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DUDLEYA Page 4 VOLUME 26, NUMBER 3 FALL 2018 the deal with DUDLEYA page 4 GARDEN GARDEN FIRESCAPING CALENDAR PEOPLE IRONWOOD Volume 26, Number 3 | Fall 2018 ISSN 1068-4026 DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE EDITOR Flannery Hill Looking Forward to Fall DESIGNER Paula Schaefer Ironwood is published quarterly by the Santa Welcome to the fall Ironwood! As we gear up for Barbara Botanic Garden, a private nonprofit institution founded in 1926. The Garden fosters the our Fall Native Plant Sale, it seems like a good time conservation of California native plants through to reflect on the successful summer we had here our gardens, education, and research, and serves as at the Garden. We wrapped up our Summer Sips a role model of sustainable practices. The Garden is a member of the American Public Gardens series with a sold-out event, had local musicians Association, the American Alliance of Museums, perform for Free Senior Day, and at Trails ‘n’ the California Association of Museums, and the Tails we had more than 300 dog visitors! American Horticultural Society. ©2018 Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. All rights reserved. This fall brings more exciting events and news. Mark your calendars for our Fall Native Plant Sale, starting on Saturday, September 29. The sale offers the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden 1212 Mission Canyon Road largest selection of native plants on the Central Coast Santa Barbara, CA 93105 with 400 different varieties and more than 6,000 plants. Tel (805) 682-4726 sbbg.org Part of our mission is to share the benefits of plant- GARDEN HOURS ing native plants in your home gardens, and we hope the fall sale will provide Mar – Oct: Daily 9AM – 6PM you with the opportunity to discover these plants and bring them home. Nov – Feb: Daily 9AM – 5PM Garden members will have the opportunity to shop early by attending our REGISTRATION Ext. 102 Fall Native Plant Sale Preview Party on Friday, September 28. October will Registrar is available: M – F / 9AM – 4PM be filled with plant sale related events, including a Hands-on Drip Irrigation GARDEN SHOP Ext. 112 Workshop, Gardening with the Experts classes, and our Dara Emery Memorial Hours: Mar – Oct, Daily 9AM – 6PM Lecture with Randy Baldwin, manager Nov – Feb, Daily 9AM – 5PM and co-owner of San Marcos Growers. GARDEN NURSERY Ext. 127 In November, we will celebrate Beatrix Thank you for Selling California native plants to the public with no admission fee. Farrand, a renowned landscape archi- Hours: Mar – Oct, Daily 9AM – 6PM tect who designed many of the elements being a member Nov – Feb, Daily 9AM – 5PM of our Garden. Farrand was a founding DEVELOPMENT Ext. 133 member – and the only woman – of the of the Garden. EDUCATION Ext. 160 American Society of Landscape Architects. FACILITY RENTAL Ext. 103 We will screen the new documentary film MEMBERSHIP Ext. 110 VOLUNTEER OFFICE Ext. 119 The Life and Gardens of Beatrix Farrand by Karyl Evans. Join us for a tours through the Garden, highlighting historic BOARD OF TRUSTEES features, several film screenings with the filmmaker, and panel discussion CHAIR Peter Schuyler with area landscape architects and historians on Sunday, November 11. VICE-CHAIR Tom Craveiro Lastly, I’m pleased to introduce Scot Pipkin as the Garden’s new Director SECRETARY John Parke TREASURER Edward Roach of Education & Engagement. Scot most recently served as Director of Samantha Davis Community Education at Audubon New Mexico in Santa Fe, and previ- Lou Greer Frost ously as Public Access Manager at the Tejon Ranch Conservancy. Gil Garcia Elaine Gibson Thank you for being a member of the Garden. To show our Sarah Berkus Gower appreciation, we’re offering new wellness classes this fall - includ- Valerie Hoffman ing Yoga in the Garden - that are free to you, our members! Keep William Murdoch Gerry Rubin a lookout for these wellness classes in the Garden calendar. Kathy Scroggs Jesse Smith See you in the Garden, Susan Spector Susan Van Atta FOLLOW THE GARDEN! On the Cover: FACEBOOK.COM/SBGARDEN Steve Windhager, Ph.D. Executive Director Dudleya cymosa ssp. pumila by Ken Vanderhoff YOUTUBE.COM/SBBGORG @SANTABARBARABOTANICGARDEN THE GARDEN IS PLEASED to WELCOME NEW STAFF Scot Pipkin Director of Education & Engagement The Garden is pleased to welcome Scot Pipkin as its new Director of Education and Engagement. Pipkin brings a background in landscape architecture and ethnobotany to the Garden. Pipkin holds a bachelor’s degree in geography from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a master’s degree in landscape architecture from the University of Arizona. His passion for conservation and education began while taking a course in California plant ecology and biogeography as an undergraduate at UCLA. He is particularly interested in understanding ways to support biodiverse communities through the use of California native plants. “The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden helps people forge intellectual and emotional connec- tions to native plants,” said Pipkin. “My hope is to build a connection between people of all ages to the native plants of California and enable everyone to participate in their conservation. I hope to encourage a lifelong interest in plant science and ecology by fostering an apprecia- tion and understanding of the natural world.” Prior to joining the Garden, Pipkin served as the Director of Community Education at Audubon New Mexico in Santa Fe, and as a Public Access Manager at the Tejon Ranch Conservancy in Lebec, California. As Director of Education & Engagement, Pipkin will oversee the Garden’s education program. From volunteer-guided tours for school children, gardeners sharing expertise on native plants, opportunities for university students to work side-by-side with Garden research- ers, field trips to the Channel Islands, and citizen science projects, the Garden’s education program provides many opportunities for lifelong learning. Calvin Davison Kristen Nordstjerne Klitgaard Herbarium Curatorial Assistant Herbarium Curatorial Assistant A recent graduate of A rising third year University of California, student at University Santa Barbara and of California, Santa Sonoma County native, Barbara, majoring in Calvin Davison is Biology in the College assisting Herbarium of Creative Studies, and scientists catalog- recipient of the 2018 ing plant specimens Summer Undergraduate collected in Los Padres Research Fellowship, National Forest areas Kristen joined the recovering from fire. Garden Herbarium to His interests in the support a grant explor- Santa Barbara Botanic ing the botanically Garden revolve around understudied areas of working within an the Los Padres National atmosphere of profes- Forest. sional botanists, “I am Drawn to the really excited to learn Garden after taking a more about botany and class taught by Matt prepare myself for graduate school while working at an amazing Guilliams, Ph.D. and Kristen Lehman, Ph.D. at UCSB called botanic garden!” California Flora and Vegetation, Kristen’s favorite section of the When not in the lab, Calvin spends his time hiking and Garden is the Redwoods. In her words, “when I walk in there my camping, especially around Figueroa Mountain, and is fascinated mind and heartbeat both just slow.” by the Sugar Pine, Pinus Lambertiana, as it “has such a weirdly Outside of the Garden, Kristen works under Ph.D. candidate shaped canopy and its cones are so long. It is super cool!” Kristen Peach at the UCSB Mazer Lab “to understand how ontoge- His favorite area of the Garden is the “streambed full of netic pigment variation in Clarkia unguiculata affects things like redwood trees!” pollinator visitation and pollen viability.” She also loves to hike and generally spend time in nature. FALL 2018 Ironwood 3 The Deal with Dudleya By Sonia Fernandez, Contributing Writer The knowledge gained in Dudleya If you have a California native- or become so popular that they have been the targets of research will unlock a small part of drought-tolerant garden, chances hunters and poachers seeking to bring a bit of native are you have a Dudleya or two (or California into their homes and gardens. the large puzzle that is biodiversity, more) in the mix. Known also “It’s just a beautiful, conspicuous plant,” said Matt which is critical to life on the planet. as “stonecrop,” or “live-forever,” Guilliams, the Garden’s Ken and Shirley Tucker Plant these succulents form rosettes of Systematist and herbarium curator. “Some of them can leaves, from which emerge stalks be bigger around than a dinner platter, and the flowers of flowers in a variety of shapes and colors that range that they send off are really beautiful and interest- from chalky gray and white to bright green with hints ing, so people are naturally drawn to them.” Formerly of blue, to jewel-toned yellows and pinks. Gardeners believed to be closely-related to similar-looking succu- love them for their hardiness to California’s arid lents in the genus Echeveria, dudleyas have since climate and assortment of soils, and they can do as won their own distinction in the plant world. As a well in a pot as they can on the side of the road — or in California-specific plant, they are abundant and partic- some cases, a rocky outcropping. Dudleyas have even ularly diverse from Central California to northwestern 4 Ironwood FALL 2018 Baja California, and even out to the Channel Islands, Photo opposite: This highly specialized plant — also known as which have their own distinct varieties of the fleshy Dudleya verityi “Verity’s liveforever”— suffered near annihilation in perennials. (by J. Merek) 2013 during the Springs Fire, a blaze that burned It’s no surprise, then, given the diverse nature of Photos top left to right: about 24,000 acres of brushland in Ventura County, these plants, that the Garden jumped on the chance blooms of Dudleya thanks to low humidity and high winds.
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