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Texas Garden: —33 East Minor Street, Emmaus, Pennsylvania 18049.
The Texas Gardener was bound to happen in a state the size of Texas. Flower and vegetable gardening is covered with an emphasis on native state plants. A yearly subscription is $15.
—P.O. Box 9005, Waco, Texas 76714.
In addition to the above, there are many decorating magazines on the market. Most, like House & Garden, have garden features and columns; a few, such as Architectural Digest, feature well-known gar¬dens both here and abroad.
The following organizations all have publications and/or seed ex¬changes of great diversity. Many are overseas, but do not let that stop you from joining: The mails go through, albeit slowly.
Alpine Garden Society is mainly concerned with alpine and rock garden plants. Its quarterly bulletin is stocked with valuable informa¬tion and photos of rare plants. The seed exchange is annual and lists well over 4,000 species. Both are available to members for $15 per year but varies with the exchange rates.
Range: Southern Wisconsin, northern Iowa, southern South Da¬kota, southward to Gulf Coast of Texas; westward reaches southeast¬ern Wyoming and eastern Colorado; from Texas extends across northern Mexico and southern New Mexico to southern Arizona.See Also Spring Garden Show:Goslar, in the Harz, came through the war virtually scatheless and this is a great mercy, for the town is so rich in medieval buildings that it is, in its entirety, a German National Monument.
Hamburg has much more than its luxury hotels and its strident, much-advertised Reeperbahn. With its Inner and Outer Alster Lakes, its world-known Hagenbeck's Zoo, its brilliant annual spring Garden Show, its seeth¬ing port and its broad River Elbe, bordered by such charming river resorts as Blankenese, it has surged into the front rank of Germany's tourist cities.
Hannover, capital of Lower Saxony, is an outstanding garden city in a land of garden cities. It has a wealth of flowers and landscaped parks.
WHEN DESIGNING a border, never think of a plant in isolation: judge it as a companion for its neighbors. Plants should always be positioned to show one another off, not simply planted in the soil. Rely on leaf shape, color and texture even more than on flowers. The leaves are in evidence for most of the year (all year if they are evergreen), whereas flowers are fleeting. You will find that almost all flowers have more impact if they are shown off by a backdrop of handsome foliage than if they have to sit in mid-air. Also choose your plants with seasons of interest in mind. Make sure there is at least a handful of flowers, fruits and bright foliage to see you through the winter until the colorful spring show begins once -• more and the garden comes alive.
On The Other Hand See Average Garden Soil:If you want to get some of the feeling of walking through a jungle, plant a thicket using just eulalia grass or ravenna grass. By summer's end you will be amazed at the size of the grasses. Remem¬ber to allow at least three years of active growth before these plants will begin to approach their ultimate size.
Soil for this garden need not be better than Average garden soil. Remove the turf, then try to turn the earth to a depth of 1 foot. Add a mix of clean garden soil and some composted manure to make up for the lost earth. Plants do best (except for sea oats) in full sun.
THE BETTER the quality of the soil in your garden, the better your plants will grow. If your soil is poor and infertile you will have to improve it. But first, since soils vary hugely in texture, structure and quality,
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