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Volume 70   Number 2   April 2009

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A fern table created by Richie Steffen and Rick Peterson in their Federal Way, Washington, garden; from the top, Cyrtomium fortunei, Polystichum dycei, with companion plants Hepatica acutiloba and Epimedium grandiflorum in the middle; at the bottom, a dwarf form of Polystichum setiferum. Photograph by Richie Steffen.

Feature Articles

The UC Davis Arboretum All-Stars Project

Melissa Borel & Ellen Zagory

Tender Rhododendrons

Joe Eck & Wayne Winterrowd
Web Extra A Maddenii Rhododendron Resource Guide

Gardening at Ninety

Mary Wilbur

Miriam Wilkins

William A. Grant

The Hardy Fern Foundation Turns Twenty

Sue Olsen & Richie Steffen

A Tropical Eden with a Mission

Russell A. Beatty
Web Extra A Tropical Eden with a Mission: Dr Mardy Darian’s San Diego Garden

Updating an Historic Garden

Glenn Withey & Charles Price
Web Extra Updating an Historic Garden

The Fire-Safe Cottage Garden

Dave Egbert
Web Extra The Fire-Safe Cottage Garden

Small Eucalyptus for Western Gardens

Matt Ritter
Web Extra A Resource Guide to Smaller Eucalyptus

The Begonia in California, Part 1

Judith M. Taylor

Our regular columns

Editorial: Weathering Heights

Book Reviews

Garden Allies: Lacewings and Their Kin

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