SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY Where passionate gardeners meet to share knowledge and learn from each other. socalhort.org March 2012 Newsletter OUR NEXT MEETING MARCH OPPORTUNITY NEXT SHARING SECRETS IN THIS ISSUE DRAWING QUESTION Thursday, March 8 February Meeting Recap 7:30 pm Interesting and rare plants from Steve Gerischer has kindly by Steven Gerischer ................ 2 the Ornamental Horticulture agreed to pose our monthly Friendship Auditorium Sharing Secrets responses to : Nursery at Long Beach City Sharing Secrets questions and Name a conifer that you 3021 Riverside Drive College will be provided for his first is one that will prompt Los Angeles think would enhance a the March Opportunity an instant response from most garden and why. .................... 2 We meet the second Thursday Drawing. They are courtesy of members. What’s yours? former SCHS board member On-line membership services, of each month at 7:30 pm The Sharing Secrets question Jorge Ochoa, who is head of the IMGC call for speakers .......... 2 for March is: It is free to SCHS members and OH department. November Green Sheet $5 for non-members without a Which plants do you by Sula Vanderplank and guest pass, which is found on PLANTS FOR SALE TOO! grow in your garden Jorge Ochoa ............................. 3 the front of your member card. Jorge and his students will be ______________________________ Society News ........................... 4 selling plants along with SCHS for fragrance? WELCOME TO OUR members Matt-Dell Tufenkian You can answer on the cards Horticultural Happenings NEW MEMBER! and Gary Kamisher. Gary will we’ll supply at our March 8 by Lili Singer ........................... 5 bring leucospermums that he meeting or e-mail your Upcoming Programs ................. 6 Jennifer Maurer has been growing. response to [email protected] March 8 Used Book Sale ........ 6 by Friday, March 9. The March Meeting landscape architecture as an art form. at our March 8 meeting to hear Chip Sullivan discuss his work and the unique On March 8 Chip will discuss his work, "graphic novel" format he uses to illustrate which illustrates the delicate balance historical literary sources. between humans and nature, and has been exhibited in galleries throughout the United ______________________________ States, Canada and Italy. Sullivan’s passion for landscape design and its representation MARCH SELECTED BOOKS evolved from his childhood love of model railroads, comics and motion pictures. Sullivan is the author of Drawing the Landscape and Garden and Climate, among others. He has also produced a series of comics for Landscape Architecture Magazine Chip Sullivan: titled Creative Learning. The series focuses on The Floral Imperative the creative process and the history of landscape representation. The drawings Our March meeting guest speaker, Chip were exhibited at Clemson University, a Sullivan, is an artist, landscape architect and breakthrough show of landscape comics in professor of landscape architecture at UC the U.S. Berkeley. He maintains a lifelong Two books authored by our featured Sullivan’s latest book, Illustrated History of commitment to exploring the potential of the speaker, Chip Sullivan, will be for sale at Landscape Design, co-authored with Elizabeth garden to create sustainable environments. our March 8 meeting and Chip will be Boults, uses storyboards, visual narratives He states, “Beauty and truth are my guiding pleased to autograph them. and illustrative timelines to illuminate the beliefs as I seek to create and teach history of landscape architecture. He Illustrated History of Landscape Design by landscapes of meaning.” describes it as taking “an optical sweep of Elizabeth Boults & Chip Sullivan. Early in his career, Sullivan developed a iconic landscapes constructed throughout John Wiley & Sons, February 2010 series of experimental gardens that the ages.” Soft cover, 272 pages, $55.00 reinterpreted traditional garden forms, Organized by century and geographic Drawing the Landscape by Chip Sullivan. applying classical and historical design region, this highly visual reference uses John Wiley & Sons, 3rd edition, January 2004 elements to contemporary landscapes. beautifully detailed pen and ink drawings to Paperback, 336 page, $75.00 Sullivan has devoted his career to promoting capture the eye and delight the mind. Join us 2 F E B R U A R Y M E E T I N G & M O R E SHARING SECRETS SCHS MemberLodge is open to SCHS February Meeting members only. Your personal information is In February, we posed the question, “Name protected and it is the Society's policy to Recap a conifer that you think would enhance a never sell or share our membership list. You garden and why.” Here are the "secrets" The February meeting of the Southern choose what information you want to share some members shared with us: California Horticultural Society was our with other members. introduction to the long awaited two-book I think if I had the space (and climate) I Once you log on, you can manage your set of Conifers Around the World, by Zsolt would grow a weeping Norway spruce membership online – create and update your Debreczy (photographs by Istvan Racz). (Picea abies 'Pendula'). Because I like their creepiness. They always look like they are own profile, send messages to other Zsolt Debreczy is the Research Director of sneaking up on you when you turn your members and participate in forums and the International Dendrological Research back. blogs. Our site administrators will also post Institute, and he expertly guided us through - Laura Bauer upcoming events there to make it easier to the story of how this massive reference work sign up and pay for the event all at once. Hollywood twisted juniper (Juniperus was conceived and implemented. chinensis 'Torulosa'). Drought tolerant, slow Renewing memberships will also be easier Many years of research, photography, study growing and sculptural, with cool dark online – reminder notices will be sent and field investigation were accomplished green foliage that is the best for Christmas starting a month before your membership with the help of myriad volunteers and wreaths and garlands. expires so that you can renew without supporters around the globe. - John Schoustra missing any newsletters or Pacific Horticulture issues. Our Society's own Kathy Musial, Curator of If I had the room I would plant a coast Living Collections at the Huntington redwood (Sequoia sempervirens). I’ve seen a With MemberLodge, you can use a credit Botanical Gardens, and SCHS board 50-year-old specimen growing in the front card (through PayPal) to purchase any of member, assisted in the English translation yard of a nearby home and it reminds me of these on-line offers: membership renewals, of the text. the magnificent redwood forests up north. special events and field trips, our annual I also like the blue atlas cedar (Cedrus banquet, donations and more. Of course, The two-volume set is beautiful – with 1,089 atlantica). The cool blue color of the needles you can still renew with a check or cash at pages and more than 3,700 color and the open structure creates a striking tree, meetings or by mail. photographs, as well as line drawings especially over time. Perhaps the weeping or indicating the distinctive details of many We know you will like the new features. Go dwarf variety would fit better in home species. to schs.memberlodge.org to set up your on-line landscapes. account. If you haven't given us your e-mail Debreczy presented an overview of the - Debra Bushweit Galliani address (or have a new one), please consider books – how they are arranged, what areas Secret contributorS joining us online. It's a great way to stay of the world are covered and how climate Dawn redwood (Metasequoia). For fall connected to the group. and environment are indicated. effects, winter geometry, spring delicacy and Please contact Joel Lichtenwalter He then went on to excerpt 11 different prehistoric atmosphere (combine with (310-908-5036 or e-mail conifers, one from each chapter of the work, ginkgo). Explore combination with riparian [email protected]) or Laura Bauer to highlight the amazing work that went California natives. (626-437-9459 or e-mail [email protected]) if into documenting the conifers of the world’s Sandarac or arar tree (Tetraclinis articulata). you have any questions or concerns. temperate zones and nearby regions. Fragrant drought-tolerant conifer from - Laura Bauer Mediterranean. Particularly interesting (and daunting) was _______________________ the necessity to climb towering trees in _______________ isolated areas to bring down cone-bearing Add your response to this question on our INTERNATIONAL MASTER GARDENERS’ branches from the crown to aid in Facebook page discussion board. CONFERENCE SEEKS SPEAKERS identification. Dedication in the extreme! _______________________ The International Master Gardeners' A memorable evening and an amazing Conference, September 7-14, 2013, invites YOU CAN RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP AND achievement for everyone involved. you to apply to speak at its annual SIGN UP FOR FIELD TRIPS ONLINE! conference. The 2013 conference will be held Our Opportunity Drawing plants were on a Holland America Cruise Line Alaskan provided by Jo O’Connell , at Australian Our on-line membership link is up and Cruise. Native Plants Nursery, and thanks to John running on our website. You can now renew your membership, initiate a gift membership Schoustra for bringing them. This unique event blends community, youth and also sign up for field trips. While you’re and home gardening, landscape design and Plants for sale were offered by Matt-Dell there, fill out your profile so other members horticulture presentations with cruise Tufenkian from his nursery, Dominus can get to know you. It’s simple; here’s how. excursions including on-shore visits to Plantarum and John Schoustra from national parks, community gardens and Greenwood Daylily Gardens. Welcome to SCHS MemberLodge! arboretums. Thanks to everyone who helped set up, run Our Membership Coordinator, Joel For more information, visit their website at and clean up after, our meeting.