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SUMMER 2026
Volume 83, Issue 2
What’s in the Issue?
Landscape Reckonings
Trees of Hope
A Garden of Grapes
Islands and Trees
Contents
From the Editor
Design
By Matthew Battles
Notes from the Field
In a distinctive and historic Italian garden, Adam Banks discovers the wonder of a horticulture attuned to expertise, beauty, and surprise; Griffin Erich explores water loss in Malus sieversii, a drought-tolerant relative of the domestic apple.
Plant Portrait
Betula lenta
By Sarah Nechamen
Features
LANDSCAPE HISTORY
Life on Bussey Hill: The Giles-Bancroft Family
By Rayha Kelly McPherson, Madeleine Riskin-Kutz, Riley K. Sutherland, and Jasmine N. Wynn
FIELD AND FOREST
Serbian Spruce—a Tree of Hope
By Milan Mataruga, Michael S. Dosmann, Miles Schwartz Sax, and Branislav Cvjetković
COLLECTIONS IN PRACTICE
The Grapevines of the Leventritt Garden
By J. Stephen Casscles
VISUAL ESSAY
No Tree is an Island
By Charlie Nutting
Propagations
TREES OF LIFE
Three Old Trees—a Land
Acknowledgment
By Nohham R. Cachat-Schilling
POETRY
Rituals for Returning
By Kristin J. Kelley
Season in Practice
Air Layering
By Sarah Shank
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