Issue No. 18 : Garden Gate

Spring/Summer 2006

Columns

• Guest Editorial : "Giving Up the Garden" by Carleen Madigan Perkins, Storey Publishing
• Simmons B. Buntin's The Literal Landscape: "Spirit, Fallen" + Online Gallery
• Todd Ziebarth's What a Fool Believes...: "The Constant Anti-Gardener"
• David Rothenberg's Bull Hill: "Professor Naess's Alpine Garden"
• Catherine Cunningham's View from the Summit: "The Labor of Our Fruits"

Poetry

• Suzanne Frischkorn : Three Poems
• Brian Swann : One Poem
• Melissa S. Stein : One Poem
• Simmons B. Buntin : Four Poems
• Patricia Smith Ranzoni : One Poem
• Donna J. Gelagotis Lee : Two Poems
• Philip Fried : One Poem
• Lois Beebe Hayna : One Poem   
• Drum Hadley : Twenty-one Poems, with Artwork by Andrew Rush, excerpted from Voice of the Borderlands

Essays

• "If You Love It... Why Nature-Loving Gardeners Should Learn to Let Go" by Flora Cordis Johnson
• "Working Wilderness: The Malpai Borderlands Group and the Future of the Western Range" by Nathan F. Sayre
• "Greening Up the Slackers: In Search of the Gen-X Garden" by Scott Calhoun
• "The Death and Life of an American Garden" by Barnet Schecter
• "War of the Roses" by Fleda Brown
• "The Genius of Kaaterskill Falls" by John P. O'Grady
• "Experiential Layers of the City" by Bruce F. Donnelly

Fiction

• "Shillington Lilies" by Deborah Fries
• "Precious" by Andrew Wingfield
• "Hunter's Point" by Martin Ott
• "Chicago on the Web" by Scott Spires
• "Fish Story" by Tiel Aisha Ansari

Articles

• "Cultivating Natural and Cultural Landscapes through Conservation Subdivision Design: A Narrative Slideshow" by Randall Arendt
• "America's First Rare Plant: The Franklin Tree" by Lucy Rowland
• "Sustainability Comes to the Canadian Prairie: Lessons and Caveats from the Town of Okotoks, Alberta" by Ernest J. Yanarella
• "Butterfly Gardening with Native Plants of the Desert Southwest" by Karen Hillson

Reviews

• Simmons B. Buntin reviews Murder Ballads, poems by Jake Adam York
• Todd Ziebarth reviews Imagining Eden: Connecting Landscapes, by Lyle Gomes
• Terrain.org reviews Tracking Desire: A Journey after Swallow-tailed Kites, by Susan Cerulean

Interview

• Former Governor and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt

ARTerrain Gallery

• Photographer Michael D. Weber

UnSprawl Case Study

• NorthWest Crossing in Bend Oregon