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Hello, all! Summer is here. Time to kick back and enjoy your gardens—and every- Stump the one else’s. Be sure to scour our calendar for more garden walks, tours, and events than you can shake a stick at. Then head out for chump some inspiration. Don’t forget your camera!

New York State Invasive Species Awareness Week. Designed to promote knowledge and understanding of invasive species to help stop their spread by engaging citizens in a wide range of activities encouraging them to take action, NYS Invasive Species Week is July 6 – 12, 2014. We’re doing our part by running an article on Japanese knotweed in this issue. Activities are listed by region: nyis. info/blog.

New Forestry Blog The New York State Urban Forestry Council has a blog called TAKING ROOT, which should be of interest to all who love trees: nysuf- ctakingroot.wordpress.com. Some recent topics include: • Historic “Great Trees” of NYC Cloned and Returned • Oaks for Alkaline Soils, Scoop-and-Dump, and other Research at the Urban Hort Institute • Phenology, Urban Forestry, and Nature’s Notebook The editor is Michelle Sutton, a regular contributor to these pages. Also, you can subscribe to the Council’s monthly e-newsletter; by send- ing an email to [email protected].

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4 | JULY-AUGUST 2014 2014 Cornell Plantations Fall Lecture Series September 3 William and Jane Torrence Harder Lecture You’re the Bee’s Kinesis: Poetry and Coevolution Joanie Mackowski, Poet and Professor of English, Cornell University Lecture, 5:30 p.m., Call Auditorium Garden Party to follow at the Botanical Garden September 17 Audrey O’Connor Lecture The Drunken Botanist Amy Stewart, Author Lecture, 7:30 p.m. Statler Auditorium October 1 Class of 1945 Lecture Founding Gardeners Andrea Wulf, Author Lecture, 7:30 p.m. Statler Auditorium October 15 Elizabeth E. Rowley Lecture Personal Habitat: Creating a Haven for Wildlife (and Yourself) Julie Zickefoose, Author/illustrator Lecture, 7:30 p.m. Statler Auditorium In collaboration with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Cayuga Bird Club October 29 70th Anniversary Lecture “A Living Sympathy with Everything That Is” Liberty Hyde Bailey’s Ecological and Civic Vision Scott Peters, Faculty Co-Director, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, Syracuse University Lecture, 7:30 p.m. Statler Auditorium November 12 William Hamilton Lecture An Introduction to Classical Bonsai Art William N. Valavanis, Bonsai Master Lecture, 7:30 p.m. Statler Auditorium cornellplantations.org The Fall Lecture Series is presented in collaboration with the Statler Hotel. Seasonal stakeout The many passions of digital media artist Michael Tomb by Michelle Sutton images by Studio Michaelino © 2014 - All rights reserved

6 | JULY-AUGUST 2014 ichael Tomb’s mesmerizing “Skin of the when the image finally lines up with my internal expecta- Arboretum” image series began in early 2008, tion, it’s finally done.” Mon a tour of Rochester’s Highland Botanical Park  Pinetum with horticulturist Kent Milham. Tomb became The tour where “Skin” was birthed was organized for fascinated by both patterned and abstract expressions of the Highland Park Neighborhood Association, an organiza- bark on the trees; he now exhibits truly arresting photos tion with whom Tomb and his wife Marcia, residents of the and photo collages of them. As with “The Hobbiton of the neighborhood, have been very active since 2006, when a Bark” (see photo), he frequently employs an element of fatal stabbing of a young person 300 feet from their door trompe l’oeil in both the subject matter and the convincing, galvanized them. apparent picture frame. Tomb says, “Marcia and I had a conversation. It was Tomb identifies as a digital media artist, rather than like, if we’re going to stay here, we need to get more ABOVE: Tombs image a photographer. He has taken an average of 50 pictures a involved. I’m a lifelong committed pacifist so I wasn’t going of the beloved katsura day over the last 15 years. Many of his images employ HDR to suggest we get armed. The one thing I knew we could do tree (Cercidphyllum ja- (high dynamic range) software that takes multiples of an was work toward giving the neighborhood a higher profile ponicum) in Rochesters image and eliminates the “noise” from each one to get a in arts and culture. I wanted us to make the neighborhood Highland Park. wider range of exposure and maximum 3-D effect. more special, with the hopes that that would help make it “Many of my finished images are not one photo—each ultimately safer.” is as many as 12 or 13 frames on top of or extending each Using his digital media skills, Tomb had been doing LEFT: Michael Tomb's other,” he says. “Virtually every image has been manipu- some volunteer work for New Orleans recovery post “Hobbiton of the Bark” lated. I don’t believe in the idea that there’s a clean image Katrina and had been heartened by the level of community employs trompe loeil that’s somehow sacred. All digital cameras are computers, action he saw there. He decided to invest these skills in ear- in both the image and after all, so a program is involved in any digital photogra- nest in his neighborhood, though he and Marcia still make the “frame.” phy.” frequent trips to their beloved New Orleans. He continues, “I’m after the image. I like to use any He says, “One of the first things we researched together method available to me—so were many of the most famous was the urban planning concept called ‘Placemaking’. The film-based photographers. They often used analog tools residents themselves re-design their common public liv- such as filters on the camera or the enlarger and dodging ing spaces to make them more inviting and special. The and burning, even combining multiple images into one. I results are places that the community creates and owns experimented with all those techniques back in my dark- together. The idea is both old and new; in fact I discovered room days. But the image still begins in my mind’s eye and an article written in 1882 in one of Rochester’s most beau- works its way slowly towards a surface of some sort. There tiful (if forgotten) horticultural journals, Vick’s Illustrated is no happy accident involved here; I know what I want and Monthly Magazine, that described what is now known as

UPSTATE GARDENERS’ JOURNAL | 7 TOP: Lamberton Con- ‘Placemaking’. And when I republished it on our neighbor- of ‘Sunny Side of the Street’ on the piano,” he says. servatory Desert Room hood’s online ‘Virtual Scrapbook’, links to it were retweeted Gemma passed her love of the arts and sciences on to Panorama by Michael by national experts who support the movement. This is her children including her son, who in his teenage years Tomb. now something I’m totally committed to as a way to devel- developed passions for photography and astronomy. She op cities.” also took an action that had hugely positive consequences BOTTOM LEFT: A  for Tomb and his sister, who needed a more rigorous aca- collage of bark images Tomb’s mother’s family was based mostly in Rochester demic environment. Gemma Tomb approached the Harley from Tombs “Skin of but at an early age, he experienced a huge cultural upheaval. School, an esteemed secular private school in Pittsford, with the Arboretum” series. His Sicilian grandfather, Frank Mully, a mason by train- the result being that both children received full scholarships ing, had moved with his wife and family from Rochester to to attend. Tomb started at Harley in 1969 and finished in BOTTOM RIGHT: Snow Bristol in the 1940s to live on a farm and eventually started three years. “I got exposed to this amazing nurturing educa- on the trunk of a Lon- that rural area’s first Italian restaurant, on Route 64. Tomb tional experience I wish so many kids could have,” he says. don planetree (Platanus grew up on the attached farm, and growing vegetables with Among the courses he took was filmmaking, and he x acerifolia) in Tombs his grandfather kicked off a lifelong interest in gardening. even had after-hours access to the school’s refrigerator- Highland Park neigh- After his grandfather Frank had a severe stroke, Tomb’s size computer. Tomb used “unshielded radio noise” from borhood. family literally moved into the restaurant building to help the computer to score one of his animated films. He took out, and thus commenced many years of Tomb’s immersion to computer programming, eventually developing his in the restaurant trade, of which he has happy memories. own personal video games. In 1972 he started attending Tomb’s mother, Gemma, was only one of two college Franklin and Marshall College, because they had a strong educated members on either side of the family; she was Astrophysics program. He became the photo-editor of the passionate about music and the arts, and about science. college paper and continued to school himself in computer “She could tell you the life history of all the great classical programming. In his senior year, he had a bit of an identity composers, and she could play the most rollicking version crisis and dropped out and returned to Rochester where

8 | JULY-AUGUST 2014 he’d hoped to work as a photographer, but he spent more and even pop art aspects of the images. “This isn’t some- of his time evaluating choices in life and the result was a thing I seek to make money from,” he says. “I wanted to pay renewed desire to complete his education. homage to these largely unknown, incredible folk artists.” Eventually one of Tomb’s best friends at Franklin and Tomb is also known for his work photographing Marshall, Paul Marttila, convinced Michael to go back to Highland Park’s Lamberton Conservatory’s interior and college and finish his degree. They are still close. Marttila exterior, including on those nights during the holiday sea- says, “We connected through a shared sense of humor; I’m sons when the building is open one evening a week and fes- proud to call him one of my closest friends for 40 years. tooned with lights. He hopes to publish a collection of these Michael is a brilliant guy, a renaissance man. In college, we Conservatory photos. would go camping with our friends and Michael, already The Skin of the Arboretum continues to be the series at that phase an advanced astronomer, would spend hours that gets the most attention. Friend and former colleague describing constellations and planets in a way that was fas- Pat Mann purchased prints of two of Michael’s fine art. She cinating to us. In recent years, I’ve seen him give multime- says, “I was so enamored and transfixed to the spot with dia presentations on astronomy that were amazing.” two of his pieces from the Skin of the Arboretum at his After graduating college, Tomb came back to Rochester opening that I just had to have them: ‘The Hobbiton of the and worked for two small computer scientific program- Bark’ and ‘The Nude of the Bark.’” ming firms while continuing to She says, “‘Hobbiton’ practice his photography craft. just jumps out at you ... As a requirement for designing Michael captured an arti- one of the world’s first toxicity fact of nature in such a prediction systems, he expanded way as to evoke a magical his training in computer graphics essence. And ‘Nude’ reminds because of the need to represent me of Jean Arp’s ‘Sculpture and input molecular structures Classique’ (1960), captur- on the computer screen. ing the female form in In 1992, he started his own very sleek simple lines, but consulting business, helping Michael’s art and technique clients with their statistical, is even more brilliant in INSET: “Nude of the health science, and engineering extracting and showcasing Bark” by Michael computational and programming it from nature. His addition Tomb. needs. “When I went out on my of color gives the feeling of own, I felt as if I had just jumped a cloaked figure, uncovered, from the end of a gangplank and revealing the female form. before landing in the water, I had I just love it. I’m glad to see to learn how to swim,” he says. Michael is pursuing his fine The first year was lean—they ate art; his energy is boundless, mass quantities of zucchini and and his passion is conta- Swiss chard from their garden gious!” that summer—but he’s now very Tomb adds, “It took much sought after for his skills decades for these images to in solving problems related to make it to my eye. I grew new technologies, including writing software. up in the rural Bristol Hills and many old trees, abandoned  orchards, and pockets of isolated forests were like remote Tomb’s one of those lucky people who is passionate friends that I and my dogs visited alone. And yet it wasn’t about his work. He is also passionate about the horticul- until 30 years after I finally left Bristol that I really started tural history of Rochester and has launched a series called seeing the surfaces of trees as beautiful abstractions. Now The City of Flowers Collection that he exhibited for the I can’t stop. To me the Arboretum within Highland Park is Highland Park Neighborhood Association. not just a collection of special trees and shrubs but these “I found that there was this amazing series of printing are open air rooms in a living museum of art.” companies employing hundreds of immigrant artists that did all this folk-ish, beautiful commercial botanical art, Michelle Sutton is a horticulturist, writer, and editor based often unsigned. This was a flourishing industry here, one in New Paltz, New York (michellejudysutton.com). that handled the visual aspects of Rochester’s nursery and seed industries. Rochester invented a new kind of com- mercial art called ‘plates for the nurseryman’—a nursery rep would come to the lithographer and say, I need prints Where to See Michael Tomb’s Work of these 200 varieties, and a book of lithographs would be Studio Michaelino, part of the ROCO Upstairs put together. These compilations were like the precursors of 137 East Ave in Rochester (by Appointment or on “First Fridays”) seed catalogs.” On Facebook: Studio Michaelino Tomb has been collecting, mostly from eBay, prints of https://www.facebook.com/ArtofMichaelino this botanical art, along with trade cards and early seed Michael’s website (Coming Soon!): michaelino.com catalogs, all printed and designed in Rochester. He scans or Virtual Scrapbook of the Highland Park Neighborhood: ellwangerbarry.org photographs the images, digitally restores them, and repro- duces them at a bigger scale, which enhances the folk art

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Moving the start planning how to do it. plants allows a thorough weed removal, and then there’s still time to plant a succession crop (see above). AUGUST Keep the asparagus bed weeded. In the food garden: To maximize basil harvest and prevent blooming, cut plants The easiest way to expand the veggie garden is to sheet back by one-third, rather than just plucking leaves. This can compost now with flattened cardboard boxes. Overlap the probably be done 3 times, thus avoiding having to start new edges and then cover them up with whatever you have – grass plants from seed. If you grow basil in containers, you can clippings, woodchips, spoiled hay, or bags of leaves. By spring, overwinter a few plants on a warm sunny windowsill (ditto for most of the weeds will be dead. This is also a good way to parsley, which can take your cooler windowsill). prepare the ground for shrub borders, berry plantings, or Handpick conspicuous pests such as Japanese flowerbeds. You can also use thick newspapers, but they take beetles, Colorado potato beetles, and so on. Look for longer to apply. the eggs of insect pests on the undersides of leaves. Harvest garlic when the leaves are yellowing. Next you can Use Bt on cabbage family plants, but judiciously. weed the area and plant a late crop (see above). It’s best to Remember it will also kill the caterpillars of desirable rotate where you grow garlic, so pick a new spot with lots of butterflies; instead, grow extra parsley, dill, or fennel, sun and good drainage. Maybe, sheet compost the new spot to have more black swallowtails. Leave common now (see above), until planting time in mid-October. milkweed in rough areas for the monarch caterpillars. Keep harvesting beans, basil, okra, cukes, summer squash, eggplant, etc., in order for plants to keep producing. It’s OK to Ornamentals: leave some peppers on the plant to ripen and turn color. It’s finally OK to remove narcissus foliage that seems to hang on forever – but removing it prematurely really Ornamentals: does have a negative effect on flowering. This is also a Nursery stock goes on sale and may be a bargain if it has good time to move the bulbs, or you can dig them up been well cared for. Be sure to water weekly after planting and dry them off, for planting in September. if rain is insufficient. Keep the watering up until the ground Early July is a good time to move Colchicums. The freezes, unless rain is adequate. dormant foliage should still allow you to find them. Order bulbs now for fall planting, to get the best selection ABOVE: caption here Try growing plumbago, Ceratostigma plumbaginoides, as a fall- of varieties. Lots of spring-blooming bulbs are deer-resistant. flowering groundcover with the Colchicum. 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If it’s green underneath, the branch drags on, allow the lawn to go dormant. It will revive on its is alive. Dormant buds under the bark just need time to develop own when rains resume. into sprouts and leaves. If the leaf defoliation isn’t too bad, an This is the time to start protecting tree trunks from ‘buck organic control method is to snip off the twigs that contain the rub’ damage. VLB eggs. Although the egg-laying sites are most obvious in the —Pat Curran and the Tompkins fall, one actually has until April to trim the affected twigs. See County Master Gardeners the VLB factsheet for details. Deadhead some perennials, either for continued bloom, or Note: The almanac was edited for space in this issue. For the full for improved foliage. 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y husband, John, has an enemy – a persistent, aggressive one, taller than he is – up to 10 feet Mor more. After battling this foe on our church grounds for an entire summer, he believes he may be con- quering it, albeit slowly. That enemy is Japanese knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum, or Reynoutria japonica) also known as fleece flower, crimson beauty, Mexican bamboo, or reynoutria. Those who know it most intimately call it “killer bamboo.” Japanese knotweed was introduced from East Asia to the United Kingdom as an ornamental plant in the early 1800s, and from there to the United States in the late 1800s. Despite its “bamboo” characterization, it’s actually a member of the buckwheat family. This upright, shrub-like perennial has smooth stems, swollen at joints where the leaf meets the stem. Its large leaves are somewhat heart- shaped. Its sprays of tiny greenish-white flowers in summer are followed by small winged fruit containing lots of tiny seeds. Japanese knotweed has invaded disturbed areas of the eastern U.S., some Midwest and western states, and even Alaska. It tolerates a wide variety of conditions, including full shade, high temperatures, and high salinity. Although it tolerates drought, it’s often found near water sources. It spreads primarily by rhizomes, but it can also spread by water- or wind-borne seeds. It can even sprout from discarded cuttings. It spreads quickly and crowds out native vegetation, even more aggressively than most invasives. It’s extremely persistent. And it’s tough, having been known to push up through pavement or disrupt house foundations. It greatly alters native ecosystems. Knowing what a nasty plant this is, imagine our horror when we saw it featured in a garden tour a few years ago! A professional landscaper had actually installed this monster – and some garden center had actually sold it! Any of the native alternatives listed in the sidebar would have been at least as beautiful in that landscape. The USDA’s National Invasive Species Information Center offers an online video at invasivespeciesinfo.gov/ plants/knotweed.shtml. (Oddly, the video features Gabriel Fauré’s lovely Pavane as background music; Paul Dukas’ Sorcerer’s Apprentice would have been more appropriate.)

18 | JULY-AUGUST 2014 Eradicating knotweed the rhizome fragments and disturbs the soil, making it OPPOSITE: John Allen There are many ways to attempt to eradicate knotweed. easier for new knotweed to get established. marveling at the luxuri- A brief overview of some methods is described below, but A local nature center appears to have had some suc- ous growth of a large if you’re preparing for battle this year, it would be wise to cess with another method. They immediately cut down any patch of knotweed further explore the details as you plan your attack. You emerging sprouts throughout the entire growing season, along a road near our probably will need to use more than one of these methods with the goal of starving it to death. home in Syracuse, NY. and definitely over a long period of time. As one com- Inspired, my husband faithfully traveled to church with Each time we pass this mentator put it, “Prepare to make its eradication your new his scythe each week last summer. He scouted for each knotweed stand, we hobby.” And remember, cuttings can regenerate, potentially new sprout popping up and chopped off its little head. As remark on its continu- spreading the problem beyond your yard, so regardless of doubts crept in toward the end of summer, he escalated the ing growth and, so far, the methods you use, thoroughly dry or burn any stalks or battle, carefully applying glyphosate on the cut stems. unchallenged spread rhizomes prior to disposal. He has engaged his enemy on the church ground along more and more Smothering is one approach. Cut down all the old canes, battlefield again this year, (somewhat) confident of even- of the roadside. and cover the patch with a large, sturdy tarp or overlapping tual victory. And he has changed his method. Instead of tarps. This method has the virtue of being organic and also cutting down emerging shoots, he’s pulling them out. He offering the possibility of gardening in raised beds right on claims the knotweed is much less vigorous this year than top of the tarps. You might as well garden on top of them. last and predicts that after this Research suggests that rather than dying, knotweed has the year, he’ll need only to monitor Native alternatives: capability of going dormant for up to 20 years or possibly the area occasionally. In fact, he’s New England Aster (Aster novae-angliae) longer. already making plans to use this Blue False Indigo (Baptisia australis) Another method is to apply glyphosate as a foliar spray reclaimed area for native plants. Sweet pepperbush (Clethra alnifolia) in late summer or early fall – or even repeatedly throughout Who will win – my husband Silky dogwood (Cornus amomum) the growing season to slow it down. or the killer bamboo? Wifely A third method is to dig out the rhizomes, attempting loyalty demands that I bet on Sweet Joe-Pye-Weed (Eupatorium purpureum) to get every bit, since it can resprout from even the small- my husband, but more objective Queen-of-the-Prairie (Filipendula rubra) est piece left in the ground. Of course, it’s not likely you’ll onlookers may have doubts. Poor Virginia sweetspire (Itea virginica) get every bit since the rhizomes of an established stand can guy. I’d better have a nice cup of Maleberry (Lyonia ligustrina) spread 12-15 feet and 6-9 feet deep. Some advise against tea waiting at home for him. Fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica) this method since—besides being a lot of work—it spreads

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Tuesday of the month, April through November, CLASSES / EVENTS ROCHESTER at Cornell Cooperative Extension, 249 Highland Avenue, Rochester. July & August meetings in mem- • Indicates activities especially appropriate for chil- REGULAR CLUB MEETINGS bers’ gardens, December meeting at a member’s dren and families. home. 585/377-0892; 585/621-1115; info@rocrose. S- Indicates plant sales. 7th District Federated Garden Clubs New York State, org; rocrose.org. T- Indicates garden tours. Inc. meets the first Wednesday of the month. 7thdis- trictfgcnys.org. Henrietta Garden Club meets the third Wednesday of • July 8 – 11: Conservation Camp, 9 am – 5 pm. the month (except June-August & December) at 6:45 Designed for high school students age 16 and older African Violet and Gesneriad Society of Rochester pm, Riparian Lecture Hall at Rivers Run, 50 Fairwood who may be contemplating a career or a major in meets the first Wednesday of each month, Drive, Rochester. Open to all. 585/889-1547; henriet- the environmental sciences, as well as students with September – May, at 7 pm, St. John’s Home, 150 [email protected]; henriettagardenclub.org. a love of science or general interest in the outdoors. Highland Avenue, Rochester. All are welcome. Bob or $175. Advance registration required. Ganondagan, Linda Springer: 585/413-0606; blossoms002@yahoo. Holley Garden Club meets the second Thursday of the 1488 State Route 444, Victor. 585/742-1690; meg@ com. month at 7 pm, Holley Presbyterian Church. 585/638- ganondagan.org; ganondagan.org. 6973. Big Springs Garden Club of Caledonia-Mumford July 10: Butterflies and the Plants They Need, 9 am. meets the second Monday evening of the following Ikebana International Rochester Chapter 53 meets the Hi Tor, Naples. Bring lunch and folding chair. Meet: months in the Caledonia-Mumford area: September – third Thursday of each month (except December and Park and Ride, Bushnell’s Basin Exit, Route I-490. November, January – May. New members and guests February) at 10 am, First Baptist Church, Hubbell Hall, 585/385-4725. RBC welcome. 585/314-6292; [email protected]. 175 Allens Creek Road, Rochester. 585/872-0678; 585/586-0794. • July 11: Moonlight Stroll Concert Series, 8 – 10 pm. Bonsai Society of Upstate New York meets the fourth Tullamore Celtic Band. Enjoy live music and see the Tuesday of the month at the Brighton Town Park Kendall Garden Club meets the first Wednesday of the gardens aglow with lights. Bring lawnchairs or picnic Lodge, Buckland Park, 1341 Westfall Road, Rochester. month at 7 pm, Kendall Town Hall. 585/659-8289; blanket. Rain or shine. $7 members; $9 non-mem- 585/334-2595; bonsaisocietyofupstateny.org. [email protected]. bers; $4 youth 6-17; free ages 5 and under. SG meets the first Friday of the , 10 am – 12 pm. Master Gardener Fairport Garden Club meets the third Thursday eve- Newark Garden Club July 12: Roses Q&A ning of each month (except August and January). month at 1 pm, Park Presbyterian Church, Newark. Audrey Ferris will be available to answer questions. Accepting new members. [email protected]; Guests are welcome. Wayside Garden Center, 124 Pittsford-Palmyra Road fairportgardenclub.org. (Route 31), Macedon. 585/223-1222 x100; Facebook; Pittsford Garden Club meets the third Tuesday of the waysidegardencenter.com. month, 11 am or 7 pm, at the Pittsford Community Garden Club of Brockport meets the second Wednesday of every month at 7 pm, Clarkson Library, Fisher Meeting Room, 24 State Street or at T- July 12: RCGC Summer Garden Tour – Gardens of , 10 am – 4 pm. Tour eight gardens, from Schoolhouse, Ridge Road, east of Route 19. the Spiegel Community Center, 35 Lincoln Avenue, Penfield formal gardens and brick pathways complementing Speakers, hands-on sessions. Kathy Dixon: 585/431- Pittsford, except in July & August when it visits mem- a Williamsburg-style home, to an acre of garden 0509; [email protected]. bers’ gardens. [email protected]. rooms, a 5-acre property, a 1.5-acre garden with bold meets the second Saturday Garden Path of Penfield meets the third Wednesday Rochester Dahlia Society plantings and mature specimen trees, a suburban of the month from September through May at 7 of most months at 1 pm, Trinity Reformed Church, yard with a large koi pond and more. Self-guided. pm, Penfield Community Center, 1985 Baird Road, 909 Landing Road North, Rochester, except in the Advance: $15 members; $20 non-members. Day of: Penfield. Members enjoy all aspects of gardening; summer, when it tours members’ gardens. Visitors $20 all. RCGC new members welcome. gardenpathofpenfield@ welcome. 585/249-0624; 585/865-2291; gwebster@ rochester.rr.com; rochesterdahlias.org. July 13: Daylily Sale, 8 am – 12 pm. Over 40 varieties gmail.com. to choose from plus perennials. Advice on selection meets the first Tuesday of and daylily care available. Visit the nationally recog- Genesee Region Orchid Society (GROS) meets every Rochester Herb Society month from September through May at the Jewish each month (excluding January & February) at 12 nized daylily display garden with over 250 varieties Community Center, 1200 Edgewood Avenue, pm, Rochester Civic Garden Center, 5 Castle Park, of daylilies including 30 new varieties. Rain or shine. Rochester, on the first Monday following the first Rochester. June-August garden tours. New members Webster Arboretum, 1700 Schlegel Road, Webster. Sunday of each month (dates sometimes vary due welcome. websterarboretum.org. to holidays, etc.). The GROS is an Affiliate of The Rochester Permaculture Center, meets monthly to July 13: Daylily Garden Open House, 1 – 5 pm. American Orchid Society (AOS) and of The Orchid discuss topics such as edible landscapes, gardening, Cobbs Hill Daylily Garden (a National Display Digest Corporation. geneseeorchid.org.Genesee farming, renewable energy, green building, rainwater Garden), Charlie and Judy Zettek, 1 Hillside Avenue, Valley Hosta Society meets the second Thursday harvesting, composting, local food, forest gardening, Rochester. 585/461-3317. of the month, April – October, at Monroe County’s herbalism, green living, etc. Meeting location and July 16: Daylily Garden Open House, 5 – 7 pm. Cornell Cooperative Extension, 249 Highland Avenue, details: meetup.com/rochesterpermaculture. Rochester. 585/538-2280; [email protected]. Cobbs Hill Daylily Garden (a National Display Valentown Garden Club meets the third Tuesday of Garden), Charlie and Judy Zettek, 1 Hillside Avenue, Genesee Valley Pond & Koi Club meets the first each month; time alternates between noon and 7 pm. Rochester. 585/461-3317. Friday of the month at 6:30 pm, Cornell Cooperative Victor. Kathleen Houser, president: 585/301-6107. Extension, 249 Highland Avenue, Rochester, except • July 18: Moonlight Stroll Music Series, 8 – 10 pm. in summer when it tours local ponds. bobwheeler58@ Rochester Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra. See descrip- gmail.com. tion under July 11. Rain or shine. $7 members; $9 Frequent hosts non-members; $4 youth 6-17; free ages 5 and under. Gesneriad Society meets the first Wednesday of each SG month, September – May, at 6:30 pm, St. John’s , 11 am or 1 pm. Create Home, 150 Highland Avenue, Rochester. All are BRI: Bristol’s Garden Center, 7454 Victor Pittsford July 19: Outdoor Fairy Garden a container garden designed to resemble a miniature welcome. Bob or Linda Springer: 585/413-0606; blos- Road, Victor, NY. 585/924-2274; customerser- world. Includes planter, 3 plants, top dressing and [email protected]. [email protected]; bristolsgardencen- one fairy garden accessory. Additional accessories ter.com & Facebook. Greater Rochester Iris Society meets Sundays at 2 pm, available for purchase. $30. Registration required. BRI . Field trips last dates vary, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Monroe RBC: Rochester Butterfly Club , 10 am. about 2 hours, some continue into the afternoon, July 20: Butterflies and the Plants They Need County, 249 Highland Avenue, Rochester. Public wel- Whiting Road Nature Preserve. Meet: trailhead park- come. July 27: Iris & Daylily Sale, 10 am – 2 pm, see especially those that are further away. Long pants ing lot, 403 Whiting Road, Webster. 585/385-4725. calendar (below). September 14: Mulching Iris, 2 pm. and appropriate footgear strongly recommended. RBC 585/599-3502; [email protected]. Free and open to the public. rochesterbutterfly- club.org. July 20: Daylily Garden Open House, 1 – 5 pm. Greater Rochester Perennial Society (GRPS) meets the Cobbs Hill Daylily Garden (a National Display first Thursday of each month at 7 pm, Monroe County RCGC: Rochester Civic Garden Center, 5 Castle Garden), Charlie and Judy Zettek, 1 Hillside Avenue, Cornell Cooperative Extension, 249 Highland Avenue, Park, Rochester, NY 14620. 585/473-5130; rcgc. Rochester. 585/461-3317. Rochester, except in summer when it tours members’ org. gardens. July 3 & August 7: Summer Garden Tour, July 22: Landscaping for Small Spaces, 6:30 – 8 6:30 pm. 585/467-1678; [email protected]; SG: Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion State pm. Join Milli Piccione at one of her projects, an rochesterperennial.com. Historic Park, 151 Charlotte Street, Canandaigua, East Avenue townhouse, where she will discuss her NY 14424. 585/394-4922; sonnenberg.org. approach to the design of the gardens with limited Greater Rochester Rose Society meets the first space. Gardens include an enclosed courtyard, bor-

24 | JULY-AUGUST 2014 ders and a small island garden. $17 members; $22 The Fools (rock). See description under July 11. $7 non-members. Registration required. RCGC non-members. Registration required. RCGC members; $9 non-members; $4 youth 6-17; free ages August 25: Butterflies and the Plants They Need, 9 5 and under. SG July 23: Oh No, Now What: Creative Perennial am. Howland Island, Montezuma. Bring lunch and Garden Maintenance, 2 – 4 pm. Christine Froehlich August 2: Structured Spaces, Inviting Places, 10:30 folding chair. Meet: Park and Ride, Bushnell’s Basin will guide participants in this hands-on class as she am – 12:30 pm. Join landscape designer Christine Exit, Route I-490. 585/385-3907. RBC shares professional methods to keep the garden Froehlich in her Sodus Point garden where she has , looking fresh including proper staking, deadheading, constructed fences, arbors, stone paths, a patio and a September 2: Butterflies and the Plants They Need 10 am. Burger Park, Greece. Meet: parking lot, deadleafing, cutting back to prevent straggliness, pergola which divide her gardens into several distinct Braddock Bay Park, near lodge. 585/385-4725. promote new growth and rebloom, weeding quickly, ‘rooms’ as well as provide protection from the ele- RBC and identifying problems like low fertility, water and ments. Learn ways to interweave structures and plants September 13: Gathering of Gardeners, 8 am – 4 pests. $22 members; $32 non-members. Registration to achieve privacy, comfort and beauty. $22 mem- pm. Featuring David Culp, author and plantsman, required. RCGC bers; $32 non-members. Registration required. RCGC & Elizabeth Licata, author and garden designer. Parking lot sale featuring plants and garden-related , 5 – 7 pm. , 11 am or 1 pm. See July 23: Daylily Garden Open House August 2: Outdoor Fairy Garden items. Presented by Master Gardeners of Cornell Cobbs Hill Daylily Garden (a National Display description under July 19. $30. Registration required. Cooperative Extension, Monroe County. Eisenhart Garden), Charlie and Judy Zettek, 1 Hillside Avenue, BRI Auditorium, Rochester Museum & Science Center, Rochester. 585/461-3317. August 3: Daylily Garden Open House, 1 – 5 pm. 657 East Avenue, Rochester. 585/461-1000 x225; July 24: Tour a Historic Garden in Pittsford, 6:30 – 8 Cobbs Hill Daylily Garden (a National Display gatheringofgardeners.com. pm. A 3-acre site adjacent to Oak Hill Country Club is Garden), Charlie and Judy Zettek, 1 Hillside Avenue, , 10 am. Guided walk the former home of Homer and Margaret Woodbury Rochester. 585/461-3317. September 13: Fall Wildflowers led by Carol Southby & Carl Herrgesell. Hand lens Strong. Renowned landscape architect Fletcher Steele helpful. Free. Thousand Acre Swamp Sanctuary, 1581 designed gardens around the house, one of which August 7: Designing a Multilayered Haven in the , 6 – 7:30 pm. Owners Rick Schaeffer and Marcy Jackson Road, Penfield. 585/773-8911. Facebook. has survived. Tour the gardens and learn more about City Klein have transformed their long city lot into a the background of this historic property and the revi- , 10 am – 1 pm. series of gardens that wind through the property with S- September 13: Fall Garden Gala talization of the landscape after years of neglect. $22 Plant sale featuring indoor and outdoor plants, several level changes, many of the gardens sit atop members; $32 non-members. Registration required. mum sale, chance basket auction, soil pH testing stone walls that are studded with fragments of his- and gardening advice by Master Gardeners. Cornell RCGC toric buildings and geological specimens. Marcy will Cooperative Extension of Genesee County, 420 East , 8 – 10 pm. discuss her garden design process, highlighting how • July 25: Moonlight Stroll Music Series Main Street, Batavia. 585/343-3040 x101. Riddim Posse (reggae). See description under July 11. she incorporates woody plants into beds of perenni- $7 members; $9 non-members; $4 youth 6-17; free als and annuals for a sense of permanence, privacy September 13: Fall Container Garden, 11 am. Create ages 5 and under. SG and long-season interest. Rick will explain different your own container using fall plants. Includes con- techniques for building stone walls and columns and tainer of choice and 3 fall plants. $35. Registration , 9 am – 5 pm. How-to garden- July 26: From the Earth the fine art of scavenging for architectural treasures. required. ing talks, demonstrations on stone wall building, BRI $22 members; $32 non-members. Registration woodworking, soap making, natural dyes, hands-on , required. RCGC September 13 – 14: National Bonsai Exhibition clay bowl making workshop and more. Seven loca- Saturday, 9 am – 5 pm; Sunday, 9 am – 4 pm. tions, Alfred. lindahuey.com; Facebook; 607/587- August 9: Daylily Sale, 8 am – 2 pm. Presented by Demonstrations, exhibits, vendors. $15; $20 weekend 9282. Finger Lakes Daylily Society. Bristol’s Garden Center, pass, before September 1. Total Sports Experience, 7454 Victor-Pittsford Road, Victor. 435 West Commercial Street, East Rochester. S- July 27: Gardening Sale Extravaganza – Multiple 585/334-2595; [email protected]; inter- , 10 am – 2 pm. Master Gardeners will , 9 am. Plant Societies August 9: Butterflies and the Plants They Need nationalbonsai.com. be available to answer questions and selling gently Rattlesnake Hill, Dansville. Bring lunch and folding used garden items. Multiple plant societies will be chair. Meet: Park and Ride lot, Routes 15 & 251, I-390 September 13 – 14: Dahlia Show & Sale, Saturday, 1 – selling plants. Cornell Cooperative Extension, 249 exit 11, Rush. 585/425-2380. RBC 6 pm; Sunday, 10 am – 12 pm. Saturday: flower show, Highland Avenue, Rochester. arrangements for sale. Sunday: show flowers for sale. , 9:30 • August 12 – 15: Seneca Art & Nature Camp Perinton Square Mall, 6720 Pittsford-Palmyra Road. July 29: 350+ Hydrangeas and a New (this year) am – 4 pm. Ages 9-13 will explore the Seneca and Method for Getting Blooms in our Area, 6:30 – Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) relationship with art, nature September 14: Fungi with Fun Guys, 2 pm. Led by 8:30 pm. Join Tim Boebel, author of Hydrangeas in and everyday life. $175. Registration required by Dave Wolf, Carl Wolf & Don Wolf. Discover and the North: Getting Blooms in the Colder Climates, July 18. Ganondagan, 1488 State Route 444, Victor. identify mushrooms and other fungi. Free. Thousand at his home in East Bloomfield to see more than 350 585/742-1690; [email protected]; ganondagan. Acre Swamp Sanctuary. 1581 Jackson Road, Penfield. blooming hydrangea cultivars growing on his one- org. 585/773-8911; Facebook. acre plot. Tim will share new, unpublished information on a simpler and more effective method to get con- August 13: August Blooms Stroll in Michael Hannen’s , 6 – 7:30 pm. Michael grows over 800 vari- sistent bloom despite a harsh winter. He will also dis- Nursery Save the date… eties of plants at his Upper-Monroe Neighborhood cuss merits of different cultivars, talk about growing home-based nursery where he has display gardens hydrangea in patio containers and answer questions. September 19 – 21: Northeast Conifer Society overflowing with the rare and unusual plants that he . Program will include tours of local $15. Registration required. RCGC Regional Meeting specializes in. Arrive early to shop or preview the gar- gardens. Holiday Inn Rochester Airport. northeast. July 30: Soiree – Jerry Kral’s Incredible Landscape, dens. $10 members; $15 non-members. Registration conifersociety.org. 6:30 – 8 pm. Spend a relaxed evening taking in Jerry required. RCGC Kral’s urban landscape of small and medium-size ever- , green and deciduous trees and shrubs in combina- August 14: Soiree – MingleNest Gardens in Avon 6:30 – 8 pm. Stroll the many paths of Bob and SYRACUSE tions with perennials and annuals linked by pathways Carolyn McKee’s hillside garden to see ponds, water- and stone walls. See some unique ornamental plants falls, rock walls and shady and sunny gardens with and explore innovative rock gardens including a slab REGULAR CLUB MEETINGS mature flowering shrubs, perennials and ornamental garden, tufa crevice garden and pumice rock garden. trees. Refreshments. $12. Registration required. Refreshments. $12. Registration required. RCGC African Violet Society of Syracuse meets the second RCGC Thursday of the month, September – May, Pitcher Hill July 31: Cut-Flower Workshop at a Historic Flower , 10 am – 5 pm. Community Church, 605 Bailey Road, North Syracuse. , 6 – 8 pm. Nellie Gardner will give a tour of her August 16 – 17: Arts at the Gardens Farm Juried fine art & craft show & sale featuring 100 315/492-2562; [email protected]; avsofsyracuse. small farm and the flowers she grows for her business artists from across the U.S. Art lectures, wine/beer org. including many kinds of annuals, perennials and dahl- garden featuring microbrews, food court. Includes ias. She will discuss growing and harvesting cut flow- Central New York Orchid Society meets the first admission to the grounds and mansion. Rain or shine. ers: which varieties work best for cutting as well as Sunday of the month, September – May, St. $6. landscape use, how to cut and condition the flowers SG Augustine’s Church, 7333 O’Brien Road, Baldwinsville. Dates may vary due to holidays. 315/633-2437; and prep the water, arranging and care of bouquets August 20: Renovating and Reworking the cnyos.org. and how to create a tussie-mussie. Participants can Landscape, 6 – 7:30 pm. Join Cindy Cali at this large select and cut their own bouquet to take home. $28 property in Pittsford to tour the grounds and learn Gardeners of Syracuse meets the third Thursday members; $35 non-members. Registration required. more about how she has remedied the many land- of each month at 7:30 pm, Reformed Church of RCGC scape problems that were in place when she took on Syracuse, 1228 Teall Avenue, Syracuse. Enter from the design and maintenance 15 years ago. Be pre- , 8 – 10 pm. Melrose Avenue. 315/464-0051. • August 1: Moonlight Stroll Music Series pared for walking on steep hills. $18 members; $25

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Save the date… SYRACUSE cont. Frequent host September 21: Judy’s Day: A Fruit-ful Afternoon, 1 CCE/ONE: Cornell Cooperative Extension, Oneida – 5 pm. Explore the world of fruits. Donation appreci- Gardeners in Thyme (a women’s herb club) meets the County, 121 Second Street, Oriskany. 315/736- ated. Free parking, shuttle bus at Cornell University, second Thursday of the month at 7 pm, Beaver Lake 3394 x125; cceoneida.com. B-lot, off Route 366, Ithaca. Cornell Plantations. Nature Center, Baldwinsville. 315/635-6481; hbaker@ twcny.rr.com.

Habitat Gardening Club of CNY (HGCNY) meets the July 12 – 13: Finger Lakes Lavender Festival, 9 am – 5 last Sunday of most months at 2 pm, Liverpool Public pm. Vendors, presentations, refreshments, harvest Library. HGCNY is a chapter of Wild Ones: Native your own lavender bouquet. Rain or shine. Free. & BEYOND Plants, Natural Landscapes; for-wild.org. Meetings are Lockwood Lavender Farm, 1682 West Lake Road, free and open to the public. 315/487-5742; hgcny. Skaneateles. 315/685-5369; lockwoodfarm.blogspot. org. com; fingerlakeslavenderfestival.blogspot.com. CLASSES / EVENTS

Koi and Water Garden Society of Central New York T- July 13: Onondaga County Open Days Garden • Indicates activities especially appropriate for chil- usually meets the third Monday of each month at 7 Tour, 10 am – 4 pm. Visit three private gardens. Self- dren and families. pm. See web site for meeting locations. 315/458- guided. $5 per garden visited. Jamesville & Lafayette. S- Indicates plant sales. 3199; cnykoi.com. gardenconservancy.org. T- Indicates garden tours.

Syracuse Rose Society meets the second Thursday of July 16: Garden to Table: Growing and Using Culinary every month (except December and February) at 7 Herbs, 6 – 8 pm. Presented by Elaine Edwards & July 8: Hemlock and Balsam Woolly Adelgid pm. Public welcome. Reformed Church of Syracuse, Rosanne Loparco, Master Gardener Volunteers, Symposium, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm. Speakers, forest 1228 Teall Avenue, Syracuse. Enter from Melrose and Felecia Klein, CCE Nutrition Educator. $10. survey hike, Q&A. Indian Lake. Free. Registration Avenue. Club members maintain the E. M. Mills Registration required. CCE/ONE required. Hamilton County Soil and Water Memorial Rose Garden, Thornden Park, Syracuse. Conservation District, 518/548-3991; hcswcd@fron- [email protected]; syracuserosesociety.org. July 30: Butterfly Gardening, 6:30 – 7:30 pm. tiernet.net. Presented by Ronald Broughton & Bonnie Collins, Williamson Garden Club. On-going community proj- Master Gardener Volunteers. $5. Registration ects; free monthly lectures to educate the commu- required. CCE/ONE nity about gardening. Open to all. 315/524-4204. [email protected]; grow-thewilliamsongarden- , 6:30 August 18: Designing for Garden Ecosystems Deadline for Calendar Listings for the next issue club.blogspot.com. – 7:30 pm. Presented by Frank Gerace & Margaret (September-October) is Friday, August 15, 2014. Murphy, Master Gardener Volunteers. $5. Registration Please send your submissions to required. CLASSES / EVENTS CCE/ONE [email protected]. • Indicates activities especially appropriate for chil- September 6: Seed Saving and Exchange in the dren and families. Gardens, 10 am – 12 pm. Featuring an Open House S- Indicates plant sales. of the Parker F. Scripture Botanical Garden. $5. T- Indicates garden tours. Registration required. CCE/ONE

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ertical gardens are a great way save space while adding height variation to a bed. With this project, you can also utilize extra Vcontainers you may have on hand. There are numerous ways to personalize this concept to match your style. Try painting the pots different colors, adding house numbers to the containers, placing a bowl atop the final pot to act as a birdbath, or swapping out flowers with herbs if your planter is near the kitchen.

Materials 5 standard terra cotta pots in the following sizes: 14", 12", 10", 8", and 6" A 2-cubic-foot bag of potting soil One 48” sturdy garden stake (bamboo or plastic coated) Soil Moist granules (optional) Annual plants

1. determine where to place the planter and insert the garden stake at 12-14 inches into the ground for stability. 2. thread the 14" pot on the stake and fill with moistened potting soil to just about 3 inches below the rim. Water in to settle the soil. 3. thread the 12" pot on the stake, angling it as much or as little as you wish. You may have to pat down the soil, or add more under the pot to achieve the desired angle. 4. fill the 12" pot with soil. 5. repeat steps 3 & 4 with the remaining pots, alternating each pot’s angle until all the pots are threaded and filled with soil. 6. if the garden stake sticks up more than an inch above the final pot, you can trim it off using a saw or tin snips, depending on the type of garden stake you are using. 7. plant as desired.

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