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Volume 69, Number 4 April 1990
ARTICLES Landscapes a la Melting Pot by Jerry Sedenko ...... 12 Climate isn't the only factor that gives a region a particular garden "look." Escape to Whidbey Island by Ann Nugent ...... 16 Bill and Mary Stipe were rejuvenated when they bid their office jobs farewell to direct the Meerkerk Rhododendron Gardens. Betty Miller's Soundside Medley by Richard A Howard ...... 22 A member of the American Horticultural Society has amassed an astonishing array of plants on a little more than four acres. The Emerald City and Nearby "Ah"s by Ted Marston ...... 28 APRIrS COVER Things to see, places to go a hop and a skip from Seattle. Lilacs: The Essence of Yesterday, The Promise of Tomorrow Photographed by Harold Greer by Terry Schwartz '"''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''...... 34 Seattle, where the Amerk:an Horti New pfCi)pagation techniques are making this beloved, "old-fashioned" shrub more cultural Society will hold its An widely available. nual Meeting June 19·22, is known for its gorgeous rhododendrons. DEPARTMENTS One of the most stunning purples Commentary ...... 4 is 'Colonel Coen', introduced in Book Reviews...... 7 1958 by Seattle hybridizer Endre Classifi~ds ...... 40 Ostbo, who died that same year. It Lett~rs ...... 45 is only now becoming more Pronunciations ...... 46 widely available.
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AMERICAN HORTICUL TURIST 3 American Horticultural Society Officers 1989·1990 Commentary Mrs. Carolyn Marsh Lindsay Rochester, New York President Mr.]ohn H. Whitworth]r. New York, New York First Vice President t's a sunny January Sunday morning Mrs. John M. Maury in Houston. Church bells are ringing Washington, D.C. and I have completed what is to me Second Vice President I an act of worship: upon arriving here yes Mr. Richard C. Angino Harrisburg, Pennsylvania terday, not eveR the headwiRd of jetlag Secretary could have stopped me from finding the Mr. Richard]. Hutton nearest garden center and picking up pots West Grove, Pennsylvania Treasurer of seasonal flowering plants for my hosts. Mr. Everitt L. Miller A holiday deep freeze has left completely Kennett Square, Pennsylvania browned palms and cycads and the gar Immediate Past President dening community has its pruning tools Board of Directors drawn, awaiting the signal from local ex Mr. Richard C. Angino perts that what is actually dead can be Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Mr. George Ball :Jr. trimmed without danger of spurriRg new West Chicago, Illinois growth too soon or removed without fear of discarding something that Dr. Sherran Blair might have recovered. I saw th(l need for a spot of color to affirm that Columbus, Ohio the path to spring has a way of leading first through winter. Three 'Tempo' Mrs. Benjamin P. Bole]r. Cleveland, Ohio gerberas in four-inch pots fit perfectly in a twelve-inch clay saucer, for Mr. J. Judson Brooks an instant garden that can be watered efficiently. Another saucer garden Sewickley, Pennsylvania was made of a half dozen ranunculus and polyanthus primroses in three Dr. Henry M. Cathey Washington, D.C. inch-square pots. Mr. Russell B. Clark But I have another task this morning: to get you-yes, you!-to join Boston, Massachusetts all of us who will be attending this year's Annual Meeting of the American Mrs. Erastus Coming II Albany, New York Horticultural Society June 19-22 in Seattle. You have all spring to get Mrs. Ann Lyon Crammond ready. Attending an Annual Meeting of AHS in Boston thirty-six years Atlanta, Georgia ago when I was a teenager literally set the course of my life as a gardening Mr. Edward N. Dane journalist. Last year's Annual Meeting in Minnesota's Twin Cities re Boston, Massachusetts Mrs. Beverley White Dunn minded me all over again of the sheer pleasure and inspiration of being Birmingham, Alabama with others whose lives reveal unconditional love and respect for the Mr. K. Albert Ebinger natural world. Fellow AHS. Board Member J(lan Woodhull said it in a Boxford, Massachusetts Mr. Richard J. Hutton few words: "You may not know it, but you live in a garden-the earth." West Grove, Pennsylvania Attending this year's meeting will give you a fresh perspective. Our Mr. Stephen F. Keating hosts, led by Betty Miller and Glen Youell, have lined up a program that Wayzat~, Minnesota never lets up. We tackle the broad issue first-the relevance of gardeners Mr. David M. Lilly St. Paul, Minnesota and gardening to that complicated array of interrelationships known as Mrs. Carolyn Marsh Lindsay the environmeRt - and then move on to more specialized aspects of land Rochester, New York scaping and planting, through lectures by some of the region's finest in Mrs. John M. Maury Washington, D.C. those fi(llds, followed by deliciously long afternoons and evenings visiting Mr. Elvin McDonald Seattle's most fabled gardens and dining in the company of friends from Brooklyn, New York near and far. Mr. Everitt L. Miller Kennett Square, Pennsylvania Those who attend the meeting will come from all over North America Mrs. Jane Scarff and beyond. We will be young and old and in-between, amateur and New Carlisle, Ohio professional. There is no more diverse get-together scheduled this year in Mrs. Virginia Urschel all of horticulture. Come join us. We are a family. If you are young, this Mont~cito , Calif0rnia Mr. Andre Viette is your opportunity to sit with wise and loving elders. If you are old, this Fishersville, Virginia is your opportunity to provide guidance to young gardeners. In-betweens, Mrs. Helen Fulcher Walutes this is your opportunity for intensive exchange. Mount Vernon, Virginia Mr. John H. Whitworth Jr. Here's a plan: 1) Read the feature articles in this magazine about Seattle New York, New York and gardening in the Northwest. 2) Register for the Annual Meeting; a Mrs. Jean Verity Woodhull full program and registration form was in your March News Edition. 3) Dayton, Ohio Arrange for travel and accommodations. 4) Show up in Seattle June 19. Executive Director Together we will explore this paradise we call the earth. Mr. Frank L. Robinson Elvin McDonald AHS Board of Directors
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8 APRIL 1990 each of them. glow to pinks and yellows. In all probability, the book was written Many of the irises photographed were with irisarians in mind, as the author be introduced in the 1970s, which makes them gins with a brief history of the flower, the "old" by the standards of the modern first record of which was made nearly 3,500 irisarian. But after reading the captions years ago as a hieroglyph carved in stone that explain why each particular photo during the reign of Egyptian Thotmes III. graph was chosen and what the photog This enjoyable book clearly explains the rapher was searching for, even this small development processes of the diploid and fault can be overlooked. The expertise with tetraploid irises. It describes four centuries which these two gentlemen handle their of breeding progress as well as the pioneer respective subjects is proven on the pages hybridizers who played such important roles of this exceptional book. in the development of today's modern tall -Audrey Machulak bearded irises. In addition, Hager traces Audrey Machulak is a hybridizer of standard the tetraploid, pink, and bi-color revolu dwarf irises and twenty-two-year member tions. of the American Iris Society who lives in According to Hager, "No other flow Muskego, Wisconsin. ering plant can present us with such mag nificence of display as the iris yet exhibit such unqualified appeal in the individual flower. The architecture of the iris flower in all its forms is unique; every part is beautifully structured, but is there for a purpose." The parts are described in detail as to their functions. Though the book dwells on the bearded irises, brief descrip tions are given of the beardless irises as well. The outstanding feature of this book is found in the middle section: the seventy three spectacularly colored photographs of the single iris bloom, capturing every view possible. The lifelike works of art, most measuring nine and half inches by eleven and a half inches and printed on glossy Alba: The Book of White stock, cover half of the pages in this book. Flowers Photographer Josh Westrich's work is Deni Bown. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon, 1989. breathtakingly beautiful and photogra 160 pages. Color photographs. Publisher's price, phers will find many creative suggestions $32.95. AHS member price: $28.00 for flower photography; even the under sides are beautiful. "Sometimes it is re Deni Bown, author of this white delight, warding to peek into places not intended is an Englishwoman unknown to most for general viewing," says Hager. The se American readers, who should rectify their ries of stunning photographs begins with ignorance as soon as possible. In 1988, she a bud of the iris flower ready to open, "a produced two other books: Aroids: Plants beautiful but provocative mystery." The of the Arum Family, already an important o Please send me a Free Catalog. last photograph of the series portrays this standard; and Fine Herbs, a plantsman's o Please send me Mammoth Dar same bud having "flaunted its beauty for herbal. Besides finishing books at an as win Hybrids/IOO. Payment enclosed $ ___ three days and disappeared." Everyone tonishing rate, she is a gardener, botanist, o knows there is little, if any, beauty in a and horticulturist, has grown orchids and o Charge to: spent bloom, yet the viewer will find beauty herbs for nurseries, won prizes for her pho o Master Card 0 Visa Exp.Date ______even here. tographs, and bless us, she can write. Act. No. ______In the third section, "Notes on Iris," are Throughout the first 100 pages in which Name ______the author's comments beneath black and she discusses "botanic," "historic," and Address ______white duplicates of each photograph. In "mystic" alba, Bown tells of artists from City ______cluded in the brief descriptions are bits of different countries and times who have used State ______Zip _ _ _ information for the flower gardener. For the universal love or terror of things white example, Hager suggests that darker-toned to symbolize their deepest feelings: Dante, irises are valuable to the arrangement of Wordsworth, Ruskin, Melville; the white any garden. He warns that the reddish ma shark in "Jaws," the heron, the rat, the roon coloring will not blend well with pinks rose. White is psychologically more, not Still brook Farm or blues. Dark violets are better with the less, than a color, Bown says, and in most Maple Street, 307-X, Litchfield, CT 06759 latter group; dark browns give an extra cultures has particular significance: in-
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AMERICAN HORTICUL TURIST 11 , A LA MELTING POT Seattle's immigrants, as much as its climate, have shaped its gardening vernacular. by Jerry Sedenko ny gardening style is de The deep waters of Puget Sound mitigate rived from a synthesis of the temperature extremes that might result from local geology, climate, and, such a northerly latitude. Sound-front gar equally important, the so dens in Washington are both cooler in ciological characteristics of summer and significantly warmer in win the people doing the gar- ter than gardens nearer the mountains. L-___----' dening. Although just 100 While constant rain may be a myth, it years old as a state, Washington is already is not unusual to have cloud cover for a developing a gardening style of its own. week or more at a time: at any season. But What are some of the factors that give the winter blanket of clouds means that Seattle its "look" ? frost, while not rare, is by no means the To many, it comes as a surprise to learn norm. Usually, there is only one snowfall that the eastern half of the state is desert, per year, serving mostly as an excuse to with a climate much like Nevada. All the call a halt to the normal course of events cliches about incessant rain pertain to and play in the snow. A deep, lasting freeze, western Washington, and even they are say, into the teens, is a rarity. somewhat exaggerated. In truth, rainfall With no tornadoes, hurricanes, hail, or varies from 140 inches in the rain forests thunderstorms, and with the typical pat of the Olympic Peninsula to a mere sev tern of gentle winter rain and mild sunny enteen inches in the northeastern sector of summers, it has been said that Seattle has that same peninsula-only fifty miles apart no "weather," merely "climate." Com as the crow flies. Western Washington is parisons have been made with England. In an area of pronounced microclimates, fact, just across the border in British Co which, for the most part, are a result of lumbia, gardens have a decidedly English the local geology. look. Since the climate is virtually identi Upheaval of the earth's crust, volcanic cal, why the difference in gardening styles? came gardeners and nursery owners. activity, and glaciation have produced the The reason is demographics. The state's The New Englanders, as well as the Puget Trough, in which Puget Sound is first settlers were New Englanders who Scandinavians, were a very democratic lot, found. Moist Pacific air dumps rain and came in the mid-1800s to cut the tall firs intent on demonstrating to the rest of the snow to the west, in the Olympic Moun for building San Francisco and other West world that they had nothing to hide, but tains. Low elevations along the sound, be Coast cities. Next came Scandinavians, to at the same time not wanting to get too tween the Olympics and the Cascade cut trees and also to fish. Some were direct familiar with anyone. Consequently, the Mountains to the east, receive thirty to from the Old Country, but many arrived Seattle norm is 'I detached house on a sixty forty inches of rain, nearly all of it occur via the forests of Minnesota. To this day, foot lot with a twenty-five-foot setback. ring between October and April. Dry sum there remains an affinity between Seattle From the house to the street stretches an mers are the norm, and despite the sur and Minneapolis. expanse of lawn, exposed for all the world rounding water, humidity is comfortably The first Japanese arrived in the late to see. No shrubs or fences significantly low. This all combines to create a modified 1880s. Before long, they constituted a sig block the democracy of it all; to do so Mediterranean climate zone. nificant part of the work force; many be- would elicit suspicion. In this case, it's not 12 APRIL 1990 Ph oto by Jerry Sedenko good fences, but good lawns, that make naturally pruned and contorted plants Botanical artist Kevin Nicolay has lived good neighbors. True, there are bosky without any cohesive design. There are in London and New York, and now takes neighborhoods, and most suburbs have whole neighborhoods where these knick advantage of the temperate Seattle cli woodsy, larger lots. But in the older neigh knack-shelf gardens are the 'rule. mate to grow a vast collection of culti borhoods, back yards are small, front yards Recently, two years of drought led many vars, some not grown anywhere else in too exposed, and side yards negligible; people to rethink the appropriateness of the United States. precious little remains for a real garden. the greensward. Little by little, less de The impact of the Japanese on the city's manding ground covers and shrubs are re However, despite the fact that the local gardens has been felt since they began ar placing bluegrass and fescue. And here and climate is so conducive to creative gar riving 100 years ago, albeit not always in there, a front yard is being reclaimed as dening with an incredible range of plants, the most positive fashion. The Japanese garden space by the erection of a fence or until recently only the hardiest were grown. tradition of controlling the growth of plants the planting of a hedge, particularly if there But then, what did New England lumber has unfortunately led to collections-one is all-important southern exposure. At this jacks know beyond lilacs and peonies? The could hardly call them gardens-of un- latitude, every ray of sun is cherished. incipient Scandinavians and Minnesotans AMERICAN HORTICULTURIST 13 There is, of course, a danger of too much aping or bastardization of any strong, newly fashionable style; witness the "Japan esque" trend. It is hoped that, with all this enthusiasm and the influence of two of the world's richest gardening traditions al ready in evidence, Seattle gardeners will fully define a unique local style by further incorporating elements of "native garden ing." These things take time, of course, but there is far more awareness than ever before of what the potential is. Already, some of the most capable gar suffered from the same lack of a horti dening. Formerly humdrum garden centers deners in North America live in the area, cultural vocabulary. True, the Japanese in are expanding their offerings, spring and and many more are finding their way here stilled a fondness for conifers and flow summer garden shows are major cultural to take advantage of the possibilities af ering cherries, but their major contribution events, and Seattle is finally fulfilling its forded by the climate and to be around was the use of the genus Rhododendron, potential as a hub for creative gardening. other keen gardeners. R@markable spe for which a mania exists today. How did this all come about? Largely cialty nurseries are springing up to satisfy The trend seems to be for immigrant through the current vogue for English gar the demand for new and different plants. Midwesterners to go to excess with "rho dening, but also as a result of recent im Special-interest plant societies abound, and dies" and azaleas. A broad-leaved ever migration patterns. The new migrants are there is phenomenal loyalty to such beau green that blooms so profusely and grows from California, and just as former settlers tiful public gardens as Washington Park so willingly is irresistible. There are some brought along plants familiar to them, so Arboretum and Lake Washington Boule wonderful plants, grown to perfection by too have the Californians. They are taking vard, laid out in 1903 by the famed Olm extremely knowledgeable growers. But advantage of the Mediterranean bellt of sted brothers. there are also far too many "rhodo the climate to try many plants from other Northwesterners have long had an in dendron ghettos," with perhaps a flow summer-dry mild areas, such as South Af feriority complex, about the rain, about ering cherry or 'Thundercloud' plum rica, Chile, the Mediterranean proper, and being from the " other" Washington. But thrown in, that offer a hodgepodge of color the Antipodes, in some cases with great no more. Recently, "recognized garden au for six weeks in spring and little except success. At last, the long overdue expan thorities" from the East Coast and abroad coarse foliage for the balance of the year. sion of the area's horticultural vocabulary have visited the area and been highly im . . IS occurnng. pressed by what they saw. The rest of the nother idiom compatible And lucky Seattle, with its "English" world seems to be casting the Pacific with rhodomania is that of climate, can also take easy advantage of Northwest in the role of a Cinderella gar "natural," native plant that country's rich garden heritage. All those dening spot. With all the recent develop ings. Often, sizeable sec books that have been inundating the book ments, it seems justified. ond-growth conifers are left sellers not only deal with a virtually iden on a building site out of a tical situation, but they're even conveni Jerry Sedenko is a garden designer and L....~_~_.., genuine preservationist de ently in the same language! free-lance writer. sire. Then, after the bulldozers depart, the native vegetation regrows. Consisting largely of huckleberry (Vaccinium ova tum), salal (Gaultheria shallon), and sword fern (Polystichum munitum), this under growth is often left to its own devices. It is valuable in that it does grow in the dense, dry, year-round shade of conifers. This was the scene until five or six years ago. Suddenly, everyone is mad for gar- Above: These severely pruned '1apan esque" shrubs are an old tradition that is giving way to a more natural look. Right: Fences, seen as undemocratic by Washington State's early settlers, are an anomaly among Seattle landscapes. Op posite: The author's "border-pink" gar den section on Bainbridge Island outside Seattle. 14 APRIL 1990 Top and lar ri ght photos by Jerry Sedenko; bonom photo by William Mulligan Story by Ann Nugent. Photos by Timothy Harris. TO WHIDBEY ISLAND Many of us with nine ... to.Jive jobs have daydreamed about chucking it all and getting paid to garden full ... time. Bill and Mary Stipe did it. f's mid-January, and a little snow during the day with their four children. "I covers the trail along which Bill and had on-line computers in all the plants Mary Stipe, resident managers of the Bellevue, Kent, Ev€rett, Renton, Seattle, Meerkerk Rhododendron Gardens, Auburn," she says, "so I often had to visit have brought their visitor. They pause two plants a night to take care of operating Ito direct attention to a tree-sized rhodod problems. And wmmuting often took two endron with large, dark pink flowers. Not hours a day. You get very tense in traffic only is it breaking all the rules by blooming like that." The couple saw little of €a ~h at this time of year, but it blooms all winter other; their office locations, shifts, and va long. They call it 'Starfish'. But don't look cations were rarely the sam€. for it in any catalog. "It's never officially Bill grew up on a farm in east€rn Wash been named," Bill says, "never been reg ington, where he enjoyed growing flowers, istered." planting tr€es, and experimenting with dif The Stipes began their new job just two ferent varieties of wheat. But he was in years ago, and the unusual plants continue terested in electronics, too, so h€ came to to delight them, as does the s€tting. The Seattle in 1956 to work at Boeing. Seattle's gardens are on Whidbey Island, about an rhododendrons, which don't grow in the hour and a half, counting the ferry ride, arid eastern half of the state, immediately north of Seattle. The grounds face Puget caught his fancy. "Evllry timll we'd go Sound, Camano Island, and the Cascades. somewhere, we'd buy a nllW one." Then From the house as you look north, you he began hybridizing and propagating his can see Mt. Baker. own. Eventually, he had more than a thou Meerkerk's life as a public garden and sand on their three-quarter-acre property the Stipes' new life as its caretakers began in Burien. He was giving them away to simultaneously. friends. "We just had to find a bigger place Both Bill and Mary had worked at Boeing to put all of our rhododendrons." Aircraft Company for about thirty years. The original owners of these gardens, As manager of the procurement division, Max and Ann Meerkerk, were also trans Bill was in charge of obtaining electronic plants to Seattle who discovered rhodo equipment for Boeing's commercial air dendrons late in life. They began devel lines. "The pressure was tremendous," he oping the gard€n in 1963. Max died in says. "If our suppliers were behind sched 1969, but Ann contiNued gardening until ule, I'd often have to find out why and go she learned that she had terminal canc€r. to wherever the plant was-Japan, Ger She arranged for board members of the Above: The tiny leaves of Rhododendron many, Italy, Puerto Rico." Seattle Rhododendron Society to take impeditum contrast sharply with those of Mary was a manager in Boeing's com charge of the estate after her death on the R. campanulatum. Opposite: Bill and Mary puter services department, often working condition that they agreed to open it to Stipe and Bear. the evening shifts so shl(~ could be home the public. Because she would provide funds 16 APRIL 1990 AMERICAN HORTICULTURIST 17 to cover maintenance, the society accepted her offer. Now they needed someone to look after the garden. "We always thought we would retire early," Bill says. They considered owning a Christmas tree farm or a commercial nursery. But when the Meerkerk oppor tunity came up, they decided it would be just as good as owning their own garden. Since Meerkerk is nonprofit, it didn't have a lot of money for salaries, but both Stipes had just turned 55 and were therefore el igible for early retirement. Otherwise, Bill observes, "we couldn't live on what they can afford to pay us to work here." So they traded their office attire for blue jeans and their desks for this fifty-three acres. Most of it is forested with cedars, hemlocks, and Douglas firs, and carpeted with native ferns, wild huckleberry, and fallen logs covered with moss. An under ground spring feeds two ponds. The land extends to a bluff, 150 feet high, that over looks Puget Sound. The cultivated gardens cover about eleven acres. Bill and Mary like being outdoors and physically active, inhaling the incense of the forest air. "We work twice as hard as we used to," says Bill, "but we enjoy it more. I've lost twenty pounds." He is lean and trim, and when he climbs a steep slope, only their German shepherd, Bear, can keep up with him. Adds Mary: "We're both healthier living out here. I've stopped hav ing stress headaches." They also like the fact that they can work together, although Mary is modest about her role as apprentice gardener, calling herself "just an extra set of hands." In spite of all the bad jokes about retirement lead ing to too much togetherness, Bill is sorry they didn't start working together sooner. "We have fewer problems than we did be fore," he says. Adds Mary: "Before, it was two careers going in two directions. Now we're both working toward the same goal and it's much easier. So the stresses are so much less." them they found some long-forgotten trees: The unregistered 'Starfish' in bud. When the Stipes took on the Meerkerk one, a grand fir, is a native; a banksia pine Gardens - more wilderness than gar and a sequoia from the Sierras were planted didn't want to wait. Money wasn't a prob dens-the property had been tended only by the Meerkerks. lem, so she could afford to do that." But occasionally by volunteers for nearly a "Ann Meerkerk didn't hesitate to buy Ann Meerkerk wasn't above hunting for decade. One of the first things the new plants from around the world," Bill says. bargains from local sources, Mary adds, managers did was to clear out some over He points to a large rhododendron grow noting that she bought many of her plants grown laurels that the Meerkerks had ing in a clearing not far off the path. "That's at the annual University of Washington planted years earlier. The plants had grown called 'Loderi King George'. It came through Arboretum sales. fifteen feet high and about as wide, and the Panama Canal from England. She or The Meerkerks moved to Seattle in the were crowding the native growth and dered large ones because rhododendrons '60s, and it didn't take long before gar throwing too much shade. Hidden among often take twenty years to bloom and she dening was their chief passion. When they 18 APRIL 1990 joined the Seattle Rhododendron Society and got to know the local hybridizers, they became interested in cross-pollinization and The Rhododendron started creating their own hybrids. "We have a large bed of their hybrids, which Species Foundation we call the Meerkerk collection," Bill says. "But they never got around to registering them, so they still don't have names." The varieties of rhododendrons seem endless: more than 1,800 different species and hy brids. Some are arranged neatly in beds, while others are scattered through the for est. They range from ground covers and small shrubs with leaves and flowers as tiny as peas (Rhododendron impeditum, R. intricatum, R. glomerulatum) to tree sized giants with paddle-sized leaves and flowers as regal as King's crowns (R. fal coneri, R. rex, R. basilicum). The Meerkerk garden is now the re gion's chief hybrid test site. The test gar dens lie in a series of large beds near the entrance. Experimenters, including well known local hybridizers Dr. Ned Brock enbrough, Lloyd and Edna Newcomb, and Elsie Watson, bring their yearling hybrid rhododendrons here to see how they will survive under various conditions. They R. atlanticum is one of more than 500 species to be seen at the Rhododendron submit three of the same kind, and if the Species Foundation. hybrid is still thriving after five years, it gets named and registered. The Stipes then The Meerkerk Gardens are not in through dissemination and as a way sell two to foundation members and keep cluded in tours scheduled for the to raise money to support its opera one for the gardens. American Horticultural Society meet tions. Its catalog, available to mem Bill Stipe brought many of his own hy ing in June, but the group will be going bers, is one of the largest of its kind brids-which like 'Starfish' and others of to another major public garden spe in the world. the Meerkerks have not yet been regis cializing in Washington's state flower: The directors of both gardens be tered-with him when he moved, and he the twenty-tour-acre Rhododendron lieve it's important to keep in contact enjoys continuing to experiment. "Just this Sp@cies Foundation grounds at F@d with each other. "We attend each morning I was cross-pollinizing the 'Loderi eral Way. other's meetings to trade informa King George' with the R. yakushimanum, While Meerkerk is the Northwest's tion," says Meerkerk resident man hoping to develop a hybrid that has the nest site for new hybrid rhododen ager Bill Stipe. "We hope to help each King's fragrant blooms but is less leggy drons, the foundation is the only other in other ways, too: trading plants, and more compact." Together, the Stipe known botanical garden devot~d to for instance. The climate here on and Meerkerk collections probably num rhododendron species. It grows 503 Whidbey Island is a bit milder. A few ber about 500 hybrids, but the evaluation of the 850 known species and 2,200 of the more tender rhododendron spe process takes time, Bill explains, and he of their different forms. "Our pur cies might grow better here than at will be very particular about what he pose," says species foundation direc Federal Way." chooses to register. tor Richard Piacentini, "is to collect Both directors value networking "The test gardens have a lot of interest and preserve the rhododendron spe with like-minded botanical organi for people," he continues, "particularly cies at an off-site location, because zations elsewhere. Piacentini, for in those in the area who are building new many of them in certain areas of the stance, maintains close ties with the homes. They'd like to know what plants world are endangered." Center for Plant Conservation in Bos grow well here. We take them through the One of the foundation's primary ton, a major supporter of off-site plant garden to show them. For instance, we tell activities is propagating the various conservation. For more information them you'd better not get the type that species in its collection in order to on the Rhododendron Species Foun froze here last year," (R. edgeworthii). grow back-up plants at various stages dation, write P.O. Box 3798, Federal Although the Meerkerk Gardens are best of maturity. It also sells propagations Way, Washington 98063-3771, or call known so far among rhododendron spe as part of its aim of preservation (206) 661-9477. -A.N. cialists, the test sites and display beds are Photo coo rtesy 01t he Rhododendron Species Foundation AMERICAN HORT/CUL TURIST 19 only a small part of the extensive grounds. The Stipes want to reach a wider public: gardeners of all kinds, flower lovers, hik ers, nature buffs. Five miles of trails wind through the property; among the frequent visitors are bird-watchers and mushroom gatherers. There are other types of plants worth seeing, and the Stipes enjoy showing them off when they lead tours: an aromatic "ce dar" from Tennessee that's actually a Jun iperus virginiana; ginkgos, with their un varying fan-shaped leaves; the Asian maples, Acer davidii, whose leaves are round as an elm's. But see the winged seeds? That's how you can tell it's a maple, Bill explains. Among the salal and wild huckleberry, Above: R. macronulatum. Right: 'Starfish' in bloom. between some Western red cedars and Douglas firs, he points to a Chinese dog wood (Cornus kousa var. chinensis) . It spreads wide as a parasol, its pale green foliage sprinkled with translucent white blossoms that glow like stars from May through July. Although both the Meer kerks and the Stipes let the trees grow nat urally, this one looks like it's been pruned West Coast, since the native species has but about forty years ago, someone found by an oriental artist. Bill is pleased that been succumbing to dogwood anthracnose a specimen growing in a monastery over this dogwood has adapted so well on the here for five years. in China." He takes you through a cor Bill leads his tours with boyish enthu ridor of shoulder-high rhododendrons (R. Sources for Rhododendrons siasm, stopping at every turn in the trail triflorum) that look like azaleas, explain to point out another exotic species, such ing that while they may look alike, azaleas Cummins Garden, 22 Robertsville Road, Marl as the Cunninghamia lanceolata. "Here's can't be crossed with rhododendrons. boro, NJ 07746, catalog $2. a Chinese fir or pine. It's neither a fir or Near the pond, a visitor who says she's Greer Gardens, 1280 Goodpasture Island Road, Eugene, OR 97401, catalog $2. a pine. It's got needles like long lances, but been on one of his tours introduces a com Mellinger's Inc., 2310 W. South Range Road, notice how they're softer and fleshier than panion visiting from France. Bill says he North Lima, OH 44452, catalog free. pine needles." And then pointing to a large recently received thirty rhododendrons from Roslyn Nursery, 211 Burrs Lane, Dix Hills, NY tree with red bark: "There's a dawn red French hybridizer Jean Lennon. "I haven't 11746, catalog $2. wood called Metasequoia, but it's not a planted them out yet, but I'm going to true sequoia. They thought it was extinct, make a special section called 'Rhodies from 20 APRIL 1990 France'. Next time you come, maybe we'll can hike, go down to the water, walk of unusual, quality stock grown here or have them blooming." through the woods, or just plain relax," sound advice for customers. Such nurseries These aren't the only donated shrubs observes Mary. are usually small, he observes; they get run they need to plant this season. More rho The Stipes not only got to leave behind out of business by the lower prices of dis dodendrons grown by Port Ludlow, the hectic city life and freeway commute, count houses, which often sell plants that Washington, nurseryman Warren Berg from but they feel they're making a contribution have been raised in a greenhouse, so that seed collected in China-R. bhutanense, to the future. "There aren't many spots they die when planted outdoors. R. kesangiae, R. f/inckii-are on their way, like this left around," says Bill, "and it's "The best stock is field-grown stock, but and he and Mary must get a bed ready. nice that we're preserving it for future gen it takes more effort to do it that way," he But first they have to find a site. They erations." says. " I guess if we had more help, we examine the forested acres, gauging the Visitors frequently ask if the Stipes can could open a retail nursery. But I'm not sun's path throughout the seasons, and fi sell plants; and Bill has some regrets that, sure I want to do that. It gets you back nally decide on a spot that skirts the east with the exception of a few test hybrids into the hassle of pressures, schedules, and side of the ponds. It's forested now, and sold to foundation members as a fund budgets." dense with undergrowth. raising activity, they simply don't have Rhododendrons need fifty percent light enough staff to handle sales. He feels that Ann Nugent is a free-lance writer who lives in the Puget Sound region, Bill notes. Be there are too few nurseries with the type in Bellingham, Washington. cause the area is second-growth forest the alders and maples can be cut, but he will remove them one at a time. "Loggers have offered to remove them for us free," he relates, "but we turned them down. We want to keep as much of the forest intact as possible." The Stipes are helped in their labors by members of local chapters of the Rhodo dendron Society-Seattle, Whidbey Is land, and Komo Kulshan, whose members come from an area north from Everett to the Canadian border-but those living on the mainland can't always make it to the monthly work parties. One of the volun teers' favorite chores is rating the 600 plants in the hybrid test garden on their perform ance and appearance, Bill says, adding, "The more people we can get to rate the plants, the better." Funding is a bigger problem. When in dividuals make a substantial contribution, a bed is created in their name. When Har old and Rosalie Hall donated $5,000, the Stipes used it to plant a bed of low-growing Himalayan rhododendrons found only on the higher slopes. The pattern of sturdy, Bill Stipe admires the gigantic leaves ofR. fictolacteum, which grows to forty-five feet. tiny leafed shrubs-such as R. impeditum, R. (astigiatum, R. lapponicum-gives the effect of a multi-textured quilt. R. lepi dostylum is covered with small yellow Getting to Meerkerk flowers; R. kiusianum has tendrils and The Meerkerk Rhododendron Gardens are located on Whidbey Island about an spreads like a ground cover. hour and a half north of Seattle. Take 1-5 north from Seattle to Mukilteo, where There is a drawback to this new life of the ferry departs for Clinton at the south end of Whidbey Island. Fro-m Clinton theirs on Whidbey Island. They don't see take highway 525 north for about fifteen miles. Turn east at Resort Road, drive old friends and family as often as they used one-fourth mile, and turn left into the lane marked Meerkerk Rhododendron to. But when their children, three of whom Gardens. still live in the Seattle area, do come with The gardens are open spring and summer, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday their own offspring, or when the grand through Sunday. Admission is free. Group tours are welcome and can be arranged children come by themselves, they stay by contacting Meerkerk Rhododendron Gardens, P.O. Box 154, Greenbank, WA longer and enjoy themselves more than 98253, (206) 321-6682. when the Stipes lived in the city. "They AMERICAN HORTICUL TURIST 21 A MEMBER'S GARDEN Betty Miller's Soundside Medley This four-acre garden up the hill from Puget Sound is so crammed with unusual plants that even the experts are hard-pressed to name them all. By Richard A Howard etty Miller's garden is a chal the house and one slightly larger in a lenge. It was a challenge to its sweeping free form. to its west. All rooms owner to grow so many woody open to the western terraces that overlook Bornamental plants on only four this small lawn to J.2uget Sound, with its acres. It is a challenge to the visitor to find ever-changing traffic and the never-chang them all, and a challenge to horticulturists ing profile of the Olympic Mountains. At to identify the exotics she has assembled: no time is one particularly aware of the several thousand taxa representing prob house. It seems to be snuggled in among ably the most diverse collection in a private trees and shrubs. garden of comparable area. Betty Miller and her late husband, Pen As visitors approach the garden on a dleton Miller, acquired the property in narrow thoroughfare, they are surrounded 1949. She was a sportsperson; a garden by the dominant vegetation of the Pacific was something new. She filled expanses of Northwest. Tall stately redwoods, Doug prepared beds with white petunias, and las firs, broadleaf maples, western hem after two seasons of picking rain-splashed locks, and cedars tower above the road spent flowers, abandoned the petunias for way. The colorful trunks of the rna drone ever. Two mature 'Gumpo' azaleas were (Arbutus menziesii) and the plumes of rock proudly planted to flank the front door. spirea (Holodiscus discolor) limit the view In flower they stood out like a pair of of Puget Sound to glimpses. squatting white ducks. The property descends in stages over 200 A German-educated landscape designer, feet, with the English country stone-and John W. Fischer, had seen the horticultural cedar house on an upper level. The en potential of this property's mix of open trance drive descends to a small parking space and woods, damp areas and dry. At area defined with naturally aged granite this point, he advised that one's eye should rocks that have become covered with li pass pleasingly over a continuity of har chens and mosses. Here are evergreens of monious plantings. Suddenly, Miller could varying shapes and !extures and a variety of maples that contrast in foliage and, in Right: In the orchard area, the Japanese the fall, display brilliant color. Toward the native shrub Disanthus cercidifolius is house a narrow bed, the rockery, hints at among plants providing brilliant fall color. the wealth of plant material throughout Insltt: Ken Gambrill, who will become the property. The only manicured areas curator of Betty Miller's garden; Steve are a strict narrow strip of grass in front Balint, who succeeded John Fischer as of foundation plantings on the east side of Miller's landscape designer; and Miller. 22 APRIL 1990 Photos by Mary Randlett envision creating an overall sculpture with plants as the medium. She began seeking plants with interesting form, bark, foliage, different shades of green, and flowers. At first she obtained unusual plants from friends and local nurseries; then she began to search catalogs, and later, to help spon sor expeditions to obtain materials she liked. Eventually, Miller would help found the Rare Plant Group of the Garden Club of America, a small group of women dedi cated to sharing the best of plant material. These new plants usually lacked cultural instructions. It was a challenge to find the right place and conditions for them; each one was a learning experience. To better protect them, she decided to underplant in the wooded area and develop circuitous paths through it. Today, few plants in her garden are isolated enough to be photo graphed in outline. Certainly they do not grow that way in rrature, and Miller con cluded that plants want company, or per haps competition, because the right as sociates obviously thrive and usually seem to do better when slightly stressed. She has found that she can intermingle plants, enjoy some surprises, and learn from her mistakes. Thus, unusual combinations abound: a loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) near the base of a Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceo lata) shows intriguing wntrasts of leaf and branch; the young bronze foliage of a golden-rain tree (Koelreuteria paniculata) serves as a foil to a blue-flowered'clematis (Clematis macropetala); in the fall, the brilliant gold of a bittersweet (Celastrus scan dens) scrambles through the dark green of a Douglas fir. A group must pass single file through Gaultheria adenothrix berries and blooms. species of trailing arbutus (Epigaea repens most of MiUer's gard(m. It is not the place It is one of several representatives of the and E. asiatica) are hidden under branches for a crowd. Some of the paths are defined species planted on and around old fir logs of evergreen shrubs such as the native salal by discs of cedar wrapped with a treated in the wooded area. (Gaultheria shallon). Sheets of twinflower fish net to impmve traction. This requires (Linnaea borealis) highlight the forest floor. the visitor to walk head down for sate Paeonia. Among the small shrubs, Tsusio Also to be found here are the Asiatic gold footing and to avoid careless damage to phyllum tanakae, Rhododendron crini thread (Coptis quinquefolia), a type of Jack plants, and-guess what?-the visitor sees gerum, and R. amagianum are favorites. irr-the-pulpit (Arisaema nikoense), and more! Years ago, old growth logs of fir were meadow rue (Thalictrum kiusianum), near The wooded area is truly a layered gar scattered throughout this wooded area. On the American box huckleberry (Gaylus den. Native trees form the uppermost lay and around these natural "sculptures," one sacia brachycera) and wild ginger (Asarum ers. Below are such ornamentals as Eup finds Vaccinium ovalifolium, species of shuttleworthii). All remind the visitor of telea polyandra, Enkianthus chinensis, Gaultheria and Cassiope, as well as five the similarity of plants of eastern Asia and Symplocos core ana, Decaisnea fargesii, species of Shortia, which now encom eastern North America, often with twin Tripetaleia paniculata, Rhododendron passes the Schizocodon species from Asia. species or genera debatably identical or macabeanum, R. desquamatum 'Finch', and The latter are placed in filtered shade, for taxonomically different. R. fictolacteum . 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The bank She maintains that it is basically a half a dozen times in nearly fifty y€a'rs. has a brutal western exposure, with the matter ef common sense-not so much The gard€n abounds with wildlife, summer sun directly overhead and searing hew, but what and where and wh€n. which some ga,rden€rs would consid€r reflections from the sound and the walls An a1"preciatiom of art and a good pests. Rt)dents do pull out labels, yet of the hous€. Shrubs cover this bank ef sense of texture are importa,nt, for most they create drainage holes with their fectively. Different species of Podocarpus plants can be adminild in bloom for a tunnels. Miller sometim€s competes or dwarf forms of the evergreen Litho relatively short period of time. Con with the birds and ro€lents for ma~ure carpus provide varying shades of green; sider how th€y will look the rest of fruits and seeds. "Pla'Nt en0ugh for color is found in the foliage of Rubus tri th AMERICAN HORTICUL TURIST 25 white spathes, can be seen among plants ature fell to 10° F with a snow cover, but cation of each plant in her collection, with of Ledum glandulosum, Kalmia micro the real damage was done in the following the help of horticulturists Mareen Krucke phylla, and Philesia magellanica. three weeks by a great fluctuation in the berg and Joseph Bishop. It is hoped that Miller's garden has developed in phases. temperature and dehydrating winds. Miller each one also will be documented by a The heath family first intrigued her; then characteristically has held off severe prun herbarium specimen. The garden will be her interest turned to ferns, then to gym ing to see how the plants respond. Whcm privately and perpetually endowed, main nosperms and ground covers. She has no asked what she lost, she replies that she tained as it is at present, and open to vis favorites now, but enthusiastically points hasn't given up on any plant yet. Some itors by advance appointment. A board of out one gem after another. She has a story obviously will require heavy pruning or knowledgeable people has been selected for each. Korean fir (Abies koreana) with replacement, while others will not only to guide the future of this remarkable its perpendicular cones is as much admired survive but recover much of their form . collection. as the smallest conifer, mountain rimu Her patience is apparently being rewarded, Down in one corner of the orchard is a (Dacrydium laxifolium). A group of club for Miller observes that never has the In very large stand of clovers in a predomi moss species (SelagineUa) next catches her dian pipe (Monotropa uniflora) beef! so nantly four-leafed form. Most visitors take eye. She defies you to find the minute cones abundant. a leaf in the hope that it can bring them on a Jack pine fifteen years old but only Looking to the future, Miller wants her the same good fortune with their garden rwo and a half feet high. An ash (Sorbus garden continued and has chosen land ing as Miller has had with hers. poteriifolia) ten years old and a mere four scape architect and nurseryman Ken Gam inches high produces pink flowers and white brill as curator. The plant records of the Richard Howard is vice president for fruits. A green mat of the tiniest white and garden, now on cards or in notebooks, are Botanical Science at the New York Botanical Garden. A visit to Betty Miller's garden is purple-veined violets (Viola verecunda var. being placed in a database for easier ac among the activities scheduled for the 1990 yakusimana) is everyone's spring favorite, cessibiliry. Recently the entire garden was American Horticultural Society Annual yet no one to whom Miller has given plants surveyed, and Miller is mapping the 10- Meeting. can make them grow. Miller moves on to note the spectacular blue fruits of Billar- • diera longiflora, which derives its name A Lady ofMyriad Achievements from the long yellow petals. I suspect my favorite is either Gaultheria miqueliana with A look at the~ horticultural acc;:om Miller served as an adviser to the its white fruits or Gaultheria adenothrix plishments and environmental con Arbor Fund, then responsible for ad with crimson fruits; or perhaps it is the tributions of Elisabeth Carey Miller ministering the Bloedel Reserve on Stauntonia hexaphylla covering the trellis makes it difficult to believe she was Bainbridge Island as a resource for the on the patio, or maybe the Vitis vinifera ever a novice gardener who struggled University of Washington. It is now 'Purpurea' transmitting such a lovely hue with petunias af!d 'Gtlmpo' azaleas. an independent foundation and open of sunlight! But every visitor to Miller's She was a founder of the Washington to the public. She helped with the dif garden has his own. State Roadside Council, where her ficult transition of the University of All gardens have work areas and acces seFYice and influence on the hQrticul Washington's Arboretum to Wash sory buildings. Those in Miller's garden ture of roadsides and parks is legend ington Park and the Center for Urban are inconspicuous. An area for plant prop ary. The Roadside Council and Miller Horticulture. She was among the agation and the houses that serve as nur are G:redited with shaping the model founders of the Rhododendron Spe series for yo ung plants are hidden away in act that controls billboards. She was cies Foundation and the Northwest the plantings. Seeds are started in clay pots, a horticultural consultant for Seattle's Ornamental Horticultural Society. She which in turn are submerged to the lip in noted Operation Triangle, which was awarded a gold medal from the sand, so il, or mulches. During the summer, mapped out plantings for traffic is International Botanical Congress for a slat house contains a collection of vireya lands throughout the city. She served her role in their 1969 exhibit of Eri rhododendrons. These, too, are in clay pots as horticulmrist for Lawrence Hal caceous plants. At the national level mulched deep in redwood bark but with prin's landscaping of Seattle's Free Miller has been. active in the American the threat of a freeze, moved to closed way Park, af!cl has written and lec Association of Botanical Gardens and houses where the temperature can be kept tmed on the need to know the pollution Arboreta, the American Horticultural at 35° F by electric heaters while the air is tolerances of plants chosen for urbaf!, Society, and the Garden Club of circulated by small, low-speed fans . environmentally stressed locations. For America. Her garden and civic con The Seattle area suffered a disastrous many years Miller was a collaborawr tributions have earned her rwo gold freeze in the winter of 1988-89. There was of the late Carl S. English Jr. in his medals from the Garden Club of great damage to plants in this neighbor landscaping of the Hiram M. Chit America, including the Natalie Peters hood, even to the commonly planted cherry tenden Locks, and they shared plant Webster Gold Medal; her awards from laurel (Prunus laurocerasus). The temper- introductions. She was instrumental the American Horticultural Society in taising private funds cont.ibuted to include its highest, the prestigious Far right: Billardiera longiflora has spec the horticultural improvements along Liberty Hyde Bailey Gold Medal tacular blue fruit, but its name comes from the Lake Washi-ngton Ship Camal. Award, which she received in 1988. its long yellow blooms (see page 46). 26 APRIL 1990 Photo by Don Normark light will be visible on the western horizon which skyscrapers etch the horizon, but behind the Olympic Mountains as late as the real treats are at gardening level. A 11 p.m. pond and water garden showcase plants The ferry system in Washington and that like wet feet. Hillsides are covered British Columbia is the most extensive in with unusual trees and shrubs, including North America, allowing visitors to leap camellias, rhododendrons, and more. The frog from sophisticated urban gardens to perennial garden will be showing one of primeval forests with relative ease. its peak bloom periods in June. Some of the major horticultural land Nearby Queen Elizabeth Park has Bloe marks will be part of the conference, but del Conservatory with its hemisphere de there are many others worth seeing. voted to tropical plants. Paths meander through several levels of plantings, and the BRfTISH COLUMBIA rampant bloom of bougainvillea, hibiscus, Vancouver, which is only 135 road miles orchids, and other exotics are made even north of Seattle by car and a mere thirty more romantic by the calls of tropical birds minutes by plane, is a lovely city in a spec perched on tree branches throughout. tacular setting. It has an incomparable Only a few blocks from downtown Van horticultural heritage founded on British couver is Chinatown, home to the Dr. Sun gardening and fostered by successive waves Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden, the only of settlers from Europe and the Orient, Chinese garden in North America designed each of which has contributed to the mix. and built by a team from mainland China The Botanical Garden of the University (although a Sichuan-style garden is to be of British Columbia at the edge of Van constructed in Seattle beginning in 1991). couver is a must. Its serene Japanese Ni Chinese garden tradition combines sky, BY TED MARSTON tobe Memorial Garden is rwo gardens in mountains, earth, and water as well as one: a tea garden of moss-covered rocks plants. The large central courtyard of the choing the song from the in an abstract pattern and a landscape gar garden features all of these, plus an inti Rogers and Hammerstein den built around a lake. A splendid rock mate scholar's garden and many viewing musical "Carousel," June in garden sprawls for hundreds of yards along points from which to admire these aspects the Pacific Northwest is al a hillside; demonstration gardens of herbs, of nature. The Chinese garden overlooks ways "busting out all over" fruit, and vines are well designed. The strong the larger Dr. Sun Yat Sen Park with its Ein garden color. suit of the recently developed Asian garden large lake and surrounding plantings. Rhododendrons and other broadleaf is broadleaf evergreen shrubs. Many of them A ferry trip that begins at Tsawassen, evergreens, pride of the area, are still in should be in bloom in June; the Hawaiian south of Vancouver, goes through the full regalia; perennials are coming on strong, blue poppies (Meconopsis) should be at beautiful Canadian San Juans to Vancou and roses should be at their peak. Those their best. ver Island, home of Victoria, the provincial who trek to the American Horticultural VanDusen Botanical Garden, nearer the capital. The trip ends seventeen miles north Society's Annual Meeting, June 19-22, will center of the city, has numerous views in of Victoria and relatively near Butchart want to plan extra days either before or after to taste nearby garden delights not on the program. Be assured that the much vaunted rainy weather comes mainly from October to March. (Although packing a raincoat will help insure sunny weather, natives will re assure you). Days here are the longest in the contiguous forty-eight states - the closest thing we have to the "White Nights" of midsummer Scandinavia. On the long est day, June 21, sunrise in Seattle is at 5: 12 a.m., ideal for picture taking before an errant breeze stirs foliage and flower. Sunset at 9:10 p.m. allows a really full day of garden gazing with time left over for a leisurely dinner during the long rwilight; Previous page and top: VanDusen Botan ical Garden in VanGOuver offers vibrant hues and subtle shades. Right: The Quarry Garden at Queen Elizabeth Park. 30 APRIL 1990 from around the world. It's also the home including native shrubs, flowers, and ferns. of Washington's largest palm trees, Tra In Washington Park on Southwest Ken chycarpus fortunei, which are fan palms sington Avenue is another International native to central China. Rose Test Garden. This one contains more One of the largest of its kind is the Drug than 10,000 plants that should be at the Plant Garden associated with the College peak of their first flush of bloom come of Pharmacy at the Universiry of Wash June. The views of the ciry are dramatic. ington. More than 1,500 species are ar The Japanese Garden just above the rose ranged in formal gardens on three acres. garden in Washington Park is unique and The Volunteer Park Conservatory on exquisite-arguably the finest in the United Capitol Hill is a small Victorian jewel, saved States. Its five and a half acres are divided from decay a few years back, and now into several gardens-The Stone and Sand slated for expansion. Garden, the Flat Garden, the Moss Gar Next to the Woodland Park Zoo is a den, the Tea Garden, and the Strolling Pond A pagoda at the Dr. Sun Yat Sen Classical large International Rose Test Garden with Garden-each with its own tranquil beaury. Chinese Garden in Vancouver. all the latest rose cultivars as well as a large selection of long-time favorites. Gardens, a stunning show garden. Much Tired of just gazing at all these incredible of Butchart is set in a large quarry whose plants? Molbak's Greenhouse and Nurs edges have been softened with trees, flow ery, in suburban Woodinville, is a treasure ers, and shrubs. Perennials-delphiniums trove of color for both looking and buying. in stately spires, oriental poppies of all It is especially noted for combining col colors, great spikes of many-colored lu orful annuals in containers. Wells-Medina pines-are at their best here in the mild Nursery in Bellevue, just east of Lake sea air. Roses, too, grow to near perfec Washington, is the destination of choice tion, clambering over pergolas and march for those seeking unusual trees, shrubs, ing through beds. and herbaceous perennials. Grand Ridge Victoria, often described as being like Nursery, Issaquah, has become recognized England before World War II, is especially worldwide as one of the best places for noted for the more than 1,700 baskets of alpine and rock garden plants. The Berry Botanic Garden, nearly seven flowers that hang from its street lamps. acres of woodland plantings, has a notable Flowers abound, from dramatic formal PORTLAND AND ENVIRONS rock garden. Its primulas, rhododendrons, bedding in front of the Provincial Parlia The Hoyt Arboretum has one of the na lilies, and perennials will also be very pho ment to the vistas of Beacon Hill Park, tion's largest collections of conifers, both togenic then. within walking distance of downtown. species and cultivars. On a rugged hillside There are two outstanding rhododen overlooking the ciry from the west, the 214 dron gardens in this area. Crystal Springs WENATACHEE, WASHINGTON acres also contain many other collections, Garden has over 2,000 rhododendrons, East of the Cascade Mountains-the di many of which will still be blooming in viding line between the state's verdant half Below: Cattails in a pond at the Botanical June. The garden is nearly surrounded by and its desertlike region-is Ohme Gar Garden of the University of British Co lake and lagoon, and the springs have been dens, which was featured in the February lumbia. Right: A lantern-sculpture in that turned into a water feature. The Cecil and 1989 American Horticulturist. It is perched botanical garden's Japanese Nitobe Me Molly Smith Garden in suburban St. Paul, on a rocky hillside above Wenatchee and morial Garden. now owned by the Portland chapter of the the winding Columbia River below. That American Rhododendron Sociery, is a col water is everything here is made evident lector and hybridizer's garden that has been by the sharp contrast between the gardens' featured in many national magazines. Cle acres of alpine plantings and the parched matis are among the choice plants here, landscape below and all around it. where foliage colors and textures are com bined with a flair for year-round appeal. SEATTLE AND ENVIRONS The Columbia River Gorge between A favorite site for both visitors and locals Washington and Oregon is filled with spe is Seattle's Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, cial natives, and the slopes of Mt. Hood, where ships and pleasure boats are lifted east of Portland, are easily accessible for from Puget Sound in the Lake Washington botanizing. A visitor's center just off In Ship Canal. The fish ladder there is a good terstate 5 between Portland and Seattle gives spot to watch salmon returning to spawn, a fascinating view of Mt. St. Helens and and gardeners can enjoy the Carl S. English a good description of native flora, as well. Jr. Botanical Garden, seven acres of shrubs and trees named for the garden's longtime Ted Marston is a horticulturist and writer superintendent, who gathered rare plants who lives in Kirkland, Washington. AMERICAN HORTICUL TURIST 31 Visiting Details WASHINGTON Ohme Gardens, 3317 Ohme Road, Wenatchee. Open 9 a.m. to dusk. Ad mission $4. Carl S. English Jf. Botanical Gar den, 3015 N.W. 54th Street, Seattle. Open 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Drug Plant Garden, University of Washington Campus, Seattle. Open during daylight hours. International Rose Test Garden, next to Woodland Park Zoo at Fremont Avenue and N. 50th Street, Seattle. Open during daylight hours. Volunt€er Park Conservatory, 1400. "', E. Galer, Seattle. Open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Above: A hillside at the Ohme Gar Molbak's Nursery & Greenhouse, dens near Wenatchee, Washington, 13625 N.E. 175th Street, Woodin where alpines are grown in a semi ville. Op€n six days 9:30 a.m. to desert environment. Left: The Bloedel 6:30 p.m., until 8 p.m. Fridays. Conservatory in Queen Elizabeth Park Wells-M€dina Nursery, 8300 N.E. features a hemisphere dedicated to 24th Street, Bellevue. Open six days tropical plants. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sundays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Many gardens that charge admissicln Grand Ridge Nursery, 27801 S.E. also have senior and youth rates. If High Point Way, Issaquah. Generally no admission is listed, the garden is open weekends 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For free. Open hours, which are seven days information, call (206) 392-1896. a week unless otherwise indicated, are for late spring and summer. WinHlr OREGON hours are usually shorter. Japanese Garden S0ciMY of Ore gon, 611 S.W. Kensington Avenue, BRITISH COLUMBIA Portland. Open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Ad University of British Columbia Bo mission $3. tanical Garden, 6804 S.W. Marine Hoyt Arboretum, 4000 S.W. Fair Drive, Vancouver. Open 10 a.m. to view Boulevard, Portland. Open day 8 p.m. Admission $3. Nitobe Me light hours. morial Garden, $1.50; both, $4. International Test Rose Garden VanDusen Botanical Garden, 5251 (immediately below the Japanese Oak Street, Vancouver. Open 10 a.m. Garden), Portland. Daylight hours. to 9 p.m. Admission $4. Berry Botanic Garden, 11505 S.W. Bloedel Conservatory, Queen Eiiz SummerviHe Avenue, Portland. Open abeth Park, 33rd and Cambie, Van Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to couver. Open 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Ad 5 p.m. Admission $2. Call ahead for mission $2.40. a tour appointment and directions, Dr. Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese (503) 636-4112. Garden, 578 Carrall, Vancouver. Open Cecil and Molly Smith Garden, 5065 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Admission $3.50. Ray Bell Road, St. Paul. Open June Butchart Gardens, 800 Benvenuto 23, 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Other times Drive, Brenrwood Bay. Open 9 a.m. call (503) 246-3710 for appointment. to 9 p.m. (Saturdays in July and Au Crystal Springs Garden, 28th and gust until 11 p.m.; includes fireworks S.E. Woodstock, Portland. Open 7 a.m. displays). Admission $9.50. to dusk. The essence of yesterday, the promise of tomorruw he scent of lilacs drifting on a ing seems to be the most critical factor in spring breeze grabs hold of taking softwood cuttings. OnCel this secret youthful memory like that of no was umlocked, nurserymen begun to pro other plant. For an adult, just duce even difficuk cultivars such as 'Kath catching a glimpse and a whiff of erine Havemeyer', 'Mrs. Ed Hardiflg', and anr overgrown lilac while driving past an 'President Grevy' from softwood cuttings. abandoned homelstead can conjure up a 'Charles Joly', 'Excel', 'Monge', 'Prim gentle past: high-button shoes, ice cream rose', and 'Sensation' are all produced with socials, lemonade on the front porch. stands of eighty percent or better. It seems that lilacs have remained the While tissue culture may be "high tech," same over the years, but nothing could be cultures may take four to five mOflths to further from the truth. Recent innovations get an unrooted microshoot, which must in production have led to the creation of then be rooted, grown in a greenhouse for many new lilacs, among the long-favored three months, and then in the field for two French hybrids as well as the increasingly to three years. Nevertheless, tissue culture popular Syringa x prestoniae hybrids and is paving the way for virus-resistant clones the still little-known Syringa x hyacin of cultivars essentially unobtainable a few thiflora hybrids. The possibility of having years ago to become widely available at lilacs blooming for six weeks in spring in local nurseries. stead of the fleeting two weeks to which What does this progress in propagation most gardeners are accustomed is no longer mean to the gardener? For one thing, a a dream, but a reality. lilac on its own rootstock is a better Since 1941, seven distinct colors have branched plant with a healthier, more vig been recognized: white, violet, bluish, li orous root system. Most of the French hy lac, pinkish, magenta, and purple. A cream brids sucker very little compared to privet has been attained, but breeders are still or ash, so that even though they put down seeking a true yellow. They are developiflg their own roots after a couple of seasons, shrubs resistant to heat as well as cold and they are easily overtaken by the more vig disease. The gardener cafl choose among orous understock. When a lilac on its own lilacs of varying habit and shape and size roots sends up suckers or new shoots after of flower and leaf. In 1960 there were only dying back to the ground, they will always 600 registered hybrids; today, the number be from the lilac. is approaching 2,000. When it comes to selecting a favorite Until very recently, almost aU of the pro lilac, nurserymen have a distinct advantage duction of French hybrids and S. x hy over the home gardelner. The.re is nothing acinthiflora hybrids had been done by like being inside a blooming block of lilacs grafting the plants onto privet or green ash. to observe the differing qualities of culti Even as little as five years ago, rootiflg lilac vars firsthand. I can still remember the softwoods of one variety in quamtities of 25,000 or more was unheard of. But tim- Right: 'Edith Cavell' by Teny ScJl'Wartz 34 APRIL 1990 Photo by Terr.y Schwartz dewy spring morning when I was walking through a scion block inspecting lilac blooms and discovered 'Katherine Have meyer'. I would later find it described in books as mauve to pink, but that day, spar kling in the morning sun, it revealed colors not listed in any books. And the scent was incredible! A double-flowering cultivar, it has large blooms made up of many tightly packed, delicately shaped florets. Even though there are many single-flow ering cultivars that are heavier bloomers than some doubles, the twisting, turning florets of the double-flowering types are truly spectacular for those who enjoy look ing closely at the flowers. As a nurseryman who has had the chance to develop a life long friendship with many lilacs, I count some of each type among my favorites. FRENCH HYBRIDS The commonly used name of "French hy brids" recognizes the contributions of the French father-and-son team of Victor Le moine (1823-1911) and Emile Lemoine (1862-1943) who, over their lifetimes, bred more than 200 cultivars of Syringa vul garis, seemingly of every shade imaginable. Today, many of them are being used to further advance hybridizing. However, many of the so-called French hybrids have been developed far from the Lemoine home in Nancy, France. For ex ample, 'President Lincoln', one of the fin est blue lilacs available, as well as 'Ade laide Dunbar', a very good double purple, were developed by Paul Dunbar of Roch ester, New York. 'Ludwig Spaeth', an ex cellent purple, originated at Spaeth Nur series of Berlin, Germany. Such interesting cultivars as 'Charm' and 'Glory' were de veloped at Brookville, Long Island, by the great hybridizer, Theodore Havemeyer. some others, it presents a more uniform 'Minuet' Just a few of my favorites that are widely color for a longer time. available include: • 'Monge' (single, purple). If you have ample of a very old lilac (1874) that con • 'Charles Joly' (double, red). Dark red room for only one lilac, this plant is an tinues to impress lilac lovers today. flowers stand well above the foliage of this excellent choice. Its large flower spikes open • 'Montaigne' (double, pink). A very vig medium-sized, very upright plant. The long, slowly and their brilliant, rich purple holds orous plant that tends to open with age. slender spikes and dazzling trademark color up well to the sun. Dense and mound Twisting, twirling, soft rose pink florets of 'Charles Joly' have kept it extremely shaped in habit, it requires little pruning appear densely on spikes that range from popular over the years. to keep it in bounds, and the scent is far four to seven inches long. They are very • 'Ludwig Spaeth' (si ngle, purple). For better than many cultivars. well scented, but not overpowering. someone seeking a dark purple lilac, this • 'Macrostachya' (double, pink). One of • 'President Grevy' (double, blue). Giant, is one of the best choices. Its midseason the best pinks among the French hybrids. billowy trusses of a clear delicate blue bloom blooms are held well above the leaves on A very nice, full-growing plant that grows in midseason. A very strong grower, this tall, erect spikes. While it spreads some to a medium size. Its buds open to a beau is a rather large, symmetrical shrub that what, it is still more upright than many tiful clear pink and fade to almost white. makes a good background plant. other cultivars. Because the flowers do not The slender panicles are held upright, well • 'President Lincoln' (single, blue). This fade as quickly in the hot sun as those of away from the foliage. This is a fine ex- is the truest blue of any lilac on the market 36 APRIL 1990 Photo by Terry Schwartz today. A very dependable bloomer, its pale yellow buds that open to large cream flowers are borne on large double clusters. to-milk-white flowers on heavy clusters. The panicles often reach eight inches in The flowers, which are very sweetly scented, length. A large-grower, it can be easily kept are more lacelike than those of 'Ellen Wil in bounds by removing old wood. mott' and appear later. • 'Ellen Wilmott' (double, white). This • 'Madame Lemoine' (double, white). Long large-growing plant comes equipped with erect flowers appear profusely in a pure stout canes adequate for holding up its snowy white that contrasts nicely with its immense, snow white flowers. It is one of dark green foliage. It is the delicate lady the best whites available today, with the of these three whites, smaller in stature largest individual florets and light green with straight upright canes that arch out leaves that are large, thick, and leathery. slightly . • 'Edith Cavell' (double, white). A plant • 'Charm' (si ngle, pink). A Havemeyer with large, interesting leaves and beautiful, development of 1948, 'Charm' is an ex cellent, sweet-scented lilac of unique dis 'President Lincoln' tinction. The individual florets are up to one and a half inches across and the pan icles up to ten inches long and four inches in diameter at the base. It is somewhat open-growing with large leaves. Sparse fo liage is fairly common with 'Charm', due in part to the heavy bloom that leaves less nourishment for leaf production. PRESTON HYBRIDS 'Miss Canada' While extremely popular, French lilacs are did most of her work at the Central Ex far from the only type available to the home perimental Station in Ottawa during the gardener. Many lilacs are not noticed in 1920s. Some of the plants that carry the the landscape because they "don't look Preston name have been developed by other like a lilac." A good example is the Preston hybridizers; Syringa x prestoniae 'James hybrids, which don't begin to bloom until MacFarlane', a very good pink that is hardy a week or two after the French hybrids are to Zone 2, was developed at the University finished. Here in Minnesota, this is gen of New Hampshire. Some of the finest that erally about the end of Mayor the first I have worked with over the years have week of June. come from Morden Station of Morden, These spectacular plants are smaller Manitoba. All of those described come from statured, more upright and mound-shaped there, and also are hardy to Zone 2 . in habit than the French lilacs. The foliage • 'Miss Canada' (single, pink). One of the is completely different, consisting of a long, most beautiful pinks of any species ()f lilacs narrow leaf that is somewhat puckered in was developed by Dr. W. A. Cumming at texture. Preston hybrids are sometimes Morden Station in 1967. A cross of S. x called nodding lilacs because of the flow josiflexa 'Redwine' and S. X prestoniae Sources for French Hybrids: erhead, which tends to droop over at ma 'Hiawatha', this is a real newcomer to the Bergeson Nursery, Fertile, MN 56540, free price turity. Those who have never seen one in world of lilacs and has just really appeared list. bloom are missing one of the treasures of on the market from the wholesale level in Carroll Gardens, 44 E. Main Street, Westmins the lilac realm. The effect is of a china doll the last few years. A nonsuckering plant, ter, MD 21157, catalog free. too delicate to touch. it has somewhat larger foliage than other Heard Gardens, 5355 Merle Hay Road, John Unlike the French hybrids, they don't cultivars in this group. The flower buds ston, IA 50131, catalog $2, refundable upon have to be placed far from the house; many are almost red in color, opening to a deep first order. can be used in foundation plantings with rich red pink in early summer. Butterflies, Mellinger'S Inc., 2310 W. South Range Road, no fear that they will outgrow their wel hummingbirds, and hummingbird moths North Lima, OH 44452, catalog free. come. The scent is heavenly, and the subtle seem to almost grow on it. Its intoxicating Sources for Preston and colors will not clash with ornamentals of scent; clean, crisp outline; disease and mil Hyacinth Hybrids: bolder hues. Low maintenance plants dew resistance; and extreme hardiness make Carroll Gardens, 444 E. Main Street, West removal of the flower heads is optional this lilac a gardener'S dream. minster, MD 21157, catalog free. they are as magnetic to butte.rflies as a • 'Donald Wyman' (si ngle, purple). De Wedge Nursery, Rt. 2, Box 114, Albert Lea, Buddleia. veloped by F. L. Skinner of Dropmore, MN 56007, price list free. The Preston hybrids are named after Is Manitoba, this lilac is certainly worthy of abella Preston, a Canadian hybridizer who being called ornamental. Purple-to-lav- Photos by AI Bussewitz : PHOTO/NATS AMERICAN HORT/CUL TURIST 37 ender flowers cover it in early summer and west than S. vulgaris, they are proving to keep the shrub only three to four feet maintain their bright color throughout the themselves more than worthy as treasured tall. Removing old wood as the shrub grows heat of the day. Dark green foliage makes landscape plants. (A drawback for South will also help maintain a very dense ap this a truly attrac:tive plant to use as a ern gardeners is their intolerance of heat; pearance. The flower spikes are from four backing for perennials or annuals. Reach hot springtime temperatures tend to wash to ten inches long, backed by a soft green ing eight to ten feet in height at maturity, out their colors faster than they would those foliage. it is consistent in size with many of the of S. vulgaris.) No artide can possibly cover the im Preston hybrids. • 'Assessippi' (single, lavendar). One of mense number of lilac cultivars on the • 'Minuet' (single, purple). For those of the earliest to bloom, it is a well-shaped market today. The improved techniques us who do not have a lot of room to spare plant that does not become leggy. Very for propagating lilacs, coupled with their in our landscapes, this is a plant that should fragrant, pale lavender flowers cover this growing popularity, means that many of not be overlooked. Developed in 1972 by shrub in early spring. First introduced in them can now be found in garden centers Morden Station's Cumming, it grows ul 1935, it is only now finding its place in all summer long as container-grown plants timately to six to eight feet, somewhat larger the landscape. with well-developed root systems. This than other Preston hybrids such as S. mey • 'Pocahontas' (single, purple). Much means they can be planted not only in eri, S. patula 'Dwarf Korean', or S. patula deeper in color than 'Assessippi' -some spring, but right up to the time frost is on 'Miss Kim'. But it is every bit as beautiful, have compared it to S. vulgaris 'Ludwig the ground. Others not obtainable from and as sweet-scented a plant as any that Spaeth' -this lilac is a knockout. Planting local garden suppliers are readily available have arrived on the retail market in recent in open areas with good drainage will en in mail-order catalogs. Whether the ones years. The scent will often give it away sure fewer problems with powdery mil you choose are old or new, lilacs are what before you see its prolific, stunning light dew; other than that, they are not fussy. memories are made of! purple blooms. They will last longer than • 'Mount Baker' (single, white). A snow those of many other Preston hybrids and drift in spring is the best description of this Terry Schwartz has been on the staff of appear later, peaking in mid-to-late June single white-flowering lilac. Dense-grow Bailey Nurseries in Sf. Paul, Minnesota, for sixteen years. Those seeking more here in Minnesota. ing, attainiFig ten feet in height, it will bloom information on lilacs may want to contact • 'Royalty' (single, purple). Beautiful royal from the ground up and look even more the International Lilac Society, P.O. Box purple flowers in mid-June add color to like summer snow if old growth is pruned 315, Rumford, ME 04276, (207) 562-7453. any landscape. 'Royalty' is a mid-sized plant that will eventually reach eight to ten feet, and like many Preston hybrids, can be re splendent as an informal hedge. Plant Thoughtfully, HYACINTHAFLORA Prune Annually HYBRIDS When I give talks about lilacs at local lacs, means not having their roots Easily mistaken for S. vulgaris, the gardeFi clubs, I'm always surprised that standing in water that will stop air hyacinthafloM hybrids were a relatively many gardeners think lilacs are dif cirGU lation through the soil. Any low unknown group until the last ten years. ficult to grow. Unlike many shrubs areas that retain water will not make Neither home gardeners nor growers had that bloom year after year, the lilac a good home for any of the lilac spe discovered their attributes, and since there has only four basic requirements for cies. Having the soil on the dry side was little consumer demand, there was no good flower production as well as plant is preferable, especially for the French reason to produce them in any quantity. growth: good soil, adequate sunlight, hybrids. This has definitely changed. drainage, and proper pruning. Pruning the French lilacs will create Their extreme hardiness-to minus 200 Good soil, of course, is a require a mlich more dense and well-rounded or even minus 400 F - makes them useful ment for good pelfformance by any plant than one left to grow on its own. where French hybrids are hopeless. Very landscape plant. Any good garden soil Simply removing the older, larger canes fragrant and prolific blooms, an attractive that will produce keeper tomatoes will after the spring blooming has stopped oval habit, and minimal suckering are just more than do for lilacs, but not just will insure having new young shoots a few of the other features that are in a shovelful in the planting hole develop by fall. Never prune lilacs in creasing these plants' popularity. The enough to allow vigorous new root the late fall; the new flower buds are flo wers, while single, are dense and stand growth year after year. already formed and would be cut off well above the plant. The oblate, light green Full sunlight helps lilacs develop by fall pruning. After flowering is over leaves give them a beautiful background. food to produce strong stems that will in spring, it is time to shape the plant Three of the best on the market today set the next year's flower buds. A cold and to remove any old flower heads were all developed by F. L. Skinner, who dormancy period is also needed for that may hinder shoot development. was seeking plants that would remain rel proper flowering, which means that Don't be alarmed to see only a few atively small in stature. Blooming about some of our warmer states cannot blooms in your plaflts' early years; it seven to ten days earlier here in the Mid- successfully grow many of the lilacs. takes five to eight years for a lilac to Proper drainage, in the case of li- reach full blooming potential. - T.S. 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Write or call Rt. 1 Box 600-AHB point for your rcanO resticKno"n"uaear with greenhouse Andersonville, TN 37705 table. size for a free illustrated bro 5.50 ea. or 2 for 10.00 Want to locate a MISSING SPOUSE, PARENT, chure, prices and Postage & handling Included. calif. re 44 APRIL 1990 letters 1990· Sp.ring WISHBOOK Thanks for the Memories In reference to "Remember Me in Flow What an unexpected pleasure to see the ers," Stephen Hales was a multifaceted sci article in the December issue on "The De entist; he became the first person to mea voted Volunteers of Cranbrook House" by sure blood pressure when he cannulated June L. Hicks. an artery in the neck of a horse. W'll ~reai'You rLJ'stplas~. ' 'Fher~s For six years, from age 11 to 17, prob As for the mountain silver bell, Halesia no waiting for: our aftaiog>Send 1:IS ably the most impressionable of my life, I carolina var. monticola, being a small tree $l.OO.today and we'!:l sendjt to was privileged to attend Kingswood School, . .. it becomes 100 feet tall in the southern you ,promptly, first class, . Appalachians and I have a 50-foot young directly across the lake from Cranbrook OUf Spring Wishbook 'tells'you ster in my garden . .. hardly a small tree. House. I was startled by the reminder of how tQ, grow plan.ts, not j!lllt now the old boat house, which I had not thought buy Over 800 of . Nickolas Nickou to them. yarietks of for over fifty years. We were allowed hardy pI.ants ~j:e feature<;f in. Branford, Connecticut this: . " to canoe on the lake, and that old building 80 page, full color, il)forn:(aifiye " held a special fascination. Thanks for the book. )lour dream Hortus III, on which American Horticul Ma~e g~xden a' article and lovely photos. to.day-'-we'd turist bases its horticultural nomenclature, success. (Jet s4l:rted ' be glad to btdp. " . Donna Valley Russell lists H. carolina and H . monticola as sep Middletown, Maryland arate species. It indicates that H . monti cola grows to 100 fe et, but that H. carolina only gets about 40 feet tall. Michael Dirr, More 'Remembering' in his Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, Your December article, "Remember Me in says that H. carolina grows to 80 feet. Flowers," was most interesting and in triguing. It personalized many plants I grow without pausing to consider their names. Tending the Earth They are now my good friends. I very much appreciated Carolyn Marsh I would like to add to your list one of Lindsay's "Commentary" in the December my favorite house plants, the winter issue. Gardeners face tremendous life-or blooming forest lily, Veltheimia, one of the death choices involving the designed land f~w names whose origin I know. It was scape. It is great to see it expressed and named for August Ferdinand Count Velth linked to the greater ecology of Mother eim (1741-1801), a German supporter of Earth. Gardeners, as some of her tenders, botanical studies. do set an example. Adele Kleine Steven Lawn Winnetka, Illinois San Francisco, California AHS MEMBERSHIP SERVICES Your satisfaction with our member service is very important to us. If you have a question or problem concerning your membership, pl~ase contact the Mem bership Department for assistance. You can help by giving complete information when you call or write. Please refer to the five digit number which is on the mailimg label on your magazine or news edition. The number helps us to quickly identify your memb€rship record for corrections. 'Milaeger's· Gard~ns 4838 Douglas Avenue, Changing Your Address? 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ROO-bra Juniperus virginiana joo-NIP-er-us vir-gin-ee-AIN-a Kalmia microphylla KALM-ee-uh my-crow-FIL-ah Koelreuteria paniculata kol-rew-TEAR-ee-uh pan-ick-yew-LATE-ah Ledum glandulosum LEE-dum glan-dew-LOSE-um Linnaea borealis LIN-ee-ah bore-ee-AL-is Lithocarpus lith-o-CARP-us Lysichiton camtschatcense ly-sih-KYTE-on kamt-shot-KEN-see Malus sargentii MAL-us sar-GENT-ee-eye These elongated yellow flowers give Billarderia longiflora its name. It is among Meconopsis meck-on-OP-sis the many unusual plants to be found in Betty Miller's garden near Puget Sound. Metasequoia meh-tah-see-QUOY-ah (See article, page 22.) Monotropa uniflora moe-NOT-rope-ah yew-ni-FLOR-a Abies koreana A Y-beez kore-ee-AIN-ah KOPT-is kwin-kwe-FOLE-ee-uh Nothofagus an tarctica Acer davidii A Y-ser day-VID-ee-eye Cornus canadensis no-tho-FAG-us an-ARK-tih-ka A. ginnala A. gin-NAL-lah KOR-nus can-ah-DEN-sis N. dombeyi N. DOM-bee-yah A. japonicum A. jah-PON-ih-kum C. kousa var. chinensis N. procera N. pro-SER-a A. truncatum A. trun-KATE-um C. KOO-sa h var. chin-EN-sis Ophiopogon planiscapus Arbutus menziesii Cotoneaster microphyllus oh-fee-oh-POGE-un pla-nis-KAPE-us are-BUTE-us men-ZEES-ee-eye koe-tone-ee-AST -er my-crow-FIL-us Paeonia pee-OWN-ee-uh Arctostaphylos uva-ursi Cunninghamia lanceolata Parrotia persica ark-toe-STAFF-il-ose oo-vah-UR-sigh cun-ning-HAM-ee-uh lance-ee-o-LATE-ah pah-ROT-ee-uh PER-sih-kah Arisaema nikoense Dacrydium laxifolium Parrotiopsis jacquemontiana air-iss-SEEM -ah ne-koe-ENS-ee dah-KRID-ee-um lacks-ee-FOLE-ee-um pah-ROT- ee-op-sis Asarum shuttleworthii Decaisnea fargesii zhahk-a-mont-ee-AIN-ah ass-AIR-urn shut-el-WORTH-ee-eye de- KAISZ-nee-ah far-GEEZ-ee-eye Philesia magellanica Billardiera longiflora Disanthus cercidifolius fi-LEEZ-ee-uh madge-el-LAN-i-ka bi-lar-dee-EAR-a long-i-FLOR-ah dis-AN-thus ser-s i-di-FOLE-ee-us Podocarpus poe-doe-KARP-us Blechnum tabulare Enkianthus chinensis Polystichum munitum BLEK-num tab-yew-LAIR enk-ih-AN-thus chin-EN -sis po-LIST-ee-kum mew-NEET-um Buddleia BOOD-lee-uh E. campanulatus E. cam-pan-yew-LATE-us Prunus laurocerasus Carp inus betulus car-PINE-us BET-yew-lus Epigaea asiatica PRUNE-us law-ro-SER-ah- sus Cassiope cass-EYE-o-pee ep-ih-JEEH-ah ay-zee-AT-i-kah Quercus Chrysolepis Ceanothus kee-ah-NO-thus E. repens E. 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