Rock garden quarterly

v79 #4

Tender Bulbs in a Cold Climate

Erika Schroedersecker

SEVERAL YEARS AGO I acquired a small greenhouse, just 8.5 feet (2.6 m) long and 4.5 feet (1.4 m) wide that a friend had built and used for cactus. He no longer needed it and offered it to me while he built a huge walk-in greenhouse. I jumped at the chance and was giddy with delight. It was...

Colchicums 101

Kathy Purdy

OVER THIRTY YEARS ago, I moved into a 19th-century farmhouse shortly before snow started falling, burying whatever remained of the previous owner’s garden. I patrolled the yard daily once the snow melted, and among the earliest sprouts were points of green that I initially thought were hyacinths...

Oregon Outcroppings

Leigh Blake

MY HUSBAND, WALTER Blake, and I started working with cement thirty years ago after I'd seen articles on trough making using Portland cement, pumice, and peat. We made these beautiful wire boxes that I formed into toughs freehand, molding and sculpting the goopy cement mixture and letting it...

The Lake Merritt Rock Garden

John Tsutakawa

THE GARDENS OF Lake Merritt (GLM) is a seven-acre public garden in the City of Oakland, California, next to Lake Merritt, managed under the Department of Public Works. The Oakland East Bay Garden Center (also known as the Friends of the Gardens at Lake Merritt) helps to support the gardens and the...

Photos from the Edge of the Rockies

Tim Alderton

In August, 2021, NARGS members gathered in Durango, Colorado, for a socially distanced Annual General Meeting. If you didn't get the chance to attend, here is a little bit of what you missed, as photographed by Tim Alderton. NARGS members can also watch videos from the conference for FREE: log...

The Greek Plantsman

Eric Hsu

Interview first published on the website Plinthe et al www.plinthetal.com Photos by Eleftherios Dariotis and Eric Hsu Eleftherios will be speaking at the 2022 AGM in Ithaca, New York. Please introduce yourself. My name is Eleftherios Dariotis, albeit many people know me as Liberto Dario, a Facebook...