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2012 Board of Directors Henry Ray ��President Tricia Noble ��President-Elect On The Scott Walton ��Treasurer Lou Willie �� Secretary Hanson Slaughter ��VP Development Cover Brain Barr ��VP Facilities & Planning Thomas G. Amason, Jr. ��Immediate Past President Carl Jones �� Officer January Janet Taylor �� Officer Camellias Elizabeth Broughton �� Officer At Large: enhancing life with plants Hollies bbgardens.org Cathy Adams Laurie Allen Orchids Richard Arrington The Shane Boatright Maggie Brooke Pansies Gary Burley Barbara Burton Tea Olives Tricia Holbrook Robert Holmes JANUARY Winter Annuals JANUARY/F/FEBRUARYEBRUARY 20122012 Margi Ingram Clarke Gillespy Andrea Wulf Sheryl Kimerling Winter Hazels to speak at The Gardens Mike Malone Antiques at Fred Murray page 8 The Gardens’ Winter Honeysuckles Kathryn Porter Members a Success Hanson Slaughter page 2 Wintersweets Annual Lucy Tutwiler Celebration Mary Williamson page 8 Amanda Fleming, Junior Board President

New Adult & Family Classes Our Mission February page 7 & 10 Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens promotes public Asian Magnolias knowledge of plants, gardens and the environment; & receives, raises & administers resources for these purposes. Camellias Our Vision Fringe Flowers The vision of Birmingham Botanical Gardens is to be one Lenten Roses of the nation’s preeminent botanical gardens. Mahonias The Bruno Vegetable Garden Staff Pansies produces nearly two tons of Main ��205.414.3950 vegetables each year for Magic Quinces Fred Spicer ��Executive Director City Harvest, a local non-profit Olivia Alison ��Director of Development Winter Annuals Stephanie Banks �� Director of Finance agency that coordinates food Elizabeth Drewry �� Librarian distribution to those in need. Ellen Hardy ��Education Program Coordinator Blake Ells �� Public Relations Coordinator In addition, thousands of local Henry Hughes �� Director of Education school children who come George Jenkins �� Development Officer Jason Kirby ��Library Assistant & Archivist to The Gardens’ Discovery Andrew Krebbs ��Director of Marketing & Membership Field Trips learn important Savannah Lanier ��Donor Relations Officer Hope Long ��Director of Library Services lessons about where their food John Manion ��Curator of Kaul Wildflower Garden Shelly McCarty ��Special Events Coordinator comes from. With plantings of Carleen Mitchell ��Finance Clerk cotton, soybeans and peanuts, Phyllis Sutton ��Education Activities Specialist Taylor Steele ��Volunteer Coordinator we introduce them to the Rona Walters ��Membership Assistant groundbreaking work of Dr. George Washington Carver. The Garden Dirt is the newsletter of Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens. The Garden Dirt is published six times a year to foster awareness and support events, services, and significant For more information on the programs of Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens. We Bruno Vegetable Garden visit welcome your comments and address corrections. Please contact: Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens www.bbgardens.org/bruno or Editor, Andrew Krebbs Magic City Harvest at 2612 Lane Park Road Birmingham, AL 35223 www.magiccityharvest.org. 205.414.3959 or [email protected] www.bbgardens.org

Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens practices a policy of equal opportunity and equal access to services for all persons regardless of race, creed, color, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, orientation or sex. Birmingham Botanical Gardens is a facility of Birmingham Park and Recreation Board. The deadline for the March/April issue is January 15. Daphne genkwa, Blount Plaza W

Dear Friends: Membership Plant blindness is the inability to see or notice the plants in one's own environment. Obviously, Tax e m o lc e plants are more than mere backdrop for the Information activities of animals, but apparently as animals Your membership, less the fair market ourselves, we are keyed into the mobility of other value of the benefits you receive, is animals. It seems that plants live too slowly to deductible for income tax purposes. You jump out and command our attention. However, Save can waive your benefits and receive full in late winter and early spring, plant life moves tax-deductibility. Please indicate this on at a pace that even the most inattentive person your membership form. Under Internal notices. Who doesn’t realize leaves are re- Revenue Services guidelines, the tax- appearing? To me, it’s about looking closely. th e deductibility of the membership levels So I tend to think about details at this time of year are as follows: as our growing season begins. The Latin phrase D a te tempus fugit translates loosely as “time’s a wastin’.” 47th Annual It’s a quote from Virgil, in context, “…time flees Member Celebration irretrievably, while we wander around, prisoners 5:30 p.m. of our love of detail.” I am such a prisoner, and January 19 am duly warned to not forget the big picture. Consider that we live in the midst of one of the most extraordinary processes in nature, the Birmingham emergence from dormancy of countless millions Camellia Show of living plants which yearly jump-start their life February 11-12 cycle. The picture doesn’t get much bigger than that – you can measure the south-to-north wave of greening with satellite imagery. But you can 13th Annual also watch it in your own garden, up close and Spencer Lecture personal (but you need to look and you need to 6:30 p.m. Members lined up for the Members-only Sale at the be timely or you’ll miss it). March 8 Spring Plant Sale In the coming months, we will be unveiling Student $25 our new Strategic Plan, facilitated by Clarus Consulting Group, and conceived to go hand- Sakura Cherry Young Professional $40/$55 in-glove with our new Master Plan. Both are Blossom Festival Individual $45 big-picture oriented, as they ought to be, but March 17 Family $60 they cannot be achieved without addressing the Magnolia $100 details, which are the myriad things we do every day. With the broad strokes in place to align the Spring Plant Sale Oak $225 day-to-day, we think we’ve got big and small Preview Party & Ambassador $475 properly balanced. Please let us know how you Member Sale President’s Circle $875 think we’re doing. April 12 Garden Sustainer Club, Patron $2,375

See you in The Junior Board Spring Visit www.bbgardens.org/benefits to Gardens, Plant Sale Event learn more about your benefits. Your April 13 thank you letter that included your membership card at the time you joined or renewed is considered your tax Spring Plant Sale receipt. If you need a replacement letter Fred April 13-15 please contact Rona Walters, membership assistant, at 205.414.3950 or [email protected]. 1 Birmingham Botanical Gardens held its annual Sterne Agee First Look Party on October 6. More than 400 people attended the exclusive, black- tie affair which featured an Asian- e v e lo p m e n t inspired menu provided by Kathy G. Will and Sarah Mason and the John Williams Band provided the evening's

D soundtrack at the private Men's Committee party and in the Rushton Garden, respectively. Attendees were allowed an opportunity to shop over 20 dealers from around the country who participated in the weekend's sixth annual Antiques at The Gardens. Visit www.bbgardens.org/antiques to view more photos from the event.

First Look Party Dogwood Dunn French Foundation Welch Hornsby & Welch, Inc. Sterne Agee Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP Mrs. Claire H. Fairley Mr. & Mrs. Lex Williamson Burr & Forman LLP First Commercial Bank Orchid Ms. Barbara L. Burton Mr. & Mrs. Beau Grenier Gardenia Mr. Joseph Blount Mrs. Fay B. Ireland Clarissa Harms Judy & Hal Abroms Ms. Kay Blount Katie & Jim Lasker Highway Equipment Co., Inc John & Kittie Buchanan Camellia Medical Properties Trust, Inc. Jemison Investment Company Mr. & Mrs. Thomas N. Carruthers Jr. The W. Houston Blount Family Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Jackson Noble III Advised Fund Mrs. Mary Carolyn Gibbs Cleveland Mr. & Mrs. Jon Kimerling Protective Life Corporation L. Paul Kassouf & Company PC Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Coleman The Thomas E. Jernigan Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Rogers Mr. & Mrs. Yancey Lovelace Dee Moore Photography Red Diamond Mr. & Mrs. William Slaughter Oasis Design Group Mr. & Mrs. Clarke Gillespy Mrs. Louise A. Wrinkle O’Neal Industries, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Harold H. Goings Azalea Mr. & Mrs. Donald W. Patton Mr. & Mrs. T. Michael Goodrich Birmingham Coca-Cola Bottling Wildflower Dr. & Mrs. John Poynor Mr. & Mrs. Meredyth R. Hazzard Jr. Company Altec Industries, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Wilmer S. Poynor III Mr. & Mrs. Ken Horton Mr. Thomas Blount BB&T Mr. & Mrs. Hanson Slaughter Mr. & Mrs. William C. Hulsey Boatright Companies BHK Investment Advisors, LLC Mr. Frederick R. Spicer Jr. Ms. Margi Ingram Will & Maggie Brooke Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama & Ms. Kim McBride Marjorie Johnston & Co. Dr. & Mrs. Derrill Crowe The Butrus Family Advised Fund Mr. & Mrs. W. Stancil Starnes Interiors & Design The James Milton & Caring Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Elton B. Stephens Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Benny LaRussa Sallie R. Johnson Foundation Mr. & Mrs. John Brock Steward Machine Co., Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Guy K. Mitchell Jr. Integrity Landscapes Bromberg & Company, Inc. Supreme Beverage Mr. & Mrs. Phil H. Neal Jr. McCorquodale Transfer, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Reaves Monroe Crabtree Mr. & Mrs. Jarred O. Taylor II Mr. & Mrs. Leighton C. Parnell III McWane, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Daniel Ms. Jean C. Thompson Mr. & Mrs. John H. Roberts ServisFirst Bank Mr. Stewart M. Dansby Mrs. Lucy Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Leo A. Shaia 2 D opment n e m p lo e v e

Dr. & Mrs. David H. Sibley Mr. James A. Bradford Mr. Alan Dreher Mr. John S. Hornsby Mr. Dean Nix Mr. & Mrs. Murray W. Smith Mr. John Brock Mr. Richard Drennen Mr. James F. Hughey, Jr. Mr. James Outland Mr. & Mrs. Temple W. Tutwiler III Mr. Thomas A. Broughton III Mr. Dave Driscoll Mr. Glenn Ireland II Mr. William C. Patterson Judge & Mrs. Scott Vowell Dr. Tom Tartt Brown Jr. Dr. Robert P. Eichelberger Mr. Donald M. James Mr. James W. Porter II Mrs. A. Brand Walton Mr. James A. Bruno Mr. Douglas F. Elliott II Mr. Carl E. Jones Jr. Mr. Goode Price III Mrs. Charles B. Webb Jr. Dr. James Bryant Mr. Joseph M. Farley, Jr. Dr. Price Kloess Mr. James L. Priester Drs. Andrew & Jeanna Westmoreland Mr. Brian Burgess Mr. Albert G. Folcher, Jr. Dr. James C. Lasker Mr. Thomas A. Roberts Mr. James R. Bussian Mr. William A. Legg Mr. Mabry Rogers Men’s Committee Mr. Hubert W. Goings Jr. Dr. Michael Callahan Mr. William Dice Lineberry Mr. Hatton C. Smith CHAIRS Mr. M. Williams Goodwyn, Jr. Mr. Ehney A. Camp III Mr. James B. Little III Mr. Sperry Snow* Mr. Philippe Lathrop Mr. M. James Gorrie Mr. John D. Carney III Mr. Henry S. Long Jr. Mr. James T. Stephens Mr. B. Hanson Slaughter Mr. James Lawrence Goyer III Mr. John L. Carroll Mr. Michael L. Lucas Mr. Rusty Stewart Mr. James E. Grisham III Dr. Lawrence W. Greer Mr. John F. Carter Mr. Beau Grenier Mr. George Gambrill Lynn Mr. Cris Stone Men’s Committee Mr. Lee Carter Mr. Jay Grinney Mr. Rick MacKay Mr. Lee Styslinger, Jr. Mr. D. Scott Adams Mr. John W. Chambliss Mr. Michael Hansen Mr. Robert P. MacKenzie III Mr. Alex Vare Mr. Edgar G. Aldridge Mr. Lange Clark Mr. Christopher B. Harmon Mr. Will Matthews Mr. Steve Varner Mr. Rex Alexander Mr. Scott T. Cobb Mr. Andrew Hart Mr. C. Phillip McWane Mr. Read Voigt Dr. Thomas G. Amason Jr. Mr. Ernest Cory Dr. Lawrence S. Hawley Mr. John Moore Mr. Andrew Scott Walton Mr. D. Leon Ashford Mr. C. Hartwell Davis, Jr. Mr. David B. Hezlep Mr. Mac M. Moorer Mr. John M. Williams Mr. Harold Bissell Mr. Ogden S. Deaton Mr. George Hiller Mr. Fred W. Murray Jr. Mr. Louis J. Willie III Mr. Stan Blanton Mr. Forrest DeBuys Mr. John T. Hoff Mr. J. Reese Murray III Mr. Scott Wilson

*deceased 3 Volunteer Spotlight: Reid Pearlman

How did you become interested in working with the Bonsai group? Volunteering in the Japanese Gardens? I have never seen anything like the Japanese Gardens before. I found it unique and interesting. What do you think makes a person a good volunteer? Being hardworking and willing to learn. How did you become interested in cultivating Reid Pearlman is a sophomore at Vestavia Hills High School.

o lu n t e e rbonsai s trees? Dr. Bob Wendorf introduced me to bonsai. Since then, they have fascinated me. He volunteers in the Japanese Gardens with John Floyd, Mike Rushing and Bob Wendorf. Reid is one of the many young people Where do you see yourself volunteering with the

V that choose to take advantage of unique educational opportunities at Japanese Gardens and the Bonsai Group? Are you The Gardens, while helping maintain its beauty. Above, he is front interested in working with any other plant group and center, surrounded by the three doctors and the crew that helps or society? I see myself trying to help make The maintain the Japanese Gardens. Gardens the best that they can be. Do you feel it is important for your generation to Do you volunteer with any other organization? volunteer? Why? Yes. We want to give something back Not at this time. to the great country that has been so generous to us. What is important to you as a volunteer at The Gardens? What are your academic and/or career goals What do you see as the result of your volunteering? once you graduate high school? I plan on attending As a volunteer, I have been able to learn a great deal about college and then graduate school. I have many interests plants, both local and foreign. I have been privileged to be including botany, ichthyology and zoology. educated by some of the most knowledgeable people in the field of botany. What attracts you to working/volunteering at Birmingham Botanical Gardens? The thing that I Is there anything else you’d like us to know about your find most attractive about The Gardens is interacting experience working and volunteering at The Gardens? with all of the knowledgeable people. I am looking forward to doing it more in the future.

Welcome Taylor Steele The Friends would like to welcome Taylor Steele as the new volunteer coordinator. Taylor comes to us from the Southern Environmental Center at Birmingham-Southern College where he was the resident manager for Turkey Creek Nature Preserve for three years. Before that he was the Director of Science Education for 5 years at Cornerstone Schools of Alabama. In addition, he previously worked at McWane Science Center with the GLOBE Program as the Environmental Science Coordinator. Taylor was also a naturalist with the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources State Parks Division. He has an academic background in Environmental/Conservation Studies from University of Alabama at Birmingham. Taylor resides in the city of Columbiana, Alabama with his wife, three dogs and a cat. Please stop by & welcome Taylor the next time you are at The Gardens. You can contact Taylor directly at 205.414.3962 or [email protected]. 4 L

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Visit the Gerlach Plant Archives & Rare Book Room Information Center "Our Native Ferns; or a History of the British Species and Their Varieties" (GPIC) by Edward Joseph Lowe was written in 1865. This 146 year old inside the Garden Center during two volume set was donated to the Library Archives by Dr. Hughes January and February for the exhibit: Kennedy. It features beautifully illustrated hand colored engravings of ferns complete Pruning for Special with descriptions. A renowned and oft Effects published English botanist, Lowe's Thyme to Read interest in ferns led to his studies and January 10: The Language paintings. Lowe of Flowers was most noted by Vanessa Diffenbaugh for "Ferns: British and Exotic," eight February 7: Last Child in the illustrated volumes Woods: Saving our Children published in London by Groombridge and Sons in 1856. This recent from Nature-Deficit Disorder donation is just one of many rare and interesting pieces that can be by Richard Louv found in the Archives & Rare Book Room at The Library at The Gardens, our hidden educational gem. Schedule an appointment Join us in The Library at 6 p.m. on the first with Jason Kirby, library assistant and archivist, and check out our Tuesday of each month to discuss a new, fun book unique collection of books, crafts, clothing and mementos from pertaining to gardening, plants or the environment. nearly 50 years of Birmingham Botanical Gardens history. Contact Director of Library Services, Hope Long at 205.414.3931 or [email protected] for more For more information contact Jason Kirby at [email protected]. information or to get involved. 5 Gardening Tips Good Things Growing… for January/February Courtesy of In The Gardens Fred Spicer, Executive Director Few plants evoke an Asian aesthetic like bamboo. However, running (monopodial) www.aces.edu species can be very aggressive spreaders. Understandably, many people consider them for more information, invasive exotic plants, although river cane, Arundinaria gigantea, and its relatives are see www.aces.edu important plants in their SE US native ecosystem. Clumping, or sympodial, bamboo species offer a guarantee of self-restraint. Despite January the ability of their basal clump to reach 5-6’ wide and more over time, have no fear, the FRUITS AND NUTS - Set out apples, plants are genetically incapable of running. However, they have not been widely used peaches, pears, and grapes. Start in our area, perhaps because some clumpers exhibit borderline cold or heat tolerance, grafting pecans. Prune dormant trees.

a r d e n i nor g because runners are easier to propagate. Maybe it’s disbelief – those who have experienced the tenacity of the monopodial species mistakenly think that all bamboos SHRUBS - Plant shrubs and trees, are noxious pests. including broadleaf, narrowleaf, and deciduous. Graft camellias in G We grow several types of sympodial South Alabama. Spray all deciduous bamboo at The Gardens, primarily cultivars shrubbery with a dormant spray to of Bambusa multiplex, hedge bamboo, from control diseases and insects. Spray China. As the name suggests, its growth when weather is on warming trend. habit lends to clipping as a hedge. Over LAWNS - Soil test before setting up the past 8 years, our earliest plant-outs fertility program. of ‘Rivieriorum,’ considered the hardiest form, have formed well-behaved, dense, ROSES - Visit nurseries and garden graceful, finely-textured and fountain-like centers to select varieties. Start evergreen clumps ~10’ tall and wide (left); planting. the basal clumps of emergent shoots are ANNUALS AND PERENNIALS - Plant ~36” wide. They have withstood heat, hardy annuals. humidity and drought with total aplomb, as well as a brief flirtation with single-digit lows with minimal aboveground injury. BULBS - Late plantings of Dutch bulbs will flower if planted now. Lilies On hedge bamboo, new culms (individual grass stalks) of all types, except Madonna, may arise through the growing season, primarily late spring- be planted. Check stored bulbs and early summer. Height increases gradually (up to 18’ in discard rotten ones. Make indoor our area) as the clump matures; growth is slow compared plantings of amaryllis, callas, and to monopodial species. Leaves (secondary growth) are gloxinias. produced after maximum culm height is reached each year but late-season culms may not produce secondary MISCELLANEOUS - Prune winter- growth until the following year. After leaves are produced damaged limbs. Give houseplants a bath in individual culms cease all growth, and live 3-7 years. lukewarm water to remove dust. To Clumps can be attractively thinned by removing individual keep poinsettias that have finished culms, or completely renewed to the ground in late winter flowering, turn pots on their sides and before new growth let them dry completely ensues. Cut them back lightly Keep in a ‘Alphonse Karr’ sports attractive gold culms streaked temperature of 55 to 60 °. with green. Leaves are larger than ‘Rivieriorum’ VEGETABLE SEED - Plant hardy but suffer complete injury at ~15ºF (above), vegetables, root crops, roots, and necessitating renewal pruning. ‘Fernleaf,’ as supplied tubers in southern-most areas. Plant to us (right), appears very similar to ‘Rivieriorum,’ lettuce, cabbage, and broccoli in perhaps with slightly less stem hardiness. We’re also coldframes. growing Borinda boleana and Fargesia spp.; time will tell if these clumping species also have potential. VEGETABLE PLANTS - Set out cabbage 6 plants. E

February Certificate in Native Plant Studies tion o i at c u d FRUITS AND NUTS - Planting season Classes/Field Trips/Volunteer Opportunities continues for dormant trees. Fertilize fruit trees. Apply half of the fertilizer Registration and further information recommended for grapes now; about the program, including course apply the other half soon after fruit descriptions and certificate requirements sets. Continue dormant pruning & can be found at www.bbgardens.org/ grafting. Start strawberry plantings. plantstudies or call 205.414.3958.

SHRUBS - Planting season continues. Visit camellia shows to learn of hardy Winter Identification varieties in your area. Graft camellias of Native Woody Plants (elective) in Central & South Alabama. Spray Instructor: Fred Spicer Location: Birmingham Botanical Gardens all shrubs with a fungicide before Saturday, January 14, 2011 | 12:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. new growth starts. $40 Members | $45 Non-Members Good time to prune all shrubs before new growth starts. Don’t prune early- Native Plant Conservation (core) blooming species because flower Instructor: Wayne Barger buds will be removed. Location: Birmingham Botanical Gardens Saturday, January 28, 2012 | 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. ROSES - Prune hybrid tea roses $80 Members | $90 Non-Members in South Alabama; delay pruning On Saturday, December 3, for a few weeks in North Alabama. Understanding Botanical Names (elective) volunteers from our Certificate in Continue planting. Instructor: John Manion Native Plant Studies series spent Location: Birmingham Botanical Gardens time working at the quail habitat ANNUALS AND PERENNIALS - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 | 12:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. $40 Members | $45 Non-Members at the Birmingham Zoo. This Replant early plantings of hardy unique volunteer opportunity annuals. Prepare beds for summer Native Mosses, Lichens & Liverworts (elective) is one of many only available annuals. Instructor: Curtis Hansen to participants in the program. Location: Birmingham Botanical Gardens For more information on how BULBS - Plant cannas, amaryllis, Saturday, March 24, 2012 | 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. you can enroll in the program gladiolus, & zephyranthes in South $40 Members | $45 Non-Members Alabama; delay planting for a few and take advantage of volunteer weeks in North Alabama. Native Spring Wildflowers (elective) opportunities like these, visit Instructor: John Manion www.bbgardens.org/csnpc. MISCELLANEOUS - Houseplants are Location: Birmingham Botanical Gardens beginning to show signs of activity. Wednesday, April 11, 2012 | 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $40 Members | $45 Non-Members Fertilize with liquid or soluble fertilizer according to manufacturer’s Bibb County Glades (fieldtrip) directions. Field Trip Guides: Fred Spicer & John Manion Remember Valentine’s Day; Why not Location: Bibb County send roses or a potted plant? Saturday, April 28, 2012 | 8 -5 p.m. $40 Members | $45 Non-Members VEGETABLE SEED - Plant some vegetables listed for January in Native Plant Propagation - Part II (elective) Central Alabama plus collards, Seed & Vegetative Propagation salsify, & Swiss chard. Add tomatoes, Instructor: Jan Midgley Location: Birmingham Botanical Gardens peppers, eggplants, cauliflower, & Saturday, May 12, 2012 | 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Brussels sprouts to coldframes. $40 Members | $45 Non-Members

VEGETABLE PLANTS-Plant cabbage, Native Grasses & Grass-Like Plants (elective) onions, lettuce, broccoli, & Brussels Instructor: Dan Spaulding sprouts. Location: Birmingham Botanical Gardens Saturday, June 9, 2012 | 12:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. $40 Members | $45 Non-Members 7 Andrea Wulf Friends of “Founding Gardeners. The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, Birmingham Botanical Gardens cordially and the Shaping of the American Nation” invites you to the

Thursday, March 8 | 6:30 p.m. th Reception 5:30-6:30 p.m. 47 Annual Limited Seating- Tickets must be reserved

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Thursday, January 19 5:30-6:30 p.m. Cocktail Supper 6:30-7:30 p.m. Members Meeting Garden Center at Birmingham Botanical Gardens $20 per person

The 14th annual Spencer Lecture will be held on Thursday, March 8 at 6:30 p.m. in the Linn-Henley Lecture Hall. This free annual event brings award- winning and New York Times best selling author Andrea Wulf to Birmingham Botanical Gardens for an intriguing talk titled “Founding Gardeners. The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation.” This beautifully illustrated talk looks at the lives of the founding fathers and how their attitude, toward plants, gardens, nature and agriculture shaped the American nation. In a unique retelling of the creation of America, Wulf will The Giving Garden show how plants, politics and personalities intertwined as never before. Paulette Van Matre - Executive Director, Magic City Harvest Guests will have a chance to meet Ms. Wulf at a reception where she will also be signing copies of her books, including Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Almost two tons of vegetables from The Generation, Nature and the Shaping of the American Nation. Gardens’ Bruno Vegetable Garden are donated to Magic City Harvest every year Andrea Wulf was born in India & moved to Germany as a child. She to feed Birmingham’s hungriest. Paulette trained as a design historian at Royal College of Art and is the author of the will discuss her organization’s partnership New York Times best-seller The Founding Gardeners as well as of The Brother with The Gardens & how it helps our Gardeners (long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2008 and winner of the community American Horticultural Society 2010 Book Award) and the co-author (with Emma Gieben-Gamal) of This Other Eden: Seven Great Gardens and 300 Years of English History. She has written for The Sunday Times, the Wall Street Journal, Catering by The Financial Times, The Garden, and regularly reviews for several newspapers, The Gardens Cafe by Kathy G including the Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian and The New York Times. She lives in London. RSVP by January 13 at Visit www.bbgardens.org/spencerlecture to reserve your tickets or www.bbgardens.org/annualdinner contact Special Events Coordinator Shelly McCarty at 205.414.3965 or call 205.414.3965 8 or [email protected]. E s t n e v

Last Chance: Newport in Flower, June 21-24, 2012 The Friends are visiting Newport, Rhode Island this summer to attend the Newport Flower Show and to tour private gardens in and around the historic city and would love for you to join them. Cost for the four day, three night exclusive trip is $2,250 (double occupancy, excluding airfare). Tour goers must be members at the Oak level ($250) or above. The registration deadline is Friday, January 20, 2012. The balance is due by Friday April 20, 2012. For details and a full itinerary of this exclusive tour, visit www.bbgardens.org/travel or contact Olivia Alison, director of development, at 205.414.3961 or [email protected]

Newport Flower Show Opening Night Cocktail Party, photo by corbettphotography.net for The Preservation Society of Newport County

◄ North garden, Blithewold Mansion, Gardens and Arboretum- Photograph courtesy Kristin Green 9 Adult & Family Classes For more information or to register visit www.bbgardens.org/classes or call 205.414.3958. Mr. & Mrs. Edgar G. Aldridge Hugh & Bobbe Kaul* Mrs. Ruby S. Ansley Dr. Bodil Lindin-Lamon* Yoga in The Gardens Mr. and Mrs. Michael Balliet Fran Lawlor Instructor: Suzanne Graham Mrs. Camille A. Becker Dr. Michael E. Malone Wednesday from January 11 to February 15 Mrs. Lucille S. Beeson* Ms. Louise T. McAvoy* 5:30 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. Peggy Bonfield and Orrin Ford Mrs. Mary Jean Morawetz Location: Birmingham Botanical Education Mary Carolyn Gibbs Cleveland Mr. Philip Morris (East Room) Mrs. Tom Tartt Brown* Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Murray, Jr. $12 Per Person Per Class or All Six Classes for $60 D. Joseph & Ida C. Burns* James L. Newsome Ms. Suzanne G. Clisby Dr. & Mrs. A. I. Perley*

d u c at i oWinter n Bird Feeders Mrs. Martha Stone Cobb Daniel* Steve & LeAnne Porter Instructor: Ashley Harper The Daniel Foundation of Alabama Mrs. Carol P. Poynor Saturday, January 21 | 10 -12:30 p.m. The Dunn-French Family Mr. & Mrs. William M. Spencer, III* Location: Birmingham Botanical Gardens E Mr. F. Lewter Ferrell, Jr.* Mr. Frederick R. Spicer, Jr. For 4K-4th grade Mr. R.R. Herbst* Mr. Douglas Arant Stockham $12 Members / $15 Non-Members Mr. J. Ernest & Mrs. Ora Lee Hill* Dr. Wendell H. Taylor* Mrs. Fay B. Ireland Mrs. Carolyn D. Tynes* The “Joy of Tea” Seminar & Tea Tasting Mr. George L. Jenkins Instructor: Libby Davis Mrs. Anne H. “Nancy” Warren Wednesday, February 8 | 2-4 p.m. Mrs. Robert Wells Location: Birmingham Botanical Gardens Members of The Perennial Society have made a planned gift, a $20 Members / $25 Non-Members bequest, or an endowment gift of $10,000 or more to The Gardens. Floral Design Class Instructor: Shelayne Thompson Thursday, February 9 | 6-8 p.m. Location: Birmingham Botanical Gardens $30 Members / $40 Non-Members Garden Sustainers are our top annual donors, who in Partner Yoga at The Gardens the words of the late charter Instructor: Suzanne Graham member Bill Spencer, “give Saturday, February 11 | 10-11:30 a.m. more to support a garden Location: Birmingham Botanical Gardens (East Room) that’s free for everyone else.” $25 Members / $30 Non-Members

Pine Needle Baskets Chairman Patron Instructor: Ethel Owen Mrs. Fay B. Ireland Ms. Elna R. Brendel Saturday, February 18 | 10-2 p.m. Louise D. Johnson Brasfield & Gorrie Location: Birmingham Botanical Gardens (Exploration Classroom) Mr. & Mrs. W. Frank Cobb, III $50 Members / $60 Non-Members Director The Goodrich Charitable Foundation Class is limited to ten Mrs. Claire H. Fairley Mr. & Mrs. James M. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Jon Kimerling The Urban Chicken Instructor: Andrew Krebbs Advisor Mayer Electric Supply Company, Inc Saturday, February 25 | 9-11 a.m. Mr. & Mrs. Carl E. Jones, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Guy K. Mitchell, Jr Location: Birmingham Botanical Mr. & Mrs. Taylor Pursell Mr. & Mrs. Fred W. Murray, Jr. Gardens (Adventure Classroom) James L. Newsome $10 Members / $12 Non-Members Benefactor Mr. & Mrs. Charles S. Northen III Southern Progress Corporation Mr. & Mrs. Henry B. Ray, Jr. The Hill-Allison Charitable Lead Trust Rucker & Margaret Agee Fund A Special Event Mr. R. Shane Boatright Mr. & Mrs. B. Hanson Slaughter for the Whole Family Mrs. Virginia R. Brown* Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Arant Stockham Mr. Stewart M. Dansby Mr. & Mrs. Jarred O. Taylor, II Meditation Class: “The Garden of the Mind: Dr. & Mrs. John A. Floyd, Jr. Mrs. W. Hall Thompson Cultivating Peace & Happiness in Daily Life” Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd R. Wilson Instructor: Gen Kelsang Mondrub – American Buddhist Monk Royal Cup, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. John N. Wrinkle Saturday, February 18 | 11-12:30 p.m. Stephens Foundation Location: Birmingham Botanical Gardens (Lecture Hall)

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