Mag Roundup April 07

American Gardener

• All America Selections is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. The magazine selects the top AAS plants over the years.
• Edible plants that add a designer's touch to the border:  'Bull's Blood' beets, black Tuscan kale, tall bronze fennel, borage & more.
• The growing threat of emerald ash borer, now devastating American ash trees in MI, IL, OH, IN, and possibly other states, as well as Ontario, Canada.

HOUSE AND GARDEN
The personal garden of Italian landscape architect Paolo Pejrone, who learned from two of the 20th century masters:  British designer Russell Page and Brazilian Roberto Burle Marx. It's particularly beautiful by the light of the moon, and is overflowing with roses, jasmine, oleander, olive trees, and containers filled with lotuses. 

Garden Design

• Tips on container plantings from eight top designers
• A golden trowel award goes to landscape architect Craig Bergmann of  Wilmette, IL, for a prairie garden on Chicago's North Shore.
• Designing rain gardens.
• Dan Hinkley's new personal garden, Windcliff, on the Kitsap  Peninsula.
• Profile of Lynden Miller, who has revitalized many of New York City's public gardens.

 

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[OldRoses]

Any gardeners living in or near New Jersey, Rutgers Gardens is an AAS display garden. You can see the newest selections as well as some of the older ones there. Rutgers Gardens is open year-round. There is no admission.