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more than the grit covering the roofing membrane, that’s as far as it went. At the same time I was cultivating a weekend herb garden in a seaside meadow on Nantucket Island. There were thyme paths, reined in by lavender edgings, antique roses galore, and billowy clouds of aged boxwoods encircled by germander hedges, plus I don’t-know-howmany herbs were loaded and stacked into vans that made the ferry trips over from the mainland. In retrospect, plenty of those plants could be rock garden candidates but I was clueless. Rock gardening was a new world to me in 1997 and here was a group where no selfrespecting member called a plant by its common name, and I didn’t speak the Latin. Ultimately I would pick up some of the mother tongue. As well as a collection of the most engaging, irascible, and idiosyncratic plants. I fell for them hard, yet I think Mr. Pope would be proud. With every new addition to my “troughery,“ I’m getting closer and closer to a Manhattan rock garden in situ. Rock Gardening Roots 163

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Rock Garden Quarterly Spring 2012

Geoffrey Charlesworth Writing Prize
2011 Photo Contest Winners
2012 Photo Contest Announcement
Seven Unheralded Axioms of Rock Gardening
Rock Gardening from Scratch: Vegetative Propagation - Understanding Cuttings
Newfoundland's Southern Limestone Barrens
William J. Dress, 1918-2011
DNA and the Changing Names of Plants ... and Making Sense of the Dicots
Jennings Prairie
Carl Gehenio, 1922-2011
Rock Gardening Roots
Plants that Dazzled me in 2011
Phipps Conservatory
Rock and Ink Struck into Flowers - A Response
Bulletin Board
2012 - Eastern Study Weekend: October, Pittsburgh - Registration form and details

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