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I know a lot of people get excited by Galanthus, but I have never known why. I would expect it has to do with being the harbingers of spring, but then why not love the crocus or hellebore instead? Each has much more variety.

Let me be clear: I am not disparaging any current of former members of the genus Galanthus. I do, however, want to hear someone talk about why snowdrops get so fussed over.

As Ruth points out in the beginning of the post, the list of desirable fast-growing trees is in the current issue of Fine Gardening.

That plant is definitely suspicious. I hope you called it in.

Lavender, deep steel blue, man-vender, whatever you want to call it, I can work with it.

It is hard to work at FG and not garden.

Here is a link to some containers Michelle and I did:
http://www.finegardening.com/item/19621/container-shootout

And a healthy fraction of the plant shots that show up in the magazine were taken in our gardens.

I wonder what everyone thinks is the most important topic: Plant patents? Invasives? GMOs? Pesticides? Biofuel? Organic Food?

Billy,

You are signing copies of the magazine at the show, right? I'd like a couple for my friend. His name is Steve, too.

Leucothoe fontanesiana and Stipa tenuissima covered in frost.

Iris, the issue isn't with them being rampant spreaders. It is that birds and other wildlife eat the berries and deposit the seeds throughout the woodlands, where the barberries tend to take up space that potentially could have been used by a native plant.

Morningstar: I really don't know if other states will follow suit.

The project will entail pretty much anything I can think of. I see it as an ongoing thing. This year is heavy on R. hirta cultivars & generally taking a closer look at this plant. I've never really gotten into one plant before, so it sounds like fun to me.

Well, feel free to tag along on this Rudbeckia adventure. I would love to hear about what you are growing & how it is doing.

I would expect this kind of thing to happen in California.

Oh, good. The one I voted for won.

They are all my favorites.

Michelle, I couldn't help but notice that there is nothing on this list that I either wrote or edited.

Who is Susan? How did she get the black eye?

I think most people who need the lawn that looks like a putting green are doing it for their neighbors. Until we all agree to forgive each other for imperfect front lawns, we will be stuck with these expectations for our lawns.

If it is green and doesn't hurt my feet, I consider it lawn. By the way, my lawn is in bloom right now: zillions of little clover flowers. It is beautiful, and you can't get that look no matter how many bags of Scott's 8-Step Perfect Lawn Product you put down.

That begonia must be a wonderful addition to your colllection of plants named after Neil Diamond songs.