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Avant Garden: The Avant Gardener is a monthly newsletter costing $15 per year and dealing with all aspects of horticulture. It's for the serious amateur and professional, covering news items and developments in horticulture and related subjects.
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Flower and Garden is a bimonthly magazine that's been a friend to gardeners for years. It covers both flowers and vegetables in a newsy, how-to manner. Price: $6.00 per year.The New Vision for the New Architecture : Czechoslovakia 1918 - 1938 This exhibition introduces architectural photographs made in collaboration between avant-garde architects and photographers in the 1920s and 30s. See Also Rock Garden And Scree:ROCK GARDEN plants that require extremely sharp drainage are best cultivated in scree beds, designed to simulate the naturally occurring conditions at the foot of mountain slopes where there is a deep layer of finely broken rock and acertain amount of humus. A scree bed is essentially a raised bed with much of the soil replaced by stone chippings. Retaining walls of sandstone brick or broken paving slabs may be used to support the sides of the bed, and these should be given an inward slant to make them stable.Since we have a number of species tulips (small and charming) in the rock garden and scree bed, we decided on just one for blatant color, Tulip eichleri, a wild type that is truly brilliant with scarlet petals and a bright yellow center. A few grape hyacinths, both rather exotic for the genus, were, chosen for the front of the bed: Muscari bortryoides var. album,Spring in the mountains was ushered in by a major sleet storm, followed by another massive attack on March 30. On The Other Hand See Garden Writers:If you take the attitude that writing is for writers and photography is for photographers, you can easily make an arrangement with one or several trade journal writers and take pictures to illustrate their articles.Garden writers are a strange lot and once they get locked into something, even decades will not force them to give up a notion. Take the hosta as a case in point. Hostas come from Japan and China. There they have been cultivated for centuries. The Japanese grow them in gardens, in pots, in deep shade and full sun, in rock gardens and in temple gardens, and they even use them cut up in stir-fry. (I assume the Chinese do something of the same but I can find no documentation for this statement.) |
