March - April  2007 - Volume 86, Number 2

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Features

• Best of the Best by Doreen Howard
  All-America Selections (AAS) celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. Here’s a look at some of the AAS award-winning plants that have stood the test of time.

Web special: The Professionals’ Top Ten AAS Winners *

• Gardening for Good Health by Pamela Baxter
  Research shows gardening offers a variety of health benefits.
   
• Ornamental Edibles * by Janet Davis
  Some edible plants are just too beautiful to relegate to the vegetable garden. Here are some tips for integrating vegetables, herbs, and fruits into your landscape.
   
• Beguiling Bellflowers * by Rand B. Lee
  If you like campanulas, you will enjoy growing some of their charming and lesser known relatives in the bellflower family.
   
• Bane of the Ash by Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp
  The growing threat of the emerald ash borer endangers America’s ash trees—with potentially dire economic and ecological consequences.

Web special: Tips for preparing your community for emerald ash borers *

• Notes from River Farm  *
  Insights and updates about American horticulture and the AHS from President and CEO Deane Hundley.
   
• News from AHS *
  Updates on American Horticultural Society programs and events. In this issue: Green Garage at Northwest Flower & Garden Show, the 2007 AHS Garden Schools, Allan Armitage to host first AHS webinars, AHS receives ExxonMobil grant.
   
• Member’s Forum
  Readers write to voice their opinions, make recommendations, or set the record straight.
   
• AHS News Special: Meet Deane H. Hundley *
  An interview with the AHS’s new president and CEO.
   
• 2007 AHS Award Winners *
  Introducing the recipients of the 2007 Great American Gardeners awards and the 2007 Book Awards.
   
• AHS Intern Profile *
  Former intern Melody Gray’s research influences a key element of River Farm’s Master Plan.
   
• One on One With…
  Interviews with today’s leaders and trendsetters in gardening and horticulture. This issue: Diane Relf, advocate for the plant–people connection.
   
• Gardener’s Notebook *
  Short, newsworthy articles on horticultural topics. This issue: Plant hardiness maps causing controversy and confusion, global warming affects plant growth, the best Stachys for the Midwest, pesticides linked to Parkinson’s disease.
   
• Green Garage *
  A new series focusing on the AHS’s latest initiative to promote environmentally responsible gardening tools, supplies, and techniques. In this issue: Unlocking the secrets of your soil.

Web special: Types of Soil Tests *

Web special: Soil Testing Laboratories in North America *

• Book Reviews *
  Featured: Flower Confidential, Garden Bulbs for the South, and Vegetable Garden Problem Solver. Special focus: Confessions of the plant-obsessed.
   
• Regional Happenings *
  Listings of lectures, flower shows, and other gardening events across the country. Featured: Garden in the Woods celebrates 75 years, International Master Gardener Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas.
   
• Hardiness and Heat Zones and Pronunciations *
  A guide to USDA Plant Hardiness and AHS Plant Heat Zones for most of the cultivated plants listed in each issue—and a user-friendly guide to pronouncing their botanical names.

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