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Conservation Gardener, the North 8,000 Children Each Year Through Field Anniversary) and 3,200 Members Like You CONSERVATION GARDENER SPRING & SUMMER 2016 THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL IN THIS ISSUE ON THE COVER Past, present and future 3 Transformation 4 Meet Northern rattlesnake-master 5 Northern Celebrating 50 Years 6 Emerald Ash Borer 10 rattlesnake-master Pollinator Garden 14 Thank you! 15 Eryngium yuccifolium Illustration by Dot Wilbur-Brooks 4 5 6 10 To inspire understanding, appreciation, and conservation of plants and to advance a sustainable relationship between people and nature. SPECIAL THANKS There is so much to be thankful for as I reflect back on my first year as Director. Past, present We belong to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the finest public research university in the nation. We and future have an amazing and dedicated staff with expertise and institutional knowledge that BY DAMON WAITT, NCBG DIRECTOR would be the envy of any public garden. We delight in the fellowship of hundreds of volunteers whose time and talent is vital Dear Members and Friends, to our operation. And we benefit from the wisdom and support of the Botanical Welcome to this first issue of the workshops and classes. We serve over Garden Foundation (also celebrating its 50th Conservation Gardener, the North 8,000 children each year through field anniversary) and 3,200 members like you. Carolina Botanical Garden’s new trips and school outreach and offer magazine for members. By the time this more than 40 on site programs inaugural issue reaches your mailbox, designed to connect children and the Garden will be celebrating its 50th families to the natural world through anniversary and I will have completed summer camps, early childhood classes, my first year as the Garden’s first full- afterschool and homeschool programs. time director. Past, present and future is our theme this year and how fitting There is no question we are doing it is to launch a new vehicle to share all the right things to inspire information about what it means to understanding, appreciation and Lastly, we provide you with step-by- be a conservation gardener with our conservation of plants and to advance step instructions to create a beautiful members and friends. a sustainable relationship between pollinator garden and recommend people and nature. The real question is, specific native plants that will support Since opening its first trail in 1966, the what can you do to better understand, pollinator health. North Carolina Botanical Garden has appreciate and conserve North been a leader in botanical education, Carolina’s natural heritage and build a And, there is one more thing you can conservation and research in the more sustainable relationship with the do. A week or two ago you received state of North Carolina and beyond. natural world? our Spring Appeal asking you to renew We maintain and protect more your membership and take advantage than 1,100 acres of land in gardens, Enter the Conservation Gardener. In the of a new member benefit that gives parks, preserves and conservation pages of this issue you will meet North you special admission privileges and easements. We offer a remarkable Carolina’s 2016 Wildflower of the Year, discounts at 300 gardens and arboreta natural environment to more than Northern rattlesnake-master, discover throughout North America. Please show 100,000 visitors each year. We offer how to order seeds, and put this plant your support for the Garden by making extensive educational programming to use in your landscape. We also a gift and renewing your membership. focused on North Carolina’s native introduce you to Emerald Ash Borer, We have planned special exhibits, flora, horticulture, ecology, conservation an invasive exotic insect, and how you events and programs all year long and and botanical art to over 9,000 people can help prevent the spread of this we hope you will join us in celebrating annually in more than 120 lectures, major threat to our nation’s ash trees. this milestone in the Garden’s history. IN THE Pressed Wildflower Jewelry GARDEN By Sunshine Design. Real North Carolina flowers, hand-collected, dried and carefully mounted on a SHOP hand-painted background. JEWELRY $12-26 NORTH CAROLINA BOTANICAL GARDEN 3 Transformation BY JENNIFER PETERSON, MANAGING EDITOR I find that working at the Garden compels And perhaps one of our biggest and most me to tune in to the seasons and obvious changes is our new logo system! appreciate how the landscape changes You might recognize the image as a thoughout the year. From the excitement dogwood (Cornus florida). We chose the North Carolina of the first spring ephemerals in the dogwood because it is North Carolina’s Mountain Habitat, to the brilliant yellows state flower and we are the state garden in the Coastal Plain Habitat each fall, and of North Carolina. There are some other Botanical Garden all of the other botanical anniversaries interesting features included in this logo, throughout each year, I delight in the too. If you want to find out more about constant transformation. the logo go to ncbg.unc.edu/logo. DAMON WAITT Director This past year has been filled with a The rebranding process took a lot of NANCY EASTERLING Education lot of change at the North Carolina work and help from a variety of people. A Botanical Garden, too. A year ago, we big thank you goes out to Rivers Agency CHARLottE JONES-ROE Development were welcoming our new director to the and UNC Creative for their professional Garden family. With Dr. Waitt’s leadership, design expertise. We also had an JOHNNY RANDALL Conservation we are embarking on several new internal group of staff whose insight was adventures and making some subtle invaluable. The group included Allison JIM WARD Horticulture changes to how we communicate with Essen, Chris Liloia, Geoffrey Neal, Cricket you, our members. Taylor, Elisha Taylor and Damon Waitt. ALAN WEAKLEY Herbarium Thank you! One of the obvious changes is this, the first edition of theConservation While change is exciting, it is also Gardener! As editor, I especially hope comforting to know some things never Botanical Garden you enjoy our new magazine. Twice each change. Here at the Garden, you will year, we will fill the pages with the latest always find the Paul Green Cabin, the Foundation conservation news and information you Storyteller’s Chair, and of course, North can use at home. Carolina flora in all its beauty. And, as Officers our communication methods transform, We have also launched a new electronic you can rest assured that our first priority newsletter. This is where you will find is still to serve the southeastern United updates on events, programs, and more. States as a leading conservation garden. GREG Fitch President If you aren’t receiving these messages, sign up! You can do so at ncbg.unc.edu/ MISSY RANKIN Vice President enewsletter. STEPHEN A. RICH Treasurer JAN DEAN Secretary Conservation Gardener JENNIFER PETERSON Managing Editor 4 Conservation Gardener SPRING/SUMMER 2016 Meet Northern rattlesnake-master North Carolina’s 2016 Wildflower of the Year BY HEATHER SUMMER, NCBG SEED PROGRAM COORDINATOR Northern rattlesnake-master (Eryngium flowers and persistent seed heads can Use Northern rattlesnake-master as an yuccifolium), an unusual prairie species be interesting additions to cut flower accent plant or dramatic focal point native to the eastern and central United arrangements, and the tough leaves in a sunny perennial bed or pollinator States, has been named the 2016 North and flowers are fairly deer and rabbit garden with butterfly milkweed Carolina Wildflower of the Year. resistant. (Asclepias tuberosa), black-eyed susan (Rudbeckia hirta) and asters With a basal clump of leathery strap-like, Northern rattlesnake-master has a long (Symphyotrichum spp.). blueish green leaves and a single upright and interesting history of human use. flowering stalk, this distinctive species Perhaps the earliest known use of this For a Wildflower of the Year brochure more closely resembles a yucca plant species dates back 8,000 years, when and packet of Northern rattlesnake- than its closest relatives in the carrot prehistoric North Americans used the master seeds, send a stamped, self- family (Apiaceae). Northern rattlesnake- fiber from its thick leaves to make shoes addressed, business envelope with master is a great garden plant for the and sandals. The common name of this attention to NCWFOY 2016 to North interesting form and texture provided by species comes from early 18th century Carolina Botanical Garden, UNC–Chapel its leaves, flower clusters and seed heads. accounts of Native Americans applying Hill, CB 3375, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3375. a root preparation to their hands and In mid- to late-summer, a single stiff arms to protect them while handling The North Carolina Botanical Garden stem topped with round, spikey flower rattlesnakes, and brewing a root tea to and the Garden Club of North Carolina clusters rises two to four feet from use as rattlesnake antivenin. work together to promote the use of the clump of yucca-like leaves. Each native plants in home gardens. Each year cluster is composed of many small, Northern rattlesnake-master occurs since 1982, a showy native perennial tightly arranged flowers with white to throughout North Carolina along sandy has been chosen and seeds of that pale green petals and pointy bracts, roadsides, prairies and open woods, and wildflower are distributed to interested giving the appearance of small, bristly prefers open, sunny sites with dry to gardeners. To view a list of the past golf balls. The flowers attract a steady average, well-drained soil. It will become North Carolina Wildflowers of the Year, abundance of incredibly diverse spindly in the shade and will decline visit the Garden’s website: ncbg.unc.
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