magazines and misc.

Cheryl,

<<<<< A slightly tougher choice, but I'll go with People Plants and Places -
based in Maine, but targeting the northeast.  Articles are consistently
good to excellent and very little repeat on subject matter.>>>>>>>

All Northeastern gardeners should order this one.  This magazine is improving 
all the time.  If you want the spring show info (7 of them this year) and the 
best shopping and the directions to find everything here you need this 
magazine.  It has not been expensive.  This PLANTS is published in Maine and 
will not serve those outside New England.

<<<<Garden Design - sorry, I don't need a $50 pair of pants to garden in>>>>>

You can over to eBay get three years of this for around 10.00.  It is one of 
the first bid wins type of auction.  For such a small price you can ignore 
the pricey pants.  That brings up another topic for dull days.  What do you 
wear for serious gardening?  I have done some really good things in my old 
grey bathrobe.

<<<<<Horticulture - too much British influence, lovely to look at but won't do
here  in the frozen north. 80% of the articles deal with stuff that isn't
hardy in Zone 5 (Boston, MA) home of Horticulture.
Fine Gardening - too uneven these days.>>>>

I have to agree with you here. Both of these are distributed nationally and 
you cannot be all things to all gardeners in the US.  Fine Gardening must 
have been better at one time as they sell on eBay for a huge price, the old 
issues.  I have a big stack of them from issue No. 1.  I stopped this a few 
years ago when I thought they got sort of simple.  The original idea was 
articles, not from professional writers, but from hands on experienced people 
who could do justice to a subject.  Horticulture repeats the same writers and 
same articles.  If you grow older with this magazine you get bored with it. 

If you were around when this spun off the Mass. Hort. Society, the first non 
society issues were sooooooooo awful: "The Sex Life of a Spinach".  Just some 
trivia.

The West Coast has Pacific Horticulture.  That is a good journal.  NARGS has 
an excellent journal but you must belong to NARGS.

We really do not have great magazines at this time, what we have is lots of 
magazines most of them the gardening editors of the shelter magazines.  This 
question comes up on all lists and I have seen good suggestions for regionals 
and society journals but not the British types.  The UK is a small place and 
can have national magazines.  I think that is the problem here.

Cheryl, by groundhog do you mean woodchuck.  Poor Chris, there are enough 
woodchuck stories to fill up the list for the rest of the winter!

Are woody plants woody plants when planted in a perennial situation?  Many 
are.  I do not think anyone would plant and care for a shrubbery today.  All 
gardens are mixtures and the better for it.

Claire Peplowski


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