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Universityof Idaho PRESRT STD Arboretum Associates U.S. POSTAGE PO Box 44 3147 PAID Moscow, ID 83844-3147 UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111 *PBN450* 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 plants 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 plant 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 species 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.