Depending on where you live, it may not feel like it but summer is not far off.  In anticipation of this, Nile Dusdieker discusses the pergola he and his wife built that houses many of their plants out-of-doors during the Iowa summer.  Fred Clarke introduces us to two stunning new genera in the Zygopetalum Alliance; Maxthompsonara and Nottara and Barbara Schmidt introduces us to Vanilla planifolia.  Tara Luna reports to us on her work in conservation of western North American cypripediums - work partially supported by an AOS Conservation Grant and  Rudolf Jenny discusses Cypripedium guttatum and Johann Amman, an early 18th century Swiss botanist.  Rounding out our March issue, Leon Glicenstein reports on an new hybrid of Habenaria janellehayneiana.

Rounding out our March issue:

• Tom's Monthly Checklist - Tom Mirenda
• The New Refugium Botanicum - Phragmipedium schlimii f. manzurii - Melissa Díaz-Morales and Franco Pupulin
• For the Novice - Repotting - Wet or Dry? - Sue Bottom
• Form Meets Function - Vining Orchids - Tom Mirenda
• Orchids Illustrated - Rodriguezia - Peggy Alrich and Wesley Higgins
• Orchids in Watercolor - Galearis spectabilisLindleyana - Rodriguezia dodsoniana - Hugo Medina, José Portilla, and Iván Portilla