The Director of Horticulture at the renowned Garden in the Woods, outside Boston, argues that gardens must provide ecological resources and functionality as well as aesthetics. He discusses a range of issues in plant selection, native v. non-native and genetic diversity as opposed to cultivars. This is a key issue in creating plantings with genuine ecological functioning.

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