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Santa Cruz Mountain Violets Mahonia gracilis The Santa Cruz Mountains might seem and cleistogamous (closed) flowers, a strange place for unidentified violets which are inconspicuous, produce many to hide. seeds, and are commonly said to be However, at least four fragrant violets fertilized in bud. Usually the proportion of in the Santa Cruz Mountains alone have cleistogamous flowers to chasmogamous escaped reasonable attention and have flowers varies with the season and age not been named (probably because of the of the plant. A frequent but questionable unshakable influence of long-established assumption is that cleistogamous flowers dogma). Very unfortunately, these violets always pollinate themselves. The very are rare and need taxonomic attention. words can be vexing, because many Arboretum Spring Plant Sale These new violets are in the process of violet flowers are morphologically in Saturday, April 18th being described as new to science by the the middle between cleistogamous and Come to the Arboretum’s spring UCSC Arboretum. chasmogamous. plant sale for a great selection of Because ancient dogma is difficult Viola A sp. nov. is a good violet to unusual plants that you may not be to shake, many points are belabored in use to begin this story. The especially able to find anywhere else! We have the following paragraphs. The aim of able and careful botanist Neal Kramer many select drought-tolerant plants the belaboring is to convince a diverse watched this species for years. It never from California and Australia and from readership that these violets exhibit produced a showy flower. Thus his list of other locations with a Mediterranean many characters that did not come from the plants in the Bonny Doon Ecological climate similar to ours. We have larger Europe. First, it should be mentioned that Reserve includes this violet that he left special specimen plants this time too. violets can produce two types of flowers, unidentified. His list is available at: www. Also look for an impressive selection stanford.edu/~rawlings/pl-bd.htm chasmogamous (open) flowers, which are of cacti and succulents. Arboretum showy and often held above the leaves, continued on page 5 staff and volunteers will be on hand to Nearly beardless V. A. sp. nor., with spotted spur (petal removed) answer questions and help you find the best for your garden. From our Australian collection, for the first time, we are offering Hakea salicifolia ‘Gold Medal’. It is a large rounded shrub with variegated yellow and green leaves, with new growth flushed in pink. Grow this glowing plant for a bright accent in the garden. This plant is new from our Koala Blooms Plant Introduction Program, and many people have admired it in the garden for a long time. Native to Mexico is Mahonia gracilis (Berberis gracilis), a tall evergreen shrub with fragrant, bright golden flowers in wintertime. Edible bluish- black berries that birds may feed on are then produced in the late spring. Shiny green leaflets strikingly contrast with the red stems of this plant. This frost-hardy plant does best with some shade. continued on page 10 news & notes Australian Fires Our thoughts go out to our friends in Australia who have experienced such horrific The Bulletin of the wildfires. The crew at Cranbourne Botanic Gardens has really stepped up to help in the UCSC Arboretum Associates recovery. Two of the staff, Bob Lake & Terry Coates rescued a woman from the fires and Volume 33, No.1 were able to help save her home. Many are going out to help with mop-up efforts where the fires have been. The entire crew had a cricket game to raise funds for victims of the Spring 2009 fires. Please consider making a contribution. Go to: www.redcross.org.au/vic/services_ The Bulletin is published quarterly by the emergencyservices_victorian-bushfires-appeal-2009.htm UCSC Arboretum Associates, a non-profit organization that provides support for the Jean Beevers – In Memorium Arboretum at UCSC. This morning when I was putting a stamp on an envelope, Please send requests or questions to: I happened to notice the words on the stamp, “First Class Bulletin Editor Forever.” And I thought, that’s Jean Beevers, a longtime UCSC Arboretum supporter of the Arboretum who died on the 22nd of 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 February. email: [email protected] Each of us who knew Jean has our own favorite stories Arboretum Associates Officers about her, but the truth is, whether we knew her or not, all Matthew Thompson, President of us are affected by the devotion and tenacity that Jean Paula Cole, Secretary brought to her involvement with the Arboretum. Jean Beevers and Marie Beckham. Born in northern England, Jean, a trained botanist, and Board Members Cheerful greeters for the American Those above and the following: Public Garden Visit of 2006 her husband, Harry, a biologist, graced the UC Santa Cruz campus with their presence in the early seventies when John Bost Harry was hired as a professor. And when the Arboretum Associates was formed in 1976, Lynda Haworth both Jean and Harry immediately signed on as founding members, and, much to our lasting Carole Kelley Mary Ann Leer benefit; Jean dedicated herself to furthering the growth of the Arboretum. Janet Lever-Wood Here are a few of the Arboretum “givens” that Jean helped make possible: Lincoln Taiz She gathered dried Leucadendron cones, Protea and Leucospermum flowers, and carried Josh Weinberg them in her car to florist and craft shops with the goal of selling them and popularizing the Nancy Woolf Arboretum flora. She then teamed up with Shirley Beneke, a retired florist, to set up the dry flower workshops that now supply the Dry Flower sales held every November, one of Ex-Officio our most important fundraisers. Daniel Harder, Executive Director Jean was part of the group of talented women who were the original planners of Norrie’s Ray Collett, Director Emeritus Gift Shop. Together they decided on the shop’s floor plan, what kind of merchandise Peggy Williams, Past-President would be carried, and worked out the budget details that enabled them to launch a “start- Alison Galloway, Vice Provost, up” business that has become one of the most successful money-makers the Arboretum Academic Affairs has ever had. And, in addition to their planning savvy, this group brought to Norrie’s the Arboretum Staff eclectic bottom-up management style that experts say doesn’t work, but which Norrie’s Daniel Harder, Executive Director volunteers pull off to this day. Until she moved to Fresno several years ago, Jean could be Ray Collett, Director Emeritus found every week at Norrie’s where her bright face and enthusiasm sold a lot of merchandise Brett Hall, Director of Horticulture and memberships, and signed up a lot of volunteers. Stephen McCabe, Director of Education She also designed the “Reunite Gondwana” bumper sticker, another amusing (or Tad Sterling, Development Director shocking, depending upon your point of view) and educational fundraiser. Ron Arruda, Curator S.A. Collection Jean and Harry both used their influence on campus to talk with University administrators Susie Bower, Administrator and faculty about the Arboretum and to push for its recognition and support. Jean gave Francis Campbell, Facilities Manager, Curator generously to the Arboretum, and, as recently as this past winter, she wrote to the chancellor Katie Cordes, Assistant Administrator to remind him of the importance of the Arboretum to the campus and planet as a world- Helen Englesberg, Nursery Manager class plant collection. Rick Flores, Curator Calif. Collection So take a stroll down the Jean Beevers path in the South African garden, sit on the two Stephanie Hudson, Assistant Nursery Beevers benches there and reflect on what this tiny woman with her bright eyes and sense of fun has left for us to enjoy, cherish and foster in our own ways. Manager Thank you, Jean. Melinda Kralj, Curator Aust. Coll. —Peggy Williams Dylan Neubauer, Collections Recorder At Jean’s request, gifts in her honor and Sara Reid, Education Assistant memory can be made to the Arboretum. Tom Sauceda, Curator N.Z. Collection News & Notes continued on page 8 Elyse Seigle, Office Assistant Arboretum Phone: (831) 427-2998 Comments from our Visitor’s Book Arboretum Fax: (831) 427-1524 Norrie’s Gifts: (831) 423-4977 “Thanks for having us! We had a wonderful afternoon of watching pollinators visit Website: http://arboretum.ucsc.edu your incredible plant diversity.” – Ingrid Parker & UCSC Plant Ecology (October 2004) Jean and Bill Lane Library: “Way rad! Never seen anything like this in all my travels. So much beauty!!!” http://www.library.ucscarboretum.org/ – Visitor from Ireland openbiblio/opac/index.php “2 Spring 2009 • Volume 33 • Number 1 director’s note ever conducted of the condition and programs and have focused our efforts preservation needs of our nation’s on meeting these four actions. Our top collections. Astoundingly, the survey priority now is to preserve the value of found that more than 4.8 billion artifacts the plant collections through maintaining are held in the public trust by more than adequate, minimal staffing, keeping support 30,000 archives, historical societies, libraries, systems working and efficient, and using museums, scientific research collections, opportunity to expand and develop these and archeological repositories in the resources for research and education. United States. Unfortunately, the survey Responsibility for collection care is firmly included only non-living collections but in the able hands of our curators who have the lessons learned and relevance of the leadership roles within each of their gardens issues are shared with those of us with for display, collection development, and living collections, including zoos, botanical preservation. gardens, aquaria, nature centers and living Through our planning efforts two years history farms. ago with IMLS support, we addressed some Our institutions are visited by more than of our emergency plans and procedures to 3.5 billion people a year as our collections protect our collection from drought, fire, Dear Arboretum Friends, teach and inspire and are vital to sustaining frost, and theft. More work is necessary In mid-February I attended an outstanding a well-educated and connected citizenry, to develop a fully effective response plan. meeting in San Diego titled, It’s Alive! a thriving tourist industry, and a wealth We continue to work on these issues and Petals to Primates: Preservation Challenges of knowledge to enrich and enlighten refine our plans so we are ready for any of Living Collections, convened by the our civilization. Although curation and emergency that may affect our collection federal Institute for Museums and Library preservation techniques vary with each stewardship. Services (IMLS) and hosted by Heritage type of collection, all of our institutions are The fourth action, that of providing Preservation and the San Diego Zoo and expected to provide a safe environment support, requires the effort of everyone. held at the University of San Diego. This and proper care for our collections as a It is the responsibility of the curators, meeting brought together more than 200 fundamental responsibility of collection the Arboretum Associates, volunteers, participants who are the principle stewards stewardship. As a call to action, efforts are the UCSC campus, the UC Office of the of the nation’s living collections of plants needed now to ensure these collections President, students, public and private and animals to share ideas, build networks, survive the twenty-first century and individuals and institutions, and, especially, share best practices, and foster a better continue to enrich the lives of Americans me to be ambassadors and instill ownership understanding of the increasing number and the world through an understanding for these collections; to promote their and severity of challenges facing each of our that: value, articulate their importance for collections and institutions. 1. Institutions must give priority providing a healthy environment, and As part of IMLS’s initiative, Connecting to providing safe conditions for each interpret their essential connections to to Collections; A Call to Action, this meeting of the collections they hold in trust. humankind. Plants contribute to the health addressed a common concern: living 2. Every collecting institution must of ecosystems, sustain us by providing collection managers nationwide recognize develop an emergency plan to food, medicines and other commodities, that under the current financial situation, protect its collection and provide opportunities for recreation as well as larger changes occurring to our 3. Every institution must assign and exploration. Most importantly, plants environmental climate, we face an increasing responsibility for caring for influence the evolution of life on land. number of challenges that are more difficult collections to members of its Botanical gardens and arboreta are special than ever before. Sharing information and staff, and in their priority commitment to preserving increasing our effectiveness as stewards of 4. Individuals at all levels of plants and as centers for research, education these valuable resources without impacting government and in the private and conservation. the mission of our organizations are major sector must assume responsibility Thank you for all you do to support our challenges for living collections. for providing support that will efforts to protect plants. In 2007, Heritage Preservation and allow these collections to survive. the IMLS published The Heritage Health Under these trying financial times the Index as the first comprehensive survey Arboretum has trimmed our staff and First Hand Academic Experiences: Reflections of a Student Employee The first I ever stepped foot at the list of possible internships to supplement when Brett Hall met all of us eager interns Arboretum was in the fall of 2006, on the our classroom work and gain a few extra with a smile, said he would be happy to first day of my two credit internship for credits, I found my opportunity as my eyes take as many students as were interested, the Restoration Ecology class. For two went straight to the UCSC Arboretum. and instructed us to meet at the domes years, as a UCSC student, I passed the We attended a meeting where all campus for our first day of internship work at the sign every day riding the bus up Empire units gathered to provide information and Arboretum. Grade to campus, I knew of the Arboretum sign students up for their internships. As That was the start of a new chapter in but never really understood what went the meeting was coming to a close, I got my academic life. I did not study botany on there. I knew it was a place of plants, fidgety in my seat, waiting for them to let but rather dabbled in the wider field of a place to explore, but for some reason us loose so I could be one of the first to environmental studies. I did not realize I never took the opportunity to wander get to the Arboretum table, afraid that too would enjoy studying botany until I began in on my own. When Karen Holl, my many people would want to sign up and working at the Arboretum, where I got Restoration Ecology professor, provided a they wouldn’t take us all. I was relieved continued on page 10 Spring 2009 • Volume 33 • Number 1 3 membership & gift support The Arboretum Community of An Incredible Gift! Friends It’s nice to give yourself a gift once in a while, and it’s nice to give one to those you care about. It’s even nicer Membership when you actually can do both – and some gifts can just keep giving! Program I was thinking about the Arboretum in that way. We, as members, give benefits to ourselves – the opportunity MEMBERSHIPS to learn, to take walks in the gardens, to make friends - California Poppy $45 and we gift to others – visitors, students, the surrounding community, even teachers, (1 adult card) faculty, and those doing serious plant research - the benefits of the collection and its Individual, Senior, Student. Non-Transferable knowledgeable curators, volunteers, and staff. 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Application of ancient horticultural tricks markings on its long, curiously shaped spur. can, however, make V. A sp. nov. produce This undetermined species has its own kind a few chasmogamous flowers. Those few of odor. Many people are inclined to say flowers are an amazement. They possess that is smells like a garden narcissus. Other the legendary English violet scent, with a people say that it stinks and smells fecal. vengeance. Centuries of human selection have Viola C sp. nov. is the grossest of the Santa not resulted in a violet with so much violet Cruz Mountains violets. Its leaves can be scent. (Indeed some garden varieties of V. seven inches across. This species is a third, odorata have almost no scent at all.) Moreover, undetermined, fragrant and distinctive Santa these flowers of this unidentified species are Cruz Mountains violet. bluer than nearly all of the carefully coddled Viola D sp. nov. may be the rarest of all Santa Bearded flower of Viola C sp. nov. products of human selection. Cruz mountain violets. Once numerous, Careful examination of V. A sp. nov. just several individuals now survive, all world’s most honored mathematicians, he reveals more: There’s no beard! At best, this on the UCSC campus. It may someday be often said he came to Santa Cruz “because of new species produces a few, wispy hairs. grown in gardens for its very large, sweetly all the butterflies.” He was especially fond of Strange, as well, is this: If this species escapes fragrant, rose, cerise, or magenta flowers. violet-dependent Speyeria.) the attention of deer, cottontails, and tiny This undescribed species has a beard, which Basic questions about all Santa Cruz violets rodents, it stands tall on a woody stem. From is very short and sometimes slightly greenish. and butterflies are still to be asked and that stem, particularly near the apex, it sends Unlike V. A sp. nov. and V. B sp. nov., V. D answered. Which violets are the favorites of out wiry, strawberry-like runners, which are sp. nov. is a small plant, slow to develop which butterflies? How do the many kinds so strong that they can trip an unwary person. woody stems. The spurs of this species are of violets protect themselves against the Moreover, V. A. sp. nov. does not produce remarkably long and patterned with purple, many kinds of herbivores? How are new the traditional heart-shaped leaf of English rather like those of V. C sp. nov. However, the hatchlings from Speyeria or Boloria butterfly garden violets. Rather, it produces rounded spurs of V. D sp. nov. are without a lengthy eggs regarded by the mites (or mite-like leaves that are open at the base. appendage. creatures) that accompany Santa Cruz To continue, two new species long ago V. C. sp. nov., V. B sp. nov., and V. D sp. Mountains violets? attracted the attention of Margaret Sowers. nov. arise and flower after the arrival of Anyway, this much is true: Without sheets She grew them in her garden on Walnut winter rains. Like many California natives, of violets on the ground, California loses Street in Santa Cruz, and she shared them they shrivel away in summer. If artificially many famous “flowers” in its skies. Already with her friends. Precisely where she got watered, they remain leafy all year and thus some California residents may never have them is unknown. According to legend, it may be pleasing to many gardeners. (V.A seen a violet-dependent butterfly. What was somewhere up the San Lorenzo River. sp. nov. grows in moist locations and has not do they look like? The Internet provides an Today these two violets grow together in been observed to go dormant.) answer at butterfliesofamerica.com a remarkably cold box canyon along Bear Curiously enough, all Santa Cruz —Ray Collett Creek, a tributary to the San Lorenzo River. Mountains violets have the company of mites (Hybrids are unknown, both along Bear (or mite-like creatures). These tiny creatures Creek and in gardens.) hide in the spurs and on the undersides of At first glance, the woody Viola B sp. nov. leaves, and they crawl into cleistogamous might be regarded as a highly floriferous, flowers, as well. Where these creatures go large-flowered undetermined V. A. sp. nov. when violets are dormant is not known. Do If examined closely, a curious fact stands these creatures pay any rent? Possibly they out: V. B sp. nov. has a beard. It’s short, but perform a pollinating service. Possibly they it’s clearly there. This new species also has a discourage other creatures harmful to violets. distinctive, long, thick, unmarked spur, not Who knows? much resembling a V. A sp. nov. spur. V. B sp. An important number of famously nov. is another, fragrant and distinctive Santa beautiful creatures are somewhat harmful Large-flowered, Small-leaved Viola D sp. nov. Cruz Mountains violet. to violets. California once was famous for Viola C sp. nov., which is not very woody, its butterflies. That was back when huge is the only Santa Cruz Mountains violet that California panoramas were a sheet of violets is white. Ordinarily, it does have purple in spring. The caterpillars of Boloria epithore and many species of Speyeria eat only violets. The great sheets of violets once provided them with an abundance of food. People with memories extending back into the 19th century often told of the mariposas and the “flowers” in the California sky. Bernie Porter, a generous supporter of the UCSC Arboretum, was fond of recalling the butterflies of early California. (She was fond of frogs, also, and she endowed the Arboretum frog pond. Few of the world’s frog ponds are endowed.) So famous was Santa Cruz for its butterflies that Gerhard Ringel knew of them when a young man in Eastern Europe. One of the Bearded flower of V. 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Yogi Maureen Duffy Note: This list represents the Rosalyn Zakheim & Francois Duminy Susan Krevitt Paul Sheard combination of actual membership Gayle Dukelow Mia Duquet Marcela Laddon Anne Sherwood dues payments and gifts received Caroline P. Zlotnick Sharon A Dwight Richard Landon Helene Shulman in the 2008 calendar year. Names Dorothy Edmonston Kenneth L. Larson Alice Sickels are listed based on what is in the POPPY Nancy Eidam Thomas Lawson Jane Simpson university gift record. Every effort Bruce Abt Helen Eidemiller Judy Lefler Jenna L. Sindle was made to properly list everyone, however, please contact Tad Beverly Adams Sherry Eisendorf Sonne Lemke Donald Singer Sterling, Arboretum Development Mahir Agha Sandra Farrell Terry Lenhart Laura Smith Director, at 427-2998, to correct any Joy Albright-Souza Jeanie Fidler Georgia Leung Shirley Ann Soldin errors or omissions. Alta Organic Coffee & Tea Co. Diana Fish Christine L Lewis Theanne Sprecht – Patti Spooner Don Flescher Dottie Lieber Miscelle St. Michael Spring 2009 • Volume 33 • Number 1 7 news & notes con’d - p. 2 The Australian Rock Garden, Slosson Western Australia Plantings Endowment Award The larger Sonoma Fieldstones are in position, granitic scree has been added, and the The Arboretum received a $36,000 award irrigation line is finished. The Australian Rock garden is now being planted with choice from the Elvenia J. Slosson Endowment collections from sub-alpine regions of Australia including higher elevation areas of the for a project titled, “Central Coast Native Sterling Range in Western Australia, the Grampians in the east and from Tasmania. The Plant Horticulture”. During the 2009-2010 new planting areas are developed to feature special plants that might get overlooked in a fiscal year, the Arboretum will develop general landscape planting. The Elvenia Slosson endowment and directed gifts provided garden displays, improve availability to support for a major portion of this garden. This spectacular new garden planting is drawing these choice garden plants, and enhance visitors to the back sections of the Banksia Field. This open area will not be planted in large educational resources focused on Central trees or bulky shrubs in order to evoke the sand plains of Australia. Coastal plants will California Coast native plants. The award be grown in the sandstone areas near the edges and plants from the interior of Australia will specifically support growing out of near the larger fieldstones. Western Australian plants will be located to the north of the existing collections from seeds and cuttings central rift in the planting and eastern Australian plants to the south. Plants from specific and establishing these plants within the geographical regions will be clustered with other regional plants. Plan a visit to see how California Province Gardens. Exploration this spectacular garden is coming along. within Central Coast wildlands and the collection of seed and cuttings of outstanding selections is also supported. Educational outreach will be developed to promote the use of native selections in local gardens and for labeling of these plants in the garden. Hummingbird Day Hum-Dinger A warm, sunny day greeted visitors to our annual educational open house, Hummingbird Day, on March 7th. It was easily one of the largest events ever held at the Arboretum. To accommodate the extra people, we spontaneously added four tours to the fifteen we had scheduled. New this year, we had a sorority, Alpha Kappa Delta Phi and a fraternity, Lamba Phi Epsilon helping our volunteers staff the kids’ tables. The ornithology grad students led many children’s tours and came up with a new graphic, postcards showing a pile of 572 Snickers bars, the number of bars that a person would have to eat to Australian Rock Garden consume the equivalent calories per ounce of body weight that a hummingbird eats each day. Laguna Lagoons Restoration We thank our participants, volunteers The Arboretum’s work contract growing and, then, planting for the California State Parks and sponsors; Todd Newberry, David and Recreation is complete. Under the direction of Francis Campbell (Arboretum Facilities Suddjian, Barbara and Kevin Monahan of Manager), a cadre of student workers, community volunteers within the Friends of Santa the Santa Cruz Bird Club; Oliver Klink and Cruz State Parks, California State Parks, the Arboretum, and the California Native Plant Munir Kureshi of incredibletravelphotos. Society helped plant the 110,000 native plants on five acres at Coast Dairies at the mouth com; Larry Selman of mostlybirds.com; the of Laguna Creek. This project is one of the largest restoration projects in the county. The California Native Plant Society; Gold Rush Arboretum collected all of the seed locally, grew the plants, and planted many of these Nursery; Sierra Azul Nursery; the Garden for this restoration. Company; Ladera Garden and Gifts; Pacific In a single day in January nearly 90 volunteers helped plant 11,000 plants to reclaim Sun Properties; Staff of Life; Joni Janecki land along Laguna Beach to coastal sage scrub habitat with native coyote brush (Baccharus and Associates; and the ornithology students piluaris), lizard tail (Eriophyllum staechadifolium), and sage (Artemesia tridentata). The plants from the Department of Ecology and used in this restoration will serve the wildlife that live in this area such as the snowy plover, Evolutionary Biology. golden-crowned sparrows, and more than 200 species of insect.

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A Message from Matthew Thompson, Arboretum Associates President And we know there were many more does today without continued volunteerism volunteer hours that went unrecorded. in countless tasks. Over the next several I want to thank all of you for your months the Associates Board will be looking contributions to the Arboretum. I also at how the volunteer network can evolve to want to acknowledge that keeping track improve the volunteer experience, to reduce of time may seem at odds with the spirit the staff time required for coordination, and of volunteer gardening. Time reporting is to continue to attract dedicated volunteers. a part of the world that is not gardening, We solicit your comments and reflections. after all. But documenting the volunteer It is also important to acknowledge the contributions to the Arboretum is extremely crucial role the Arboretum staff plays in the important as the Arboretum competes volunteer system. As the trainers, managers, for non-profit and public-sector grants, and mentors of all the volunteer efforts, the contracts, and gifts. The level of local staff spends time and creative energy to help support is frequently a factor in the funding keep all the balls in the air as they juggle Dear Friends, competition. An outstanding depth of multiple tasks. We all thank you for your Volunteerism is flourishing at the support is demonstrated with the 2008 boundless help and patience. Arboretum. There were 7,700 recorded volunteer numbers. Your grateful Associates Board volunteer hours at the Arboretum in 2008. The Arboretum would not look the way it President, —Matthew Thompson Make a Legacy Gift & Further the Mission of the Arboretum Thankfully, members and friends as having the amount fixed, based on the the visitors center was already built. The have been generous in their support of original value of the donated property; alternate might be something else that the Arboretum, and that support has having it change each year based on the is dear to your heart, such as endowed made it stronger. There is still much to be value of the property as of the end of each curator support for your favorite section done to realize our mission and plans as year; or even having the payments start of the garden, or you might authorize the articulated in the Mission and Program low and increase in later years. Tad Sterling Arboretum Director, after consultation Plan. This article reviews various paths and Michael Lorilla, UCSC Director of with your family, to select a substitute that one might take to further strengthen Development, welcome the opportunity to project as an appropriate use of your the Arboretum. discuss these and other options with you. bequest. Lifetime Gifts - Making a lifetime- A retained benefit option with Estate planning gifts are often contingent monetary gift to the Arboretum is fairly considerable potential to reduce income in the sense that the charity’s interest, in easy. Although checks are made out to the taxes is the charitable remainder trust other words the Arboretum’s interest, UCSC Foundation, by putting a notation funded with one’s home. In a future article will follow the interest of family members, “to benefit the UCSC Arboretum” the we will present creative ways to use one’s hence you might establish a trust that money will be wholly for its benefit. Setting home in conjunction with one’s charitable benefits you and your spouse for as long up an automatic monthly withdrawal gift planning. Tad is eager to meet with as either of you are alive, and only after from a bank account or a recurring anyone wishing to discuss this kind of that will the Arboretum benefit. If you charge to a credit card can make gifting planning. wish to make sure that the Arboretum easy. Tad Sterling, Arboretum Director Gifts as Part of Your Estate Plan will eventually receive the gift you intend, of Development, can help set this up for Transfers that are finalized following the wording must be used that makes that you at 831-427-2998. To underwrite a death of a donor are usually accomplished part of your estate plan irrevocable upon specific project consider making a multi- through the donor’s will or trust. Your your death. This is where the Arboretum year pledge. Gifts of appreciated property bequest to benefit the Arboretum should Development Director can give you peace usually allow you as the donor to claim a be worded as follows: “...to the UCSC of mind by working with you and your tax deduction for the value of the property Foundation for the exclusive use of the attorney to assure, as far as humanly while avoiding the capital gains tax on the UCSC Arboretum.” If the bequest is possible, your charitable goals are met and appreciation. intended to benefit a particular project or promises kept. Retained Benefit Gifts - Donating invested in an endowment for a particular Our website will give you some creative property, including money, in exchange purpose, e.g., to fund student employees, ways to donate to the Arboretum. Either for a lifetime annuity is a popular retained this should be made clear in the bequest. go directly to our website: arboretum.ucsc. benefit way of giving. The Arboretum, Care must be taken that the gift is not so edu or, simply Google “UCSC Arboretum” through the UCSC Foundation, would restrictive that your charitable intent goes to get there and click on the “Ways to Give pay you, the donor-annuitant, periodic unfulfilled. Generally, this is avoided by to the Arboretum” heading on the home payments (often quarterly) for your stating alternatives in the event that your page—bright red lettering. lifetime or, if giving as a couple, for your initial designation cannot be accomplished. joint lifetimes. The amount is often set as For instance, if your bequest is intended to —John C. Bost, Arboretum Board Member, a percentage, e.g. around 5%, of the value support the Arboretum’s long range plan retired estate planning attorney and professor of your gift to the Arboretum. There are to build a visitor center you would want emeritus, & Michael Lorilla, J.D., UCSC several annuity payment options such to specify an alternative in the event that Director of Development.

Spring 2009 • Volume 33 • Number 1 9 First Hand Academic Experiences (cont’d - p. 3) a hands-on introduction to botany that I Province Garden. There are now hundreds didn’t get in a classroom. My classroom of seedlings coming up thanks to the experiences suddenly changed when, for efforts of the students, and these seedlings example, Professor Holl would talk about will be planted in the California Province restoring native grasslands and I could Garden as part of an effort to expand the actually picture the plants she was talking Arboretum’s native plant collection and about. During my Arboretum internship I restore portions of the meadow between transplanted native Festuca seedlings for the Arboretum and Oakes College to native the Arboretum’s native collection, thus grassland. Intern Stephanie Winn says putting a face to a name that I had heard she appreciated the active introduction to about in class. My short internship not native plants and taxonomic relationships only solidified my understanding of topics she got this quarter during her internship. in the class but got me directly involved Stephanie was surprised to learn that she and interested in native plants. That could actually enjoy studying taxonomy. involvement led to the job I have today at She commented that she had never taken the Arboretum. a taxonomy course because it seemed so I remember during my internship, Brett daunting. At the Arboretum, however, it was always encouraging us to develop and was more accessible and more interesting, follow our own varied interests in native and she says she naturally began to plants. Brett feels that exposing interns recognize and retain information about the to a variety of topics prepares them for classification of native plants. truly learning about a subject later on, and The Arboretum provides a gift of so he opened his extensive library to us. I beyond the classroom learning that benefits told him I had interest in plant uses and the entire academic community. Students he quickly directed me to various books who choose to use the Arboretum as part Xeronema callistemon Photo by Ian & Jocelyn Bell on California ethnobotany, many of which of their learning experience are rarely I now own and refer to regularly. At the disappointed. end of that internship I began working as —Sara Reid A complete plant sale list will be a student worker at the Arboretum, and posted on our web site by April 11th. my practical knowledge of plants grew Here are some more of the plants we in a way that could not be achieved in Plant Sale… (cont’d - p. 1) will be selling: classes alone. At the end of my senior year I was again immersed in an Arboretum A very special offering this spring is Arctostaphylos pumila internship, this time under the guidance Xeronema callistemon or the Poor Knights Arctostaphylos manzanita of Professor Steve Gliessman, as I fulfilled lily. According to New Zealand collection — Hood Mountain my graduation requirement with a two curator Tom Sauceda, this plant is “one of quarter senior internship, “Ethnobotany the showiest plants in the New Zealand Adenanthos X cunninghamii of California: The value of traditional flora.” It is rare but easy to grow and has Anigozanthos flavidus knowledge and our relationship to the showy scarlet bottlebrush-like flowers, 8 Banksia grossa land”. to 12" long. The stiff dark green leaves are Banksia seminuda Winter quarter Brett had six student sword-like. The plant grows best when Banksia speciosa interns working on projects at the its roots are constricted. This lily thrives Boronia megastigma Arboretum, specifically assisting in the as a container plant and requires a warm Callistemon ‘Can’s Hybrid’ development of the California Native sunny location with good drainage. It Province Garden. The students, with the needs special attention however, as it is Chamelaucium uncinatum exception of one, are studying Restoration not frost hardy. Crowea exalata ‘Sothern Stars’ Ecology in ENVS 160, this time under the If you want to provide nectar for Darwinia citriodora ‘Seaspray’ direction of Professor Susan Langridge. hummingbirds from California natives, Eriogonum giganteum For the Arboretum it is an opportunity to we have several plants to choose from. Grevillea lanigera — cream & red interact with the student community and Aquilegia formosa, the western columbine, Grevillea ‘Ruby Clusters’ get more accomplished on ongoing projects. is a deciduous perennial that has distictive Grevillea ‘Suberb’ For the students it is an opportunity to flowers with yellow petals and red spurs, learn more about the Arboretum and put and lots of nectar for hummingbirds. For Hebe topiaria their studies into practice. Brett Hall says light shade, you might also want to plant Hibbertia truncata that it is the “Arboretum’s role to interact a twin-berry or Lonicera involucrata. This is Iris douglasiana ‘Santa Lucia’ with students and give them different a deciduous honeysuckle that can grow up Isopogon formosus perspectives”, and the restoration ecology to 10 feet tall. The tubular spring flowers Indigofera australis internships achieved the goal of “helping are multicolored, and if pollinated they Kunzea pomifera students to have a broader experience with give rise to pairs of shiny black fruits. For Pandorea pandorana native plants than they’d have in classes”. a sunnier location, plant Galvezia speciosa, or Over 10 weeks, Brett’s interns worked island snapdragon. This is a low mounding Puya mirabilis to plant seeds, transplant seedlings, and shrub with semi-succulent leaves and Salvia apiana finish deer fences around the California bright red flowers. Salvia spathacea —Helen Englesberg 10 Spring 2009 • Volume 33 • Number 1

New Pachyphytum & Echeveria hybrids available soon Pachyphytum, Echeveria, and Mexican but long-named, Graptopetalum amethystinum Graptoveria ‘A Grimm One’ either. Some Sedum are attractive rock garden plants but X Echeveria lilacina. of these plants have found their way into they are fairly promiscuous. One offspring With one species having the name about international horticulture. Both of these of an illicit affair is discussed later in this amethyst and the other lilac, you can intergeneric hybrids erroneously spelled article. Echeverias are one of several plant imagine the colorful effect Bob was trying to Bob’s last name as “Grimm.” More than groups, including Sempervivum, that are achieve. The many shades of color present half of the photos of “unnamed hybrids” referred to as “hens and chicks” or “hens in this hybrid is rather remarkable. A waxy without hybridizer names in the book and chickens.” This common name refers outer covering differs in thickness and Echeveria Cultivars may be clones of plants to species with low rosettes and several whiteness over leaves that can be several produced by the Grims. He created and off-sets gathered closely around like little shades of lilac and pale purple depending gave to us E. albicans X lindsayana, E. chicks. Members of this genus from Mexico on how well watered, shaded, and fertilized diffractens X E. carnicolor, and E. pulidonis (not those of northern Baja California) are the plant is. X lindsayana, all of which appear to match summer growers. Several species are quite Margaret and Bob sometimes shared bits hybrids in the book. rare. of the plants with others (including members As part of a grant to the Arboretum from Regardless of some difficulty with the of the Sedum Society and Carmen’s Nursery) the Saratoga Horticultural Foundation, names, echeverias, graptopetalums, and and named several cultivars themselves. It the International Crassulaceae Network, pachyphytums look best and suffer less is clear that without Bob’s knowledge, the International Succulent Institute, and from pests and diseases when the older some of his plants were given cultivar growers from several countries will be leaves are removed. They all benefit from names, including the lilac/amethyst hybrid queried about these hybrids and their applications of dilute liquid fertilizers a few mentioned above. Until everyone can agree origins. As of this writing some of the names to several times a year. to a single cultivar name, I’ll hold off on need sorting out, but soon there will be An Arboretum Life member, Robert disclosing in print the name for the cultivar, many of the beautiful, named Grim hybrids “Bob” Grim, was successful in hybridizing Graptopetalum amethystinum X Echeveria and other attractive succulents at the Spring between different genera and produced, lilacina. Plant Sale and at Norrie’s Gift Shop. for example, the inter-generic hybrids X To honor Bob’s work, apparently a friend We thank the Saratoga Horticultural Cremnosedum ‘Crocodile’ and X Cremnosedum named a hybrid he produced between Research Endowment, California ‘Little Gem,’ using Cremnophila nutans as a Sedum veradense X Echeveria rosea as X Succulents, and the Monterey Bay Area parent. The second parent for ‘Crocodile’ Sedeveria ‘Robert Grimm’. From our inquiries Cactus and Succulent Society for their is Sedum lucidum and for ‘Little Gem’ is it seems it was probably named by the late support for propagating, distributing, and S. humifusum. We first received some Joyce Hoekstra of Squaw Mountain Garden publicizing the Grim Hybrids. Grim plants from Jack Napton and the Nursery. This colorful hybrid has been sold —Stephen McCabe International Succulent Institute. Soon after, in the US and is distributed in Europe. The noted hybridizer, the late Victor Reiter Jr, stems tend to elongate, the leaves are lightly and his wife Carla hosted us and gave us short-hairy, not waxy and grow light-green many valuable Reiter hybrids and a few to green with orange or red, depending more of the Grim selections. After Bob and on the growing conditions, getting redder his late wife Margaret generously donated with more sun. As this cultivar is widely all of their remaining Echeveria and similar distributed and recognized this name plants, we slowly began propagating the will probably remain. Bob had not heard interesting ones, including the beautiful, of another of his hybrids being named X Cultivars of Echeveria and Pachyphytums

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