Complete instructions for making a dry sand bed, siting and feeding are given. Control of weeds and pests is dealt with. Mike gives a list of plants that have done well in the Slater garden and comments on individual plants, their virtues and his preferences.
Some color photographs show details of the plants.
A Retrospective by Norman C. Deno. Dr. Deno gives a brief account of his experiences of thirty years of growing plants in his dry sand beds in State College in central Pennsylvania. He tells about plants which performed well and about frustrations. Halcyon Daisies of the Rockies by Panayoti Kelaidis. In a detailed article Panayoti Kelaidis of the Denver Botanical Garden describes twenty species of the genus.