AHS PUBLICATIONS
The American Gardener

May/June Table of Contents

Features

• North American Annuals by Rand B. Lee - Marigolds and petunias, move aside. Make room for some beautiful, lesser-known native annuals that will shine in the summer garden.
• Beauty in the Barrens by Rick Darke - In creating her garden in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, Elizabeth White celebrated the beauty and utility of the surrounding natural landscape.
• America's Wisterias by Richard E. Bir - Unlike their often aggressive Asian cousins, North American wisterias require less maintenance in the garden.
• The Accessible Garden by Adele Kleine - This new garden at the Chicago Botanic Garden offers a wealth of ideas on how to make gardens enjoyable for all people.

Departments

• An Inside Look
• Members' Forum - SmartGarden™, Sweet Potatoes.
• News from AHS - Corfield is New Chairman; 2000 AHS Book Award Winners; SmartGarden™: Enriching the Soil with Organic Matter.
• Millennium Focus - As gardens mature, so do those who tend them.
• Conservationist's Notebook - The captivating cobra lily.
• Urban Gardener - Build an arbor in a weekend.
• Natural Connections - Garden spiders.
• Habitat Gardening - A prairie-style walkway in Illinois.
• Gardeners Information Service - Layering dogwood, planting rhubarb, plants to grow under a tree.
• Offshoots - A garden from two perspectives.
• Book Reviews - Sanctuary gardens, New England wildflowers, rock garden plants.
• Regional Happenings - Botanic Garden Conference in North Carolina, Native Plant Conference in Pennsylvania, Cactus Bloom in Arizona.
• New Products - Seed mixes, herbicidal soap, ergonomic hand tools, plastic carrying tubs.
• Hardiness and Heat Zones and Pronunciations
• Notes from River Farm - The return of annuals.