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Students Find Inspiration for Desi9n in Arboretum

nAugust 24, Horticulturist, Paul Warnick, met with 50 third year architecture students and three faculty members to introduce us to the Arboretum. We learned about it as a unique geographically based collection of from temperate landscapes from around the world, a thriving habitat for songbirds· and raptors (and mosquitoes), a quiet place set apart from our busy lives on campus, and a place used and supported by many people A series of low-lying covered spaces wind down the southwest hillside near Arboretum barn providing accessible spaces for a range of uses. in the Moscow-Pullman area Designed by Ryan Ivie. and from across the Palouse. The tour was the first step in a six-week project that would engage the students in Renew your annual contribution to the Arboretum Associates for Fiscal Year 2012 and contribute designing a pavilion for small concerts as well gatherings for events such as weddings or to your favorite project fund. Please help the Arboretum grow by renewing your annual gift for the fiscal year receptions. which began July 1, 2011. ThankYou! This is a project that has been done several times during the past. This year, Diane Armpriest, Phillip Mead and Matthew Hogan each worked with a group of 16 or 17 students. There Membership Categories were a number Active $20- $49 of short exercises Sustaining $50 - $99 City ______State ___ Zip _____ and critiques Donor $100 - $249 during the project Fund Contribution Patron $250 - $499 and the end result Arboretum Associates $ _____ Sponsor $500- $999 was that each Centennial Endowment Fund $ _____ Life Associate $1,000 and above student made a Other $ ____ design proposal, Total Contribution $ _____ including a Please charge my MasterCard VISA physical model, Contributors receive our periodic ARnoRNOTES. for a 1,000 Card# Please mail your tax deductible ------1,200 This multi-level structure features wood native to the Northwest, marking the north entry to the contributions to: Arboretum Associates, arboretum, providing a viewing tower and information kiosk as well as the pavilion. Expiration Date------square foot University ofldaho, P. 0. Box 443147, Designed by Diedre Hardy. pavilion and Signature ______~ Moscow, ID 83844-3147. Thank you. OOOlZ For the Love of Hosta's - Beth Bowler Hosta Garden

1111--"""'he cultural critic In the 1990's Bill visited Orcus Island, Washington, for Lewis Hyde wrote, a conference. It was there he heard Lewis Hyde give a "A work of art is a talk about the commodification of art. As an artist-and crift not a commodity ... University of Idaho architecture professor-Bill was greatly A Newsletter of b ' influenced by Hyde. He explained, "To make and collect art, the Arboretum Associates a work of art can survive vv:ithout the market, but well, any art I wanted to collect I knew I could never afford. University of Idaho where there is no gift there is But I could afford to buy just about any I wanted." Arboretum and Botanical Garden no art." Bill Bowler lives by And this is where his hosta garden began. this belief. Published by Hostas are one of the most popular foliage plants in ARBORETUM ASSOCIATES Bill is an Arboretum America, but when Bill began collecting, the perennial University of Idaho Associates member-at-large Rill Bowler was not so easy to find. He'd go up to Lamb's Nursery in P.O. Box443143 and son to Beth Bowler, for This lakeside pavilion is one of a series of spaces designed to evoke the natural surroundings while providing a pavilion Spokane, pair up with Stookey's in Moscow to make special Moscow, Idaho 83844-3143 whom the Arboretum's Beth Bowler Hosta Collection is with hillside amphitheater sealing. Designed by Skye Woodhouse. orders, or truck over to Seattle or Portland to attend expos President named. The first time I met Bill it was a sunny afternoon in associated toilet rooms, food-prep, furniture storage and exterior space for a (he still does this). Howard Peavy late July. He and I sat on his deck, slightly elevated above specific site in the arboretum. Students were required to meet the user needs the dense carpet of lawn beneath the shade of a sprawling His first plant was Hosta 'Glauca,' a small to medium sized Past President for performances and gathering that included dining, consider location in maple, and at the edge of a garden path extending around mounding variety with grey-green, heart-shaped leaves. The Jan Leander the arboretum and specific site conditions including slope, vegetation, views the garden space. Bill's garden showcases many plants, but plant, like most hosta cultivars, is deeply and attractively and manipulation of daylight. Those who are regular visitors may have seen a Vice President it's hard not to notice the prevalence of hostas, an Asian veined. Bill began with one small bed, planting in an Keith Bromley student or two measuring, sketching and imagining as many of them were daily plant appearing like so many rosetted brushstrokes especially shady portion of his yard. visitors. Secretary beneath tree canopy and flowers. It didn't take long before he was hooked. Bill, who grew Beverly Rhoads Two of the main project "Were hostas your mother's favorite plant?" I asked him. up in Idaho, spent every summer at his family cabin north Treasurer goals were to make The Beth Bowler Hosta Collection is one of the arboretum's of Sun Valley. Trips to the cabin were an annual ritual, and Joy Fisher connections to nature and newer installations, started four years ago. Bi11 donated the one to which he had always looked forward. But after Members at Large landscape and to learn to collection in his mother's name, and helped determine the transforming the first corner of his yard, he found it almost Bill Bowler manipulate light, so the location and initial cultivars, of which there are about two impossible to tear himself away. He did go to the cabin that Mary Ann Judge general design approaches hundred. first summer, but once there, he couldn't wait to get back to Harriet Hughes varied by site and Moscow to tend his garden. Jennifer O'Laughlin demonstrated a number of "No, my mother was a Arboretum Horticulturist creative and thoughtfully xeriscape gardener," he As Bill's garden took Paul Warnick integrated proposals. Paul Warnick and students try to find a shady spot on the hottest day told me. His mother shape bit by bit, he was P.O. Box 442281 T h ere were severa1 typica1 of the year. lived in Boise, and her always a step ahead, Moscow, ID 83844-2281 sites selected by students: the North Entry off Perimeter Drive (envisioned garden was on a envisioning the next Phone: (208) 885-5978 by many as a new, visible entrance to the Arboretum, a "lake" site (nestled at and arid hillside. expansion, looking out arboretum@uidaho. cdu the edge of the lake with stunning views and changing light) and a site in the over the still bare areas Hostas, it turns out, Emeritus southwest on the slope to the north of the barn (providing easy access from the of his yard and seeing Arboretum Director are Bill's favorite. parking lot for all who visit the arboretum and providing a southern anchor for instead the curved beds Richard J. N askali But when I asked him the trails). and striking accent 625 E. 6th St. why, he didn't go on plants we admired on Moscow, ID 83843 to describe the plants' Students were also asked to utilize expressive and effective structural systems the afternoon of my Phone: (208) 882-2633 myriad shades of green and materials. This was another goal that sparked creativity and resulted in a visit. [email protected] wide variety of evocative structures. and gold, or the range of texture and size of the Beth Bowler Hosta Garden photo by Bill Bow !er Not long after he'd The project focus was to develope strong conceptual solutions, so the projects DECEMBER 2011 thousands of available begun his gardening are not quite ready to move from the drawing boards and computers into the cultivars. He didn't project, he had an ground, but they provide a wide range of possibilities that the arboretum may name the delicacy of lavender or white flowers that emerge accident in which he shattered his ankle and broke his wish to consider for the future. on scapes and are so nice for cuttings. Instead, he asked me femur. The six-month recovery was excruciating. In some

~Diane Armpriest if I'd heard of Lewis Hyde. I had not. ways, the garden got him through. He studied the thousands of different hosta and semi-cupped Messa9e from the t cultivars and continued leaves of one of Bill's While funding continues to remain a challenge, the planning his garden newer minis, 'Mouse n behalf of Arboretum Associates Board of Arboretum Associates take pride in the partnership that has design. In other ways, Ears,' looks almost like Directors, I would like to take this opportunity been created with private donors funding all of the planting however, the same thing velvet. Medium sized to thank all of the many wonderful donors who and improvements in the arboretum and the University that was saving him from mounding hostas like have made the University of Idaho Arboretum and Botanical providing funding for staffing to insure the arboretum is boredom during recovery 'Guacamole' and 'Last Garden the magnificent place it has become. maintained and remains such an the incredible resource. also drove him mad. "I Dance' are grouped Many thanks to Paul Warnick, the Arboretum horticulturist, could imagine the next together, punctuated by who continues to do an amazing job caring for and guiding In this issue of ArborNotes you will see two examples of garden project, I could taller clumps of grasses the development of the arboretum. In addition to his many student projects that have involved the Arboretum. It is see it, but I couldn't do or lilies. Some of the responsibilities, Paul posts monthly updates of Arboretum truly inspiring to see the results of student projects and it until I healed. And that hostas are veined in a highlights on the Arboretum website. Please take the listen to them passionately describe their connection to this was hard." Hostas, he crinkly, waffled pattern, opportunity to view those as they show the Arboretum at its beautiful and inspiring space. went on, have appeased while others have almost best and give our out of town visitors a chance to sec all the I wish you a safe winter and an early spring! his desire to collect, but palmate patterns, giving updates virtually. they also lend themselves the broad leaves a look "'Howard Peavy to what he called a like an Oriental fan, Hosta's flourish under in the shade of the Beth Bowler Hosta garden photo hy Paul Warnick "compulsive behavior." unfurled. Still others have long and narrow leaves like a broad-bladed grass. Compulsive? It's possible, but qualities of determination, Toward the hack, five-foot tall hostas catch my eye, and confidence, and creativity tend to stand out more. Bill their similarity to banana plants makes it easy to see why for earned a degree in architecture from the University of a long time, after their introduction to Europe and North Students Present Entrance Garden Ideas at Annual Meetin9 Idaho in 1966 and has worked in the arts since, basing some America in the seventeen and eighteen hundreds, hostas of his decisions on what would seem to some a love of art he 34th Annual Meeting of Arboretum Associates was Arborteum horticulturist Paul Warnick presented an were often called "plantain lilies." and blind faith. "When I finished," Bill said about graduating held on April 27,2011 at the University ofldaho overview of the past years activity in the Arboretum. from college, "I went to Philadelphia by train. I went with They are stunning individually, and appealing in the way College of Law courtroom. Vice President Keith . Paul presented a stunning slide show of scenes from the my wife and child. I didn't have a job." It might sound of museum pieces behind a red velvet rope: it's hard to Bromley welcomed members and guests as he called the Arboretum. He reviewed highlights of this past year rash, but Philadelphia was home to architecture and urban resist taking the different leaves between finger and thumb. meeting to order. including the planting of 1,926 new specimens, the planning greats Louis Kahn and Edmond Bacon, and that (Luckily, there's no velvet rope around Bill's garden.) The trapping of pine beetle by the Maryland Department of Treasurer Joy Fisher distributed a financial report showing was where he wanted to be. leaves are cool and waxy smooth to the touch, like a little Agriculture, receipt of the "Wisescape Award" by the City net income to the Associates for calendar year 2010 of antidote to summer heat. of Moscow for the Xeriscape garden, and completion of the He had a job almost immediately, and after five years he $7,002. Joy noted that the 2010 plant sale set a record with Asian-style pergola. had millions of dollars of design work to his name. But it Before I left, Bill took me to see the shade-house area along gross revenue of $12,700. The Associates provided $12,950 was the late sixties, and a volatile time in Philadelphia. So the side of his garage. Hostas, lilies and other plants are towards the completion of the pergola. The program was a presentation by U of I students titled in 1970 his family of three traveled hack to Idaho and the arranged according to species and cultivar, with potted "Design Development Concepts for the UI Arboretum Entry The following slate of for Arboretum Associates was elected Sun Valley area to make a home in Fairfield. They stayed for plants at varying stages of growth. Most of the plants in the Garden". Professor Stephen Drown and Visiting Professor by unanimous voice vote: seven years. His wife at the time was a weaver. Bill took Beth Bowler collection got their start here, and many of William MacElroy introduced Officers 2 year term: what design work was available and rounded it out with the plants Bill showed me will go to the next Arboretum the student presenters. Their President Howard Peavey odd jobs. In 1977, he landed back in Moscow and taught plant sale. Earlier in the afternoon, Bill had asked me if I had drawings and previews were Vice President Keith Bromley at the university's College of Art and Architecture until his hostas in my yard. I had admitted, a little sheepishly given displayed in the Law School Secretary Beverly Rhoades retirement in 2010. the company, I did not. "Well," he said, sounding a little lobby. Students included Treasurer Joy Fisher pleased, "let's get you your first hosta."Then he stooped to Matt Ramich, Josh Morse, Of gardening, Bill says, "It's always an optimistic activity." pick out one he thought would do well in my garden, gave Members at large -- 3 year Kimberly Williams, Cade Sometimes, he says, a planting doesn't do well and he's me some advice about planting locations and wished me term: Sterling, Josh Neill and disappointed, but often his expectations are exceeded. And luck. It was a lovely gift. Bill Bowler Kelsey Wakefield. They made there is always the possibility of another season. Harriett Hughes brief presentation during the ,...., Jamaica Ritcher At times, Bill has had almost a thousand different hosta Jennifer O'Laughlin meeting and discussed their cultivars in his garden. Minis, some smaller than six-inches Graduate student in creative writing drawings and concepts with at the University ef Idaho. high, decorate the edges of the garden path. They are both before and after the petite, but just as textured as the taller ones. The rounded Student explains his concept for an entry garden for the Arboretum at the Annual Meeting. meeting. photo by Bill Bowler A New Dou9las-fir Cultivar Developed in Idaho A Decade of Summer Breezes and Sweet Sounds

n Western North America, ranging from British propagated by Moscow's Pat Wells is officially the cultivar IP--~he 10th annual Summer Breezes and Sweet Sounds Jolene Pflaum who performed Achieved is the Glorious Work Columbia southward to California and Nevada and Torquis following the patent registration. U.S. Plant Chamber Music in the Grove concert was held in by Haydn. Caitlin Blankenship, accompanied by Dan eastward into the Intermountain areas ofidaho, the Patents, not renewable after they expire, remain in effect the University of Idaho Arboretum and Botanical Bukvich on , performed a soprano solo singing Two Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) is a major timber tree for 20 years from the date of the original application. After Garden Monday, July 11, 2011. Over 250 music lovers by Daniel Pitts. Graham Fitkin's Glass was performed by which can grow to some 90m high with trunk diameters plant patents expire, the plant can be trademarked through and arboretum enthusiasts attended the annual event Vanessa Sielert on soprano saxophone and percussionists to four meters. In local vernacular, a Douglas-fir tree is the U.S. Patent andTrademark Office under a different sponsored by the Lionel Mat Schaefer, Joe Steiner, sometimes called "Red Fir." name for renewable increments of 10 year periods. The Hampton School of Music Jemima Rauer, and Kristin trademarked name of this Douglas-fir is Emerald Twister TM. and Arboretum Associates. McMullin. Christine After David Douglas, an intrepid Scottish collector­ Pat Wells is a retired, long-time U.S.F.S. researcher­ The varied and entertaining Maxwell's dance performance naturalist introduced this Pacific Northwest species into technician who worked with Dr. Jerry Rehfeldt, Research program again was arranged of Suite Seasons by Sarah E. Europe via Scotland circa 1826, many variations and Geneticist at the U.S.F.S. Laboratories on South Main Street by Professor Daniel Bukvich Maxwell was accompanied by cultivars became widely dispersed in the world's arboreta in Moscow, ID. of the Lionel Hampton School Heather Hagen on and and botanical gardens. The cultivar discovered and of Music, and the musicians Brendan Gordon on . ~Richard J. N askali were students and faculty The haunting echos of Laura from the music school as well Huggard's horn performance as community members. of Fantasy for Horn by Malcolm Professor Dan BukYich shares his love of music and the arboretum with an appreciative Arnold filled the Arboretum Sean ButterHeld, Peter Lee, audience. photo by Bill Bowler with sound as the low Vern Sielert, Nathan Top rumblings of thunder could A Brief History of Pseudotsu9a menziesii 'Torquis' and Charlotte McKell began the evening with a rousing be heard in the distance. A Bririf'Encountajor Trumpet and trumpet piece entitled lntrada by Robert Lo Presti. It was Timpani (1963) was performed by Vern Siclert on trumpet Forest Genetics Research project of the U. S. Forest Service followed by the Arboretum Percussion 's energetic and Dan Bukvich on timpani. A Navin Chettri up tempo laboratory in Moscow, ID, established a Douglas-fir hybrid test performance of Eight Primes by Daniel Bukvich. Arboretum composition entitled Nataraj (Shiva's Dance) was performed plot near Grangeville, ID, on the Nez Perce National Forest in Percussion Orchestra members include Jemima Bauer, by Chettri on tabla and voice, Heather Hagen and Emily 1975 and 1976. In 19 84 while we (Wells & Rehfeldt) were checking Emily Benjamin, Navin Chcttri, Jenny DeWitt, Quentin Benjamin on violin, Brendan Gordon on viola, Tyler Chen for survival 'and growth, we noted that one family of progeny included DeWitt, Tyler Dixon, Cecily on bassoon, Mat Schaefer on several trees with a strange growth pattern. The 32 trees from one Gordon, Brendan Gordon, vibraphone, and Joe Steiner hybrid cross included eight with the twisting random growth pattern­ Heather Hagen, Mike Locke, on marimba. but only one hybrid tree had the pronounced twisting and retained the Paul Lynch, Christine green leaf color of a healthy tree. I chose to propagate this tree. Maxwell, Kristen McMullin, In an exciting and creative Jolene Pflaum, Mat Schaefer, piece composed by Dan Having a lifelong interest in ornamental plants, I decided to propagate and Joe Steiner. Bukvich, entitled Rockin the this original tree by rooting cuttings and grafting. After some five Arboretum X, the Arboretum years of propagating, on April 24, 1989, I filed for a U.S. Plant In a shift from the Percussion Orchestra (and Patent through the Forest Service. U.S. Plant Patent number 7,553 contemporary, Linda friends) concluded the was awarded June 11, 1991 for DOUGLAS-FIR TREE "TORQUIS" Wharton and William program. Throughout the VARIETY. Because this was the first plant patent the U. S. Forest Wharton performed a evening the musicians were Service had ever been granted, no one was familiar with what to do soothingly melodic cello A rainbow was the final treat for the audience as the concert concluded. not deterred by a few drops with it. piece entitled Gavotte by photo by Bill Bowler of rain or even the surprise Jean-Phillipe Rameau. I continued propagating the plants and envisioned a new ornamental of sprinklers coming on during the final piece. The creative Then Ferenc Cseszko performed a beautiful violin solo of cultivar of Douglas-fir; I requested the rights to the patent from the use of a music stand to deflect the sprinkler's flow allowed Allemanda (from Partita No. 2 in D minor) by J.S. Bach. This Forest Service. On July 1, 1996, I was awarded the rights to the patent. the musicians to complete the performance much to the was followed by a wonderful performance by Susan Hess delight of the audience and was a wonderful way to end a Subsequently I negotiated an agreement with the Iseli Nursery of and Tyler Chen on bassoon of Canonic Sonata No. l by Georg fantastic evening of entertainment in, what Dan Bukvich Boring, Oregon, to culture and sell the plants nationwide, while I Phillip Telemann. called, "an absolutely awesome spot", the UI Arboretum and retained the right to sell them in the northwest (Idaho, Washington and Pat Wells with the patented Douglas-fir in the UI Arhoretum, October 13 Quentin DeWitt performed a solo marimba piece, A Botanical Garden. Oregon). Together we trademarked the plant as Emerald Twister™. 20] 1. Photo by Richard Naskali. Little Prayer by Evelyn Glennie, followed by the trombone ,.._,Jan Leander ~Stephen "Pat" Wells quartet of Paul Lynch, Tyler Dixon, Brendan Burns, and Arboretum Associates Donor Roll

Thank you to the many generous donors who supported the University of Idaho Arboretum and Botanical Garden from Constance & Robert Dickow Donna & Robert Hanson Mary Conitz July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011. A total of $93,643 was received from membership gifts, gifts for Arboretum endowments, Eloise Frank Melva Hoffman t Donna Cope and gifts to support specific Arboretum projects. Your support makes a difference. Anne & Philip Frederiksen Harriet Hughes & John Fellman Teresa & Thomas DeHart Karla Harman Idaho Alpha Delta Kappa Mary Jane Dellenback Madge Harper Shirley Jones Judy DeMers Patron Jane Stratton Christine & Floyd Hescock Shawna & Brent Lindquist Kristin & Rob Dunn Life Associates Karen & Donald Burnett Mary & Steven Ullrich Daryce Hoffman Eileen Loewenstein Kirby & Carl Dyess Elna & Elbert Barton Christine & Terry Gray Janet Wagner Harriet Hughes & John Fellman Judith Marineau Floretta Ekelund Judi Beck &Tom Alberg Cindy Johnson Carol & Mike Wilson Julia Jenkins Connie & Ed McBride Helen Fox Bert Bowler Jan & Dick Leander Maurice Johnson LeN elle Mclnturff Paul Gaston Ben Bowler Ruthie & Duane Nellis Sustaining Judith Johnston Elinor Michel & Walter Hesford Florence Gillette Wilma & Edd Bowler Nancy & Garth Sasser Anonymous Mary Ann & John Judge Nancy & Reid Miller Shirley & Harlie Gunther John Burlison Suzanne & David Trail Louise & Jasper Avery Jean Keating Moscow Garden Club Diane & Herbert Helgeson Sharon Christoph & Christopher Kathleen Warnick Judy Brown & Stephen Cooke Donna Kendall-Woolston & Bill Woolston Patsy & John Mosman Betty Jo & Charles Hilliard Davidson Barbara & Richard Wells Susan & John Byrne Jennifer & Tony Loeser Richard N askali Melva Hoffman t Roberta & Charles Graham Caroline Christenson Cynthia & Robin Magnuson Jean Nolder Debra Humphreys Alma & David Hanson Donor Pam & Jim Colbert Christine Mallon Joyce & Duane Parr Nyla Imler Jean & William Martling Patricia Jordan Diane Armpriest Bert Cross t Ethel Renfrow Andrea & John Ingram Marilyn Meiners Beverly Rhoades Norma Le\'Vis Maria & Bruce Augustin Constance DeWitt Charlotte & Jerry Jackle John Mix Susan Roberts Louise Luce Alane & Roger Blanchard Patricia Dole Alfred & Bonnie Janssen Catherine & John Porter Makiia & Chris Lucier Nilsa Bosque-Perez Mary Fisher Carl Root Kristi Johnson Jan & David Rauk Sabre Holdings Judith Marineau Stephany Burge Martha Ford & Michael Kyte Sally & J. 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Steele Alma & David Hanson Jeanette Talbott Darla & David Port Karen & Russ Comstock Joy & Doug Fisher Eli & Wayne Anderson Marlene & Dick Johnston Karen & Matt Telin Anne Raunio & Scott Gilbert Anna & Paul Conditt Jo Ellen & Ron Force Ashton Hi-Tech Seed Company Inc. Julie & David Levine Susan Toner Beverly Rhoades Margaret Conrad Friends of Manito Therese & Stanley Atkinson Northwestern Mutual Life Laura Wiedenmann Andrea Sharps & Charles Horgan Sally & Stephen Davidson GE Foundation Marti & Bob Baron Foundation, Inc. Cicely Woodrow Pearl Snider Shirley & Harlie Gunther Gael & Dan Bukvich Ellen Thiem Evelyn Zimmer Katherine & David Spencer Robbi Harnida Carol Chipman Lauren & David Wennv t - deceased .) continued By the Numbers: How Many Flowers in One Inflorescence? of 1 3 to 18 seeds but typically Each Giant Onion bulb (about only nine to 13 (average = the size of a small orange) can many garden and wild flowers Moscow, Idaho. 12) developed into mature produce a series of long, strap­ (e.g., Trillium, Tulips, Daffodils) seeds. Nevertheless, imagine shaped basal leaves, and a three­ Recent botanical reclassifications a single terminal flower the potential plant increase to-four-foot tall naked stem now place in the constitutes the inflorescence. in a proper environment if (a scape, a single internode), and place Allium in In several species and cultivars some 500 flowers on one stem topped by one showy terminal the Alliaceae. of Tulips (e.g., Tulipa praestans yielded 12 seeds each! umbel of purple flowers by 'Fusilier,' T turkestanica, T b!flora) Eremurus robustus is native to the mid-June in Moscow. Allium is a huge and complex there is more than one flower Steppe grasslands ofTajikistan and of some 700+ species The terminal umbel, averaging per stem. The 'King Alfred' and the Pamir Valley area between ranging over much of the five to six inches in diameter, 'Mount Hood' Daffodils have but Pakistan and Afghanistan where Northern Hemisphere-­ typically bears hundreds of one flower per stem, whereas summers are hot and dry, winters primarily in Asia. There are flowers. On August 3, 201 l, I stems of the 'Cheerfulness' double are cold, and soils are well drained. a number of species native in dissected one maturing umbel, Narcissus have several flowers per In the local Palouse where the Palouse Country. A few species counted the flowers, and found stem. local environment is analogous to arc native in Africa and Central that it had had 1,865 flowers! native conditions of western Asia, Perhaps the world's largest known and South America. The genus In that one umbel, 41 7 of the this Foxtail Lily (sometimes called inflorescence is that of the tropical Allium includes onions, chives, earliest opened flowers already Desert Candle) has naturalized into One umbel of Alli um giganteum shortly after peak flowering; note the developing Talipot Palm ( Corypha umbraculifera, garlic, shallots. fruits (capsules), August 3, 2011. Photo by Richard Naskali. had dehiscing fruits each colonies of hundreds to thousands Arecaceae), native in Sri Lanka and releasing five or six by August of plants over the last century. Alli um giganteum (Giant Onion), Southern India but now cultivated 3, 2011. Imagine the propagating potential from just one Special garden highlights can be native in the Steppe grasslands of Central Asia, is another in many tropical botanical gardens bulb of Alli um giganteum ! achieved with a single or very few spectacular garden introduction for Palouse gardens with and arboreta. It is a very large plants. the Palouse Prairie growing conditions that fit for Eremurus. ~Richard N askali palm with trunks to 60+ feet tall, J. fan-shaped leaves to 15 + feet wide Inflorescences of Eremurus robustus and with up to 100+ leaflets per are racemes-unbranched stems leaf. After growing vegetative for along which are pedicelled some 30 to 80 years, these palms individual flowers. Between late can become reproductive with one March and about July 1 0, the massive terminal inflorescence flowering stems rapidly grow many having one million to a few feet long. The attractive one million flowers constituting one inch-wide pink flowers open in a Report from the Horticulturist huge inflorescence reaching many progression over some six weeks, meters high and wide. After the usually peaking in mid June. In he biggest news from the past winter and early one flowering and fruiting event, Eremurus robustus, one inflorescence, June 21, 2011. Photo by Richard Naskali. 2011, I observed and measured spring would be the amount of wind damage in both Talipot Palms die, making these inflorescences and counted flowers the Shattuck Arboretum and the 'New' Arboretum. palms "monocarpic." and numbers of developing fruits. The damage started with a storm in late November, which Six mature inflorescences ranged did significant damage on campus. It knocked over one Back home in Idaho, there are some in final height from 75" to 98"; hybrid Elm in the 'New' Arboretum, but the real losses were spectacular introduced flowering those six stems bore between 440 over in the Shattuck Arboretum where many trees were perennials, which can be stunning and 6 71 flowers. Perhaps, because either broken off or uprooted. As often happens there, the specimens in your garden-given of rains, cold weather, lack of damage looks completely random with no pattern in either the proper growing conditions. pollinators, or other factors, those the types of trees or the directions they fall. Two introduced members six stems only yielded a range of originally classified in the Lily Another storm around New Year's knocked over a series of 3 3 to 119 mature fruits; those six Family (Liliaceae) are notable: The Russian Olives in the 'New' Arboretum. All six trees were stems averaged only 71 mature Foxtail Lily (Eremurus robustus) and uprooted and fell over. The largest stump is over two feet fruits per flowering stem. Each of the Giant Alli um (Allium giganteum) in diameter. Some local wood turners were able to salvage those mature fruits had a potential are both portrayed here from A field of h)m

continued probably have to stay in that exhibits amazingly grass is not a true place--it would be very dense, uniform growth grass, but actually difficult to get to it with and a dwarf Scots Pine a lily (Liliaceae). It equipment big enough to that turns a striking has broad bladed move the stump. bright yellow in cold foliage as close temperatures. The Scots to black as anv Yet another storm in .I Pine is a seedling from naturally occurring earlv March took out a .I seed collected from the plant I have seen. few more trees in the far north of Russia, along We planted the Shattuck Arboretum. I their border with Finland Mondo grass in a stopped counting when at 61 . 5 degrees North new combination the number got over Latitude (slightly further bed in the Hosta thirty after the January north than Anchorage, Walk. At the back storm, and there were Alaska). of the bed is a strip at least five more down 200+ 4-I I Volunteers getting ready to go to work 6-16-11 of a new Hosta, after the March winds. This spring was mostly 'E1npress Wu', notable for never The larger pieces have been sold for firewood, and the which is reportedly arn vmg. Most of the spring flowering shrubs and trees were brush has been chipped up, with the chips used on site to the largest growing up to a month later than usual, and several things were even Ken Dola, campus arborist climbing the Giant Sequoia cover the trails. A group of over 200 state 4-H members Hosta presently Ornamental Grasses on the pergola slope 10-13-11 slower than that. Even reliably cold hardy things like some in the Shattuck Arboretum , January 28, 2011 volunteered in June to drag the brush down to where it Mark Cole photo available, growing crabapples, some quaking aspen, nearly all the honeylocusts could be accessed by the chipper. Without their energetic up to four feet tall and ashes were extremely late to leaf out. Nearly all assistance, we would never have been able to get nearly as with leaves up to two inches across in clumps up to eight the trees eventually did sprout leaves, and by the end of it will he a couple of years before they really show their size. much cleaned up. feet wide! For contrast, in front of the 'Empress Wu' we summer, they seemed to be back to normal. They should make quite a show when they reach full size. planted a strip of 'Patriot' Hosta, a variegated cultivar with Two years ago we started the process of grafting the We did not start any major new planting projects this year, distinctive bright white, variegated leaves, and then the Another project was finishing the plantings on the slope Giant Sequoia in the Shattuck Arboretum. Ken Dola, the but we did plant many new and replacement plants. Every Black Mondo grass in front of the white variegated Hosta. above the new Asian pergola. We planted large swaths campus arborist, climbed the tree and cut scion wood that year I try to plant a few things considered marginal for The 'Empress Wu' were planted out as small 'liner' plugs, so of two different cultivars of Miscanthus, a genus of Asian was sent to a nursery in Oregon for grafting. The grafts hardiness in our area. l think the two most interesting ornamental grasses. 'Little Kitten' is one of the most were successful, and they did well enough that they were experiments this year are Japanese Umbrella Pine compact selections available, growing only two feet tall or moved up to one gallon pots and moved outside for their ( Sciadopitys verticillata) and Black Mondo Grass ( Ophiopogon less, which will contrast nicely with the Giant Fountain first winter. Unfortunately, that fall we had a severe cold Planiscapus 'Nigrescens'). grass, another Miscanthus, which can reach over 12 feet snap in early October. The Umbrella Pine is an each year! The other new grass Miscanthus oligostachys It was cold enough in unusual conifer with very 'Purpurescens' will have purple foliage and seed heads in Oregon that it killed distinctive foliage. The the fall, blending with the red foliage of the Japanese Blood all the nurseries newlv .I needles are very fleshy Grass planted at the bottom of the slope. grafted Giant Sequoias, (almost succulent) and along with lots of other The growing season has closed with an unusually long, mild they grow in flattened species of conifer grafts. fall. The tender annual flowers in the bed bv the barn did whorls at the ends of the .I The damage wasn't not freeze until October 16 this year, by far the latest date branches, looking very discovered until too late in the eleven years I have been here. The mild weather gave much like the ribs of in the spring of 2010 to us a long color season. 'October Glory' Red Maple, which an umbrella. There arc try grafting them again. usually lives up to its name still had leaves and color on a couple of established So, this January, Ken November 15 this year. plants that I am aware climbed the tree again of in protected sites in The brilliant fall color in the Arboretum is possible only and got another batch of Moscow, so we are trying because of private donations. All of the plants in the scion wood. This year one where it is protected Arboretum are either donated directly or purchased we also sent along wood by an east facing slope with donated funds. All of the private support is greatly from an Engelmann and a big clump of appreciated as it continues to develop the collections. Spruce from a group in Paul Warnick, cutting up downed spruce tree, Shattuck Arboretum February 3, 2011 Charles Zillinger photo Forsythia. The Mondo the 'New' Arboretum Planting ornamental grasses on the pergola slope 6-15-11 ,....., Paul Warnick Plant Sale 2011 Benefi.cialPine Beetle Research in the Arboretum

he Arboretum Associates annual plant sale took cuttings, potting up plants, and nurturing them in the hen most people another species of adelgid on place Saturday June 4, 2011, in the Palouse Ice Rink greenhouse through the winter so they will ready for the hear the words Western White Pine in Northern located in the Rotary Veterans Memorial Pavilion sale in the spring. Members of the Associates Board along Pine Beetle, they Idaho. Some of those beetles were at the Latah County Fairgrounds. Eager shoppers lined up with volunteers meet several times in the early spring at envision the boring beetles that collected and tested. It turned outside prior to the the greenhouse to are devastating pine forests all over out that they actually preferred to 9:00 a.m. opening transplant plants that the west. However, not all Pine feed on the hemlock adelgid, and time, eager to be have been purchased Beetles are bad; in fact, there is they proved to be better able to the first to get a from catalog vendors one species found on the Western survive the colder climates of the look at all the plants as well as to put White Pine in the Arboretum that northern range of the hemlock. that were available. together the popular may help save forests of Canadian Another challenge with the When the doors hanging baskets Hemlock in the Eastern United program is finding trees that are opened it was clear that have become States. Biff Johnson, Maryland Department of Agriculture shaking the branches of accessible when the insects are that shoppers would a hallmark of the Western White Pine to collect predatory beetles. 4-13-11 The Hemlocks in the East are active. Both the adelgids and the not be disappointed sale. finally, it takes being attacked by an adelgid (aphid-like insects that only predatory beetles are unusual in that they are active in cool as the holding tables a huge num her of feed on conifers) that has been found to have originated in temperatures. The beetle has been found to be most active quickly filled with volunteers as sale Japan. The same species of adelgid is also native on Western when temperatures are a little above freezing and winds plant treasures day approaches to set Hemlocks-both Mountain are calm. The beetles are found making this sale up tables, haul plants Hemlock ( Tsuga mertensiana) in the foliage of the conifers, so another outstanding to the ice rink, and and Western Hemlock ( Tsuga capturing them is only possible success. organize and tidy heterophylla). Research showed on trees with foliage close enough up the plants once This year's sale that a species of beetle native in to the ground to be accessible. they have been had the usual large Sharyl Kammerzell was the lucky winner of the planter at the annual plant sale. photo by Joy Fisher both Japan and the West Coast Researchers have found the right delivered. On sale assortment of feeds on the adegid, helping to combination of those factors on