The Original Mystery Plant
Dr. John Nelson
      There are vines and then there are lianas. A vine, in the everyday garden sense, is an herbaceous or soft- stemmed plant that lasts only a year and has elongated stems, either flat on the ground or climbing up a support. Morning glories and sweet- peas grow as vines, and so do watermelons. But a liana is woody and lasts for many years.
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Stopping to smell the flowers
Flowering shrubs punctuate the garden
      Arlene Marturano Nostalgia brought three flowering shrubs to my garden. Once part of the background of my childhood, today they are at the foreground during their season of bloom. Each shrub embroidered sensory impressions to last a lifetime.
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A passion for plants
     Kathleen Rogers holds a passion flower grown in her own garden. It is a genus of about 500 species of flowering plants.
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