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I Nl:WSLtTTER FOR MEM Bl: RS VOLUMI: 10 NO. 3 ~ FALL 200 1 "Madame,You Will LikeThem" A CONVERSATIONWITH BILLDA YLEN BLJSTEVEN T IMBROOK "I DON'T LIKE THEM !" Madame Walska telephoned her new landscape de­ signer, William Paylen, when rocks for her fern garden were delivered in the summer of 1969. "Madame, you will like them," Bill replied, and proceeded to create a garden that proved him right. As he talked about how the fern garden came to be, I also learned how Bill became one of Southern Cali­ fornia's master landscape designers. ( Born in Java to Dutch parents whose plantation grew rubber, cacao and coffee, Bill grew up in the midst of tropical horticulture . When it was time for high school, he was sent to Holland , going on to graduate with a university degree in agricultural engineering. By this time, World War II had disrupted Dutch interests in Indonesia and his parents no longer had their plantation. Finding no horticultural employment in Holland, Bill became a time study engineer in a Phillips Electronics plant. The cold, damp Dutch climate was not to his BillPay/en and the Lotus/andgrounds crew - fromlefr, Mike Furner,Bill, Randy Clements, liking, so he applied to emigrate to TroyClay, Bruno Reginato and Mike Jven- beginthe ferngarden extension in 1986. the United States . After three-and-a­ half years of waiting, his visa was finally approved, and Bill arrived in Los Angeles in 1951, determined to "Madame,You Will LikeThem" Sustainable SantaBarbara II get back into horticulture. "Everyone A Conversation with Bill Dal)len DesigningMen ... and a Woman 12 looked at me funny when I showed IllustratedL ecture up asking about nursery work wear­ MasonFarrell Joins the 3 with MaggieLamb ing a blue suit. But I landed a job Boardof Lotusland ( _?ulling weeds at the Paul J. Howard LaunchYour Own Endowmentto... -4 On the Web 12 Nursery, one of the finest in New to the Collections 5 LotuslandFall DocentTraining 12 Southern California, working for 85 cents an hour ." In a few weeks, he HorticulturalHappenings 6 New to the Staff 13 Continuedon pageJ. LotuslandCe lebratesthe 2o·s o Our Apologies... 16 Institute, the Bromeliad Society Inc., THE LOTVSu\NDNl'.WSLETI'ER FOR MEMBERS the Orchid Society of Southern Cali­ is published by Ganna Walska Lotusland Foundation fornia, the Los Angeles International 695 Ashley Road Fern Society, the La Ballona Valley Santa Barbara,California 93108 Bromeliad Society and the Southern (805) 969-3767 California Chapter of the An1erican www.lotusland.org Rhododendron Society. It wasn't Boardof Trustees long before Bill was asked to design Robert J. Emmons, Presidem gardens, which quickly became the Anne W.Jones, Vice-President Pamela B. Pesenti, Vice-Preside/It main focus of his business. Arthur R. Gaudi, Secretary/Treasurer I asked Bill where he got his in­ Merry!Brown spiration for garden design. "I always ElizabethW Dake loved plants and I traveled a lot, up WilliamW. Drewry until just a few years ago, going back W. Mason Farrell to Indonesia and to South America, Harry W. Kolb Central America, the Caribbean, Stanya Owen Michael Towbes Malaysia, Borneo, Australia and to Carol L. Valentine New Zealand, where my brother and sisters lived," Bill replied. "In 1964, Steven Tunbrook, Ph.D. ExecutiveDireaor 24 of us chartered a DC-3 and flew Casey Sclarworks with Bill Pay/en in the to the upper Amazon to collect ferngarden . Connie Buxton EducationCoordint11or bromeliads . When I visited Costa Rica, I often stayed with Robert and garden right now ." "But, Madame, I Anne Dewey, CFRE Directorof Developmem Catherine Wilson at their botanical don't have pencil and paper." 'That's garden in Las Cruces. And, of course, no problem, I have them." So, Bill had Marguerite Garno Administrativeand VisitorServices I grew up on a tropical isle. If I have to sit down and draw up sketches VirginiaHayes a special interest, it is in shade on the spot. Madame liked them ancl ) Curatorof the l.iv,iigC.ol/ecrion gardens, and that's how I came to said, "When will you start?" "First f 1 MikeIven do work at Lotusland.' have to order the big stones. When Cro1111dsSupen·111e11dem In 1969, Madame Walska saw a they are here, we can begin." notice in the journal of the Los "Well, you already know what Deanna Hatch, Editor Lindse Davis, Design Angeles International Fern Society happened next-Madame didn't like Primedby Ventura Printing that William Paylen would be doing the rocks-but my difficulties con­ a demonstration on using ferns in tinued. I arrived at Lotusland to find • ' Printed on recycled and recyclable paper landscaping. She sent him a telegram the boulders , a crane and a crew of asking him to come to Lotusland to Madame's gardeners waiting for my Continuedfrom page 1 discuss designing a fern garden. He instructions." The crane picked up was promoted to plant propagator arrived on the appointed Saturday, the first stone and began to move it with a raise of almost 30 cents. only to discover that the Palm to where Bill was pointing, about 30 He then began work for a Society was visiting and Madame feet ahead. The crane drove slowly landscape-contracting firm maintain­ Walska was giving them a tour. He foiward and promptly bogged down ing the landscaping at the billboard waited until late in the afternoon, but in wet ground. Fortunately, Madame sites of Foster and Kleiser Outdoor by that time she was too tired to talk Walska was called to the telephone Advertising. As more and more of with him and asked him to return the just at that moment, so Bill called these sites were sold, the conn-act next Saturday. out, "Drop the rock. We'll start the was cancelled, but Bill continued to The following Saturday, Bill garden from this spot. 11 That's typical maintain the remaining sites as an asked where Madame wanted the of the way Bill approaches garden independent contractor. Since he now fern garden, and he had to tell her design. He does it on the spot, pick­ had a truck and his own equipment, that the place she had chosen was ing a focal point and moving out from he also provided landscape care for too small. He suggested that the area there, with a lot of moving about to private clients. around her swimming pool would see how something will look from a, j All the while, Bill was active in be much better and she agreed. "OK, number of different vantages. the Southern California horticultural Madame, I'll go home and make some He also takes advantage of things scene, serving terms as President of sketches and bring them for you to unique to the site. In 19861 17 years the Southern California Horticultural see." "No, I want you to draw the after he created the fern garden for no longer alive in 2001, the old acacia still supports a growth of epiphytic ferns in a jungle of Heliconia,Clivia and palms. When he neared completion of the original fern garden, Bill decided to add a number of kinds of begonias to relieve the green of the ferns. Madame Walska said, "I don't like begonias." And, once again, Bill responded , "Madame, you will like them." Once the garden was finished, she told him, "You were right." Bill wanted to be sure that I understood that as headstrong as Madame Walska could be at times, she could change her mind when she found herself in the wrong. "One time Madame Walska was preparing Lotus/andgrounds crew and BillPay/en the garden for a large charity tour," BillPay/en is hardat workdig,ging in the plant a new specimen. Bill recalled. 11She gave me instruc­ ferngarden. tions on how she wanted the fern Madame Walska, Lotusland's Trustees garden spruced up, and at the end of explained to her that I had done asked Bill to design an extension of the day she returned and scolded me exactly as she'd asked." the fern garden that more than in front of the gardeners and Mr. Bill comes up from his new doubled its original area. In the Thielst, her head gardener, for not home in Camarillo on a regular basis ( new area, an acacia tree had fallen following her instructions . I drove to advise the gardeners on the on­ over, but was still rooted, and two home feeling pretty bad that I'd been going care of the fern garden and the former branches had begun to form chewed out in front of everyone bromeliad gardens. Bill willingly as new upright trunks. Most people when I had done what she had shares the expertise he's gathered would have cleared the old tree requested that morning. When I got from a lifetime in horticulture with away, but Bill incorporated it as a home to Los Angeles and was the gardeners he works with in focal point to add height and interest unlocking my door, I heard the Lotusland's shade gardens. Thanks in much the way a huge landscape telephone ringing. It was Madame to Bill, Lotusland has it made in boulder might be used. Although it's calling to apologize. Mr. Thielst had the shade. Masor1Farrell Joif\S the Board of Lotuslar1d LOTUSLANDIS PLEASED to welcome Mason is a trustee at Laguna Mason Farrell to our Board of Blanca School where he chaired the Trustees . Mason has been a Santa Buildings and Grounds committee Barbara area resident since 1975 and for three years. He currently serves is a graduate of Laguna Blanca School as Vice-President, as well as Chair­ and North Carolina State University.
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