Features

Garden Gems
Editors Bill Aldrich, Kate Jerome, and Pamela Wolfe visit their favorite haunts at the Chicago Botanic Garden, the Morton Arboretum, and Cantigny.

Green Peace
Kate Jerome recounts how writing a book on houseplants turned her longtime indifference to affection.

The Envelope Please . . . Prizewinning Plants for 1995
Managing editor Carolyn Ulrich takes a look at some of the new varieties that have won awards this year while George Ball talks about new varieties at Burpee.

ILCA Residential Awards
Carolyn Ulrich introduces the Illinois Landscape Contractors Association with a look at its 1995 Gold Medal Winners for landscape design and maintenance.

Chicagoland Gardening introduces its annual garden contest.

Garden Walks. A great Chicagoland tradition.

Departments

Editor's Letter

Gardening Q & A.

Horticulturist James A. Fizzell answers your gardening questions.

Under Our Fingernails.

James A. Fizzell launches this regular department with a discussion of our soils and what makes them unique.

Tree Talk.

Pamela Wolfe introduces this regular department with a discussion of small woody plants for the garden.

Will the real rose please stand up?

'Brass Band' (pictured left) is one of two winners of the All-America Rose Selections award for 1995 while 'Pink Ice' (right) is an impatiens which is one of five winners of
this year's FloraStar awards for potted plants. See story page 18.