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Volume 26, No. 4 Southeastern Conifer Quarterly December 2019 S. Horn Volume 26, no. 4 Southeastern Conifer Quarterly December 2019 American Conifer Society Southeast Region Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia From the Southeast Region President We have just finished a successful SER meeting in Gloucester VA. It was a great weekend to meet up with old friends and meet new ones. The weather could not have been any better. A big thank you to Brent Heath and Wayne Galloway for their work to make it great: Brent for offering to host the 2019 meeting in Gloucester and for suggesting venues; Wayne for lining up the vendors and tour gardens. Friday night’s dinner at Brent and Becky’s house was one of the best dinners and locations we have ever had for a meeting! Special thanks, also, to all of our plant donors who made it possible for everyone to bring a special plant home from the meeting, and a big shout out to Valerie and Bill from Piccadilly farm and Nursery for bringing a conifer for everyone who attended the meeting. Currently, we are experiencing our first “Polar Vortex” of the year - about 20 degrees below normal! As soon as it warms up, I plan to head back out to clean up the gardens and do some pruning. I also like to mulch and plant in November and December, since it gives the plants a few extra months to set roots. If you don’t get everything planted before the real winter weather hits, hold potted plants in a protected area since potted plants are affected much more by colder temps than those in the ground. We are planning a rendezvous in Columbia SC for March 21st (see page 6), and we’ve just lined up another one for August 8th in Boone, NC. We’d like to schedule a few more one-day events for 2020. Rendezvous just require a few gardens to visit and an organized lunch. People can pick their own hotel if they’re staying over, or just drive in and out the same day. Please let us know if you are interested in organizing a rendezvous, yourself. To get the best attendance it is great to have as much information in the newsletter as possible, so just let us know 4 months or so before you want us to join you, and we will get the word out. Jeff Harvey, President Inside this Issue Around the Southeast Region Fall Fun in VA! A Report on the 2019 SER Annual Meeting Our Most Overlooked Conifer by Martin Stone Pages 9-10 by Wayne Galloway. Pages 2-4 Conifer Sightings in Greece by Amelia Lane Page 11 Could YOU be the 2020 SER Annual Meeting Chair? Page 4 Getting to Know Your Roots by Leanne Kenealy A Visit to the SER Reference Garden at Norfolk Botanical Pages 12-14 Garden by Beth Jimenez and Amelia Lane Thank You to Our 2019 SER Annual Meeting Donors! Conifers for Year-Round Color by Sara Freeman Reference Garden List and Map Pages 5-6 Pages 15-17 Spring Rendezvous in Historic Columbia, SC Page 7 Newsletter Wrap-Up; List of SE Officers and Staff; and a New Facebook Contest! Page 18 Save the Dates! ACS National Conference and Conifer College in Clinton, IA— June 25-27, 2020 Page 8 Page 2 Southeastern Conifer Quarterly December 2019 Around the Southeast Region Fall Fun in Virginia! A Report on the 2019 SER Conference By Wayne Galloway, SER Vice President Our Southeast Region hosted a fall meeting for 75 ACS members over a beautiful October weekend in Tidewater Virginia. Members traveled from near and far to enjoy four outstanding private gardens, three en- gaging speakers, very robust silent and live auctions, and nonstop plant intensive fellowship. The highlights included a meeting headquarters at Brent & Becky’s Bulbs in Gloucester, Virginia. What hosts the Heath’s were! Dinner Fri- day evening was at their personal residence, an idyllic spot on a Chesa- peake Bay tributary, perfect for the oyster shucking and a seafood feast. This was also the site of Brent’s self-described Conifer garden, with many selections from ACS nurseryman Bruce Appeldoorn’s stock. A gi- ant 5 or 6 foot in diameter sycamore tree welcomed us into the grounds at their home. Becky’s garden adjoins the business with an extensive array of conifers tastefully mixed with, you guessed it, bulbs and other terrific companion plants. Here, also, we enjoyed super facilities for Brent’s highly informative lecture on companion plants, and our auction activities. Brent’s huge sycamore at night. Photo by Jeff Harvey Oyster shucking on Brent and Becky Heath’s dock. Photo by Jennifer Harvey We toured two additional private gardens on Saturday. Noted gar- dener and author Pamela Harper personally escorted us through her waterfront property, sharing stories not only of the plants, but also some of the challenges posed by hurricanes and the recovery, following them. Everyone admired her plant combinations and what a sight it was to see the cyclamen and camellias blooming! Linda and Bill Pinkham also personally guided us through their sever- al acre waterfront wonderland. Now retired from a large nursery and landscape design business, they tend to the exquisite collection in their very diverse garden. Favorites there included the Picea pungens ‘Iseli Fastigiate’ in the central backyard island garden and the weeping bald cypress tunnel. We were even treated to a look at Bill’s on-site pottery Dinner at the Heaths’. Photo by Jeff Harvey (Continued on page 4) Page 3 Southeastern Conifer Quarterly December 2019 (Continued from page 2) Pamela Harper (right) welcomes visitors to her garden. Photo by Jennifer Harvey A beautiful scene in Pamela Harper’s garden. Photo by Sandy Horn A gorgeous display in the Pinkham Garden. Photo by Sandy Honr Bill Pinkham Photo by Sandy Horn (Continued on page 4) Page 4 Southeastern Conifer Quarterly December 2019 (Continued from page 3) studio. Leanne Kenealy lectures on propagation and rootstock. Carl Simmons, Horticultur- About the Author ist from the Norfolk Botani- Wayne Galloway, Vice cal Gardens, shared many President of the SER, at experiences in his presenta- the oyster feast, with tion, “The Good and the Bad the tiny shucker. at the NBG Conifer Collec- tion”. A lecture by Leanne Ke- nealy from the JC Raulston Arboretum prompted much interest and discussion on the topic of “Knowing Your Roots”, a presentation on research into the benefits of grafting onto disease, flood, and heat resistant rootstock. [See Leanne’s lecture on pages 12-14 of this newsletter.] As always, these lectures added to our enjoyment of the world of conifers. No one left empty handed, as we presented our first timers with ACS coffee mugs and plants of Thuja plicata ‘Whipcord’, as well as their pick of one of three great plants donated by Valerie and Bill Hinesley from Piccadilly Farm and Nursery for all of our attendees. A big thank you goes out to all of our plant donors who made our silent and live auctions offer an enormous range of conifers, large and small, rare and unusual. Everyone had a chance to go home with some great plants and wonderful memories from the 2019 SER meeting. Could YOU be the 2020 SER Annual Meeting Chair? A Special Request from Jeff and Jennifer Harvey Jennifer and I have worked on several regional meetings in one-day meetings/trips, the first being to Columbia, SC on the last six years or so, but we are in the final stages of re- March 21st, sponsored by Historic Columbia and Keith Mearns building our home and business after a devastating fire in (details on Page 6). A second rendezvous has just been con- 2018, and we’re tired. We need a little break. It will not be a firmed for Aug. 8, 2020, when we will visit Arborcrest in very long break since we’ve already started planning the 2022 Boone, NC - the amazing collection and garden of Ron Stan- National Conifer Conference that will be hosted by the South- ley. This is definitely one you will not want to miss. More in- east Region in Charlotte, NC. But this year, we are hoping formation will be provided, soon. someone else will take the lead for organizing the 2020 SER We hope these one-day trips will actually bring more peo- Regional Meeting. ple together since they are much less work for the organizer The responsibilities of the Chair for a regional meeting in- and less of a time commitment for people attending. If you clude negotiating with hotel and caterers; lining up speakers; are interested in arranging a tour of your garden and a gar- finding two to four gardens to tour; negotiating the bus con- den friend close to you this year, or if you have other ideas tract; and laying out the itinerary for the conference, which for a rendezvous, please contact me so we can set it up. The usually convenes on a Friday evening, with tours on Saturday. region in the past has not had many day trip meetings, and I Typically, between 70 and 125 people attend. There is also think this may be a great chance to see places that may not the auction that needs to be coordinated with the “Plant have enough densely conifer-related gardens for a Regional Wranglers” from each state, as well as setting up the auction Meeting but have enough to interest SER members for a sin- tables and making sure each plant has its bid sheet.
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