The Gardener’s Journal

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Winter 1999 | Summer 1999
Winter 1998 | Summer 1998
Winter 1997 | Summer 1997
Winter 1996 | Summer 1996

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Visit
Estate Design

Cultural Landscape Report for the Historic Reynolda District, Spring 2010
Reynolda, A Unique Estate, Summer 1996
Reynolda Village Island Bed, Winter 2001
Transitions: Reynolda Village, Winter 2003
Planting Trees for the Future, Winter 2006
Pruning Technique: Pollarding, Winter 1996

The Boathouse

A Brief History of the Lake Katharine Wetland, Winter 2002
Nature’s Engineers, Fall 2013
Nature’s Engineers: Part Two, Spring 2014

Gardens & Greenhouses

The Orchid Collection, Winter 1997
Palms of Today, Summer 1997
Lord and Burnham Greenhouses, Summer 2001
Restoration of the Conservatory, Winter 2004
Keeping Tropical Waterlilies Over the Winter, Summer 2005
Small Plants With a Big Presence, Fall 2012
Millie, the Garden Cat, Summer 2008
Garden Hazards, Part 2: The Sun, Winter 2009
Growing Herbs from Seed, Spring 2012
Grass Paths Restored Using New Technology, Summer 1996
A Lily for Every Garden, Winter 1998
How to Grow Rose Standards, Summer 1998
Why Do We Garden?, Winter 2001
From the Tropics to Reynolda, Fall 2012
Challenges to Public Gardens, Summer 2002
New Plants for an Old Garden: Blue Spirea, Winter 2005
Floating Aquatic Plants, Spring 2011
Annual Flowering Vines, Winter 1996
Plant a Salad Garden for Fall, Summer 1996
Tomatoes for Every Taste, Winter 1997
Butterflies in the Garden, Winter 1998
Flowers of the Sun, Spring 2013
A Little of Reynolda for Your Yard — Landscape Design, Summer 1998
A Little of Reynolda for Your Garden – St. John’s Wart, Spring 2013
Native Perennials in the Garden, Summer 2001
Keeping it Simple with Sedums, Winter 2003
Gourds Engulf the Garden, Winter 2005
Wonderful Watermelons, Summer 2007
The Year for Learning to Grow Your Own Food, Winter 2009
Choosing the Right Gardening Tools and Equipment, Spring 2010
Growing Stevia in the Herb Gardens, Fall 2011
Air Plants, Fall 2012
Summer 2012 Favorites, Fall 2012
The Greenhouses Go Green, Spring 2013
Biennials, Fall 2013
A Little Reynolda for Your Garden: Centaurea montana, Fall 2013
Mint: The Perennial Herb, Fall 2013
New Vines, Spring 2014
Make Room for the Nuthatches, Spring 2014
Make Room for the Nuthatches, Part 2, Fall 2014
The John Hope Franklin Orchid, Spring 2015
Pegging Roses, Spring 2015
Mess o’ Greens, Spring 2015
A Thyme for Change, Spring 2015
Winter Operations at Reynolda Gardens, Spring 2015
A Lemon with a Sweet History: Citrus x meyeri ‘Improved’, Fall 2015
Deciduous Azaleas, Fall 2015
Replacing the Cryptomeria in the lower Formal Gardens, Spring 2016
Low Maintenance Roses, Spring 2016

Natural Areas

Turquoise Vine, Summer 1999
Two Natives: Virginia Creeper and Poison Ivy, Summer 2001
Alternatives to Native Dogwood, Summer 2005
Winter in the Reynolda Woods, Winter 2005
Restoration of the Ponds, Spring 2005
Thomas Sears and the Trees of Reynolda, Winter 2006
The Genus Lycoris, Summer 2006
The Mysteries of Mistletoe, Winter 2007
The Truth About Bats, Summer 2008
Most Wanted (invasives), Fall 2010
The Phoenix Tree, Spring 2012
Plants for Collectors: Ornamental Grasses, Winter 1997
To Mow or Not to Mow, Summer 2008
Buzzards, a Vital Part of Nature, Fall 2010
Something for the Birds, Meadow Grasses, Fall 2011
Some of the People, Some of the Time, Spring 2012
Trout Lilies—A True Sign of Spring, Spring 2012
The Importance of Water, Fall 2012
Meadow Development, Spring 2013
Eagle Scouts Share Their Love of Reynolda, Spring 2013
Slow But Steady: The Eastern Box Turtle, Fall 2013
Reflection on the Dogwood, Spring 2016
Swiftly From Peru, Fall 2015
The American Lawn, Fall 2015

Learning

Volunteer Profile: Pam Faino, Winter 1996
Volunteer Profile: Charlie Frost, Winter 1997
Success from the Ground Up (gardening with children), Summer 1998
An Invitation to Come In, Winter 2000
Nurturing Children and Gardens, Summer 2002
How to Build a Bat House, Summer 2008
In the Gardener’s Hands—Caring for the Natural World, Summer 2008
Children Benefit from Nature in Ways that Cannot be Calculated, Winter 2008
Gardening Myths, Winter 2007
Sustaining Reynolda Gardens: The Next 100 Years, Fall 2013
New Vines, Spring 2014
Make Room for the Nuthatches, Spring 2014
Useful Phone and Tablet Apps for the Gardener, Spring 2014
Sustaining Reynolda Gardens: Recycling Nature’s Way, Spring 2014
A-“maize”-ing, Fall 2014
Make Room for the Nuthatches, Part 2, Fall 2014
More Useful Gardening Apps, Fall 2014
Sustaining Reynolda Gardens: What’s All The Buzz About, Fall 2014
A Little Reynolda For Your Garden: Calendula officinalis, Fall 2014
Sustaining Reynolda Gardens: The Good, the Bad, and the Uncertainty of Climate Change, Spring 2015
The American Lawn, Fall 2015
Air Quality Plants, Fall 2015
Sustaining Reynolda Gardens: Extreme Gardening in an Extreme Climate, Fall 2015
Swiftly From Peru, Fall 2015
Southern Magnolia, Spring 2016
An Overlooked Plant: The Rich Beauty and History of Goldenrod, Fall 2016
A Living Fossil, Fall 2016
A Case for Natives, Fall 2016

History
Estate Design

Reynolda, A Unique Estate, Summer 1996
Reynolda Gardens, Private Garden, Public Garden, Winter 1996
Reynolda, A Model for the Community, Winter 1997
Happy Hundredth Birthday, Reynolda, Summer 2006
The Panoramic View, Winter 2007
Thomas Sears’ Design for the Barn, Summer 2007
The Geology of Reynolda’s Stone Foundations, Winter 1996
The Reynolda Road Maples, Summer 1996
Roads Through Reynolda, Summer 2003
Irvin Disher, Sr., Winter 1997
Robert Conrad Joins the Marines, Winter 1999
Thomas Sears, Summer 2005
Thomas Sears and the Trees of Reynolda, Winter 2006
A Distinctive American Landscape Philosophy, Winter 2006
Designing Reynolda: Horatio Buckenham, Spring 2010
Designing Reynolda, Part 2: Horatio Buckenham Revisited, Fall 2010
The Engineers of Reynolda, Part 3: Louis Miller, Spring 2011
John Ambler, Fall 2011
Beyond the Cedar Walk, Spring 2016

The Boathouse

Hiawatha, Winter 2008
A Brief History of the Lake Katharine Wetland, Winter 2002
The Boathouse and Its Landscape, Summer 2004
Early Plantings at the Boathouse, Summer 2004
Life at the Boathouse, Summer 2004
The Water System at Reynolda, Part 1: Pure Water, Winter 2009
The Water System at Reynolda, Part 2: Water from the Stream and Lake, Fall 2009
Problems with Lake and Stream Water, Fall 2009

Gardens & Greenhouse

The Geology of Reynolda’s Stone Foundations, Winter 1996
Pruning Technique: Pollarding, Winter 1996
Irvin Disher, Sr., Winter, 1997
Oral History Brings Facts to Life, Winter 1997
A Greenhouse History, Winter 1997
Palms of… Yesterday, Summer 1997
Lord and Burnham Greenhouses, Summer 2001
London Plane Trees, Winter 2008
Lessons from the First Garden Plan, Summer 2005
A Description of the Miller Garden, Summer 2005
The Engineers of Reynolda, Part 3: Louis L. Miller, Spring 2011
A Garden Ahead of Its Time, Summer 1996
The Garden in the Context of its Time…World War I, Commerce, and the Garden, Winter 1999
The War Comes Close to Home: Robert Conrad Joins the Marines, Winter 1999
Thomas Sears, Summer 2005
Thomas Sears, Four Decades at Reynolda, Summer 2006
A Preview of Plan A, Summer 1996
Plants for Collectors—Japanese Cedars for Today’s Gardens, Summer 1996
Plan A, September 25, 1917: A Modern Rose Garden, Winter 1997
Northern Plants for a Southern Garden, Summer 1997
Plan B, the Pink and White Garden, Summer 1997
New Plants for an Old Garden, Summer 1997
A Little of Reynolda for Your Home (bleeding heart, bellflower, lily), Summer 1997
The Horticulture Detective on the Trail of the Florham Daylily, Winter 1998
How to Grow the Rose Standards, Summer 1998
Plants for Collectors: Fragrant Viburnums for the Garden, Summer 1998
A Lily for Every Garden, Winter 1998
The Distinguished History of the Garden Chrysanthemum, Winter 1998
The Horticulture Detective on the Trail of Azaleas, Summer 1998
A Little of Reynolda for Your Home: Landscape Design, Summer 1998
The Name Game: Turquoise Vine, Summer 1999
Heat Relief, Early Twentieth Century Style (tea houses), Summer 1999
The Horticulture Detective on the Hunt for Cherry Trees, Summer 1999
And a Little More of Reynolda for Your Home: Two Special Irises, Winter 2000
The Year of the Peony at Reynolda Gardens, Summer 2000
Delphinium: The Mysterious Stranger in the Southern Gardens, Summer 2001
Evolution of the Pink and White Garden, Winter 2002
Tulip Magnolias, Winter 2002
Keeping it Simple with Sedums, Winter 2003
An Easy Garden Plant: Japanese Anemone, Summer 2003
A Little of Reynolda for Your Home: Anchusa, Summer 2004
The Search for a Single Plant Leads to a Treasury of Flowers, Winter 2005
New Plants for an Old Garden: Blue Spirea, Winter 2005
May Morning in the Rose Garden, Summer 2005
Return of the ‘Jindai’ Aster, Summer 2005
Thomas Sears, Summer 2005
Treasures from the Past: Results of Garden Trials, Winter 2006
Changes in the Garden, Summer 2006
Thomas Sears, Four Decades at Reynolda, Summer 2006
New Boxwood for an Old Garden, Winter 2007
Family Photos and Garden History, Spring 2010
A Little of Reynolda for Your Home: Korean Spice Viburnum, Spring 2011
A Little of Reynolda for Your Home: Grapes, Winter 2000
The Horticulture Detective: Identification of Climbing Roses, Winter 2001
More of Reynolda for Your Home: The Wichuraiana Hybrids (roses), Winter 2001
A Little of Reynolda for Your Home: Apple and Pear Trees, Summer 2003
A Little of Reynolda for Your Garden – St. John’s Wart, Spring 2013
The Early Years of the Play House, Winter 2004
Two of the “Nicer Vegetables,” Asparagus and Rhubarb, Winter 2004
Mrs. Babcock’s Flowers, Summer 1997
Reynolda Gardens of Wake Forest College, the Deeds of Gift, Summer 2008
Landscape Architects for the Reynolda Gardens Project, Winter 1996
The Horticulture Detective, Summer 1996
Garden History and the Renovation of the Formal Gardens, Summer 1996
Yesterday’s Garden Today—Grass Paths Restored Using New Technology, Summer 1996
Restoring the Boxwoods to their Rightful Place in the Border, Summer 1996
Landscape Architecture Award, Summer 1996
The Cedar Walk at Reynolda, Fall 2012
A Work in Progress, Summer 1997
Restoration in Progress—the Post Lamp Fixtures, Winter 1997
What’s in a Name? (historic plant name changes), Summer 1997
Product Review: Poly Pavement, Winter 1998
The More Things Change, Summer 1998
The Rose Gardens Restored, Summer 1998
To the Rescue: Greenhouse Restoration, Winter 2001
Restoration of the Conservatory, Winter 2004
One Hundred Years Under Glass, Spring 2013
A Little Reynolda for Your Garden: Centaurea montana, Fall 2013

Natural Areas

Native and Exotic Plants in Reynolda’s Landscape, Summer 2001
Bush Honeysuckles—Invasive Beauties, Summer 2001
Thomas Sears and the Trees of Reynolda, Winter 2006
William Hollis Hatfield, Reynolda’s Forester, Winter 2006
The Golf Links, Winter 2003
Shropshire Sheep, Winter 2003
Golf in the Early Twentieth Century, Winter 2003