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Virgin's Bower Clematis Virginiana by Gillian Boyd Usually Start Sometime in July and Last About a Month SPRING 2009, VOLUME 10, ISSUE 2 NEWSLETTER OF THE NORTH AMERICAN NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY Native Plant to Know Virgin's bower Clematis virginiana by Gillian Boyd usually start sometime in July and last about a month. Showy I have always included wildflowers in clusters of silky seeds follow and my garden to attract birds and insects then turn to fluffy seedheads. If left and create a habitat for wildlife. I live for winter interest, they sow in Ottawa and try to grow as many themselves plentifully round the native plants as will do well in my dry garden. sandy soil. The flowers themselves One of these natives is Clematis are very interesting. virginiana, a vine commonly known Each individual as virgin's bower or devil's darning vine produces needles. I first noticed it by a roadside three types of woodlot in Ottawa through which a flowers: all- bypass ringroad had been driven. male staminate (It reminded me of the European flowers, all- Clematis vitalba of country lanes in my female pistillate childhood.) I was later able to collect flowers and seeds along a rural sideroad. perfect flowers The seeds were easy to grow and did which combine not need any stratification. I duly stamens and pistils planted out the first seedlings on the together. While the male east-facing wall in my back garden. flowers soon wither away, the They had no kind treatment - just a female flowers produce showy handful of compost in a hole excavated feathery achenes or one- in the15 centimetres (six inches) of seeded fruits in late stony soil between the wall and the summer, initially green and patio. They took hold without trouble silky but eventually and now grow very vigorously indeed. turning brown. Some find the flowers This clematis is an attractive fragrant but I have never noticed this shrubby climbing or trailing vine in my garden probably because of the RANTON belonging to the buttercup family natural variation within individual G (Ranunculaceae). The leaves are plants. RIGITTE trifoliate with toothed leaflets and the These plants are very hardy (USDA B leaf stems or petioles twist round other Zones 2-10) and need no special care. plants for support as the plant grows. They can be found throughout the The creamy white panicles of flowers eastern half of North America from ILLUSTRATION BY Continued on page 12 The Blazing Star is... Presidents’ Message The Blazing Star is published quarterly NANPS Annual PLANT SALE is been extended to June 1st. Please send (April, August, November, February) by coming up fast and furiously and we in your nominations for individuals or the North American Native Plant Society hope to see you there. Don't forget to organizations who have made an (NANPS). Contact [email protected] tell your friends - the day before extraordinary contribution to the for editorial deadlines and for advertising Mother's Day is a great time to buy conservation, preservation, or rates. The views expressed herein are plants, especially natives that will protection of native flora. those of the authors and not necessarily delight Mom for years to come, free of Once again NANPS will be offering those of NANPS. pesticides or fertilizers, requiring little our Garden/Restoration Project The North American Native Plant Society or no watering, just a commitment Awards to those who have ccontributed is dedicated to the study, conservation, from you to help her plant them! to natural ecosystems in significant cultivation and restoration of North This is the largest offering of native ways through their garden or America’s native flora. plants in Ontario and we need to get restoration plantings. 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Spring 2009 enclosed flyer in your neighbourhood Many thanks to our webmaster, Volume 10, Issue 2 or e-mailing us at Regan Pestl of Typhoonit, for creating Editor: Irene Fedun [email protected] to obtain more the new plant sale ordering system, Production: Bea Paterson copies for a door-to-door distribution Lindsay McMartin who added data for - especially if you live in Markham! the new species on offer this year, © North American Native Plant Society Presentations at this year's plant sale Howard Mead & Ruth Zaugg for Images © the photographers and include creative approaches to urban organizing the Seed Exchange, Greg illustrators, text © the authors. native plant gardening, including green Hagan for putting together the popular All rights reserved. roofs, living walls, bio-swales and more seed packages sold at NANPS info North American Native Plant Society, by biologist/native plant nurseryman booths this spring, and Janet Harrison formerly Canadian Wildflower Society, Mathis Natvik, gardening strategies for & Charles Iscove for writing and is a registered charitable society, no. encouraging native bumblebees by distributing NANPS newest offering: 130720824 RR0001. Sheila Colla of York University, and The Local Scoop. If you're not getting Donations to the society are tax- planting trees for a healthy the Scoop, email [email protected]. creditable in Canada. environment by the Town of NANPS 25TH ANNIVERSARY Markham's Karen Boniface - who is happens in 2010 and we have big plans NANPS Membership: CAN$20/YEAR now very capably heading up our in the works. Please send us your WITHIN CANADA, US $20 YEAR OUTSIDE website committee! Memories of NANPS. Were you one of CANADA NANPS plant sale stepped up a our earliest Canadian Wildflower Please make cheques and money notch this year, adding photographs Society members, helping to shape our orders payable to North American and a searchable plant list to the online vision? Did you take part in our Native Plant Society and mail to P.O. advance ordering system. Advance adventures to New Mexico or Box 84, Station D, Etobicoke, Ontario orders close April 19th, but you can Manitoulin Island or elsewhere? Have M9A 4X1. still play with the plant list to find the you taken NANPS message to your Telephone: (416) 631-4438. E-mail: perfect plants for your gardens. We neighbourhood by planting a native [email protected]. Web: hope to add more regional selections garden? Has your local government www.nanps.org. in the future. Meanwhile, we'd love to responded positively or charged you have more members' photographs on with the “crime” of environmental Board of Directors: the site…please send your best to gardening? Most importantly, how Honourary President: James A. French [email protected]. Full credit will be would you like to see NANPS grow Co-presidents: Miriam Henriques & noted for all photos used here or into the future? Stories, long and short, Harold Smith elsewhere in NANPS website or future photographs, illustrations, poems all Vice-president: Martin Field publications. gratefully received. Send e-mails to Secretary: Ruth Zaugg NANPS Speakers' Series is complete [email protected] or snail-mail letters Treasurer: Deborah Dale for this year but we hope to do it again to NANPS, Box 84, Stn D, Etobicoke, Amanda Billard next year. Attendance has been ON M9A 4X1. Or leave a voicemail Zoe Dalton excellent – the most recent talk by Dr. message at 416-631-4438. Greg Hagan Nina Katalin Barabas, who was able to Miriam Henriques and Harold Smith Howard Meadd fill in with a charming talk on the Alison Warner medicinal uses of native plants, attracted over 70 participants! The deadline for the Paul McGaw Memorial Conservation Award has 2NEWSLETTER OF THE NORTH AMERICAN NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY SPRING 2009 More Than Honey: Understanding Bees - and Bee Decline by Zoe Dalton each with lines of Honey, hives, complex social seemingly structure: everyone knows about bees. repeating Or do we? At NANPS' third Speakers' Latin Series night, Laurence Packer, binomials, professor of biology and as well some environmental studies at York bars in the University, revealed that most of us margin, know a lot less about bees than we which were think – and that includes the experts. offset from Think all bees produce honey? Most one another do not. Some bees provide their to more or EREIRA offspring with a different kind of food less of an P altogether: a ball made of collected extent… AMILCAR pollen, which their larval young will “Hmm?” H feed on until maturity. Thought all thought bees were social? Think again: Packer many informed us that a complex social audience ILLUSTRATION BY structure is not a ubiquitous bee members to needs and related problems, all tied feature at all; most bees are solitary. themselves. The apparently convoluted together with a lovely, close-up, full- Always thought bees and hives went slides Dr. Packer had on display colour cover picture of …a fly. together like a horse and carriage? In showed the results of a series of Now, NANPS folks are not just actual fact, most bees have a very genetic analyses. As the aura of thinkers, but doers: audience members different preferred habitat: dirt. That's mystery surrounding the visuals began came wanting to know what is wrong, right: they nest in plain old bare to fade, and the findings from these ecologically-speaking, with bees, and ground. analyses were clarified, the twitters of what can be done to help solve the So, with the three defining features enlightenment and renewed interest in problems facing these creatures. most commonly attributed to bees what genetics can tell us fairly rippled There is no question that bee having just been dispelled as mere through the audience. Packer's numbers are on the decline these days. myth, what, exactly, is a bee? Well, for findings indicated that in one case, In fact, Bombus affinis – our third one, bees have branched hairs, while what was previously thought to be a most populous bee in Ontario in the wasps do not.
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