Rock Garden Quarterly Spring 2012 - (Page Cover2)

CONTRIBUTORS All illustrations are by the authors of articles unless otherwise stated. Todd Boland is a research horticulturalist at the Memorial University of Newfoundland Botanical Garden located in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. Todd is Chair of the Newfoundland Chapter. He is one of the stalwarts of the NARGS web forum and manages the NARGS "Plant of the Month" feature and photo galleries. When not in his garden, Todd enjoys pursuing a passion for bird watching, a hobby that has allowed him to travel to many exotic places. Mike Bone is Curator of Steppe Collections at Denver Botanic Gardens, and propagator/greenhouse manager. He has worked in the field of propagation for 17 years, focused mainly on collecting and growing plants from steppe climates around the world. Mike lives in Arvada, Colorado on a half-acre plot with rock, xeric, and vegetable gardens, and a 200-square-foot greenhouse to support those. Panayoti Kelaidis is Senior Curator at Denver Botanic Garden and a lifelong rock gardener particularly interested in plant collecting. Unconventional rock-gardening with an eclectic range of plants combine with a formidable globe-trotting lecture program. Panayoti is a prolific contributor to the Quarterly with some 40 articles and 20 book reviews. Martha and Charles Oliver are the owners of the Primrose Path, a nursery in western Pennsylvania specializing in Heuchera, Tiarella, Primula and Phlox hybrids from their own breeding program. Martha is a garden designer and specializes in butterfly gardens and wetlands. Tony Reznicek is an avid gardener, with interests in rock gardening, Chinese and Japanese woodland plants, native plants, hardy succulents, and plants of evolutionary and botanical interest. He is Curator and Assistant Director of the University of Michigan Herbarium. His research centers on the systematics and evolution of sedges (Cyperaceae). He also has a strong interest in the biogeography and flora of northeastern North America, especially the Great Lakes region. Grahame Ware is a writer/nurseryman based on Vancouver Island. Co-author (with Dan Heims) of Heucheras and Heucherellas, Grahame has written for The Plantsman on the climbing Aconitum (March 2006) and in December 2011, a plant profile on Mukdenia, and is a regular contributor to The International Rock Gardener. Grahame's nursery is Owl & Stump Rare Plants . Full copies of his articles on Aconitum and Roscoea (and much more) can be found at his website. Abbie Zabar is an artist, writer and designer, as well as Program Chair of the Manhattan Chapter of NARGS. Her illustrated stories have appeared in American and British publications. She writes about gardening in New York City as the ongoing urban challenge, and her story, "A Vine in The Sky," received the 2011 Garden Writer’s Association Media Award for Best Newspaper Writing. Front cover: Cypripedium parviflorum, limestone barrens, Cape St. George, Newfoundland – Todd Boland All material copyright ©2012 North American Rock Garden Society Printed by Allen Press, 800 E. 10th St., Lawrence, Kansas 66044 http://www.owlandstumpraeplants.com http://www.forward.com/articles/131477/

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

Rock Garden Quarterly Spring 2012