M i s s o u r i B o t a n i c a l G a r d e n bulletinFall 2012 Vol. 100, No. 4 www.mobot.org As a Garden member, did you know that: • You get free admission for two adults and all children 12 and under to the Shaw Nature Reserve and Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House? • You get free admission to the Children’s Garden all day Tuesday, President’s and from 9 a.m. to noon, Wednesday and Saturday? (Closed November–March) photo by Koraley Northen Comment • Special members’ days entitle you to exclusive events and activities, By all measurements, the Garden’s Lantern as well as free tram rides and discounts in the gift shop and café? Festival: Art by Day, Magic by Night exhibit this • You get free or reduced price admission to nearly 270 botanical summer has been a tremendous success. What’s gardens and arboreta in the U.S. and Canada? even more remarkable is how successful it was These are only a few of the benefits of membership. If you upgrade in spite of the extreme heat. The entire region your membership, you get even more! Visit us at www.mobot.org/ weathered temperatures reaching into the triple membership, e-mail [email protected], or call (314) 577-5118. digits, but that didn’t stop more than 100,000 visitors from heading to the Garden to experience Board of Trustees the spectacular sets lit up for evening display. Officers Bert D. Condie III Lise Herren Chair Prof. Sir Peter R. Crane FRS Sheila Hoffmeister Nearly 6,000 people joined or renewed their W. Stephen Maritz L. B. Eckelkamp, Jr. Leslie P. Hood memberships during the festival as well. This type Vice Chair M. Peter Fischer Maureen R. Jennings Cheryl P. Morley Marilyn R. Fox Ellen E. Jones of support helps make it possible to continue our President Robert R. Hermann Janet B. Lange mission to discover and protect the world’s plant Peter S. Wyse Jackson, M.A., Edward D. Higgins Mary V. Longrais Ph.D., FLS Paula M. Keinath Parker B. McMillan biodiversity. Some of that work is being done in President Emeritus Rosalyn H. Kling Isabelle C. Morris places like Bolivia; the Garden’s Madidi Project, Peter H. Raven, Ph.D. Robert E. Kresko Gale Murphy June M. Kummer Jacquelin S. Naunheim led by Dr. Peter Jørgensen, was recently profiled Members Lucy L. Lopata Mary Neher Mrs. Walter F. Ballinger II James S. McDonnell III Anita D. O’Connell in the journal Science (see page 7). Catherine B. Berges Helen E. Nash, M.D. Sue B. Oertli A great deal of work to preserve biodiversity Daniel A. Burkhardt Evelyn Edison Newman Sue M. Rapp Arnold W. Donald Roy Pfautch Susan N. Rowe takes place right here at the Garden. One of Lelia J. Farr Mabel L. Purkerson, M.D. Sammy Ann Ruwitch the most striking examples was the blooming Sharon D. Fiehler Lucianna G. Ross* Marsha J. Rusnack Robert R. Hermann, Jr. Anthony F. Sansone, Sr. Nancy L. Sauerhoff of not one, but two Amorphophallus titanum David M. Hollo Joseph F. Shaughnessy Ron Schlapprizzi plants (see page 6) this summer. The species is David W. Kemper Robert B. Smith III Susie Littmann Schulte Charles E. Kopman Nora R. Stern Kathleen Smith threatened by habitat loss in its native Sumatra; Hal A. Kroeger William K.Y. Tao, D.Sc. Celeste D. Sprung by growing them here we can raise awareness of Carolyn W. Losos George E. Thoma, M.D. Carol A. Squires Daniel J. Ludeman Jack E. Thomas Susan Squires Goldschmidt this issue. Cynthia S. Peters Jane S. Tschudy Brent St. John Nicholas L. Reding John K. Wallace, Jr. Nora R. Stern Although Lantern Festival has drawn to Steven C. Roberts O. Sage Wightman III Elizabeth Teasdale a close and the spectacular set pieces have Marsha J. Rusnack Roma B. Wittcoff Jane S. Tschudy Rakesh Sachdev Douglas R. Wolter left the grounds, the Garden is continuing Scott C. Schnuck Honorary to celebrate its year of China. This October, Rex A. Sinquefield Surinder M. Sehgal, Ph.D. Botanical Garden Subdistrict of the Nancy R. Siwak Metropolitan Zoological Park and China will be the focus of the 59th annual Andrew C. Taylor Members’ Board Museum District Systematics Symposium, hosted here at the Eugene M. Toombs Laure B. Hullverson, President Theresa Loveless Mary Ella Alfring John C. McPheeters Garden. Systematics is the study of the diversity Ex Officio Ann M. Bowen Marcia B. Mellitz of life and the relationships among living things Rev. Lawrence Biondi, S. J. Eileen M. Carr Martin Schweig The Hon. Charlie A. Dooley Ann L. Case Pamela Shephard through time, and this year’s conference will Myrtle E.B. Dorsey, Ph.D. Sue Cohen Walter G. Stern Thomas F. George, Ph.D. Kristen Cornett Marjorie M. Weir highlight the Flora of China project, which is Benjamin H. Hulsey Andrea Craig Roy Jerome Williams, Sr. nearing completion after 25 years of work. The Hon. Francis G. Slay Jeanne P. Crawford Robert M. Williams, Jr. The Rt. Rev. George Wayne Smith Janelle Criscione Hillary B. Zimmerman Richard T. Sullivan, Jr. Angela Dalton Mark S. Wrighton, Ph.D. Jean C. Davis Non-voting advisory members: Mary Kay Denning Willie J. Meadows Members Emeriti Ellen Dubinsky Janice M. Nelson Dr. Peter Wyse Jackson, Clarence C. Barksdale Audrey Feuerbacher James H. Yemm President John H. Biggs Linda M. Finerty Francis Yueh Stephen F. Brauer Michael C. Heim William H.T. Bush Janice A. Hermann * deceased

2 Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin Fall 2012 Garden Hours The Garden is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day except December 25.

Outdoor walking hours begin at 7 a.m. Wednesday and Saturday (except during signature events). Contents General Admission $8 ($4 for residents of St. Louis City and County); children 12 and under are free. 8 A Living Garden members receive free admission (based on level). Museum Technology transforms plant Children’s Garden: $5 for children; adults collections management. admitted free. ($3 for Garden members’ children.) Members’ children admitted free on Tuesdays. Open April through October. Contact Missouri Botanical Garden 10 The Art 4344 Shaw Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63110 (314) 577-5100 • www.mobot.org of Pruning Next to watering, it may be On the Cover: the most important thing you Japanese Garden in fall. do for your plants. Photo by Emily Amberger. Credits Editor: Jeff Ricker President’s Comment...... 2 Designer: Ellen Flesch ©2012 Missouri Botanical Garden News ...... 4 The Bulletin is a benefit of Garden membership. The BULLETIN (ISSN 0026-6507) is published Butterfly House...... 11 quarterly by the Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63110. Shaw Nature Reserve...... 12 Periodicals postage paid at St. Louis, MO Tributes ...... 13 POSTMASTER: Please send address changes to Bulletin, Missouri Botanical Garden, Seen at the Garden...... 16 P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299 Events ...... 18 Sustainability Calendar...... 20 The Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin is printed on paper containing 100% post-consumer recycled content, that is, paper that you might have placed in the recycle bin in your home or office this year. It is manufactured using wind power, a renewable energy source. We print locally, so there is no long-haul transportation, and we’re reinvesting in our community. We work hard to choose the most environmentally responsible paper around. So if you aren’t quite ready to go completely electronic with our online version, you can still enjoy your paper Bulletin in good conscience. Once you’ve read it, please recycle.

To discover and share knowledge about plants and their environment

photo by Kimberly Bretz in order to preserve and enrich life. – mission of the Missouri Botanical Garden News Monsanto Helps Fund World Flora Online The Missouri Botanical Garden has received a three-year, $3 million Representatives met at the Garden July 16–18 to discuss strategy for creating the World Flora online by 2020. gift from Monsanto Company to (photo by Kaitlyn Mauro) support its work on the development Consortium to Tackle World Flora Project of a World Flora Online. A three-day conference held July 16–18 at the Missouri Botanical The World Flora is an Garden hosted 34 individuals from botanical institutions in 17 countries international collaborative effort to who met to discuss how to achieve the goal of creating an online World develop the first-ever comprehensive Flora by 2020. At the conclusion of the meeting, attendees agreed on online resource for the world’s terms to establish a consortium encompassing all of the world’s major approximately 400,000 known botanical institutions to work together toward meeting this target of the plant species. Monsanto’s support Global Strategy for Plant Conservation. will fund the Garden’s contributions “I was very pleased by the optimism and sense of comradeship shared to this endeavor from 2012 to 2015. by the attendees,” said Garden President Dr. Peter Wyse Jackson. “The proposed World Flora Online will be an invaluable, together to support the development “As the students conduct their accessible treatment of the world’s of a World Flora Online. They work, they educate their classmates, plant diversity that will act as a will be joined in this work by a making students in each of the three baseline to support global efforts to large number of other botanical schools aware of the research and identify, safeguard, sustainably use, institutions worldwide. ways to make their schools and lives and manage plants for humankind,” more sustainable.” said Garden President Dr. Peter Wells Fargo Supports Wyse Jackson. “The importance of Green Schools Program Garden Receives NSF Monsanto Company’s funding for Thanks to support from Wells Grant for Undergraduate this international endeavor cannot Fargo Advisors, Missouri Botanical be overstated.” Research Program Garden educators were able to work In 2002, the United Nations Ten undergraduate students from with students in the St. Louis Public Convention on Biological Diversity Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Schools during the 2011–2012 adopted a Global Strategy for South Dakota, and Puerto Rico spent school year through the Green Plant Conservation (GSPC). This ten weeks in St. Louis this summer Schools Program. was subsequently updated in 2010 conducting research projects under Over 250 students at Dunbar with the aim of halting the loss of the mentorship of Missouri Botanical Elementary School, L’Ouverture plant species worldwide by 2020. Garden Ph.D. scientists, thanks to a Middle School, and Vashon High The online flora is the first of 16 three-year, $338,878 grant from the School participated through targets identified by the GSPC to be National Science Foundation (NSF). classroom lessons, student- achieved by 2020. The Research Experiences for conducted green school audits, and In 2012 the Missouri Undergraduates Program (REU) student projects. Botanical Garden; New York allows students to work on “Students and staff at all three Botanical Garden; Royal Botanic independent mentored projects in schools were very excited about Garden Edinburgh; and Royal plant systematics, conservation the program,” said Kim Petzing, Botanic Gardens, Kew signed a biology, and ethnobotany. REU supervisor of education programs Memorandum of Understanding students train in all aspects of for the Garden’s EarthWays Center. detailing their intent to work

4 Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin Fall 2012 scientific research, from project 40 30 design to presentation of results. years years “The REU program fills an open niche at the Missouri Botanical Garden,” said Dr. David Bogler, assistant curator at the Garden and principal investigator (PI) and coordinator of the REU program. “We have educational programs 20 for K–12 students and graduate years students, and now an active program for undergraduates.” Power Up with Essence Stop by Essence Healthcare’s “Power Up” booth in Ridgway Visitor Center on Wednesday and Saturday mornings, September 5–26, from 7 to 11 a.m. You’ll 10 receive tips for healthy living, years information on Garden walking 40 years—Dr. Peter Wyse Jackson, Kaye Quentin. 30 years—Arden Fisher, Joan Murphy, Barbara Ottolini, Dr. Wyse routes, and a healthy snack to Jackson, Marie Schmitz, Sue Reisel. 20 years—first row: Dorothy Ernst, Barbara Lawton, Kay Banks, Pat O’Brien, Dr. Wyse Jackson, Al Bedford, Cindy Stein, Cherie Moody, Madeline Pisani; second row: Barbara Mutz, Mary Ann Hogan, “power up” your Garden walk. Caroline Sant, Norma Holler, Wilma Wienold, Maureen Helfers, Priscilla Rodriguez; third row: Gail Abbott, Ray Kirkman. Not pictured: John Kolar, Deborah Ladd. 10 years—first row, from left: Alison O’Brien, Elizabeth Murney, Lois Volunteer Appreciation Cromwell, Rose Marie “Skip” Smith, Jean Rosenfeld, Eileen Carr, Pat Kloster, Carol Gravens, Mary Jo Anderson, Marti Evening Warhurst; second row: Richard Pandorf, Harold Tennyson, Norma Horn, Betty LeMatty, Virgil Mann, Marilyn Heller, On May 21, the Garden saluted Kathy Young, Linda Thomas; third row: Dr. Wyse Jackson. Not pictured: Dale Albers, Lois Brinkmeyer, Peggy Burris, its volunteers during our annual Susan Chaires, Diana Cohn, Cindy Cross, Evie Dickerman, Carolyn Gildehaus, Monica Hartenstine, Diana Haynes, Gary Karpinski, Lynn Kiske, Karl Kleekamp, Jack Lane, Steven Linford, Carolee Martin, Sue McCool, Terry Milne, Nancy Volunteer Appreciation Evening. Parker, Ve’Niecy Pearman-Green, Anne Ragland, Fred Rauch, Cyndy Reynolds, Brian Sadlo, Norma Schechter, John Dr. Peter Wyse Jackson presented Solodar, Ron Stevens, Beverly Thiele, Doug Wolter. (photos by Chris Norton) special awards to the following outstanding individuals and groups: Volunteer Service Recognition • Sue Rogers, Commitment Award To say the Garden would be lost without its volunteers is not much of • Donna Olson, Dedication Award an exaggeration. In 2011, 1,916 people volunteered nearly 152,000 hours • Michael Schade, Extra Service of their time to the Garden. That’s the equivalent of 78 full-time staff. On Hours Award May 24, the Garden celebrated the commitment of these volunteers at the • Ron Stevens, Green Award annual volunteer service recognition luncheon. • Dave Tognoni, Rookie Volunteer 40 years of service: Kaye Quentin began volunteering for the Garden of the Year Award in 1972. When she started in the Climatron®, one of her first tasks was • Gary Hartman, Special raking leaves. She moved on to the Plant Records department a few years Achievement Award later, where she continues to volunteer her time. In the late 1970s when • St. Louis Herb Society, Group the Garden’s plant collections records migrated to computerized format, Excellence Award she helped convert over a hundred years of paper records to database. She • Ann Case, Lifetime Achievement continues to help record when plants in the collection move or die, track Award plant labels, and more.

Fall 2012 Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin 5 News continued nations in the world. “That can go a long way in helping us to feed this community where we work.” The Garden’s William L. Brown Center is dedicated to the study of useful plants and the preservation of traditional knowledge. The Big Stink: Two Titan Arums Bloom Since the plant Amorphophallus The first of two titan arums blooms in the Linnean Alyse Kuhlman (left) of the Garden’s William L. Brown titanum was discovered in Sumatra House. (photo by Chris Norton) Center meets with Ellie Justus to receive her donation nearly 120 years ago, fewer than for Madagascar cyclone relief. initiatives to $104,000 over the last 160 bloomings have occurred 11 years. among the specimens in cultivation. 11-year-old Pitches in Donations from the ECF have They bloom rarely and only under supported volunteer program for Cyclone Relief Drive just the right conditions. That’s When cyclone Giovanna growth and management, why this past summer was a lucky swept through the island nation homeowner sustainability time at the Garden, because not one of Madagascar February 13, education, the Green Resources but two of these plants, commonly thousands of people lost their Answer Service, and development called the titan arum or corpse homes and more than two dozen of educational exhibits and videos. flower, bloomed here. people were killed. The devastation Most recently, the ECF provided The specimens were gifted to also wiped out the nation’s rice funding for a planning study to the Garden’s president emeritus, crop and many fruit trees, leaving examine how best to demonstrate Dr. Peter Raven, in 2008 from countless citizens vulnerable to sustainability resources to Huntington Botanical Gardens in starvation. The Garden’s William visitors at the Missouri Botanical California. When they do flower, L. Brown Center conducts Garden. The study will also the plants emit an intense, foul odor community-based conservation consider future education and that lasts about 24 hours. The first projects in Madagascar and began community outreach programs. specimen bloomed in May and was collecting donations to help with displayed in the Linnean House. relief, and that’s when Ellie Justus The second bloomed a month later decided to get involved. in the Climatron®. 11-year-old Ellie, whose parents Chuck and Amy are Garden Donations from Boeing members, heard Alyse Kuhlman, Employee Fund Reach the Brown Center’s Madagascar Ethnobotany Program coordinator, $104,000 discussing the devastation on The Employees Community television. Ellie began collecting Fund (ECF) of Boeing St. Louis donations at school, which she recently made a gift of $17,000 to presented to Kuhlman June 15. the Garden’s EarthWays Center, As little as $5 or $10, Kuhlman bringing its total support of the Representatives from the Boeing Employees Community Garden’s sustainability education Fund present a check to the Garden symbolizing their said, can make a big difference in support of the EarthWays Center. (photo by Chris Norton) Madagascar, one of the poorest

6 Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin Fall 2012 Barbecue Rub Yield: 1 cup 2 Tablespoons Kosher salt 4 Tablespoons brown sugar From the Garden’s Grill 4 Tablespoons ground cumin 2 Tablespoons freshly ground black pepper Sure, summer is the traditional season 2 Tablespoons chili powder to break out the grill, but the last place 4 Tablespoons paprika anyone wanted to be this summer was 4 Tablespoons dried parsley flakes in front of hot coals when the mercury topped the century mark. As autumn Combine all the ingredients in a medium mixing bowl. ushers in cooler temperatures, though, Stir with a whisk to blend. Store in a tightly covered jar. make up for lost time with chef Diana Use this rub on ribs, pork steaks, or chicken. Simply rub a generous amount into the meat, then roast or grill. Smith’s barbecue rub—all of the flavor, For ribs: Rub the ribs on both sides with the BBQ rub. none of the heatstroke. Place ribs on a baking sheet in a preheated 175 oven for 3 hours. Do not bother to turn them, because these ribs are being slow cooked and infused with the spices. Remove Learn more: the ribs from the oven. They can be grilled immediately or Join Diana Smith for her class, Gifts from the Kitchen, refrigerated, covered, for up to two days. on Saturday, November 10 at 10 a.m. Diana will teach Grill over a low charcoal fire with the rack set as high how to make last-minute hostess or thank-you gifts, as possible. Allow a light crust to form on the ribs before from chocolate-dipped candied orange peels to Creole turning them over. Once the ribs are heated through and seasoning. $35 members; $42 nonmembers. For information or to register, visit www.mobot.org/classes. have a nice crust on each side, remove them from the grill, slice between the bones and serve.

“The grants from the Employees biology at Washington University; project, led by Garden Curator Community Fund of Boeing St. Memory is a professor of Dr. Peter Jørgensen, has been Louis, reviewed and awarded by microbiology and ethnobotany and ongoing for ten years. Boeing employee teams, are a adjunct professor of biology. The Researchers have been measuring unique vote of support for the work honorary degrees were presented tree growth to determine how of our EarthWays Center,” said during spring congregation at UBC, tree species have been reacting to Glenda Abney, the center’s director. their alma mater, on May 26. changes in their environment and human activity. Elevation in the University Awards Garden Madidi Project Featured park ranges from 180 to 6,000 Botanist Honorary Degree in Science meters above sea level, allowing The University of British An article in the journal Science researchers to observe whether trees Columbia (UBC) recently awarded recently featured the Missouri are shifting their range instead of honorary Doctor of Science degrees Botanical Garden’s Madidi adapting in place. to Walter Lewis and Memory Elvin- Project, highlighting the study The article appeared in the Lewis. Walter Lewis is a senior in the Madidi National Park of July 20, 2012 issue of Science. botanist at the Missouri Botanical Bolivia to document the effect of Garden and emeritus professor of climate change on tree species. The

Fall 2012 Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin 7 A Living Museum Technology Transforms Plant Collections Management

t’s probably no surprise that the the Garden—with a geographic Mobile technology allows IMissouri Botanical Garden keeps information system (GIS). This Horticulture staff to monitor track of every plant within its walls. involves merging database information and record changes to plants’ conditions directly into a database Botanical gardens have kept records with maps, making it easy to analyze from anywhere in the Garden. of their living collections for hundreds and share data between departments, of years, dating as far back as the with other institutions, and with 16th century. visitors to the Garden. “The Garden is not just a pretty The Plant Records staff keeps park. We’re a living museum,” said track of nearly every plant that enters Rebecca Sucher, living collections the Garden. The database records manager at the Garden. “As such, we whether it was purchased, donated, curate our plant collections.” or collected in the wild and, if it was Only in recent decades, though, wild-collected, the latitude, longitude, have plant records gone digital. altitude, and so on. The Garden is currently integrating All those data tell a story, even if its plant collections database—the it’s as simple as what to find where in record of every plant grown at the Garden.

8 Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin Summer 2012 The Garden is working with the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona on this project, thanks to a grant DBG received from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to create a centralized GIS database for its living plant collections. The Garden has also received a $25,000 grant from the National Park Service’s National Center for Preservation Technology and Training to develop, test, and disseminate a system to facilitate data gathering on living collections. This would allow data to be gathered and entered directly into a web-based data form from a computer tablet for inventory management and outreach purposes. All gardens are struggling with records management, Sucher said. There is no single standard recordkeeping format, which makes sharing of data cumbersome. “Nobody knows what everyone else has,” she said, By merging database information with mapping tools, GIS users can pinpoint “which makes collaboration on threatened species individual plants anywhere in the Garden, as well as features such as benches, sculptures—even sprinkler heads and electrical outlets—and use that data conservation projects extremely difficult.” for analysis. The Garden is using ArcGIS software created by ESRI, a California-based technology company. a participatory one that prompts, questions, and Working out in the Garden, staff can use a tablet such as challenges, she said. It would also allow visitors an iPad to update a plant’s record including information to share their own experiences through interactive about its condition, whether it’s been moved, or if it’s features accessible online and via smartphones. The died. The database gets updated without even having to Garden is working this year on the pilot phase of the set foot in an office and turn on a computer. “MyGuide” series of visitor engagement tools and Garden staff is currently building the core database tactics, thanks to a grant and technical expertise for this project. The Garden has just been awarded provided by Maritz. a grant from the William T. Kemper Foundation— The plant collections database can also share Commerce Bank, Trustee, to complete Phase I of information with Tropicos®, the world’s largest the project. The Garden also won a Museums for botanical database, said Chris Freeland, a research America grant from IMLS to create database modules associate and former director of the Garden’s Center for greenhouse tracking, Gardening Help, and for Biodiversity Informatics. A visitor to the Garden conservation management. might learn about a plant in the collection, then scan a There’ll be an app for that QR (Quick Read) code on the plant’s label to find out where other species of the same type of plant occur all Putting this kind of information in the hands of over the world. If it’s available, they could even pull up visitors, in a user-friendly format, would give them pictures of the plant in its native habitat and tips from the potential to customize their visit to the Garden in Gardening Help on how to grow it here. ways that are personally relevant, said Sheila Voss, That’s the goal, at least, Freeland said. The Garden vice president of Education. “While the Garden has is actively seeking additional funding to bring all the important stories, knowledge and ideas to share, so do benefits of this system to fruition. our visitors,” she said. “It will be rolled out gradually, and the results will Incorporating plant database information keep users of the website and visitors to the Garden into customizable visitor guides and educational engaged,” he said. materials will transform the visitor experience into

Fall 2012 Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin 9 The Art of Pruning Learn more Join Ben Chu for “Basic Pruning,” offered Thursday, September 27, 7 to 9 p.m., at the Garden. Find out when and how to prune, correct damage from pests, see a live pruning demonstration, and more. $25 members, $30 nonmembers. For information or to sign up, visit www.mobot.org/ classes.

o many gardeners, pruning is a mysterious The first priority in pruning is to remove T and misunderstood art. Next to watering, branches that are dead, dying, or diseased. though, it may be one of the most This prevents the potential spread of rot and important things you do for your plants. disease into the healthy part of the plant. Many trees produce two types of Pruning involves removing part of a plant undesirable growth from latent buds: water for the benefit of the whole plant. You may sprouts, which grow vertically from the by Benjamin Chu, be removing dead, dying, or diseased parts; Horticulture Supervisor— trunk; and root suckers, which start at South Gardens helping maintain an open plant crown for the roots. Both grow vigorously and can good air and sunlight penetration; directing quickly overtake the plant, robbing it of and encouraging growth; or increasing important nutrients. Remove them at their flower and fruit production. point of origin. There are three types of pruning cuts: Unpruned trees often develop branches • Drop-crotch cuts—used to remove the that compete for space and sunlight. In time, terminal end of a branch to a lateral branch; some branches are shaded out and may also used for height and size reduction. die. Remove competing branches that will • Thinning cuts—used to remove a have the least impact on the overall crown lateral branch to its point of origin on a appearance, density, and symmetry. Prune to branch or to the trunk; also used to reduce establish good vertical spacing of branches over-crown density. along the length of the trunk and radial • Heading cuts—made indiscriminately spacing of branches around the trunk. along the stem, typically when shearing Pruning requires practice and hedges or creating formal shapes. Heading observation. Be patient and begin slowly. cuts should never be made on a mature tree, It’s always better to remove too little than which results in the production of poorly too much. Follow the steps outlined above, attached, weak wooded stems that are prone and you’ll produce a healthy, vigorous plant to breakage. Often referred to as “topping.” for many years of enjoyment.

10 Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin Fall 2012 Butterfly House

Outstanding Owls and Orchids

Dusk settles on the Costa Rican watch these magnificent butterflies rainforest. The air begins to cool as fly in pairs and trios around our BOOTERFLIES the sun sets, and animals begin to conservatory. The sheer number Saturday and Sunday, seek a quiet place to pass the night. of butterflies in flight offers an October 20 and 21, Suddenly there’s a flash of wings and astounding air show like no other. noon to 3 p.m. three massive shapes speed through Each Tuesday evening will also • Hunt for our costumed giant the air right at eye level. They seem feature a 30-minute informal talk insects (pretend, much too large to be butterflies, but on owl butterflies, rainforests, and of course) as they play “Hide and Peek” they are! This is the owl butterfly, other topics. The talk is included throughout the Butterfly Conservatory. the largest butterfly found in the with Butterfly House admission. Find all eight insects and receive a New World. Unlike most butterflies, The butterflies are accompanied special “I Spy a Booterfly” sticker. the owl only flies at dusk and dawn, by over 200 blooming orchids. a behavioral pattern known as The orchids’ fantastic colors and • Visit the Orange Headed Carnival crepuscular activity. spectacular shapes delight the senses. to see how they celebrate Halloween The Butterfly House is hosting Some orchids also produce beautiful cockroach style. 1,000 owl butterflies every day aromas that fill the tropical air with • Make a play-dough maze for a life-like during the month of October. The fragrance. We will have a wide variety ladybug or cockroach and race them to owl butterfly gets its name from the of arboreal and terrestrial orchids on the finish line. large eyespot on each hind wing that display. Orchids will also be available • Create crafts and play games such as startles predators into thinking it is for purchase in the Madame Butterfly “Creepy Crawly Spider Neckband” and much fiercer than it really is. Gift Shop. “Sink a Stick Bug.” Come during the day and you will October Owls and Orchids is a • Come dressed in costume and receive a find huge groups of owl butterflies fabulous treat that can be seen only goody bag to take home. feeding from mashed-up bananas on at the Butterfly House, October 1–31, (Designed for little goblins ages 3 to 10. tree trunks. Each Tuesday night, join 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed Mondays and Included with Butterfly House admission.) us as we stay open until 7 p.m. to open Tuesdays until 7 p.m.

Fall 2012 Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin 11 Shaw Nature Reserve The wetlands area adjacent to Brush Creek. The Reserve is creating an 85-acre wetlands mitigation bank in the Meramec River flood plain. (photo by Emily Amberger) ‘Banking’ on Wetlands Approximately 87% of Missouri’s to be authorized by the Corps. If Prairie Day wetlands have been destroyed since the impacts are considered unavoidable, Saturday, September 15, first European settlers began to carve a compensation is required to mitigate for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., living from the state’s woodlands, prairies, lost wetland functions and value. One Shaw Nature Reserve and bottomland forests. The United States solution is to buy wetland credits from an has lost half its wetlands and continues to approved “wetland bank.” Hitch up the wagons lose 60,000 acres annually. and head out to this Shaw Nature Reserve, with support fun-filled family event Wetlands are considered the most from the Edward K. Love Conservation portraying prairie heritage biologically diverse of all ecosystems, Foundation, is working with the through activities and serving as home to a wide range of plant Corps to create an 85-acre wetland demonstrations. Hike and animal life. When rivers overflow, mitigation bank in the Meramec River the Reserve’s 250-acre wetlands help absorb and slow floodwaters. flood plain. The bank will contain tallgrass prairie, play They also absorb excess nutrients, 34 acres of wetland, a 39-acre prairie pioneer games, see sediment, and pollutants before they reach buffer, and a 12-acre tree planting. craft demonstrations, rivers, lakes, and other water bodies. This bank will contain 46 credits and more. Sponsored Wetlands are great spots for fishing, that entities can purchase to mitigate for by the Reserve and the canoeing, hiking, and birdwatching, and impacts to wetland habitat in the Meramec Missouri Department of they make wonderful outdoor classrooms River watershed. The sale of credits is Conservation. Admission: for people of all ages. monitored by the Corps, but the revenue $3 Garden members and Governmental agencies and conservation Reserve passholders; generated will be used for ecological $6 nonmembers 16 and organizations are working to stop the restoration activities at the Reserve. Over older; $2 for children 15 loss of wetlands. Under the Clean Water time, the wetland bank will generate and under. Information: Act, the Army Corps of Engineers approximately $1 million in revenue, along (636) 451-3512. regulates and enforces policy related with critically needed wetland habitat and to wetlands. Any projects that impact important water quality benefits for the wetlands must be deemed unavoidable Meramec River watershed.

12 Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin Fall 2012 Tributes April through Mr. and Mrs. John A. Jurgiel In Memory of Mrs. Helen D. Crane Dr. Lance Gerowin, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Ken Kunze June 2012 Mr. and Mrs. Steve Tsangalias Mr. Hugh R. Law Ms. Martha S. Gersten Mr. John Snodgrass Mrs. Jean M. Ade Mrs. Lori L. Strawbridge A tribute gift to the Garden Mr. Thomas Kerby Mr. and Mrs. James G. Organ Ms. Slyvia Cytron Mr. Stanley Goodman is a wonderful way to honor Ms. Joan E. Allison Ms. Martha S. Gersten Mr. and Mrs. Richard Halpern Mr. Emil Jacob family and friends. Tributes Dr. Daryl J. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Jay M. Lapin Carl E. Darigo Mrs. Mary L. Gossett Ms. Kathie Lauher and of $25 or more are listed Ms. Leah Rubin Mr. and Mrs. Perry N. Sparks Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Remack Ms. Willodean Doyle Ms. Susan Petersen in the Bulletin. If you have Lisa Anic William and Ruth Mattingly Alma Sigan Karpf questions regarding giving Mr. Steven L. Lopata Mr. Kenneth DeSio Mr. and Mrs. John Westermeyer Mr. and Mrs. George Leontsinis opportunities at the Garden, Ms. Ruth Rosenberg The Johnson Family Mrs. Kathleen Greenwald Mrs. Patty Barnard please call (314) 577-0805. Mr. and Ms. Bruce H. Aydt Dr. William S. Knowles Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Marqulis Dr. and Mrs. William G. Mrs. Frances Desloge You can also make a tribute Mr. and Mrs. Jim Belval Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Diggs, Jr. Ms. Martha S. Gersten Juergens Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Kresko gift online at our website, Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Biskup Arden and Harry Fisher Dr. and Mrs. Kurt D. Merkel Mr. B. Buddy Deutch www.mobot.org. Ms. Mary J. Bauer Mr. and Mrs. Robert Broderick Mrs. Frances Frey Mrs. Vida S. Sax Dr. Rosalyn Schultz Mr. and Mrs. Roger N. Mr. and Mrs. Willie Epps Mrs. Anita Graves Jungclaus Mr. and Mrs. Theodore In Honor of Mr. and Mrs. Sandford J. Miss Elsie Becker Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Miller Mr. James Deyo Greenwald Grayson Dr. and Mrs. Bruce Allen Mr. and Mrs. William Stern Dr. and Mrs. Leon R. Robison III Mrs. Hilary Engelhardt Mr. and Mrs. Walter Greenwald Mrs. H. Ivis Johnston Dr. Ronald A. Pursell Mr. Ronald Beer Ms. Janis Hopkins-Nugent Mr. and Mrs. Bill McNealy Ms. Arlene R. Nazzoli and Mr. Mr. Terrence W. Dougherty Paul and Ann Arenberg Mrs. Doris E. Fugman The Kramer Family Mrs. Kim J. Mester David Tognor Mrs. Judy Bolian Mr. Steven Arenberg Mrs. Nancy Mager Monsanto 3rd Tuesday St. Louis College of Pharmacy Mr. David W. Bense Mr. and Mrs. Julian L. Carr, Jr. The Mars Family Luncheon Group Ms. Mary L. Brown and Automobile Club of Southern Mrs. Ann Case Mr. and Mrs. Shane Rousan Mr. and Mrs. Jeff P. Matis Mr. James Sikorski Mr. Elbert Williams California (AAA) Mrs. Sondra E. Ellis Mrs. Sharon Watts McCarthy Building The Private Client Reserve Ms. Ann Tift Mrs. Cecelia M. Beyer Ms. Kathleen M. Ferrell Companies, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Wolff Ms. Jeanne Tift Mr. and Mrs. Raymond H. Ms. Jackie Juras Dr. and Mrs. William C. Finnie The Meyer Family Dr. and Mrs. Chris J. Schaper The St. Louis Master Gardeners Dr. and Mrs. Leonard J. Ms. Marguerite L. Burns The Morris Famiy Wunderlich Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Hollenbeck Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tucker Guarraia Kay Whitener Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Mr. and Mrs. Carl L. Hermann Mr. Mike Kodner Mr. and Mrs. Bob Busse Ms. Jean A. Biddle Mr. Richard A. Songer Scudieri Mrs. LaVerne N. Jaudes Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. Stern Mrs. Jane G. Webster Mr. Jeff Gaughan St. Louis Association of The Scudieri Family Larry and Nancy Kirchhoff Realtors Mrs. Katherine K. Krause Mrs. Ann Case Mrs. Adelaide Bitting MRH Junior High Mrs. Glenda Seldin Mrs. Magdalena Suter Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mrs. Lois Friedman Mrs. Katherine B. Piper Class of 1972 Mrs. Suzy Seldin Mr. and Mrs. Larry Walker Breugger, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas S. Kurten Mrs. Loretta Brewer Ms. Joyce C. Niewoehner Jim and Brenda Walters Mrs. Natalie R. Dohr The Pace Family Rev. Dan Shaughnessy Mrs. Marian R. Dean Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Proehl Roger, Sheri, and Nathaniel Izumi N. Mueller and Mr. and Mrs. Marc Vorih Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Boehm Mr. Joseph A. Rezny Mrs. Angela J. Brooks Whitfield F. E. Stary Webster Groves Garden Club Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Bill and Ruby Smith Mr. Sylvester Brooks Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Wood Ms. Noriko Murata Mrs. Betty Cohn and Mrs. J. M. Leonhardt Schutte Mrs. JoAnn Bruns Mr. and Mrs. William Stern Wayne and Helen Hanisch Ann Kubon Mr. Paul Browning Mr. Walter G. Stern Mrs. Judith Tracy Mr. and Mrs. Paul Watson Ms. Nancy S. Swoboda Frances, Mike, John, Bev, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rawlings Ms. Nancy R. Burke and Macha Mrs. Ruth J. Buschart Ms. Karen Wilkinson Mrs. Ellen Dubinsky Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Mrs. Anne Hind St. Louis County Library Staff Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Schulte Dubinsky Ms. Joyce Dunn Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Association Mr. and Mrs. William B. Buschart Ms. Doris Hendrickson Crawford Mrs. Debbie Frager Ms. Linda Lee Eiseman, Jr. Mrs. Elaine Butterfield Ms. Nancy D. Linn Mrs. Barbara J. Liberman Mrs. Jane K. Early Dr. and Mrs. Ira J. Kodner Lynn Hamilton and Mrs. Pamela Finch Mrs. Carol Hoogland Mrs. Patricia A. Holt Mrs. Irene Francisco Michael Freund Mrs. George R. Robinson Mrs. Eileen Carr Ms. Annamarie C. Leung Mr. Jack Egel Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Mr. and Mrs. Richard Halpern Chris and Marilyn Leung Ms. Bonnie C. Campbell Ms. Joyce C. Niewoehner K. Reid Mr. and Mrs. Daniel L. Gravens Devon Torrence Mrs. Lynne M. Campbell Mr. Selwyn Hotchner Doris and David Lichtenstein Ms. Carole Ewald Mr. David Frank Dr. and Mrs. Richard Blath Dr. Bruce C. Harris Ms. Barbara R. Cannas Fred and Marti Reichman Mr. and Mrs. Herbert M. Talcoff Mrs. J. M. Leonhardt Mr. and Mrs. James K. Mrs. Beverly J. Austin Charitable Fund Mr. Mark F. Litteken Mrs. Sally Harrison Mr. Edgar T. Farmer Ms. Elizabeth A. Nieters Van Buren Mrs. Maxine Carmichael Mrs. Betty J. Hueser Mrs. Suzy Seldin Ms. Jill Gilbert Mr. and Mrs. Bernard G. Stever Mr. and Mrs. Raymond H. Ms. Betty Murray Mrs. Barbara Lykens Mary and Charles Fisher Jennifer and Tom Hillman Matt Viverito Schaper Mr. James E. Hullverson, Sr. Mrs. Suzanne Stein Ms. Shirley Blaul Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hillman Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Schreiber Mr. and Mrs. Terry E. Schnuck Mr. Craig H. Clearman Mr. and Mrs. Lee A. Mr. J.D. MacCallum Mr. and Mrs. James L. Mrs. Patricia A. Wilson Suddenlink Brandenburger Mrs. Marion Hungerford Parkview Horticultural Society Hoagland Ms. Janet Wilson Mr. Tony W. Cole Ms. Carolyn Elliott Carolyn and Joseph Losos Cornelius and Catherine Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. Stern Mrs. Ann Duvall Wyatt Mrs. Betty J. Cole Ms. Alice C. Fisher Mr. Grant E. Hurford Mannhard Mrs. Barbara Johnson Mr. and Mrs. J. Bruce Duvall Mrs. Doris Flowers Ms. Marilyn Mannhard Mr. Ivan Coric Mrs. Madeleine Breen Mrs. Sherrill A. Boardman Mr. and Mrs. John D. Gray Mrs. Brenda K. Zanola Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Mrs. Charmaine Hurford Mrs. Elizabeth “Betsy” Martin Mr. and Mrs. L. Ranney Mrs. Roberta S. Dearing Melnick Mr. Donald L. Flynn Dr. and Mrs. David Hurford Dr. and Mrs. James R. Wiant Dohogne Ms. Suzanne Frisse

Fall 2012 Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin 13 Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Mr. George Steinmetz Zaccarello Charles E. Mahoney CO Ms. Pauline Reidt Keller Constructuon, INC. Ms. Amanda Kist Mr. and Mrs. Dennis R. Koch The Charles K. Mahoney Mrs. Helen Reiner Family Mr. and Mrs. Jim Spray Mr. and Mrs. Harlan E. Mayes Ms. Mary K. Ricketts RCS Construction First Capitol Garden Club Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Seely Mrs. Alice Riggs Helen and Edward Sullivan Mrs. Amy Fix Mrs. Carol M. Brook Ms. Rosalyn Olinger Dorothy Mae Sweet Mrs. Mary E. Pitcher Ms. Nancy Helms Ms. Jean Roseman Mrs. Millie Thoele Mrs. Helen Neal Simon Mrs. Dolores M. Wente Ms. Odette M. Ryan Mr. Robert C. Thumser, Jr. Ms. Mary Long Mrs. Marian R. Dean Mr. David Sacks Verna L. Trommerhausser Mrs. Eileen Carr Mr. and Mrs. Keith Steinhoff Ms. Mary C. Cerney and Mr. Kyle Cummings Mrs. Joan P. Tullington Melanie M. and Anthony E. The Kuchenbuch Family Fathman, M.D. Mr. Phillip Tyrrell Dr. and Mrs. William C. Mr. and Mrs. Lanny Smith Finnie Bonnie Veskerna Ms. Judith A. Harmon Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Loy Ms. Virginia Saputo Mrs. Carolyn Wallach Mrs. Marian R. Dean Joseph A. Corrado, M.D. Mr. Harley Sartain The Davenports Mr. Robert E. Hamilton, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William J. Falk Colonel Wesley C. Mr. John Wannemacher photo by Emily Amberger photo by Emily Scarborough Ms. Vivien T. Gardner Ms. Cathy Exarhos Mrs. Jane Weis Mr. Gerald Maschan Ms. Pamela Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. William B. Mrs. Nancy R. Primm Mrs. Rita Schneider Ms. Marge Adams, Dr. Scott Saracco and Mrs. Martha E. Johnston Papageorge Mrs. Catherine S. Bollinger Dr. Sharon Fitelson The Krus Family, and Dr. Peizhan Saracco Mr. and Mrs. William S. Ms. Marilyn K. Anderson Mrs. Margaret P. Collins Janie and David Smith The Godwin Family Knowles Mr. John E. Curby, Jr. Mr. Henry Matsutani Mr. John H. Payne, Jr. Cathy Trauernicht Mr. Jeffrey T. Demerath Monsanto 3rd Tuesday Mrs. Barbara Drey The Mitori Family Mrs. Katherine B. Piper Ms. Constance Lohr Luncheon Group Jane and David Haffner Freda Schuetz Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Wehling Mr. Leroy K. McKay The Morton Family Mr. Kenneth O. Peck and Family Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mrs. Claire K. Murray Mr. Robert O. Nellums, Jr. Missouri Botanical Garden– Mrs. Ginny Alfring Kalbach Hercules, Jr. Mr. Robert E. Whalen Docents Mr. and Mrs. Ray McLean Mr. Robert O. Nellums Mr. Stan Platke Lt. Roslyn Littman Schulte Mr. John W. Rowe Mrs. Ilene D. Murray Mr. and Mrs. Warren Nelson Mrs. Stella Pettus The Curbys, Mr. and Mrs. Jennifer and Tom Hillman Mrs. Anne Salvatori The Myron K. Peck Family Mrs. Barbara Drey John W. Rowe Ms. Norma Mentel Mr. Michael Sehnert Mrs. Leavera Wibbenmeyer Mr. Harry S. Scott Mr. Briggs A. Hoffmann, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Schaefer Mr. and Mrs. Steven Collins Eric and Mary Thoelke Robert and Judy Glasscock Mr. and Mrs. Hugh R. Law Mr. Arthur Stockstrom, Jr. Mr. Richard Neuman Ms. Ann Kathleen Wilder Mrs. Joan E. Merz Mr. and Mrs. James S. Mrs. Frances Thompson Mrs. Audrey Sherrard Mr. and Mrs. David Freyman Alice Steiger, Joe and Kris Mrs. Dolores M. Wente McDonnell III Ms. Elizabeth S. Van Dyke Mr. and Mrs. Jack Smith Mrs. Audrey Newell Steiger, Mary Steiger, Mrs. Derry C. Middelton Mr. and Mrs. Francis M. Oates Ms. Jackie K. Watson Mr. and Mrs. James Hersh Mrs. Ruth Sherwin Mikey Steiger, Rick Mr. and Mrs. Mark Lashly Mrs. Georgia Pierpont Mr. and Mrs. David Q. Wells, Jr. Larry’s co-workers at Steiger and Thom Gates, Mr. and Mrs. John Yacovelli Mrs. Katherine B. Piper Mr. Charles R. Miller Mrs. Edna Jean Purcell Laclede Gas Company Tom and Debbie Steiger, Ms. Carol Young Mr. Ralph W. Kalish and Mrs. Linda S. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Jack Barnett Ms. Farnell Parsons and Nate Claus Mr. Harry A. Niewoehner, Jr. Ms. Eleanor L. Withers Ms. June A. Franks Mrs. Dorothy Mosby J. J. Shorfheide Mabel Winn Mr. and Mrs. James Mr. Stephen F. Pfleeger Mr. and Mrs. King McElroy Ms. Debbie Cook Mrs. Franklin C. Gilbert Ms. Lynn K. Silence Schjolberg Mrs. Barbara L. Pfleeger Dan and Molly Daugherty Mr. Fred M. Reichman Mrs. Yvonne D. Skrainka Mr. Jim Nischbach Mrs. Mary L. Woratzeck Mrs. Bette Punshon Mr. Jerry M. Pickett Mr. and Mrs. David Bates Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Stoliar Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Kresko Mr. and Mrs. David E. Morgan Tracey Hill, Justin Pickett, Ms. Daleyne G. Carter Mrs. Marge Murphy Mrs. Lucille D. Smith-Lovely Mr. Ron Northup and Emiley Pickett Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Mr. D.W. Young Ms. Sally P. Hoffman Goltzman Mr. and Mrs. James A. Wagner Mr. and Mrs. Donald T. Murphy Mrs. Norma L. Williams Mr. William G. Pitcher, Jr. Mrs. Lillian Musial Mr. Gregory Kalik Dr. Donald G. Spalding Mr. Robert H. Orchard Mr. and Mrs. William Pitcher Your brother Earl Debbie and Larry Goldfarb Mr. and Mrs. Roger Koch Mr. Howard J. Wilkinson, Jr. Ms. Maxine Stone Ms. Sandra Greenberg Mr. Frank J. Pollnow, Jr. Ms. Betty Nellums Ms. Anne K. Larson Mr. Henry Stamm Mrs. Kathy Overall Mrs. Margaret P. Collins Jim and Norma Bright Mrs. Charlotte Martin Ms. Marilyn Werner Mr. and Mrs. Wilson W. Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Mr. Vernon A. Finch Dr. Raymond G. Slavin Overall Kresko Ms. Gerry Steiner Mr. and Mrs. Llyod C. Dr. Virginia S. Taylor Mrs. Gwendolyn Schild Ms. Katherine E. Chubb Fuhrmeister Mrs. Elaine Pratzel Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Mrs. Linda Schild Mrs. Joan Goodson Ms. Susan M. Hall Wilke

14 Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin Fall 2012 Members’ Entry Court Bricks dedicated at the Garden, April through June 2012. Engraved clay bricks and bronze bricks are a wonderful way to commemorate any special occasion, as well as final memorials. For additional information regarding the Garden’s brick program, please contact the Institutional Advancement Office at (314) 577-0291 or visit www.mobot.org.

Signature Engraved Clay Sophie Krinski Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Bronze Bricks Bricks Krinski Amerisure Insurance Jonah Bates Henry Matsutani Merritphoto by David Company Miriam Bates Friends 100th Anniversary Mrs. Martha M. Reichman Sophia M. Sachs Celebration Zain Khaled Mounir Omi Borbonus Dr. Suzanne and Eugene Bernath Mr. and Mrs. John Mr. Joseph C. Hagan Butterfly House Mrs. Alice L. Bernath Borbonus Fred Reichman Tributes & Pavers Alicia Brauer Laurie Del Rosso Mrs. Martha M. Reichman Family and Friends Mr. Patrick J. Del Rosso Tributes and Pavers dedicated at the Butterfly House, April through June 2012. Martha A. Rybinski To learn more about these opportunities, call (314) 577-0291 or visit Edgar T. Farmer Rick and Linda Dickhens Mr. Stephen A. Ruby Ms. Jill Gilbert, Family, Mrs. Dorothy Labian www.butterflyhouse.org. and Friends Rich and Alex Usher Bette Ginter Mr. and Mrs. David R. Tributes Bob and Betty Little Ellen Painter Suzanne and J. C. Hagan Mr. Patrick J. Del Rosso Usher Buddy and Susan Burr, Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly Dr. Suzanne and William J. Hoeffel Sue and Ken Wilke In Memory of Mike and Martha McCoy, House Friends Mr. Joseph C. Hagan Ms. Jeanne A. Bathen Jim and Kathleen Little, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Betty Schilling (BH) Pasquale “Pat” Palmieri Lori and Corey Kilkelly and Liz Little Florence and Mark Wilke Mr. and Mrs. James S. Theresa Ciccolella Mr. and Mrs. Corey Kilkelly Kramer Minogue Marion D. McBride Maureen McNamara Alice McNeill Mrs. Mark Kramer Mr. and Mrs. Jerry E. Ritter Tom, Bill, Mary Beth, Liz, Jessica Ciccolella-Kahl Mr. and Mrs. Guy L. Mrs. Patricia Smiley Nonna, Pete. Mike, Mary Paul Ciccolella McDonald Mrs. Leslie Van Meir Anne, Linda, and Joe James R. Powers Mr. and Mrs. Daniel S. Donald F. Mueller Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly Warner Ms. Deanna M. Stassi House Friends Pavers Jim and Betty Mulvaney Ellen Roeder Friends Vince Giardano, Jean Behrle Gregg Neely Joe Giardano, Denise Friends from BJC/WUSM Ms. Judith L. Neely Smith, and Natalie Emma and Elizabeth Brown Roberson Amanda and Brad Nivens Mrs. Janet Preston Mom and Dad Nivens Brenda Sayers Norma Jean Hunt Mom and Dad McGregor Jack, Carmen, and Cole Harris Ms. Roberta A. Zeisler Anne, Gert, Marge, and Jane Blair Michaela O’Malley Shanahan Lane photo by Emily Amberger photo by Emily Mrs. Joan Marie O’Malley Friends Upper-level Members In appreciation of our members’ ongoing generosity, we would like to thank the following who renewed or increased their support during April through June 2012. We appreciate your commitment to the Garden’s mission and hope that you enjoy all the benefits that your membership offers.

Patron Mr. and Mrs. Doug Prosch Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Carnahan Wesley Jones and Nancy Ylvisaker President’s Circle ($10,000 to $14,999) Mr. and Mrs. Todd R. Schnuck Mr. and Mrs. Ronald W. Case Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Kranzberg ($1,000 to $1,499) Mr. and Mrs. William H. T. Bush Mr. and Mrs. James Shekelton Mrs. Georgia D. Van Cleve Mr. and Mrs. John Marcus Ms. Velma R. Boyer Mr. and Mrs. David M. Hollo Mrs. Tom K. Smith, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. James R. Criscione Mrs. Lucius B. Morse III Mr. J. Michael Cozad Mrs. William C. Schock Mr. and Mrs. Keith J. Smith Mrs. Carol Darnall Mr. and Mrs. William Pohlman Ms. Suzanne Eaton Mr. Michael Staenberg Mr. and Mrs. Carl J. Deutsch Mr. and Mrs. Douglas E. Reed Ms. Arlene Howe and Garden Ambassador Mr. and Mrs. William M. Whitmire Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Diemer Mr. and Mrs.* Clarence E. Roth Mr. Brad LaVallee ($5,000 to $9,999) Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wiese Mr. James Franklin Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Saligman Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wilke Mr. David S. Obedin and Mr. and Mrs. R. Dean Wolfe Mr. and Mrs. David O. Gifford Mr. and Mrs. Tom W. Santel Ms. Clare M. Davis Mrs. Harry J. Hippenmeyer Mr. and Mrs. John W. Shepley * deceased Henry Shaw Mark and Leslie Hood Mr. and Mrs. R. Richard Straub Garden Fellow Associate Robert and Cynthia Hormell Mr. and Mrs. Grenville G. Sutcliffe Miss Ann Hubel Mr. and Mrs. Herbert M. Talcoff ($2,500 to $4,999) ($1,500 to $2,499) Mr. and Mrs. James E. Dr. and Mrs. William K.Y. Tao Thomas and Kathleen Fingleton Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Brannon Hullverson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. von Kaenel Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Langsam Drs. Jacob and Katherine Mrs. Landon Young Jones Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Weil, Jr. Mrs. Don C. Musick, Jr. Buchowski

Fall 2012 Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin 15 Seen at the Garden

Grapes and the Garden Saturday, May 5, 2012 Nearly 600 guests attended this afternoon event sponsored by Schnuck Markets. Over Austin Tao, Lydia Chen, and Rhoda Broussard 100 wines were available for sampling, along with hors d’oeuvres and live music by the jazz trio Silk Pajamas. (photos by David Merrit)

Judy and Gene Toombs

Ed and Lynne Higgins Atul Kamra, Dr. Peter Wyse Jackson, Steve Maritz, and David Farr

Lantern Festival Gala Friday, May 25, 2012 The Garden’s spectacular summer exhibit got off to an equally spectacular start with a gala event attended by 547 members and guests. A 70-foot-long Chinese dragon led guests to Cohen Amphitheater for themed entertainment followed by the ceremonial first lighting of the lanterns. As of August 3, more than 110,000 visitors had attended the Garden’s Lantern Festival. (photos by Josh Monken, Chris Norton, and Mary Lou Olson)

Ann and Michael Konzen, Pat and Leo Konzen, Lisa and Kevin Konzen

Carolyn, Joe, and Jonathan Losos

Fall 2012 Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin 17 Ed and Lynne Higgins Jackie Maritz, Dr. Peter Wyse Jackson, Steve Maritz, Jeanne Maritz, John and Linda Meyer Events Herbalooza Thursday, September 6, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Doris Waters Harris Lichtenstein Victorian District Join the St. Louis Herb Society and the Members’ Board for an herb celebration! Enjoy live music and get advice from herb experts. Tickets: $10. Cash bar available. Guests must be 21. Reservations required: (314) 577-9570 or Japanese Festival www.mobot.org/events. Saturday and Sunday, September 1 and 2, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Monday, September 3 (Labor Day), 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fall Wildflower Sale The Garden’s annual celebration of Japanese culture includes taiko and Open Garden drumming, bon odori festival dancing, martial arts, candlelight walks Friday, September 7, 4 to 8 p.m., in the Japanese Garden, and more. Rain or shine. Shaw Nature Reserve Both new and experienced Admission: $15 adults (13 to 64), $10 seniors (65+), $5 members and gardeners will want to check out children (3 to 12), members’ children free. Buy tickets in advance this special plant sale and native online at www.mobot.org. No trams, free hours, or early morning landscaping event. Whitmire walking hours on signature event weekends. Wildflower Garden staff and Sponsorship support by Bodine Aluminum, Central States Coca-Cola Bottling guest experts will help with your Company, and Novus International. gardening dilemmas and show you how to use native plants in landscaping. Admission: $5. 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., or 3:30 p.m. Missouri Botanical $35 members, $43 nonmembers Garden and Canopy Climb (per child or adult climber; child Ameren Missouri. Sundays, price includes Garden admission Included with September for one accompanying adult Garden admission. 16 and 30, chaperone). Advance registration Information: www. October 14 required: www.mobot.org/classes greenhomesstl.org. and 28, or (314) 577-5140. Missouri Young Friends’ Botanical Green Homes and Fest-of-Ale Garden and Great Health Festival Friday, October 19, Shaw Nature Saturday, September 29, 6 to 10 p.m., Spoehrer Plaza Reserve 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Enjoy beer tastings from a variety Take your passion for nature to Learn how to live green—and of local breweries, appetizers, live new heights and explore trees like live healthier! Bring your home music by the Dive Poets, and great never before! You’ll learn how to improvement ideas and talk with networking. Price: $20 members, ascend into the canopy where you over 100 green product and $30 nonmembers through October can sit on branches, limb-walk, service exhibitors. Shop the Green 7; after October 7, $25 members, $35 lie in hammocks, or relax in a Marketplace, talk with physicians nonmembers. Advance reservations suspended chair. Climbers must be and other health experts, and take required; www.mobot.org/festofale at least 8 years old. Sessions last advantage of free flu shots. Presented or (314) 577-9570. 90 minutes and start at 9:30 a.m., by the EarthWays Center of the

18 Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin Fall 2012 Children’s Garden through a miniature landscape of Seasonal Closing living plants. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily; Saturday and Sunday, October 27 closes at 4 p.m. on Thanksgiving. and 28, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission: Garden admission plus Celebrate the turning of the seasons $5; free for members. with fun activities as we put the Members’ Preview: Wednesday, Best of Missouri Children’s Garden to bed! $5 per November 28, 5 p.m. ® child; adults included with general Market Garden admission. Sponsorship support by CBIZ & Friday, October 5, 6 to 9 p.m.; Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C. and Saturday and Sunday, October Central States Coca-Cola Bottling 6–7, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Members Company. only: Saturday, 8 to 9 a.m. Over 120 Missouri food Holiday Wreath Exhibit/Auction producers and crafters offer November 22 through January 2, some of the state’s best Ridgway Visitor Center products, from baked goods Enjoy these unique floral creations to toys, jewelry, and more. by some of the area’s finest Outdoors under tents, rain or Gardenland Express Wednesday, November 21 floral designers. Bid on a shine. Part of the American through Tuesday, January 1, 2013, wreath in a silent auction Arts Experience–St. Louis. Orthwein Floral Display Hall benefiting the Garden. First Look Friday: The annual holiday flower and train T hro Enjoy an early chance to shop show features model trains traveling ugh Oct and dine at the market on . 31 Friday, October 5, 6 to 9 p.m. JUST FOR MEMBERS Admission: $12 adults (13 to 64), Members’ Event: $10 seniors (65+), $5 members October Owls and Orchids and children (3 to 12), Tuesday, October 9, 5 p.m., members’ children free. Buy Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House tickets in advance online at The population of owl butterflies www.mobot.org. Please note: increases from 150 to nearly No trams, free hours, or early 2,000 in October. Experience the morning walking hours on conservatory full of these rare signature event weekends. and beautiful flying insects on this special evening set aside for Presented by Schnuck Markets. Reservations required: Additional sponsorship support members. Reservations required www.mobot.org/events by AgriMissouri, Blue Owl for lecture at 6:30 p.m.; call Restaurant & Bakery, Central (636) 530-0076, ext. 10. States Coca-Cola Bottling Members’ Day: Company, Commerce Bank, Drury Ghouls in the Garden Holiday Decorating Hotels Company, Edward Jones, Sunday, October 28, 1 p.m. Thursday, November 15, 11 a.m., Essence Healthcare, The Home Bring the little ones in costume for Shoenberg Theater Depot, Hussmann Corporation, a fun-filled afternoon. Enjoy treats Get tips for bedecking your home KMOX, Mercy Children’s at themed stations. This members- for the holidays from experts at Hospital, Ronnoco Coffee only event is $5 for children 3–12, Mary Tuttle’s Flowers. Reservations Company, Waterway Gas & Wash, which includes free admission to the required: (314) 577-9570 or and Wehrenberg Theatres. Doris I. Schnuck Children’s Garden. www.mobot.org/events. photos by Glenda Abney, Jean Abney, photos McCormack, by Glenda Merrit, David Josh Monken, SiebertMary Christine and Lou Schmidt, Charles Olson,

Fall 2012 Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin 19 September 2012 What’s in bloom? Average temperature: high 80.1°, low 60.3° Average precipitation: 2.96 in. begonia dahlia aster coneflower bluebeard

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Go Green for the Holidays! 1 The Garden calendar and holiday cards are printed on recycled paper. Purchase yours today in the Garden 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. $ Gate Shop. „„“Plants and People: China,” through Jan. 1. BC

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 LABOR DAY

„„Power Up with Essence. 7 to 11 a.m. RVC 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. $ 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. $ „„Power Up with Essence. „„Herbalooza. 5:30 p.m. $ „„Fall Wildflower Sale and „„Greater St. Louis Iris Society 7 to 11 a.m. RVC % VD Open Garden. 4 p.m. $ SNR Sale. RVC

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 „„Power Up with Essence. 7 to 11 a.m. RVC „„Greater St. Louis Iris „„Great Green Adventures. Society Sale. RVC 10:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. $ CHD „„Cafe Flora Brunch. 10 a.m. „„Native Plant School: „„Daylily Assoc. Sale. RVC $ SP „„Power Up with Essence. Reconstructing Tallgrass „„Gesneriad Show/Sale. RVC „„Canopy Climb. $ % SNR 7 to 11 a.m. RVC Prairies. 1 p.m. $ % SNR „„Prairie Day. 10 a.m. $ SNR

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 „„Power Up with Essence. ROSH HASHANAH 7 to 11 a.m. RVC „„Gateway West Gesneriad „„Around the World Wine „„Rock Garden Society Sale, Society Show and Sale. RVC Dinner: Spain. 6:30 p.m. through Sun. RVC „„Cafe Flora Brunch. 10 a.m. $ % „„Greater St. Louis Dahlia $ SP „„Power Up with Essence. „„Spring bulb sale, through Society Show, through Sun. „„Canopy Climb. $ % MBG 7 to 11 a.m. RVC Sept. 24. GGS RVC

„„Cafe Flora Brunch. 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 10 a.m. $ SP „„Canopy Climb. $ % SNR YOM KIPPUR 30 „„Cafe Flora Brunch. 10 a.m. $ SP „„Power Up with Essence. „„Canopy Climb. $ % MBG 7 to 11 a.m. RVC „„9 a.m. to 4 p.m. photos by Amberger, Christine Lisa Emily and Siebert Francis, October 2012 What’s in bloom? Average temperature: high 68.3°, low 48.2° Average precipitation: 2.76 in. sunflower gourds pineapple sage monk’s hood mums

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„„October Owls and Orchids „„October Owls and Orchids, Extended Hours. 4 to 7 p.m. „„“First Look Friday.” „„9 a.m. $ through Oct. 31 BH BH 6 to 9 p.m. $ „„Members only: 8 to 9 a.m. $

7 8 9 10 11 „„Native Plant School: 12 13 Small Flowering Trees, COLUMBUS DAY ✿ Members’ Event: Shrubs and Vines, Part 3. October Owls and Orchids. 1 p.m. $ (phone) SNR 5 p.m. % BH „„Native Plant School: Small „„Native Plant School: „„October Owls and Orchids Flowering Trees, Shrubs Book Review 2: “Noah’s „„ 9 a.m. $ Extended Hours. 4 to 7 p.m. „„AARP Celebration of Life. and Vines, Part 3. 1 p.m. $ Garden” by Sara B. Stein. „„Canopy Climb. $ %SNR BH 8 a.m. % SNR 5 p.m. $ % SNR

14 15 16 17 18 19 „„Partners for Just Trade 20 trunk show. GGS „„Lily Society Sale. RVC „„Young Friends’ Fest-of-Ale. „„Great Green Adventures: 6 p.m. $ % MBG Signs of Fall. 10:30 a.m. „„October Owls and Orchids „„Around the World Wine and 1:30 p.m. $ CHD „„Canopy Climb. 9:30 a.m. $ Extended Hours. 4 to 7 p.m. Dinner: Germany. 6:30 p.m. „„Daffodil Society Sale. RVC % MBG BH $ % MBG „„Booterflies. 11 a.m. BH

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„„Partners for Just Trade EID-AL-ADHA trunk show. GGS „„Children’s Garden Closing. „„Greater St. Louis Daffodil 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. $ CHD Society Sale. RVC „„October Owls and Orchids „„Metropolitan St. Louis „„Booterflies. 11 a.m. BH Extended Hours. 4 to 7 p.m. African Violet Council Show „„Canopy Climb. $ % SNR BH and Sale. RVC Key (All events take place at the Garden unless otherwise noted.) ✿ Ghouls in the Garden. 28 29 30 31 BH Butterfly House KC Kemper Center for Home SP Spink Pavilion 1 p.m. $ (phone) HALLOWEEN CA Cohen Amphitheater Gardening ST Shoenberg Theater in Ridgway „„Children’s Garden Closing. CBEC Commerce Bank Center for LS Little Shop Around The Corner Visitor Center 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. $ CHD Closing for the Season Science Education MC Monsanto Center Sassafras „„African Violet Council Show „„Children’s Garden CHD Children’s Garden MH Monsanto Hall in Ridgway ✿ Members-only event and Sale. RVC „„October Owls and Orchids „„Tram operations CL Climatron lawn Visitor Center % Reservations required GGS Garden Gate Shop RVC Ridgway Visitor Center $ Fee required „„Canopy Climb. 9:30 a.m. $ Extended Hours. 4 to 7 p.m. „„Terrace Café at the Kemper JE Jordan Education Wing in the SNR Shaw Nature Reserve % MBG BH Center for Home Gardening Visitor Center photos by Lisa Heather Francis, Marie Osborn, Leslie Patrice, Charles and Schmidt Ryan Rumberger, November 2012 What’s in bloom? Average temperature: high 53.8°, low 36.7° Average precipitation: 3.71 in. fall color heliotrope crown of thorns pansies straw flowers

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Get a jump on holiday 1 2 3 shopping! Buy Garden, Garden Plus, and Family level gift memberships at 20% off Gardenland Express November 7–11 (Discounts November 21, 2012 apply to on-site sales only.) through January 1, 2013

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„„Gift membership sale, „„Partners for Just Trade through Nov. 11. trunk show. GGS

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 VETERANS’ DAY VETERANS’ DAY DIWALI ISLAMIC NEW YEAR (observed) ✿ Members’ Day: Holiday Decorating. 11 a.m. % ST „„Great Green Adventures: „„Science Café. “Women and „„Around the World Wine Preparing for Winter. „„Partners for Just Trade Plants” 7 p.m. Herbie’s Dinner: Greece. 6:30 p.m. 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. trunk show. GGS Restaurant, 405 N. Euclid Ave. $ % $ CHD

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 THANKSGIVING „„Gardenland Express opens, through Jan. 1, 2013 „„The Garden closes at 4 p.m. „„Rich LoRusso food tasting „„Victorian Christmas at „„The Butterfly House is closed. with recipes from St. Louis Tower Grove House, „„Holiday Wreath Auction, Italians: The Hill and through Dec. 30 through Jan. 2. RVC Beyond, 11 a.m. GGS

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SAVE THE DATE! ✿ Members’ Preview: Breakfast With Santa, Gardenland Express Saturday, December 1 photos by Kat Lisa Douglas, Darcy Francis, Heine, Lauren Kirkwood, Charles and Schmidt Local Flavor The Garden Gate Shop is always searching for great locally made products. Next time you visit the Garden drop by and check out our wide variety of tempting gourmet items and other unique gifts that are made right here in Missouri. Members always receive a discount. photo by Chris Nortonphoto by Chris

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Friday, October 5, 6 to 9 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, October 6–7, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Over 120 Missouri food producers and crafters offer some of the state’s best products, from baked goods to toys, jewelry, and more. Live music and Kids Corner activities. See page 19 for details. Presented by Schnuck Markets. (photos by Jean McCormack, Mary Lou Olson, Heather Marie Osborn, and Charles Schmidt)