COVER STORY WRITTEN AND PHOTOGRAPHED BY DANIEL J. HINKLEY
ON THE COVER: In the garden, great ambitions don't always produce great results — one lesson renowned plantsman Daniel J. Hinkley has learned from a life in the dirt. The sculpted hedges in front of this Vancouver, B.C., home have quietly disappeared.

PLANT LIFE Perennial Impatience Weary of our fussy flowers, we seek solutions in shrubs. ON FITNESS Eat Well, Do Well A little book offers big advice for helping young athletes develop healthy eating habits. NOW & THEN From Reign to Relic

TASTE Uncorked It's time for some closure on the patriarch of all wine closures. NORTHWEST LIVING Ranch Dressing A fad of the '50s is refined and reborn.