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. Rhododendron (R. maximum), deep ~-_ .._.- clefts angling up the rock face of an ANEW imposing outcrop should have been KIND OF thick with Mountain Laurel (Kalmia lati/olia), but not a seedling of any of GARDENER these was present. Where there might have been at least four species of dog- wood-Cornus florida, C. alterni/olia, t'S quite an education to read C. racemosa, and C. sericea-as edge a field guide. One places one- and understory in such a habitat, both TI self mentally in, in my case, niches were so filled by aggressive broadleaf forest about halfway barberry and buckthorn that there between Maine and Maryland and was hardly an inch for shyer seed- sees what one can see. flex opaca, our lings to get started. fine American Holly? Never saw it. . The disappointment fueled my Rhododendron viscosum, our fragrant curiosity. I began to accumulate Swamp Azalea? Not in these woods. other reference books in order to Such pioneer species as American learn what native species ought to native turned out to be exotics, and Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis), be around. Sometimes I used the not only weedy species like the Winterberry (flex verticiliata), and books to identify a sprig or blossom Japanese Barberry and Alder Common Witch Hazel (Hamamelis found on walks around the country- Buckthorn we had cleared from the virginiana) should have been early side; more often I wandered aim- choked fringes of our land, but also arrivals on the moist pond shore, but lessly through the pages of a world lovely things like Burning Bush there were none. A boggy area was strangely new. (Euonymous alata), Cornelian Cherry perfect for Summersweet (Clethra Surprise caught me up continually. (Cornus mas), and all wild apple trees alni/olia), a rise just right for Rosebay Plants I knew well and assumed were (continued on next page) A NEW KIND OF GARDENER Biodiversity remains only in meadow, arises from the complexity (continued from front page) scattered preserves; elsewhere, of connections among its separate whose fruits are red, not green. What what has grown back over the elements. Removing an element dismayed me was not just the number fields of our forefathers is merely unplugs many connections and there- of species that had failed to appear on a fraction of the species that can, fore has a stupefying effect much our particular plot, but the number of and once did, grow here. greater than the mere subtraction of a species that in 50 years of acquain- The reason struck me forcefully: part. By removing many parts and tance with this area I had neither our rage to clear, first for farms and thus unplugging these connections, seen nor heard of. now for yards, has made once com- we have left our land too retarded to The nicknames of the unfamiliar mon natives too rare in the wild to take care of itself, much less to be of plants I stumbled across only in books repopulate the land. any help to us. -Staggerbush (Lyonia mariana), Our intelligence, however prodi- This is not someone else's prob- Fetterbush (Leucothoe racemosa), gious we like to think it, is trivial lem. We-you and I and everyone Hog-apple (Crataegus crus-gallz), compared to the accumulated wisdom who has a yard of any size-own a Toothache Tree (Zanthoxylum ameri- of the hundred million species that big chunk of this country. Suburban canum)-suggested an eye-winking, make up Earth's biosphere. Since development has wrought habitat elbow-jabbing intimacy with species each microbe, animal, and plant destruction on a grand scale. As that must once have been as common possesses some minute portion of these tracts expand, they increasingly as traveling salesman jokes. Where the know-how that makes the whole squeeze the remaining natural ecosys- were they? In guides and encyclo- Earth work, the loss of any species tems, fragment them, sever corridors pedias, but seldom here, in what once erases some portion of organic intelli- by which plants and animals might had been their native habitat. gence, and leaves the land more refill the voids we have created. To Gradually I realized that the stupid. Moreover, an ecosystem's reverse this process-to reconnect remnant meadows, thicketed road- intelligence-its ability to run itself as many plant and animal species as sides, and extensive woods of this and to sustain its inhabitants-is we can to rebuild intelligent suburban regrowing area are a mask of natural- more than a summation of the infor- ecosystems-requires a new kind of ness that, once one is trained to mation each of its species represents. garden, new techniques of gardening, recognize the species, drops away The intelligence of any system, and, I emphasize, a new kind of to reveal an appalling blankness. whether a computer, a brain, or a gardener. ~
A NEW KIND I return to the bookcase to continue the moon and the stars. (See moon the 'shopping' process. The propaga- garden article at the end OF CONSUMER tion books explain how I can establish of this newsletter.) CrrJz. this plant in my landscape. And whether I end up getting a shoot from books.I adore~ .. ' . "...... • ''It:VBtN,'J(. urs is a consumer society. You a Wild Ones member, buying seed I even . ," ' could even say that as you ''':'."'' 'l~';- l. .. ", _._"'\'"' from a native plant nursery or discov- entertain '. -. .".1:..1, '.-:'; ~(;flJO Jj.", and I tour natural areas, we O ering a site where I can get permis- fantasies . ,::'8 are window-shopping for a landscape KIC~ sion to collect, I always find myself of being ~,iID
Lucy Schumann's page number art is of the Carrion-flower (Smilax herbacea) gone to seed. Journa[-/(eeping
THE JOURNEY OF MY JOURNAL JOURNAL HABITS TO FOLLOW grew up in the town of Mount Pleasant, Wis., in the middle '50s through the late USE A SMALL, EASILY CARRIED I'60s. Back then, Spring Street had unmowed spiralbound book. If you're ditches and telephone poles. Wood posts and planning on writing only, lined paper is good. barbed wire-fenced hay meadows and pastures. If you plan to write and draw pictures, get plain Stone piles and hedgerows divided fields. And paper. Write in pencil or permanent ink; a lot of rabbits and pheasant were hunted along grassy modern inks fade and run. railroad rights-of-way by schoolboys and their If you're a beginner, a good place to start your fathers. journal entries is on a field trip. Entries should One hot June afternoon in the middle 1950s, I include location, date, time, temperature, and a complained to my dad that I had nothing to do- general description of the weather. Write down "One way that after a morning of shaking weeds from the anything interesting that you or others have to open clods of earth my dad had turned for the garden. observed. If you're writing about a plant, note if your eyes Dad told me to get some paper and a pencil and it's single- or multiple-stalked, in a group, bloom- is to ask go outside and write about what I saw. When I ing or not. Include neighboring plants, soil condi- yourself, came in, my parents looked over my sentences tions, animal or human disturbances. If it's being 'What if I and sketches and said I might as well write eaten or pollinated, record who or what's doing had never every day. Mom bought me a stenographer's this. If you don't know the plant's name, and seen this notebook, and my journal-writing career began. you've forgotten your key, make a sketch for before? Due to my parent's persistence, journal- later identifica- What if I keeping became part of my we~kly routine. August 1960. tion. If you're knew I In fifth grade, I used information in my jour- The eld b writing about would nal to write a nature report. In sixth grade, YOucan t August because an animal, note never see I walked a few miles and interviewed a few grasshoppers are everywhere. its location it again?'" long-time residents about the history of They come out 0/ the ground and activity. If -Rachel the land. These journal entries formed the and eat plants. When you catch you don't know Carson foundation of my sixth grade History 0/ Mt. one, they sPit brown tobacco on the species, Pleasant project. In high school, I used my your hand, so they can get away. describe and notes to quiz science teachers and write Mom always yells to wash my sketch it. You English compositions. In college, one of my hands when I get in the house. might be able rewritten journal entries took second place in She doesn't even see if they are to find it in a a UW-Madison writing contest. dirty. She just says to do it. field guide Two years ago, my parents found many of Babette Kis' journal entry later. my childhood journals. In them, faded and If you're a th grade) water-stained, were hundreds of my memo- seasoned jour- ries of Barnes Prairie yesterdays. nal writer, you Today, Barnes Prairie has all but disappeared. may want to keep a journal in your car. Use it to Less than 20 percent of the rights-of-way, record any sightings of native communities or hedgerows, hay meadows and abandoned pas- native plantings. Take a survey of the plants tures that filled my childhood remain. My jour- and animals you see in these areas. If they are nal entries are among the few existing records of located on priv:ate property, make sure you get the land that was Racine County, Wis. They are permission before doing this. Along with your currently being used by a conservation agency survey, describe specific aspects about the to benchmark change in southeastern community, or interactions of plants and Wisconsin. They may be used as a history of the animals. Describe any construction of roads, land. They may spark conservation agencies to buildings, etc. around the natural area. If you preserve what is left of this prairie land-the get a chance to observe a native community land I will continue to write about in my journal. (continued on next page)
The Carrion-flower is so named because its flower is said to smell like decaying flesh. Early Tune 1962. Near the Country Club. Shooting star's homes are grassy, sunny fields and under gnarly bur oak trees. They grow (continuedjrom previous page) in rich black soil Their pale "Summer Journal," "Nature throughout the year, you might green leaves come up at the end Journal," "Summer Adven- want to keep a record or list of of April. They hug the ground to ture," "Plant and Animal different plants and animals keep warm. ] don't know why Stories," etc. Let your child you see by season. In summer they come up so early. They are help choose the title of their '1 dressed or fall, go out in the evenings always eaten by rabbits, gray journal and the color of the and went between 8:00 and 10:00 (take gophers and meadow voles. cover. Calculate the number of fora your flashlight) to find night- Now, tiny green caterpillars eat pages your child's journal will walk- flying moths, orb weavers, them The caterpillars like to eat have by multiplying the num- determined katydids, night beetles and their petals and seed pods, too. ber of times per week your not to bats. On winter evenings, you Every year there are less and child will write by the number return until may see meadow voles, skunk, less shooting stars becausefarm- of weeks or months the journal [took raccoons and owls about. ers kill them by plowing closer to will be used. The 1996 sum- in what Before you make any night the edges offences. And the mer journals we made had Nature had trip, get permission from the roadsides are mowed. But this between 20 and 30 pages each. to offer." landowner and contact local field has a lot of shooting stars. My summer class of second -Raymond law enforcement agencies. When] grow uP,-] am going to and third graders wrote in Carver You may want to rewrite buy this land. Then the shooting these journals once a week. At your best journal entries. Do stars will have a home forever: home, my 6- to 12-year-oldchil- this within the week, while Babette Kis' journal entry dren make entries twice a images are still fresh in your (6th grade) week. Design or buy pages mind. Enter these in a separate that have space for your child's notebook, or use a word ~ame, date, location, observa- processor. Compare and share your entries with tion/notes and picture. After you finish your fellow naturalists and conservation agencies. cover and sample page, have them duplicated Journal notes are one of the best ways to docu- and spiralbound at a quick-print shop. ment changes in our diminishing natural areas. Journal-keeping is most interesting during late spring through fall, so you may IF YOU WANT YOUR CHILD want to start during this period. TO KEEP A JOURNAL """ In your yard or a nature let them watch you make journal area close to home, entries. Ask your preschooler what have your you should write about. After you child point out finish your entry, read it to your birds, bees, child. If your child is older, com- butterflies, bine journal writing with summer caterpillars, camp, field trips, nature studies. flowers or Middle and high school stu- other plants and animals. When you dents often do well with small and your child are looking at plants, you notebooks like those adults use, "evt' may ask: Do they live in sun or shade? Are but for younger children, ages they tall or short? When do they bloom? How do 6 to 11, an 8112 xlI spiralbound the leaves and flowers feel? For animals: What are notebook often works better. Most younger chil- they doing?]s there more than one? Are they quick dren I've worked with don't like to draw on or slow? Are they out all of the time, or only at a lined paper. If yours doesn't, consider buy- certain time of day? Are they hunters or prey? ing a spiralbound book which has lines and After one or two of these field trips, the chil- drawing space on each page. dren I work with usually decide what they want You can make a personalized journal for to write about without prompting. Each time your child. On the cover, include your child's she's out, my 6-year-old usually writes one or two name, year and a description such as sentences and draws pictures. Give children in
Some larvae of Large Longhorn Beetles make a buzzing noise in dead pine trees as they feed. .9L Phenological Calendar second grade and older note-taking rules. My March April May June July August Sept. Oct. third and sixth graders are required to write at Bloodroot least one paragraph containing at least four sen- tences for each journal entry. I review every- body's writing after they've finished an entry or Wild Ginger once a week, depending upon the child's age. I Wild Geranium don't correct their sentences and spelling errors. Columbine I do have them explain vague sentences or logic. And I tell them they have sharp eyes when they Jack-in-the-Pulpit state little-known facts. Every two weeks, I Shooting Star require my older children to choose one of their Pale Purple Coneflower entries and write a page about it. To do this, they Black-Eyed Susan may have to make additional observations or use reference material. They write a draft, correct Evening Primrose their spelling errors and sentences and arrange Bergamot sentences into paragraphs. I encourage them to Gray-Headed Coneflower include pictures, graphs, lists, sketches, or other New England Aster information in their report. At the end of the summer, I congratulate all of the children on a job well-done. We read our favorite notes out loud to each other. In fall, I ou say you're not ready to plunge store my children's summer journals in a box in in and write a full-blown journal? "Everything the attic. Over time, these journals will weather Then at least get your feet wet by hang- changes, and wrinkle, like my childhood journals did. and nothing ing up a clipboard diary. The example And, when my children leave, their journals will is more be waiting, should they wish to take them. ea, above shows the bloom dates of a few vulnerable ---@ 1996 Babette Kis plants. You can chronicle many more than the beautiful. " Tuly 30. 1965. species-including birds and insects. -Edward The field behind the house. By noting the first day of an event, Abbey The lighting bugs.come out when ..the Compass plants start to bloom. Th~.reare.three your senses will be heightened to that kinds. One is about half an inch long that species' presence and disappearance. make a single yellowflash.pne is about three- quarters of an inch long and also has a yellow This will be helpful when making note light..These are Photinus Beetles. Another of when to collect seed. Saved through kind is about three-quartersof an ..inch long the years, you'll be able to anticipate and flashes green. This is a Photuru,s Beetle. Photinus and Photurus beetles spend their events, and you'll have a more accurate early lives underground. They need to live reference than memory alone to the in mOist soil with plants above them, cultivated ground. That is why they are effects of weather patterns. prevalent by the pond in back of the house. Hey, anybody can lay claim to spot- lt7zen I was a kid, I caught fireflies every ting the first robin of the season. night. Sometimes in my hands, sometimes in jars. YOucan do that whenyqu're a kid. The How many people notice the last problem is the guys .(teenagers in the neighbor- robin come fall? hood). If I see them, I'll tellthem I'm looking for the dog. I'm going over the hill to catch lightning bugs. If they starfto come with, I'll tell them to watch out for thespiders. Babette Kis' jOlrrnal entry (high school) Honeybees visit 250,000 flowers to make a pound of honey. A (/p:fte 6utterf{y's [i6rary
supplement it with a butterfly guidebook for c:r\lfY::~!;:=!r~:?Z~your region. Another BBG ows buzring with insects. With the recent release of offering is Native Perennials (#146, several wildlife gardening books, you, too, can pull spring 1996, $7.95). To order either book, call up an armchair to the fire and dream about swallow- (718) 622-4433, ext 274. tails and coneflowers. A nice gift choice is The Butterfly Garden National Wildlife Federation brought out Gardening for by Jerry Sedenko (Villard Books, 1991). Wildlife, by Craig Tufts and Peter Loewer (Rodale Press, Beautifully written and photographed, the $29.95). These two experts on urban wildlife and native book contains plant profiles by season, 26 common butter- plants, respectively, cover birds, butterflies, and types of flies, and two detailed garden schemes. This book appeals gardens (meadow, water, woodland). Fifteen NWF back- to the senses; it continually reminds me why humans are yard habitats are profiled. Excellent resource, with good fascinated with these ethereal creatures. plant and butterfly lists, but only a few butterfly photos. Other butterfly gardening books to look for include: Natural Gardening by Jim Knopf, et al. (I1le Nature The Butterfly Garden. Mathew Tekulsky (Harvard Company, $24.95) has the feel of a nature journal, with Common Press, 1985). One of the first, this paperback sketches and observations that intrigue the reader but contains solid information, but no photos. don't present comprehensive information. Regional plant Butterfly Gardening: Creating Summer Magic in Thur guides follow. Garden. Xerces Society/Smithsonian Institution (Sierra Nature's Gardens, a Better Homes and Gardens book Club Books, 1990). Essays by experts like Miriam Roth- (Meredith Books, $24.95) is aimed at the beginning schild, plant and butterfly lists, but no photo identification. wildlife gardener, with lush photos, garden profiles and Butterfly Gardening for the South by Geyata Ajilvsgi sections on plants, birds and butterflies (with garden (faylor Publishing, 1990). Serious but readable coverage scheme and general plant information). of plants and butterflies, from Texas to Virginia. For in-depth coverage of plants and wildlife, you can't Butterflies: How to Identify Them and Attract Them to do better than The Wildlife Garden by Charlotte Your Garden by Marcus Schneck. (Rodale Press, 1990). Seidenberg (University Press of Mississippi, $15.95). This Similar style to Schneck's wildlife book; attractively illus- modest paperback, with attractive line drawings, is aimed trated. at Southeast gardeners but is packed with details that give The Country Diary Book of Creating a Butterfly Garden it wider appeal. by E.].M. Warren (Henry Holt, 1988). If you like the My own wildlife library began with Your Backyard Country Diary series, you'll love this; just remember that Wildlife Garden by Marcus Schneck (Rodale Press, 1992). its focus is British flora and fauna. This colorful book covers a surprising amount of informa- How to Attract Hummingbirds & Butterflies (Ortho tion, with several pages on common butterfly species, Books, 1991). Don't obsess about the source; text is quite plant lists and regional gardens. Insects, birds, amphib- informative. ians, reptiles and mammals are well-illustrated. For a fascinating read on butterfly behavior, try As you might guess, there are plenty of butterfly Handbook for Butterfly Watchers by Robert Michael Pyle gardening books on the shelves, too. When asked to (Houghton Mifflin, 1992). Respected naturalist Pyle writes recommend a beginner's book, I suggest the large-format with enthusiasm about viewing, attracting, rearing and paperback I usually reach for: The Butterfly Book by protecting butterflies. Donald and lillian Stokes and Ernest Williams (Uttle, Many excellent field guides are available for identifying Brown arid Company, 1991). This user.friendly book butterflies in your region; check with a bookstore or contains plant lists (nectar and larval) in an introduction to nature center like Audubon Society. More comprehensive butterfly gardening, then gets serious about books are The Audubon Society Field Guide to North life cycle and identification of common American Butterflies (Robert Michael Pyle); Peterson Field North American butterflies. Guides: Eastern Butterflies (paul Opler) and Western Brooklyn Botanic Garden added Butterflies O.W Tilden &AC. Smith). Butterfly Gardens: Luring Nature's For stocking-stutfers, try Peterson First Guide to Loveliest Pollinators to Thur Yard to its Caterpillars (Amy Wright) and Peterson First Guide to series of how-to garden books (handbook Butterflies and Moths (paul Opler). The Golden Guide: #143, summer 1995, $6.95). The paper- Butterflies and Moths (R. T. Mitchell and H. S . Zim) is back includes an overview of garden good for adults as well as kids. ea, --Claire Hagen Dole design, life cycle, and butterflies and Claire Hagen Dole is publisher/editor of plants by region. Good inexpensive Butterfly Gardeners' Quarterly, Po. Box 30931, Seattle, resource, but you might want to WA 98103. You may subscribe to BGQ for $8 a year: D ~he inside story on 600(5 _
yfirst Wild Ones column appeared in the Technical: The three-volume set ofAn Illustrated Flora of Marchi April 1990 issue of The Outside Story Northern United States and Canada by Britton and Brown and Gray's Manual of Botany, rewritten and expanded by Merritt (now known as Wild Ones Journal). To usher in M Lyndon Fernald are my source for family names, alternate the spring of 1990, Skunk Cabbage was appropriately fea- names, meaning of scientific names, plant description, and range. tured, since it is the first wild flower to appear in the new Field Guides: My first wildflower book was A Field Guide to year. Now, 38 columns later, I have been asked to share Wildflowers of Northeastern and Northcentral North America by some of my sources for the folklore, medicinal use, and Roger Tory Peterson and Margaret McKenny. You can tell by alternate names given to our native and alien plants. looking at my book that it has been well-used. Wildflowers and Around 1980, with two or three books on folklore (my Weeds by Booth Courtenay and James H. Zimmerman was very useful. Its pictures are not good but usually they are clear favorite being Wildflower Folklore by Laura C. Martin) I enough to make an identification. Newcomb's Wildflower Guide started my wild plant research. Over the years, I added by Lawrence Newcomb and The Audubon Society Field Guide to many books to my personal library and much time was North American Wildflowers (Eastern Region) are very helpful. spent pouring through books at local libraries. I even Pods by Jane Embertson is nice because sometimes you find a spent time at the Memorial library in Madison, Wis., plant in its final glory and can't recognize it without a flower or leaves. This book will show you the seedpods. I have never found including the mysterious ninth floor where the old, rare one book that has everything. My last resort is always Neil books are kept under lock-and-key. The librarian confis- Luebke, assistant curator of botany at the Milwaukee Public cated my purse and gave me the pencil and paper with Museum. which to take notes. I felt like a prisoner while I Field Guide to the Grasses, Sedges and Rushes of the United researched through those priceless old books, but it was States by Edward Knobel is a starter for identifying grasses and sedges. Walk Softly Upon the Earth by Lisa Potter Thomas and worth it. UWs Birge Hall also held some eye-opening James R Jackson, Ph.D. will help with the mosses, liverworts secrets. Many tidbits of information revealed in my and lichens. At least it's at a level that most of us can understand. columns came from the time I spent in Madison. This I learned so much from that little book which is published by the quote, from one of those old botany books, vividly stands Missouri Department of Conservation. Kevin Lyman, assistant out in my memory: curator of botany at the Milwaukee Public Museum has helped me go way beyond the book. A Field Guide to the Ferns by Boughton Cobb, National Audubon Society Field Guide to North , ' ''We see that the American Trees (Eastern Region), A Field Guide to Trees and most curious Shrubs by George A Petrides, and The Tree Key by Herbert Edlin were very helpful in identifying trees and shrubs. botanists have Folklore, Medicinal Use, Misc.: Wildflower Folklore by Laura C. Martin, Just Weeds by Pamela Jones, Medicinal Wild Plants of not concerned the Prairie by Kelly Kindscher, Medicinal and Other Uses of North themselves American Plants by Charlotte Erichsen-Brown, School of Natural Healing by Dr. John R Christopher, Back to Eden by Jethro about the Kloss, Indian Herbalogy of North America by Alma R Hutchens. A Modern Herbal (2 vol.) by Mrs. M. Grieve, American Medicinal virtues of Plants by Charles F. Millspaugh, The Dictionary of Useful Plants plants at all; and Using Plants for Healing by Nelson Coon, Stalking the l r Healthful Herbs by Euell Gibbons, The Scientific Validation of that many of the Herbal Medicine by Daniel B. Mowrey, Ph.D., and Heinerman ~ Encyclopedia of Fruits, Vegetablesand Herbs by John Heinerman. others who have Early Botanists: Wildflowers Across America by Lady Bird written well on Johnson and Carlton B. Lees, The Plant Hunters by Tyler Whittle, The Botanists of Philadelphia and their Work by John W plants, have Harshberger, Ph.D. and Peter Kalm's Travels in North America. thought it no Meaning of Scientific Names: Taylor's Encyclopedia of Gardening by Norman C. Taylor (now out-of-print) and Biological part of their Names and Terms by Edmund C. Jaeger, D.Se. subject." Insects: Butterflies Through Binoculars by Jeffrey Glassberg, The Butterflies of North America by James A Scott, and Peterson's Field Guide to Eastern Moths by Charles V. Covell,Jr. Some of the Over 200 books were used for my plant and insect pictures in the moth book are in black-and-white, which makes research. At right is a list of some of my favorites. ~ them hard to compare to a live subject. Les Ferge, of Madison, -Janice Stiefel helped me J.D. many of my collection of 200+ moth slides. (shown along the banks of the Mullet River, Peterson First Guides to Caterpillars by Amy Bartlett Wright is the only book I've found that includes colored drawings and photo by Mary Lee Croatt) information on both butterfly and moth caterpillars. For those interested in the Order Odonata, Guide to Common Dragonflies of Wisconsin by Karl & Dorothy Legler and Dave Westover is now available. Some of my dragonfly photos are included in this book. ~avorite reads "Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. " -Ralph Waldo Emerson
lfavoriOe Guides Wildflowers of The Tallgrass Prairie (Runkel, Roosa) Audubon Field Guides Roadside Plants And Flowers (Edsall) Peterson Field Guides Plants of the Chicago Region (Swink, Wilhelm) Stokes Field Guides Plants of the lllinois Dunesland (Lunn) Newcomb's Wildflower Guide Spring Flora of Wisconsin (Fassett) Wildflowers (House) Vegetation of Wisconsin (Curtis) Weeds (Martin) Grasses, An Identification Guide (Brown) Wildflowers And Weeds Grass: Field Guide to The Grasses, Sedges and Rushes of The U.S. (Knobel) (Courtenay, Zimmermann) Pods: Wildflowers And Weeds in Their Final Beauty (Embertson)
lfavoriOe Lanellscaping Boo&s Landscaping with Wildflowers (Wilson) The Prairie Garden (Smith, Smith) The Bird Garden (Kress) Landscaping for Wildlife (Henderson) Prairie Propagation Handbook (Rock) Growing And Propagating Wild Flowers National Wildlife Federation's Guide to Requiem for A Lawnmower (Wasowski) (Phillips) Gardening for Wildlife (Tufts, Loewer) Taylor's Guide to Natural Gardening Growing Wildflowers (Sperka) The Native Plant Primer (Ottesen) Wildflowers in Your Garden (Ferreniea) Landscaping with Native Trees (Wilson) The Natural Habitat Garden (Druse) The Wild Lawn Handbook (Daniels)
More Bird Behavior I, II, III (Stokes) Ladybugs, Tiger Lilies, Wallflowers (Hendrichson) DnspiraOional The Butterfly Garden (Sedenko) Let It Rot! The Gardener's Guide to Composting l!eClleling The Butterfly Garden (Tekulsky) (Campbell) Creating A Hummingbird Garden (Schneck) Nature in Winter (Stokes) Earth in The Balance (Gore) Noah's Garden (Stein) EcoPsychology (Roszak, Gomes, Kanner) A Sand County Almanac (Leopold) The Forgotten Pollinators (Buchmann, Nabhan) The Secret Life of A Garden (Dalton, Smith) The Gardener's }Ear (Capek) Songs in Your Garden (Terres) Grow A Butterfly Garden (potter-Springer) Tales of A Shaman's Apprentice (plotkin) Hedgemaids & Fairy Candles (Sanders) Wild about Birds (Henderson) Journeys in Green Places (Eifert) A Wisconsin Garden Guide (Minnich)
Wildflower magazine empha- Abou~ Ponells Ifoll' A. Abou~ Chilelren sizes the conservation and horti- Marilyn Buscher, The Geography of Childhood (Nabhan, Trimble) culture of North America's native Windy Oaks Aquatics, Growing Wild: Inviting Wildlife into Your Yard (perenyi) plants. }Early cost for four issues recommends: is $35. Mail your check to: Water in The Garden Dover Publications' fine coloring books make thoughtful Wildflower-Subscriptions (Allison) gifts. Among the many are: American Wild Flowers, Canadian Wildflower Society Favorite Wildflowers, Common Weeds, Trees of the Complete Pond Owner 4981 Hwy 7 East (Nash) Northeast, Wetlands Plants And Animals, Birds of America, Unit 12A, Suite 228 Butterflies, Insects, Small Animals of North America. Markham, Ontario Container Water Gardening Inquire at your local bookstore or write Dover, 31 E. 2nd (Nash) L3R INI St., Mineola, NY 11501. Lorrie Ott 0
..• "we do not inherit the local bookstore and bought ili the Earth from every book on native plants ::> '"w our ancestors, and nature she could find. w «:< but rather borrow it from With some college z our descendants" is the courses in biology and her o aphorism that perhaps most l' exhaustive reading, Lorrie aptly summarizes the life, I turned naturalist, crusader, and I lesson and legacy of Lorrie / teacher. Her decade-long battle Otto. She is a tireless advo- to save the ravine ended in cate of the concept that con- 1969when The Nature servation begins at home, Conservancy took title to pre- especially in the yard. serve Fairy Chasm. Newsweek called her the In the 1950s and '60s, "priestess" of the natural Bayside, like many communi- landscaping movement. ties across the country, would Lorrie views the vast spray DDT to control mosqui- 'Trend expanse of urban and sub- toes. Lorrie complained about is not urban development not so the weekly spraying. She destiny." much as blight but as an , ~,.!f' joined organizations, becoming -Rene environmental opportunity. a founding board member of Debos She views the traditional suburban monoculture the Wisconsin Chapter of The Nature lawn as "immoral." Lorrie adds, "H suburbia Conservancy and the Citizens Natural Resources were landscaped with meadows, prairies, Association. Lorrie, CNRAmembers and others thickets, or forests, or combinations of led an assault on Wisconsin's use of DDT by ini- these, then the water would sparkle, fish tiating and sponsoring hearings. In 1970, they would be good to eat again, birds would won! Wisconsin became one of the first states to sing and human spirits would soar." outlaw the biocide. Lorrie's efforts carried east In the last decade the natural landscaping to Washington. Wisconsin Senator Gaylord movement has taken root and spread from coast Nelson was a sponsor of the federal law to ban to coast. At the heart is Lorrie Otto. DDT. He frequently quoted Lorrie in hearings on Born in 1919 near Madison, Wis., where her the proposed ban. In 1972, DDT was banned family owned a dairy farm, Lorrie's love of nationally. nature traces back to the summer days when she Lorrie's conservation efforts never strayed far would traipse behind her father guiding the from her terrestrial roots. As she fought to save horse-drawn plow, soil squishing up between her Fairy Chasm and ban DD'r, she also turned her toes. She would study the grubs and worms. The own one-acre yard back to nature. When the farm stretched across three hills which her Ottos moved to Bayside, the front yard was all father had terraced by hand. Lorrie learned soil lawn with a bed of tulips and 64 Norway spruce conservation and the necessity of land steward- trees. Wanting her children to learn the wonders ship from her father. Years later, after earning a of nature, Lorrie planted asters, goldenrod, and pilot's license, Lorrie flew over the family farm to some ferns. She also cut down the spruce, much see the lush and green hills she knew as a child, to the consternation of her neighbors. On the while adjacent hillsides lay bare with alluvial fans first Earth Day, 1970, Lorrie decided to reclaim of brown mud stretched out from their bases. her yard so that it would look as though her After graduating from University of Wisconsin, house had been "dropped onto the property." Lorrie eventually moved to the Milwaukee sub- Bayside officials, however, saw only urb of Bayside to a home a block from Lake weeds. Without notice, a village worker went Michigan. The subdivision in which the Ottos out one morning and mowed down Lorrie's fern lived was blessed with a Zo-acreravine called garden. She was outraged! Lorrie took up the Fairy Chasm. In the late 1950s, plans were made fight to convince village officials of the error of to sell Fairy Chasm, cut down the trees and their ways. Lorrie views natural landscaping build houses. Lorrie was outraged! She went to (continued on next page) ,,0 ..~ (continuedjrom previous page) as a public good, not a health hazard. She prevailed on them, and the village paid her for the damage it caused. Today, Lorrie's yard is featured in numerous garden books. It is listed as one of the 32 most beautiful gardens • .1 ' in America's Womans Gardens. Ortho's 1990 hardcover {, " Successful Flower Gardening chose six gardens to profile, one of them was Lorrie's. i, Over the years Lorrie and others have helped home- .fJ [~M'~ __ owners win legal battles fighting unconstitutionally irra- tional weed ordinances. In 1979, after hearing Lorrie Annette Alexander, Lorrie Otto, Rochelle Whiteman, Bret speak at a seminar, Ginny Iindow had a 'wild' idea to start Rappaport at a dinner honoring Lorries accomplishments. an organization to promote the radical notion of using native plants to landscape city and suburban yards. Lorrie THE LORRIE OTTO SEEDS helped form Wild Ones then, has guided the organization through the years, and currently serves as program chair FOR EDUCATION PROGRAM and is a national director. ustice William O. Douglas, a staunch defender of the Lorrie finds special pleasure in working with children. Jenvironment, once wrote: "Every school needs a nature She works with schools to plant native plants instead of trail; and every person-adult or young-needs a bit of the all-too-common sterile lawns that encircle most of our wilderness, if wonder, reverence and awe are to be culti- learning centers. In a 1981 interview Lorrie mused, "What vated." It is with this notion in mind that the Board of happens in a society when the young are not stimulated Directors, at the suggestion of Director Rochelle White- by the diversity of life? Since childhood we've been taught man, created the Lorrie Otto Seeds for Education Fund. that one form of life depends upon another. In adulthood Lorrie's life work with students, young and old, has been we, in turn, preach it to the young. Yet, in the areas where to cultivate wonder, reverence and awe for Nature and all we could put our learning and teaching into practice- Her creatures. The Seeds for Education Endowment is off schoolyards, churches, hospitals, roadsides and, most to a strong start, thanks to the generous contributions of obvious of all, our own yards-we neaten and bleaken, many individuals and organizations. As we continue to consistently and relentlessly destroying habitat for almost build the endowment, awards will be given annually to all life. It's as if we took off our heads, hung them up, and deserving institutions of learning that plant outdoor class- left them at the nature center." rooms of native plants. eo., In spring 1996, Wild Ones honored Lorrie at a gala dinner. A highlight was the tribute from Karen Winicki, The following individuals have donated to the Seedsfor Educa- principal of Indian Hill School, near Milwaukee. In 1993 tion Program. Wild Ones offers our sincerest appreciation to: Lorrie, along with Wild Ones, planted an outdoor natural MARy THELEN, HUGH ILTIS, SUSAN & JERRY BELLEHUMENT, NANCY BAlDWIN HIU, DEBORAH HARWEll, MARIE WAUAU, MR. & MRS. RICH PATIERSON, RITA KARAN, landscape on the school grounds for youngsters to learn CHRIS REICHERT, DONNA HADGSON, MR. & MRS. HORACE TENNEY, JAY ROBERTSON, first-hand about natives and the interconnected web that MOillE JEAN JUSTO, CARlA &JOE BROWNING, ANNETIE ALExANDER, AllAN & CARLEEN & JOAN ROBERTSON, MARK & ELLEN FElDER, LEsLIE GROVE, MARK binds all of Nature's elements. Indian Hill students, from THORKELSON, MR. & MRS. KARL RUFF, EUZABETII WARNER, LYNN & DON VORPAHL, the first day of kindergarten, see, smell, touch, learn and, T'!JJA ERSIaNE, MARrON & JACK COFFEY, MR. & MRS. WIILIAM CHAPMAN, RANDALL hopefully in the end, respect and appreciate nature. COOLEY, LuCIA WILSON, SHARON MORRISEY, BETTY & ROBERT GREAVES, CONNIE SQUIER, BETTY RAy L\RsON, DONNA GAGER, MARrETIE NowAK, DEAN KLINGBEIL, Lorrie, like the fairy godmother in Cinderella, has spent a LYNN SCHOENECKER, JINA & BRET RAPPAPORT, TRrCIA OTTO, DAVID WISNER, MANDY lifetime sprinkling her magic wand brimming with inspira- & KEN PLoCH, ELSA ANKEL, DOROTHY & PAUL BOYER, PAT ARMsrnONG, JANICE & JOHN STIEFEL, LINDA DoRR, KATHERINE & RUSSELL R!IL, GEORGE & SYLVIA BECKER, tional pollen; her seedlings are many, and from them HELEN BENEDICT, JOAN WOLFE, JIM & PEG WATROUS, SAM & ROSALIE & REBECCA more naturalists will sprout. eo., -Bret Rappaport LEIB, HENRY REuss, ANNE DAVIDSON-McNrrr, MARGARET MARCHI, BABS BORTIN, MARSHA KRUEGER, D.M. & VIRGINIA CHRISTISEN, JOYCE STEPHENS, ROCHELLE & PAUL & LoRELEI WHITEMAN, BARBARA & BRAD GLASS, DOT WADE, BARBARA BECKER, SlACK ULRICH, MIUlCENT FICKEN, JUDfI1I LINDSAY, MICHAEL KOST, PAUL & PHILIA HAYES, BILL & GERT ROOTS, MR. & MRS. ROBERT BURKERT, ISABEL L!UlE, JANICE 1HIs ISSUE IS DEDICATED to the memory of George SoDUS, JILL WIEDMANN, DURY VAlliER, MUNNIE MESSINGER, JIM HODGINS, ZUE Owen Otto (1949-1996), Lorrie's son. In one of his ZICHMANIS, SHARYN WISNlEWSIa, MELINDA MYERS, JANE CARPENTER, JAN SERR, JOHN SHANNON, JANET NORTROM, MR. & MRS. LoRON THURWACHTER, STEPHEN & IRENA last letters to Lorrie, George wrote: "Now, as I grow MACEK, WINIFRED WOODMANSEE, SHIRLEY CONWN, ANNE & DEAN FITzGERALD, older, I have done the basics and still am bewildered MOLLY FIFIELD MURRAY, CHARWTIE & ED ZlEVE, MARLENE MAL!sow, BARBARA GLASSEL, MARy BRYANT, JULIE LINEHAN, ELEANOR ROESSLER, JUDY 'TROMBLEY, KEN by life's mysteries and charmed by its temptations. I've SOllS, MARy E. STAMp' VIRGINIA BOLGER, POLLY CRAMER, FREDERICK o-rr, HAROLD had some time, and as I live on, I don't use up time, & RUTH STEIN, HARVEY & JANET Hoy, NANCY & ARTHUR IAsIaN, NEIL LuEBKE, DAVID KINNAMON, JANET ScALPONE, FRED GERMAN, MARGARETE HARVEY, JANE I gain the time that I have lived. My time is not This BOLLER, SALLY &ANDy WASOWSIa, MRS. HAROLD SINGER, DR. STEVEN ULRICH, Moment or linear, it is cumulative. Its mine and I BEATRICE KABLER, DAVID KOPITZKE, MARy LEE & LwYD CROAIT, ZArGA & STEPHEN can think back on it. And when I die, I will have had MAAssEN; and the following organizations: THE LAND OFFICE OF DOWNERS GROVE (ILL.), RICHARDS ScHOOL OF WHITEFISH BAY (WIS.), ROCK RIVER VALLEY CHAPTER OF a life, hopefully a thoughtful and honorable one. " WILD ONES (ILL), LIBERTY PRAIRIE CONSERVANCY OF LIBERTYVilLE (ILL), Scm AUDUBON CENTER OF MILWAUKEE, THE EDMOND AND AilCE OPLER FOUNDATION, AND THE CITlZEN NATURAL REsoURCES AssoCIATION. report
A COUNTRY HOME
oming off County Trunk Pp' it's easy to Vorpahls not only tolerate the annual migration, they miss Hilbert Road. But if you find it, turn look forward to relishing it. Having a natural land- C south. The poor condition of the pavement scape with native plants means more than pretty forces travelers to go slow-which offers a better blooms and rare flowers. It means learning to accept chance to enjoy the vistas. that we are part of a community which includes Down a dip and over a small hill, on the west side toads and Spring Peepers. is the home of Don and Lynn Vorpahl. When Don, a A flagstone walk winds from the driveway landscape designer, Lynn, a registered nurse, and through a handmade, brown, picket fence crafted their three children moved to the 10-acre 'gentle- years ago by Vorpahl's son, David. Coneflower, men's farm' in east-central Wisconsin almost two Nodding Pink Onion, Prairie Dropseed, and Gro-Low decades ago, what they found was an old farmstead Fragrant Sumac (a naturally occurring dwarf) dot surrounded by a sea of field grass. There were 20 the sides of the path. Beech and Serviceberry massive Boxelder trees sprinkled throughout, most- abound. ly near the barn and house and one lonely lilac. No The house was built in 1849 with a warmth and understory. No diversity. Oh yes, and two acres of charm that still wraps its arms around you. In the bluegrass lawn. kitchen, beneath a beamed ceiling hung with drying When we pulled up the gravel drive on a brisk herbs, Lynn treated the children to fresh strawber- September afternoon, my wife, four children and I ries, uncooked snap peas and string beans from the found something quite different, something quite quarter-acre vegetable garden. Two-year-old Cassidy special. The bevy of Boxelders that surrounded the kept reaching her hand up on the counter for more house had mostly been replaced. Shagbark Hickory, "stawburies." The fresh food feast continued in the Burr Oak, Swamp White Oak, Hawthorn, Hop garden as the four traipsed down the rows sampling Hornbeam, and Kentucky Coffee Trees are there grapes and more snap peas straight off the vine. now. Off the entry walk is a 20-foot Black Maple, its Another strawberry or two, more string beans. As bark splotched and speckled. An understory of the four munched, off in the distance there were Hazelnut, Leatherwood, Arrowwood, Pagoda Sandhill Cranes taking flight. Dogwood, Grey Dogwood, Golden Currant and The barn, built in 1903, comes complete with a other native shrubs create a natural layered look to cement silo. In the large oak-timbered hayloft, Don the front yard. Beneath them are Wild Geranium, explained how the Foolish Pretenders, an amateur Violets, Strawberries, Ginger and ferns. The south theatre company, used to perform to a crowd seated part of the front yard is a prairie restoration now in on hay bales. During one performance of Our Town, its fourth year. The moist-to-wet soil plays host to a mother cat wandered into the barn, followed by Lobelia, Marsh Milkweed, Turtlehead, Blue Vervain, her kittens. To the front row of the barn she strode, Coneflower, and Blazing Star. The asters were on the and dropped a recently expired mouse from her cusp of blooming. Bird and butterfly populations, jaws. She and her kittens then enjoyed a bit of dinner once almost nonexistent, have exploded as their theater. habitats have expanded. To the north of the barn Don showed us a large- The Vorpahl farm sits astride a gently sloping hill. scale prairie restoration. Five years ago he plowed Each spring, from wetlands west of the farm, at the under 21/2acres of old field grass and then broad- bottom of the hill, an army of toads bound through cast-seeded the soil with a ta1lgrass prairie mix. As the Vorpahl farm, across the path, by the Shagbark he pointed to the swales and noted how different .• tI. Hickories, Oaks and Coffee Trees and across the plants were succeeding within given ~' ". well-worn town road, up the hill to several ephemeral micro-climates, a rainbow-colored hot ponds about a half-mile away. There they join legions air balloon passed by. The sun setting in of Chorus Frogs and Spring Peepers to spend the the west, the moon beginning to rise in the spring and summer croaking, peeping, mating and east, a slice of tallgrass prairie at the foot whatever else toads and frogs do. In the fall, the pro- and a balloon gently sailing overhead- cession is reversed as the amphibians hop downhill what more need be said? ~ past the farm to their wintering wetlands. The -Bret Rappaport Restore Your Natural Environment PLANT A HABITAT
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ILLINOIS WISCONSIN Saturday of the month, 1:30 p.m., unless oth- erwise noted. NORTHERN ILLINOIS CHAPTER FOX VALLEY AREA CHAPTER Chapter meets the third Thursday of the Meetings held at Fox Valley Regional Fire Nov. 9-'Water Gardens" presented by month at the College of DuPage, unless oth- Training Center, Neenah, 7p.m., unless oth- Rochelle Whiteman and Annette erwise noted. Call Pat Armstrong for info, erwise noted. Alexander. Election of '97 officers. (708) 983-8404. Nov. 21-Nat'l President Bret Rappport Dec. 14--Speaker: Bob Ahrenhoerster. Nov. 14-Peter MacDonough, Kestral presents "How to Naturally Landscape Bring food for potluck. Seed exchange. Design Group, discusses landscaping for without Aggravating Neighbors and wildlife. Village Officials." 9{aturaf£andscaping ROCK RIVER CHAPTER GREEN BAY CHAPTER Meet at various locations. Call Jarrett Meetings held at Green Bay Botanical Conferences Prairie Center, Byron Forest Preserve at Garden, 7p.m., unless otherwise noted. (815) 234-8535 for info. Fox VAllEY AREA WllD. ONES Nov. 13-Seed exchange, business meet- "IN HARMONY wrrn:NATURE" Nov. 21-7-9 p.m., Jarrett Nature Center. ing, election of officers,general discussion. Seed exchange. Screening, planting tech- SATURDAY, JANUARy 18, 1997 niques. OSHKOSH CONVENTION CENTER MADISON CHAPTER Fot' inf()rnlatioll call CaroL at Meetings held at McKay Center in UW Ar- 233-4853. KANSAS boretum, 6:30 p.m., unless otherwise noted. Chapter meets monthly. Working on weed Nov. 21-Greg David, organic farmer/ ordinance, developing tours. Call Michael S. caretaker of Prairie Dock Farm, slide show, Almon for info, (913) 832-1300. Note: Held in March this year! prairie specimens. Bring potluck dish to SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1997 share, your own plate/cup/utensils. Seed OHIO WISCONSIN ROOM exchange. Annual election. UW-Mn..WAUKEE COLUMBUS CHAPTER Preregister or register in Meetings held in Rm. 116, Howlett Hall on MILWAUKEE-NORTH CHAPTER the conference. Send $25 per person Agriculture Campus/Ohio State University, Meetings held at Schlitz Audubon Center,sec- along with your name, address, day- unless otherwise noted. ond Saturday of the month, 9:30 a.m., unless time phone number and make Nov. 9-9:30-11:30 a.m. Field day in our otherwise noted. checks payable to: Wildflower Garden at Chadwick Arbore- Nov. 9-'Water Gardens" presented by Mn..WAUKEE AUDUBON SOCIElY tum. Meet in our area of Van Fossen Wild- Rochelle Whiteman and Annette P.O. Box 141 flower Garden Gusteast ofAg Engineering Alexander. Election of '97 officers. CEDARBURG, WI 53012-0141 Building. Bring gloves, tools. You must include an SASE if you Dec. 14--Speaker: Bob Ahrenhoerster. want tickets sent to you before the Dec. 5-6-9 p.m. Agriculture Adminis- Bring food for potluck. Seed exchange. tration building, OSU campus, 2120 Fyffe conference. Call (414) 375-1565 for Rd. Holiday party in conjunction with other MILWAUKEE-WEHR CHAPTER further info. horticultural clubs. Pot luck dinner. Meetings held at WehrNature Center, second WILD ONE TURNED LUNATIC
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your eye and suits your home landscape. Case in point: w~ Flowering ~ the moon garden. Spurge w w The moon garden is merely one in which there are Euphorbia :<::!: white flowers. White blossoms glow by the light of the corollata z o moon when all the other colors have faded into the New Jersey Tea shadows. Is there a place in your yard for lovers to stroll Ceanothus americanus by Luna light? Are firepits allowed in your neighborhood I around which you sit with friends and toast marshmal- White Turtlehead lows? Then you deserve a nearby moon garden-and the Chelone glabra night-time pollinators will appreciate.it, too. Smooth Penstemon No matter where in the nation you live, you can turn to Penstemon digitalis a local field guide and shop through the white section Heath Aster "All those little fiddles (most field guides segregate listings by flower color), this Aster ericoides in the grass, all those is, in effect, your planting guide. Listed at right are several Boneset cricket pipes, those desirable species. Depending on your disposition about Eupatorium per/oliatum delicate flutes, are cultivars of native species, you might also seek out the Wild Quinine they not lovely beyond 'unnaturally' white Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea alba), Parthenium integri/olium words when heard in Spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis alba), Columbine White Snakeroot (Aquilegia 'Kristall), and Liatris. Eupatorium rugosum the midsummer on a Dust off those traditional landscaping books. See if you Rattlesnake Master moonlit night?" can create a native-for-Eurasian substitution list. If you Eryngium yuccijolium -Henry Beston want a formal, rock, cottage, knot, herb or edible garden, Culver's-Root why not do it with natives? ~ -Joy Buslaff Veronicastrum virginicum
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