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  You don’t have to dig to find Inspiring gardens
and useful ideas — just for your Iowa yard and
garden! Check out the Contents page of the latest
Iowa Gardening
magazine and see for yourself!
 
   
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Summer 2010

 

In the Summer issue
Gardener's Notebook:
• Salsa gardens
• Bloomin’ Hydrangea
• Polk County Master   Gardener’s 2010   Extraordinary Gardens by   Oridinary People
• Iowa City’s Project Green
• Spring Daisy Pot Hanger
• Halloween NOW
• Night Garden

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from the editor
2   Opportunity Shines

notebook
6    news and notes for Iowa Gardeners

fresh food
8    Be-Bop-A-Re-Bop

zoneworthy
10    Eastern Bee Balm

human element
12    Landscape Legibility





14   The Conifer Collector
Smitten with Color, Size, Shape & Texture

19   Canning is Hot
The Basics Are Back

23    Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
Chile Peppers Bring It On

iowa arboretum
30    News from the state's
outdoor classroom

minding mother
36    Mix It Up



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Horizontal bands of yellow streak the green needles of Red OD Japanese red pine (Pinus densiflora ‘Red OD’ — a hardier cultivar developed from the seedlings of Dragon’s Eye (‘Oculus Draconis’). See story, page 14. Photo by Jason Fort.

 
   

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