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FALL 2012 the Butterfly Garden Unfolds by THERESA ARIAL, BOTANIC GARDENS MANAGER THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE BOTANIC GARDENS UCRBG Newsletter VOLUME 22, NUMBER 3 • FALL 2012 The Butterfly Garden Unfolds BY THERESA ARIAL, BOTANIC GARDENS MANAGER HE DEVELOPMENT OF any processes that have contributed to our adjusted the drainage swale to the garden, small and quaint to large unfolding garden. north end of the garden, blending Tand palatial, is a process. An idea is the Initially, we were very fortunate to form and function by incorporating begin ning of that process, and we have have a flat site for the Butterfly rocks specified by the original design. Ann Platzer to thank for that. Her Garden. With help from UCR’s To provide delineation and a form vision of devel oping a butterfly garden Agricultural Operations, we graded the that allowed the Passiflora to climb, we here at the UCRBG was the beginning area just before rains moved through. installed a four foot fence, running the of some thing beautiful. In fact, her This gave us the perfect opportunity to length of west side. Ten yards of idea was my inspiration to create a observe water movement, and make amend ment were delivered and incor - butterfly garden that would unfold any adjust ments. In the porated into the existing soil at a depth before our eyes. winter of 2010, we There are many factors to be consider ed when planning a garden. Among these are accessibility, design, plant selection, grading, drainage, and irrigation. To achieve our end goal has taken time and patience. The garden has been plant - ed since early May of 2012. Like a butterfly open ing its wings, every day its promise is further revealed. As the ABOVE: wings of our garden (counter-clockwise) Jorge Fregoso and spread, color is Theresa Arial exposed and pat - forming swale / terns are dis covered. Theresa placing rocks & boulders. As the site takes / Trenching for form, as the plants irrigation. / thrive and fulfill Rototilling soil. / their potential, we can Installing the paths. take pleasure in what is CENTER: being created. The finished paths. We can also take the time to delight in all of the creatures that are drawn to this vibrant living stage. Numerous birds, bees, various insects, and the main character…the butterfly. So, just as the butterfly reveals its beauty, let me share some of the 2 UCRBG Newsletter • Vol. 32 No. 3 • Fall 2012 of six inches by angusti folia ‘Munstead’) is a magnet rototilling. Soon for bees. It has long lasting after the irrigation blooms, foliage, and fragrance. design was trenched You will find butterflies and in, we began to humming birds frequenting Justicia install valves, hose californica , chuparosa. In addition, bibs, and pipes to the Gaillardia x grandiflora , support the (‘Oranges and Lemons’) lure watering system. butterflies, and add a splash of Volunteers Hillary Justicia californica sunny color to the garden. It is Brown and Pat Chuparosa common to see various lizards Younge prepared the collected plants warming on the rocks, and by grooming and weeding them in the scurrying about in search of ants containers. Before the driplines were and other insects laid out, I desig nated the location of As our Butterfly Garden has every plant. Then, unfold ed, so has its beauty Butterfly bush, Buddleia x weyeriana ' Bicolor', with Monarch, photo by Ann Platzer. Hillary, Pat and I and potential. It is an ever- began our planting changing palette that marathon. We pro vides support to local Butterfly Garden finished the planting butterflies and other enhances our in three days. The creatures. The Butterfly Gardens, delights plants were then Garden also provides a our senses, and plugged into the drip venue for the UCRBG visi - ful fills our system and began to tors to witness the processes com mit ment to our Gaillardia 'Oranges and Lemons' settle in. of nature while amplifying donors, Friends, After mulching the areas around the their aware ness of them. The beauty visitors, and our environ ment. TA Alcea rosea, plants, the path ways were installed. and diver sity dis play ed in the l hollyhock Paradise Nursery brought in eight yards of California Gold decomposed granite. The material was spread in UC Riverside Botanic Gardens frames created by bend ing heavy gage The UCR Botanic Gardens Newsletter is a quarterly journal published by the Friends 5.5 inch Surlock into the circular pads of the UCR Botanic Gardens, UC Riverside Foundation, 900 University Ave., creating the pathways. To stabilize the Riverside, CA 92521, and is one of the benefits of membership. Articles on various material, it was wetted down and then aspects of horticulture and its practice, history, or related subjects, especially as they vibrated in stages. apply to inland Southern California are welcomed. The selection of copy to print is The Scarano family and the Moore at the discretion of the editors. Send copy to Steve Morgan, Botanic Gardens, family provided memorial bench sites. University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, call 951.784.6962, These allow garden visitors to enjoy e-mail [email protected] or visit our website at the displays while sitting comfortably. www.gardens.ucr.edu for information. On a sunny day, one can watch chil - dren pointing and spying numerous Friends Board of Directors butterflies, bees, hum ming birds, Officers : Amy Hao & Katherine Kendrick, Co-Presidents ; Nancy Cullen, finches, and lizards. Vice President ; Dennis Ponsor, Treasurer ; Brenda Bowers, Secretary ; The Butterfly Garden has proven to Members : Brightie Dunn, Jack Easton, Karen Fleisher, Jolane Jewell, be a delight and benefit in so many Amber Jones, Rob Lennox, Rosemary Neal, Julie Oppen, Debbie Pence, ways. One of the lavenders ( Lavandula Janice Ponsor, Angelica Regalado, Tandy Scott, Lynne Seymour, Nan Simonsen. Ex Officio Members: Giles Waines, Director ; Steve Morgan, Curator ; Theresa Arial, Manager ; Dericksen Brinkerhoff, Margo Chabot, John Ernsberger, Siri Khalsa. Staff: Giles Waines, Director ; Steve Morgan, Curator ; Theresa Arial, Manager ; Abdurrahman “Abe” Koksal, Senior Nursery Technician ; Katie Shea, Volunteer Administrative Assistant . Temporary workers: Jorge Fregoso, Pamela Roose, Alfredo Sevilla, and Saul Torres Alcarez. Student workers : Eddie Garcia, Brian Kano, Troy Redfern, Warren Sublett, Michael Voeltz. Kristine M. Scarano Intern: Amy Kwiecien Graphic Design: Tami Osmer Glatz Editors: Siri Khalsa • Steve Morgan Lavandula angusti folia ‘Munstead’ UCRBG Newsletter • Vol. 32 No. 3 • Fall 2012 3 The UCR Butterfly Garden Is Here By Ann Platzer HEN ED AND I VISITED the Theresa Arial’s artistic landscape Patagonia Butterfly Garden in design exper tise and organization of WArizona in the mid 1990’s a light bulb the garden added a professional touch went off in my head. Why not intro - to the finished product. Now visitors duce a butterfly garden to the UCR can walk, sit, admire and watch Botanic Gardens? With our dwindling butterflies at our Butterfly Garden. natural habitat, what better way to Recently, a group of adults and Ann and Ed Platzer teach and encourage children and teenagers visited the gardens and asked adults alike to consider adding butter - when the Butterfly Garden would be future adults of California. Wow! I will fly-friendly plants into their own home open. I took them over to the site be in butterfly heaven. The butterflies landscapes. During the years that fol - where several butterflies were nectar - and I thank you. AP lowed, I worked on a butterfly garden ing on Buddleia. The youths’ sparkling l at my own home, researching compati - eyes and signing to the adults indicated Don’t forget to read the Butterfly ble plant and butterfly species and how fascinated and thrilled they were Corner in every UCRBG Quarterly , this passing this information along to staff to see these lepidopterans close up. time featuring the Western Tiger at the Botanical Gardens. After years For me, it is also exciting that I have Swallowtail (on page 9). Happy of planning and hard work, our been asked by some elementary school Butterfly Gardening! Butterfly Garden is finally here and teachers to give classes to help them open to visitors. start a butterfly garden at their schools. Note from the Editor: Ann is far too modest. If it Many people contributed to this More importantly, they want to visit hadn’t been for the generous contribution that she project helping to make plans and the UCR Botanic Butterfly Garden for and Ed made as seed money for the Butter fly putting them into action, getting their inspiration. This certainly made this Garden, we wouldn’t have it today. Her idea truly muscles behind digging and planting, addition to the Gardens worth the inspired people, making it possible to create this and generously donating money to years of effort. Just think, I may be wonderful space for all we animals to share. And, make the Butterfly Garden a reality. able to teach biology again to the its beauty is just beginning to reveal itself. – SK State of the Gardens PLANTS TO SEE: Many plants are in a new cultivar in the Hyacinthiflora about three feet tall, hence is semi- flower in the new Butterfly Garden Group. dwarf, but it has deep purple flowers south of the lath house. Also see Syringa x hyacinthiflora is a group of in large conical inflorescences. plants in the Herb Garden and cultivars whose parents originally were Another distinguishing characteristic is Geodesic Dome. S. oblata from China and S. vulgaris from that it blooms very early, between the ‘Ramona’ Lilac: Sometime in the southeast Europe. The first inters - end of January and mid-February, 1980s, Dr. Louis Erickson, who was pecific cross in this group was made depending on the coolness of the the Botanic Gardens’ Director by Madame Lemoine in Nancy, winter season.
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