Coming in following issues - see below.

Coming soon: Summer 2008 treasures

Columnists:

• Plant School and Clinic
  • A word about fertilizers
    
    
• Zone-pushing
  • Botanical garden in apartment
    • A tour of rare tropical plant collection in St Petersburg, Russia
      
      
• Do-It-Yourself Projects
  • XXI century plant growing: hi-tech computerized systems in your greenhouse, garden or plant nursery
    

• Wildlife habitat
  • A Practical Guide to Butterfly, Hummingbird, and Nighttime Moth Gardening
    
    
• Legendary plants
  • Killer Plants. Poisonous plants of Tropics: beautiful and dangerous...
    
    
• Growing outdoors
  • "Going green" and self-sufficiency: 
    • ...A warm and wonderful neighborhood culture has formed where none of us needs to grow everything.  We grow what we grow and share with out neighbors.  Instead of the historical "gossip over the fence", we do a sort of co-op over the fence here...

Coming in following issues:

Zone-pushing
- Tropical plants during active growth, dormancy, drought and chill.
- Root physiology at over-watering and drought
- Plant hardiness and dealing with cold and wind-chill.
- Breaking into Nature’s code: cold damage of flowers and buds; recovery for blooming and fruiting
- Boosting of a pest/disease resistance
- Plant adaptations to stress

Plant School and Clinic. Horticulturist’s how-to
- Pest problems and how to treat them
- Movement of nutrients in soil and pH
- Relationships between roots and soil
- Symbiotic relationships (nitrogen fixation, mycorhiza, etc.)
- Movement of nutrients in soil and pH
- Soil types, structure and water
- Root types, and how they relate to plant survival
- Cloning: rooting cuttings. Routine and tricks of asexual propagation.
- Sexual propagation: failures and advantages

Plant science
- Puzzles of Taxonomy
- Methods of photosynthesis
- Transport of water through plants
- The needs and physiology of climbing plants

Do-It-Yourself Projects
- XXI century plant growing: hi-tech computerized systems in your greenhouse, garden or plant nursery
- Ponds for plants and fish: in your apartment, on a patio and in your backyard
- Water gardens

Nature's food and pharmacy
- Medicinal plants: Adansonia digitata, Baobab - a tree of myth and legend;  Pelargonium sidoides, Umckaloabo (Umcka) - a South African species,  one of the most successful herbal remedies for the treatment of cough and bronchitis of all times.

Wildlife habitat
- A Practical Guide to Butterfly, Hummingbird, and Nighttime Moth Gardening

New introductions
- Rare gardenias from Africa and Asia
- Crested, monstrose, colored, hybrid, poly- and dichotomic forms of cacti and other succulents.

Growing outdoors
- Live walls... hedges! Flowering, edibles - there is more than traditional hedge.
- "Going green" and self-sufficiency

Growing indoors
- Tropical plants in your apartment
- Growing cacti and succulents indoors: practical guide
- Gesneriaceae: a queen family of indoor plants
- Succulent gardens and cacti hills

Nature's food and pharmacy
- Fuits from tropical vs. temperate regions
- Growing spice and plants of gods
- Health benefits of tropical fruits/nuts
- Plants for essential oils
- Rare fruit trees of South East Asia and Africa

Legendary plants
- History of poisonous plants
- Plants with scents as heady as incense
- Legendary Sausage Tree

Travel
- West Africa 
- Botanical gardens of the world

To be continued...

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