PRODUCT INFO
The 2021 edition of The Prairie Garden focuses on flowering shrubs and the queen of flowering shrubs, roses. Always popular topics in the past, they are definitely worth revisiting! The last time we focused on shrubs was in our 2009 edition, “Deciduous Shrubs” (still available in limited quantities). Since then, hundreds of exciting new flowering shrub cultivars have emerged, many of them well suited to prairie gardens. Our “Roses” edition of 2008 is now sold out, but readers keep asking us for information on that topic. And rightly so: since 2008, important new hardy roses such as the Canadian Artists and 49th Parallel series have come on the market. Plant developers in our region have played a major role in breeding, selecting, and trialling all kinds of hardy flowering shrubs for the prairie landscape, including roses. With Dr. Philip Ronald of Jeffries Nurseries as our guest editor, we take a fresh look at these useful and beautiful plants in our 2021 edition. As always, The Prairie Garden aims to be a guide for gardeners of all skill levels in the short-season gardening zones of Canada and the US. You’ll find over thirty articles on the theme and another dozen or so on general gardening topics, all contributed by experienced gardeners and experts. Guest editor Dr. Philip Ronald was raised in the Canadian prairies and educated in plant breeding and horticulture at the University of Manitoba and the University of Saskatchewan. He currently divides his time between teaching ornamental horticulture at the University of Manitoba, managing Riverbend Orchards, a 20-acre fruit farm, and providing support to the research and marketing programs at Jeffries Nurseries. He resides near Portage la Prairie with his wife Karen and their children.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
THEME: FLOWERING SHRUBS
Never-Ending Flowers – Shrubs that Break the Rules and How They Do It
Philip Ronald
Growing Hydrangeas on the Prairies
Colleen Zacharias
A Word about Cultivar Names and Trade Names
Linda Dietrick
Prairie-Bred Potentilla Shrubs are Making a Comeback
Wilbert G. Ronald
Inflorescences – The Ultimate Expression of Flowering
Philip Ronald
Flowers without Fruit – Sterility in Shrubs
Philip Ronald
Spring Magnificence: How to Grow Mockorange
Sheryl Normandeau
The New Ninebarks
Wilbert G. Ronald
Salix candida Iceberg Alley: A New Canadian Shrub Introduction
Todd Boland
Some Outstanding Graduates from the Jeffries Shrub Cultivar Trials
Philip Ronald
Finding New Plants for the Market
Tim Wood
Coppicing Shrubs
Linda Dietrick
Frank L. Skinner’s Shrub Introductions
Hugh Skinner
Drought-Tolerant Shrubs
Sara Williams
Japanese Barberry: Success Often Comes in Small Packages
Philip Ronald
An UnderratedTreasure: Our Native Highbush Cranberry
Darlene Belton
Nanking Cherries
Tiffany Grenkow
Magnolia Breeding for Northern Landscapes
Todd P. West
Landscaping Using Trees and Shrubs: Woody Plant Advantages
William Dowie
Consider Weeping Shrubs to Add Interest inYour Garden
Melanie Mathieson
The Sumac Garden
Dietmar Straub and Anna Thurmayr
The Snow-on-Leaf Event of 2019
William Dowie
InvasiveTree-Killer: European Buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica)
Elizabeth Sellors
Controlling European Buckthorn
Chris Penner
SPECIAL FEATURE ON ROSES
Canadian Roses: An Update
Barbara Shields
Canadian Heritage Roses
Bob Osborne
Hardy Roses:The Essential Guide for High Latitudes and Altitudes by Bob Osborne
reviewed by Sandy Venton
Hardy Shrub Roses for Zone 2
John. G. N. Davidson
It’s Never Too Late to Give Roses a Try: A Veggie Gardener’s Perspective
Brent Poole
Tall Roses for the Prairie Garden
Fran Wershler
75 Years Ago: Hybrid Tea and Hybrid Perpetual Roses
William Godfrey
New Comprehensive Index
Linda Dietrick
50 Years Ago: Hooty Hortus on Rose Pruning
Glad Reycraft
Putting Roses to Bed
Lynn Collicutt
“The Year the Roses Died”: Traditional Anishnaabe Teaching
Mary Siisip Geniusz
Roses in the International Cutflower Trade
Linda Dietrick
The Passion of Amateur Prairie Rose Breeders
Rick Durand
Rick Durand’s Agnes Victoria Rose
Hardy Landscape Rose Breeding in the Northern Great Plains
David Zlesak, Julie Overom, and Joe Bergeson
A Tribute to David Austin O.B.E.
Barbara Shields
The David Austin Roses
Sandy Venton
Innovation, Beauty and Sustainability: A New Rose Garden for the 21st Century
Alex Henderson
A Rose by Any Other Name
Rita Campbell
Rosehip Syrup: A Wartime Vitamin Source
Colin Briggs
Rose Information on the Web
Linda Dietrick
GENERAL
Four-Season Interest for a Landscape in Zone 3
Sarah Piercy
Gardening for Butterflies in the Prairies
Richard Staniforth
Eating Yourself into House and Home: Gall Insects
IanWise
Protecting the Poweshiek Skipperling
Justis Henault and Richard Westwood
Leafcutter Bees: A Source of Ambivalence
Ian Wise
Gardening for Specialist Bees: Goldenrods
Jason Gibbs
Bushels of Fruit from Bushes
Ieuan R. Evans
Chives until Thanksgiving
Linda Dietrick
Growing Gourmet Mushrooms in Your Summer Garden
Tom Nagy
Wheelbarrow or Wheelbarrel?
Katherine Barber
No-Till Vegetable Culture by Bryan O’Hara
reviewed by Darlene Belton
Nature’s Best Hope by Douglas Tallamy
reviewed by Michele Taylor
Still Standing: The Manitoba Horticultural Association
Hugh Skinner, Brent Hunter, and Linda Wall
In Memoriam: Kathleen Margaret Richardson
Susanne Olver
Q & A
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