FEATURES

Garden Visit
A WEST TEXAS OASIS
An artist-gardener bucks the odds to create an Odessa garden awash in color
by Charles Mann

Plant Profile
CAPTIVATING CUPHEAS
These uncommon annuals contribute big color in a multitude of blooms
by Pam Baggett

Garden Visit
TRANSPLANT SHOCK
Far from her native California, a gardener learns to make the most of summer
by Carleen Madigan Perkins

On Gardening
THE HOME GROVE
Seed starters need not be ashamed to dream big
by Howard Jarmy

Plant Profile
BETWIXT & BETWINED
By nature, woody vines make excellent accents in the garden's framework of trees and shrubs
by Daniel J. Hinkley

Practical Matters
THE FIT GARDENER
How to gain better fitness while you keep the garden in shape
by Alice McGowan

DEPARTMENTS

PEST WATCH
How to identify and control azalea lace bug

GARDENER'S NOTEBOOK
Plants, ideas, and projects

A GARDENING LIFE
Nurserywoman Ellen Hornig
by C. Colston Burrell

GARDENER'S WORKSHOP
Refreshing Daffodils
by David Burdick

REVIEWS

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE
Yucca
by Daniel J. Hinkley

HIGH GROUND
Karen Weir-Jimerson tries a new point of view to keep the bugs from bugging her