A Magazine for our Gardening Times
Issue 5

 
Editor: Derek Burch

 

Breaking Ground
Keeping with touch with readers who depend on us

   

Weed control in Containers
Dr. Carl Whitcomb's recommendations for nurseries on selection and use of herbicides

   

Help!
Speaking for myself, the spirit's willing, but sometimes the questions need a crystal ball to know what is being asked, let alone what the answer might be

Last Year's Garden this Year
Self
-sown plants from last year's garden can add a spontaneous note to any but the most formal gardens

   

From the Ground Up
The very basics of how plants grow. #5 Leaves

Rootloose
Chelsea Flower Show: where else would you be at this time of year

   

The Best of the Rest
A look at print and on-line articles that should not have slipped by unnoticed:

  • Self-seeding plants in an English garden
  • Combining chemical and biological control methods
  • Fungus gnats

   

Backfill
Common names: so many versions, so little communication

   

 

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