Fine Gardening Dec 2011
As usual, the magazine is packed with articles about plants — and how to use them. In this issue:
*Ornamental grasses, and combo plants to go along with them.
*Simple ways to improve the look of your planting beds.
*Plants for creative winter containers.
*New & improved: lilac, daylily, hosta, viburnum, forsythia, phlox.
Sunset Nov 2011
The focus is Thanksgiving & winter getaways, but there is an article about a fabulous garden by designer Rob Steiner of Los Angeles. It includes:
*A buff-colored concrete fire table.
*A classy outdoor sink/sideboard faced with ipe.
*A raised boardwalk that leads you through the space.
*Plantings that complement the modern design.
Also in this issue, a lovely sunken dining patio with a built-in firepit, design by Jeff Pervorse of Venice.
Horticulture Nov-Dec 2011
*New plant introductions for 2012: perennials, trees & shrubs, annuals, vegetables
*Profile of garden writer Anne Raver.
*Fabulous ferns for color and texture.
*How to design with native plants.
Garden Design Nov-Dec 2011
*Two of this year's winners of design awards from ASLA – the American Society of Landscape Architects: Design Workshop and Nelson Byrd Woltz.
*A make-over for the garden at the James Beard Foundation in NYC.
*The garden design philosophy of author, editor & interior designer Deborah Needleman (@debbieneedles).
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