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Selected Articles From Our Quarterly Publications
Gail Klodzinski
Editor’s note: As we were preparing this issue for press, we received news that Kathy Allen passed away peacefully. She will be greatly missed by all lucky enough to have known her. Kathy Allen is a rock star to those of us in Southern Oregon who know her and love her. She owns a small, unimposing nursery with no sign at her gate, no advertising, no fancy sales building, and no staff, just a treasure trove of the most wonderful rock garden plants on earth. Her world...
Sarah Strickler
Crevice gardening is not the only xeric garden phenomenon to grab our attention of late. Gravel gardens are also daring to be discovered or reclaimed with greater intention. And for good reason – they...
Dave Bilyea
My rock garden pond contains several hobbies in one place: the rock garden, the pond water garden, the waterfall and filtration system, the goldfish, and the engineering that integrated it all...
Panayoti Kelaidis
The Great Plains and Intermountain region have always been something of a paradox, or perhaps better put, a “perplex” for American horticulture. Sure, these regions hoard the lion’s share of America’s...

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a Year in Bloom
A Year in Bloom: Flowering Bulbs for Every Season
A Year in Bloom: Flowering Bulbs for Every Season by Lucy Bellamy with photographs by Jason Ingram New York: Phaidon Press, 2024. $39.95 list $33.92 Amazon Leaves have turned from green to gold, orange, red. Then fall. Flannel sheets

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Soldanella hungarica
Soldanella hungarica
Description and General Information: Hungarian snowbells are native from beech forests to subalpine meadows in the southern and eastern Carpathian Mountains.

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