What's Coming Up 80: Wisteria, pruning shrubs small, bonsai, deer

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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:

Main Features

When Wisteria over-reaches, pages 1-2

Wisteria root pruning myth, page 3

In our gardens

Weakling perennial alert, animal tracks, ornamental grass straw vs. de-icing salt, pages 12-13

So cool all year, our solar benches.

Green thumbs up and down

Up with winter oak pruning, page 13

Down on lopsided landscape view, page 13

Must-have for spring, intersectional peonies, tree peony P. rockii...

Tip cuttings

Saving potted evergreens over winter, pages 9-10

Count on flower buds in winter, page 4

Places togo: Arnold Arboretum bonsai collection.

Mentors' magic

Bonsai beauty, pages 3-4, 9

45 mph garden

Sweet on oriental spicebush & tree peony, pages 7-8

Big mistake, big lesson

Prune any plant for small size, big bloom, page 5

Pruning-friendly plant choices, page 6

Stumper

Wisteria wrapping puzzle, page 3

Fixing a tippy cactus, pages 8-9

Snow plow stumper, page 10

Expert afield

A dear deer gardener, pages 10-11

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