AHS PUBLICATIONS
The American Gardener

March/April Table of Contents

Features

• Native Violets by Kim Blaxland - Found in a surprisingly diverse range of habitats throughout North America and adaptable to garden culture, many of our native violets are uncommonly beautiful.
• Louise Beebe Wilder by Susan Davis Price - Louise Beebe Wilder's evocative writing style, horticultural expertise, and passion for her subject matter have made her one of America's most enduring garden writers.
• Windflowers by C. Colston Burrell - Braving the last chilly blasts of winter, these cheerful, bulbous perennials are mainstays of the early spring garden.
• Cold-hardy Cacti by David Salman - Everyone knows cacti are heat tolerant. But a number of North American species are much cold hardier than you might expect.

Departments

• An Inside Look
• Members' Forum - Tree advocacy, roof gardens revisited.
• News from AHS - New award for children's gardening, AHS encyclopedia honored, Plant a Row for the Hungry, scientists redefine plant kingdom.
• SmartGarden™  - The importance of pH.
• Member in Focus - Award winner Frank Cabot.
• Offshoots  - The itch to pinch.
• Gardeners Information Service  - Voles, broad beans, fire blight.
• Habitat Gardening  - Natural inspirations from California.
• Conservationist's Notebook - Restoring a museum garden in Hawaii.
• Millennium Focus  - Stimulating our children's interest in gardening is an investment in their future.
• Book reviews - Herbs and vegetables, Ppenstemons, Penelope Hobhouse on natural plantings.
• Regional Happenings - New gardens in Florida, tulips in Washington, garden days in Napa Valley.
• New Products - Coffee-based fertilizer, space-saving gardening system, cedar furniture, pruner.
• Hardiness and Heat Zones and Pronunciations
• Notes from River Farm - The violets are coming! 

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