Hoerr Schaudt landscape architects
• A new generation of classic old violas
• And new in design: giant cedar thread spools as garden seats; soft pile fabrics to go with outdoor fireplaces; the new metallic finishes on garden furniture, from chairs and tables to vases and lighting fixtures.

Sunset September

• How to create a great garden path
• A patchwork garden that reflects the surrounding farmland
• A modern patio with infinity-edge pool that complements the view of Paradise Valley in Arizona: stone, water, fire
• Plus, tips on how to brighten a dark garden; expand a cramped garden space; deal with a steep slope; plant a narrow side yard.

In the Magazines June-Aug 08

Garden Design July-Aug

• Edibles make a comeback: veggies that make a design statement
• The eco-friendly garden of architect David Hertz in Venice, CA
• A brief interview with Brooklyn garden designer Mac Carbonell and photos of his design for the Flowerbox Building on NY's Lower East Side.
• New outdoor furniture by French designer Philippe Starck

Sunset June 2008

• Landscape designer Nancy Goslee Power transforms her tiny Santa Monica backyard into a romantic private retreat, complete with fireplace, a pond-spa, and loads of fragrant plants.
• Some famous Californians, including Isabel Allende, Alice Waters, LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa & others speak out about their favorite parks that are threatened by budget cuts. Tomales Bay State Park in Inverness; Annadel  State Park in Santa Rosa; Mount Tamalpais State Park in Mill Valley; San Onofre State Beach in San Clemente; Malibu Creek State Park in Calabasas; Rio de Los Angeles State Park in LA, Samuel P. Taylor State Park in Lagunitas and Angel Island State Park in SF Bay

Fine Gardening Aug

• Designer Tom Peace explains how to design and plant a front yard that'll look terrific after just one year.
• Shrubs for summer color: Vitex agnus-castus, Caryopteris, Cotinus, Physocarpus & more.
• Tips for connecting the house & garden.
• And new:  regional reports on summer blooming shrubs

In the Magazines May 08

American Gardener May-June

• Designing with Vines, including a list of invasives to avoid.
• Fruit trees for the back yard
• How to protect yourself from mosquitos and ticks (other than moving to a state with an arid climate, which might be a better idea)
• A book review by yours truly on page 52
• A nice profile of Rhododendron occidentale, native to the Pacific Northwest and California.
• Interview with plant breeder Harold Pellett, who has brought us 'Northern Lights' azaleas, 'Center Glow' ninebark, 'Silver Star' clematis and many other trees & shrubs.

Coastal Living May
This magazine is obviously about a lot more than gardens, still, a couple of very useful articles in the current issue.

• GREAT article on outdoor fabrics that are colorful & stylish, water & mildew repellent, and fade resistant. Plus listings of websites and phone numbers where you can order them.
• The coastal garden of Jack and Kay Keohane overlooking San Francisco Bay -- carefully chosen plants that will survive high tides and winter rains.

Garden Design May

• Garden antiques dealer Barbara Israel (author of Antique Garden Ornament, Abrams 1999) has a new business called Garden Traditions replicating some of her classic antiques -- and wow! - made in the USA.
• Profile of Connecticut's Maywood Estate in Litchfield Country  -- 16 gardens in one.
• The French "rock" garden of interior designer Wendy Owen in Sonoma, CA.

Horticulture May

• Profile of the Missouri Botanical Garden's director Peter Raven
• Tony Avent's mountain-top garden
• Author Valerie Easton on the mocha plants at  Chocolate Flower Farm

In the Magazines April 08

American Gardener March/April

• C. Colston Burrell on Plants with Spiky Foliage
• Trilliums Worth Growing
• A new home near Portland, OR for the 900O+ clematis collection of Brewster Rogerson
• An interview with NPR's Ketzel Levine

Fine Gardening April

• Designing with Annuals
• A Lesson in Pruning Hollies
• How to Successfully Design a Narrow Side Yard
• Interview with Plantswoman Sydney Eddison

Garden Design April

• Garden style: chain-link tables, boxy chairs, drainage grates with actual pizazz
• Landscape architect Rob Steiner's LA garden with boardwalks, pool, spa, and much more.
• High pruning art:  topiary, pollarding, pleaching, coppicing, espalier, cloud pruning
• Oversize garden sculptures

In the Magazines March 08

Garden Design March

• 50 new "Way Hot" plants for 2008
• Designing with "rivers" of color
• Designer John Carloftis creates a 10th floor wrap-around urban oasis in Manhattan
• A roof garden at a California winery incorporating lush English borders and VERY formal parterres
• Bold colors & unusual materials in a California garden by designer Shirley Watts

Horticulture April

• C. Colston Burrell lists a number of native alternatives to take the place of invasive plants.
• A profile of Chanticleer Garden in Wayne, PA -- winner of this year's Award for Garden Excellence from the Am. Public Gardens Assn (APGA).
• All about Lilacs
• Gardening with great success in the extreme climates of Alaska. success

In the Magazines Jan 08

The American Gardener Jan/Feb 08

• New plants for 2008, including trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals. My favorites among them: Autumn Embers™ witchhazel, 'Floating Cloud' redbud and 'Chocolate Mint' coleus. Check out many others.
• Marvin Snyder's conifer collection in Overland Park, Kansas
• Designing walkways with cottage-garden borders
• Heirloom tomatoes

Garden Design Jan/Feb 08

• Piet Oudolf's re-vamped garden at home in the Netherlands
• The organic sculptures of Belgium's Daniel Ost, the world's leading florist
• An American prairie garden in Germany
• Peekaboo garden furniture

Horticulture Feb/March 08

• New daisies of all colors
• Profile of Joy Creek Nursery & gardens in Oregon
• Striking combinations for containers
• Profile of plant collector Nickolas Nickou of Branford, CT.
• How to force species tulips
• Designing with flowering tobacco plants

In the Magazines Dec 07- Jan 08

The American Gardener Nov-Dec 07

• Winter gardens for birds: VA creeper, spruces, viburnums, hollies, dogwoods, junipers, many more.
• Shrubs that provide winter blooms: Chinese & VA witch hazels; winter-blooming jasmine (one of my favorites, especially for slopes -- and you can also train it over an arbor); daphnes, camellias, quinces, mahonias, and .... read more.
• A profile of Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens on Kauai. Well worth a trip, obviously.

Fine Gardening Jan-Feb 08

• New ways to plant borders by author Debra Prinzing: loose forms, see-through plants, masses and drifts.
• Colorful containters for winter
• How to design with spiky plants like agave, yuccas, phormiums, sea hollies, pirckly pear.
• How to select trees for structure
• The many-roomed garden of Dennis Schrader and Bill Smith in Mattituck, NY

Horticulture Dec 07-Jan 08

• Rock gardens: berms, raised beds, slopes, and of course, rocks.
• All you need to know (and grow) agaves.
• Part I of a special series on Invasive Plants by C. Colston Burrell
• Color in the winter garden

In the Magazines Nov-Dec 07

House & Garden NOV

• Central Park's renovated Bethesda Terrace, original design by Frederick Law Olmsted & Calvert Vaux. WOW.
• A survey of some of the highlights at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, including its special collections (roses, peonies, lilacs), its bluebell woods, Japanese Garden and waterfall, the Osborne Garden, a three-acre Italian landscape designed by Harold A. Caplan.
• A trip along the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway.  26 of its projected 32 miles are now complete. Note the striking bosque fountain in Battery Park designed by Piet Oudolf.

Garden Design NOV

• Featured: 11 gardens that won top awards this year from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA).  More of the award winners in Garden Design Online last April.
• Contemporary containers
• A new landscape by I.M. Pei in his hometown of Suzhou, China.

Fine Gardening DEC

• New & uncommon ornamental grasses: Vetiver, Ruby Grass, Berkeley Sedge, & more.  Can't wait to try some of these.
• Designing connections for garden areas.
• Designing with plant forms and texture
• Winning shrubs for autumn: not a lot new here for those in the know about plants, but a good primer for those who are not.  And I did like the Fritsch Spirea for the Mountain West region -- wonder how it would do in the Mid-Atlantic or Northeast? Anyone know?