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Bulletin of the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic Garden Bulletin of the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic Garden South African Australian New Zealand California Native Aroma/Succulent Butterfly Garden Garden Garden Garden Gardens Garden Contents MLK Day of Service …...………………… 1 2019 Garden Projects & Volunteer Goals .. 2 The Amazing Jean H. Langenheim ……. 3 From the Friends Board ………………… 4 Nursery Update & Spring Plant Sale .….. 5 The Center for Plant Conservation …...... 7 On the Shelf: A Book Review ….............. 8 Notes from a Curator ……………………. 9 Gallery of Photos ………………………… 10 Buy Local: Garden Centers …………….. 11 Calendar of Events ………………………. 11 Research at UCSC ….............................. 12 2019 Membership & Donor Updates ….. 13 Staff & Board Members/Contacts ……... 14 MARK YOUR CALENDAR Spring Plant Sale: MLK Day of Service January 21 was a gratifying Saturday, April 13 sign of public support for the Arboretum. It was a sunny, warm winter day and everyone seemed to National Public be enjoying the “work.” A huge thank you to the Gardens Week: over 50 community members who helped clear and weed pathways and plant seedlings. May 13-19 21 WINTER 2019 BULLETIN 2 Complete renovation of the nursery growing New opportunities: More volunteers will be areas and greenhouses. brought onboard as the Tour Guide and Garden Docent programs are revived and South Africa revitalization: Along with refreshed to meet the needs of our extensive pruning and re-establishment of old community—currently, requesting a tour specimens, we are working on the installation requires filling out a wait list form, with wait of a maze, with walls of towering Cape Rushes times exceeding several weeks. Having (Restios); a rock garden featuring Aloes, more tours is a must. Euphorbias, and other wonderful succulents; a wedding lawn composed of California native Updated Handbooks: Working with our grasses; Pelargonium panels, a vertical expert volunteer tour guides, staff, and display of spectacular geraniums; and a grove Board members, we are developing a of Silver Trees in the Erica beds. Volunteer Handbook and a Docent Manual. California Conservation Gardens: Re-opening Expanded Training: A pilot training program old paths around the reservoir and in the for current volunteers interested in oldest part of the garden, continued becoming a docent will be offered in late development of paths and beds in the upper March, and pilot training for new tour garden, with new boulder fields and a lavish guides will start this summer. display of Dudleyas. As volunteer Friday Sweeper and current More and better signage, both for way-finding Board member, Bill Ruskin put it, "Docents are and for interpretation. needed to help demystify the place." Plant sales area expansion at Norrie’s gift shop. And so much more…. ~ Martin Quigley Executive Director Giving Day raised over $20,000 in 24 hours for Thank you to everyone—Arboretum staff the South Africa and volunteers, Friends of the Arboretum, Garden improvements community members, and out-of-town and the Art in the With spring around the corner and its inevitable visitors—who helped make Hummingbird Day Arboretum program. abundance of growth (weedy and desired), the (March 4), Giving Day (March 8), and the Calling on friends! Arboretum is seeking more helping hands. Spring Plant Sale (April 9) great successes. Even with our required Consider joining one of our many wonderful Hummingbird Day visitors gardening groups or assisting at spring special last minute site Can anyone surpassed 500 adults, and events, from the Spring Plant Sale to relocation and the donate a used we enjoyed the energy Hummingbird Day. Visit the Volunteer ongoing threat of rain pickup truck to and enthusiasm of over webpage for detail on all 15 different volunteer (which thankfully held- 200 children! Before the the Arboretum opportunities and a link to the application form. off), this year’s Spring day was over, supplies staff? No frills Plant Sale was our ran out due to the needed, just a reliable vehicle for most successful since ~ Katie Cordes incredible popularity of all the crafting hauling branches and moving rocks. 2007 with over $33,000 earned in gross Volunteer Program Coordinator opportunities. Throughout the day, tours and revenue. Long bed would be optimal! Call talks were well attended, and our Again a huge THANK YOU to all who Martin Quigley, 831.502.2314 photography-advice volunteers were kept participated for your overwhelming support! busy with conversation and questions. 12 WINTER 2019 BULLETIN 3 “I am a plant and evolutionary ecologist and also taught ethnobotany, the relationships between people and plants. You could say I’ve had an enthnobotanical relationship with the Arboretum since its beginning.” Jean H. Langenheim, UCSC Professor in the Bay Area whose ideas contributed to the Emerita Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is concept of Population Ecology. nationally and internationally recognized as a In 1962 she relocated to the east coast and trailblazer in the fields of plant sciences and became a Research Fellow at the Biology ecology. Though she once revealed that “being a Department at Harvard and a Scholar at the woman” was the greatest obstacle in establishing Radcliffe Institute for Independent Studies. her career, her exceptional skills, efforts, and Following her work there with eminent preparedness led to many “firsts” as a woman, paleontologist E.S. Barghoorn authenticating the starting with academics: at the University of plant source of amber, she started looking into why Minnesota the only female PhD student chosen plants began to produce to work with W.S. Cooper, a leading plant resin about 300 million ecologist and geobotanist; at UCSC, the first years ago, coinciding with woman hired in the natural sciences (1966-72) the evolution of trees in a and first woman promoted to full Professor tropical environment. That Visitor Resources: On Tours, arrange pre-arrange a (1973). Over the next two decades, she was the question inspired her guided tour (limited availability) and download first woman president of the Association for research for many years Visitor Resources: To enrich your visit, on Tours, guides and activities for children: Arboretum Birds, Tropical Biology (1985-86) and of the to come, including periods you can arrange a guided tour (limited availability) Butterflies at the Arboretum, Ethnobotany, International Society of Chemical Ecologists spent in the Brazilian and download guides and activities for children: Arboretum Bingo, and I Spy. On Birding at the (1986-87) and the second woman elected Amazonian rainforest basin. Arboretum Birds, Butterflies at the Arboretum, Arboretum, download renowned expert Todd president of the Ecological Society of America Returning to California in 1966 at age 40, Ethnobotany, Arboretum Bingo, and I Spy. On Newbury’s list of common avian visitors! (1986-87) and the Society for Economic Botany Langenheim was hired at UCSC as an assistant Birding at the Arboretum, download renowned bird (1993-94). A renowned expert in her field and professor in biology, a late bloomer some said expert Todd Newbury’s list of the garden’s author or co-author of over 130 research articles, but, as she saw it, “always an active one.” She common avian visitors! she has been offered lectureships around the was a founding fellow of Adlai E. Stevenson world, from Brazil to Australia, and awarded College and co-taught with Kenneth Thimann an Also at the Arboretum… When planning a prestigious honors, including in 2006, at the age extremely popular botany course titled “Plants wedding or upcoming social or business event, the of 81, the Fellow’s Medal, the highest research and Human Affairs,” which included coursework beautiful gardens or spacious meeting hall could award given by the California Academy of at the Arboretum. Langenheim also played an be the perfect setting. Visit Facility Rentals for forms important role in the early establishment of and detail on indoor and outdoor locations. Sciences, and a Centennial Award from the Botanical Society of America. graduate studies and later became Chair of the The Australian Rock Interested in natural history since childhood, Biology Department. Garden & Picnic Area (left) Langenheim focused her graduate studies on plants Her love of teaching extended to mentoring has a capacity of 150 and geology, specifically the physiography and plant over 40 graduate students, her “surrogate guests, and the smaller succession of a large earthflow near the Rocky family,” many with whom she remains in close South African Garden th Mountain Biological Laboratory. Subsequently, she contact and who helped plan both her 75 and holds 80 people. th did her Doctoral dissertation on a large area of sub- 90 birthday celebrations. A fierce supporter of alpine and alpine vegetation between Crested Butte women in science, her advice to those just beginning their careers was “follow the three P’s: and Aspen. Both of these studies provide data for The Horticulture II Meeting passion, persistence, and patience.” current research on the changes during 65 years in Hall is ideal for indoor Though officially retired in 1994, Langenheim the composition of plant communities in the western events: it comfortably holds continued to supervise graduate students, remain Colorado Rocky Mountains. 125 people (lecture) and active in research, and serve on UCSC Academic In 1954, she became a Research Associate at 85 people (classroom Senate committees. And she continued to add to UC Berkeley and interacted with botanical groups format or sit-down meal). Continued on p. 4 3 WINTER 2019 BULLETIN 4 Langenheim-- From p. 3 her long list of publications: several major syntheses of research on amber and chemical ecology; the 2003 definitive reference book Plant Resins: Chemistry, Evolution, Ecology, and Ethnobotany, which highlights her interdisciplinary perspective; and her 2010 memoir, The Odyssey of a Woman Field Scientist: A Story of Passion, Persistence, and Patience, which integrates the major historical events and changes in the status of women, in both the sciences and in general, that have occurred during her career.
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