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Stir crazy? Here's an issue jam packed with topics that will help you through winter and ready you for spring.
In What's Coming Up 80, we're de-mystifying Wisteria, using bonsai to save potted evergreens over winter, pruning the beauty right into fine shrubs, outsmarting deer and much more:
When Wisteria over-reaches, pages 1-2
Wisteria root pruning myth, page 3
Weakling perennial alert, animal tracks, ornamental grass straw vs. de-icing salt, pages 12-13
So cool all year, our solar benches.
Up with winter oak pruning, page 13
Down on lopsided landscape view, page 13
Must-have for spring, intersectional peonies, tree peony P. rockii...
Saving potted evergreens over winter, pages 9-10
Count on flower buds in winter, page 4
Places togo: Arnold Arboretum bonsai collection.
Bonsai beauty, pages 3-4, 9
Sweet on oriental spicebush & tree peony, pages 7-8
Prune any plant for small size, big bloom, page 5
Pruning-friendly plant choices, page 6
Wisteria wrapping puzzle, page 3
Fixing a tippy cactus, pages 8-9
Snow plow stumper, page 10
A dear deer gardener, pages 10-11
No time to reformat the material from this issue for the website yet, but here's a look at the main pages. We know a gardener's memory for a picture is better than for words and that at least some of you are scanning to find what you already read at its first issue. These photos tell tales, even in thumbnail view!
What's Coming Up 82: Prune for natural shape