Here's a story I wrote for the Chicago Tribune on just a few of the many new plant choices available this year. I had accumulated stacks and stacks of news releases, press kits and catalogs from growers, breeders and marketers and seen so many lovely plants at trade shows last year, so it was really tough to pick out just a few for this article.
If I had a fantasy garden that could hold all the new plants I think I've just got to have when I'm drifting through trade shows and press kits, it would be the size of Grant Park. Oh, and it would have full sun.
And now it's mail-order season -- time to order real seeds for my real garden. Time to tackle that stack of catalogs. Time to try and wrestle my delusions of space and sun to the ground. That's seriously tough.
Got a garden question? I recommend you call or e-mail the Plant Clinic of The Morton Arboretum in Lisle, the Master Gardeners of the University of Illinois Extension or the Plant Information Service of the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe .
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Sunday, January 10, 2010
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