Thanks! I don't have a subscription to this and don't buy it every month - I would have missed it.

Way to go, gardengal!

It's rare to come across someone who combines such a depth of gardening and plant knowledge with wonderful communication skills. Congratulations on your article - I hope we'll see many more in the future.

I picked up a copy. 'Plants I Didn't THINK I COULD GROW - Northwest' is on page 68. These consist of

Hebe
Pittosporum tenuifolium
Eucryphia x nymansensis
Pelargonium sidoides

Thanks very much for the acknowledgement, bboy. I have had small articles published locally, but nothing for a national publication and I was a bit stoked to be asked to submit material :-))

Writing that tiny little article was a much more complicated undertaking than one would expect - they vetted my plant choices (eliminated several) and it involved many multiple rewrites. Hard to get across what it is you want to say (as well as what FG requires) in a very limited number of words. One also has to submit material months in advance. I am working on a second, longer article now. Who knows what will happen with that!

Whooo Hoooo, Congratulations! Fine Gardening is a fabulous magazine. I've subscribed for years.

That one Dan Hinkley did on Heronswood probably didn't hurt their sales any.

Not to take anything away from Pam at all, I'm cheering for her -

but since bboy mentioned Dan, did anyone happen to pick up or look at the Jan/Feb issue of Garden Design when looking for a copy of Fine Gardening? Dan has an article on Designing Vertically.

Someone has a very bizarre sense of humor - the opposite facing page from the opening paragraph, still part of the article, has 2/3s the page space taken up by Burpee and Cook's Garden owned by Burpee ads. Bad, bad taste :(

Remember that Dan and Bob were enabled to get themselves a new start etc. off of that sale to George Ball.