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 The Bulletin :: Summer 2017 From President Anne Copenhaver Executive Board

The Garden Club of America is a storied Executive Board organization. It is the people of The Garden Club 2016-17 of America who make it so. Our written histories, Anne Copenhaver, GCA President most recently William Seale’s The Garden Club of Twin City Garden Club, Zone VII America, 100 Years of a Growing Legacy, tell of our achievements toward our purpose. That purpose Dede Petri, First Vice President exists inside each of us. I hope it feels essential to Georgetown Garden Club, Zone VI your life. Lloyd Brown, Corresponding Secretary At every annual meeting and quarterly The Weeders, Zone V business meeting of the past two years, you have Lorill Haynes, Recording Secretary heard me introduce our national leadership, Garden Guild of Winnetka, Zone XI saying that it is they and their committees or constituencies who continue to write and tell the Cindy Hilson, Treasurer story of our 104-year-old organization. To all Hancock Park Garden Club, Zone XII who said yes to my multitude of appointments, Marguerite Borden, Vice President thank you. At least half of you will continue your leadership positions one more year. That Cohasset Garden Club, Zone I rotation of volunteers is the heartbeat of this vital organization. Diana Boyce, Vice President Anything that endures also evolves. Evolving may mean reimagining the organization St. George’s Garden Club, Zone VI within its historic and valued framework. The incoming leadership has the privilege of carrying out a strategic planning process structured to occur every four to five years. Crissy Cherry, Vice President Deliberate decision making, a mantra from me to the outgoing Executive Board, will serve Lake Forest Garden Club, Zone XI us well. Gretchen Downs, Vice President As we conclude this GCA year, let us move forward with energetic support of the new Country Garden Club, Zone X leadership. And let us say with pride in the years 2015-17 that, on behalf of The Garden SaSa Panarese, Vice President Club of America, we did this well, and we did it together. You have given the gift Milton Garden Club, Zone I of leadership and stewardship to the GCA and beyond and, to both me and to each other, the gift of friendship. These will endure. Wendy Serrell, Vice President Thank you for the privilege of serving as your president and for allowing me to be a Hortulus, Zone II part of the story. Elizabeth Meyer, Zone Director Serving on the Executive Board With gratitude, Cambridge Plant & Garden Club, Zone I

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The Bulletin :: Summer 2017  Annual Meeting 2017 President’s Address

The 2017 Annual Meeting Address of President Anne Copenhaver

Presidents, Officers and Zone Directors, Club Presidents, the financial future of our organization. The chairman and Delegates, Area Chairmen, Zone Chairmen, Committee committee are appointed, the zone leadership teams are Chairmen, and all in attendance today: in place and at work, the goal is set, and we are underway! Whatever our current position, we are all volunteers for The Tomorrow we will hear much more from Chairman Hilary Garden Club of America. What indeed brings us together Salatich as she elaborates on building a platform for these few spectacular days for Maryland in May? We are success—success that will be achieved by participation at here as colleagues and friends in the fertile environment we every level. know as The Garden Club of America. I hope you believe it HQ Renovation. What a difference a year makes—14 to be an essential part of your life. This time together can be East 60th Street in New York City is your headquarters powerful. Together we make important things happen! for our quarterly business meetings and for your visits We are here to further the purpose of The Garden Club as individuals or as clubs. A careful and conservative of America—to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening, renovation was carried out from June-October 2016 with to share the advantages of association by means of educational final “trimmings” ready for December Meeting Week. It is meetings, conferences, correspondence, and publications, and beautiful! The House Committee, overflowing with talent to restore, improve, and protect the quality of the environment extraordinaire, made both practical and décor decisions through educational programs and actions in the fields of while the Renovations Committee itself ensured a 21st- conservation and civic improvement. century “eye to doing business,” maintaining respect for GCA tradition and history. The expenditures were borne by My purpose this morning is to reflect upon this stellar careful advance budgeting from the General Fund as well as year for The Garden Club of America, a year guided by a hefty reimbursement of expenses by the building owner as an ethical stance toward organizational integrity and negotiated in our renewed 15-year lease. deliberate decision making. We arrive from across the country, grounded in horticulture, exalted by flowers, The GCA Rare Book Collection. Formerly housed in a tiny uplifted by the beauty and bounty in our parks and gardens, room at Headquarters, our multi-million-dollar collection inspired by the natural world around us—yet challenged amassed over generations through generous donations of by realities: the climate crisis; deeply threatened profusion members now resides in the LuEsther T. Mertz Library at the of plant life and endangered wildlife; an aggressive anti- New York Botanical Garden, the culmination of deliberate environmental onslaught; organizational change; a seismic decision making over the course of years. Students, writers, shift in technology; an evolving landscape in the world of and scholars from all over the world—as well as the GCA— volunteerism; children in need of nature; and nature in need now have safe access to the invaluable treasures that make of children—the next generation of leaders. up the GCA Rare Book Collection. The books also will be accessible online through the NYBG library database. We arrive with a determination to respond with action, to continue to impact positive change, and to celebrate the Leadership. Let’s speak of three levels of leadership: accomplishments of this 104th year of The Garden Club the zone and committee chairmen, whose reports you will of America. All advancements have been achieved through hear today and tomorrow, personify those ABC qualities of stewardship, leadership, and friendship—aspects of the GCA leadership, including—but not limited to!—being assertive, experience I addressed in May 2015 and May 2016 and confident, engaging, loyal, inspirational, judicious, and worthy of reference today. optimistic. They are outstanding. Indulge me in my pride, but I believe you know that the president fills these positions Stewardship. We must grasp the capacity of our with her appointments. My admiration and respect for resources so that all we do supports the GCA purpose. To each of these individuals are front and center this week. this point, three topics will be of interest to you and are Their forthcoming reports will tell the continuing story of hallmarks of my term: the GCA as written by these amazing chairmen and their The Second Century Campaign. Now in its primary constituencies. Read the publications their committees stage, the Second Century Campaign is designed to secure produce. And read the GCA Annual Report.

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The Executive Board. Behind the scenes is the Executive And, one other note. Through our GCA Scholarship Board. Each member is a liaison to at least two committees, Committee, the GCA and the Royal Horticultural Society and, yes, we make it our business “to know everything!” The in London enjoy a long relationship through its Interchange educated expertise based on the experience of each member Fellowship. I will be representing you in London later this of the Executive Board serves you well and supports the month as I attend the RHS annual meeting and sign a president well. In addition to our internal leadership role renewed three-year memorandum of agreement. I also will within the organizational web of the GCA, the Executive attend the Chelsea Flower Show luncheon at the invitation Board is asked to think in broad terms—to seek common of RHS President Sir Nicholas Bacon—the unexpected ground, to effectively expand our associations with like- privileges of being a volunteer! minded organizations, often facing escalating challenges Friendship. Writing these remarks has sent me on a within a finite time frame as in the case of our stated journey of personal reflection. Into our second century, we opposition to the destruction of the Enid A. Haupt Garden all will continue the journey of organizational discovery— at the Smithsonian. Additionally, MOUs and MOAs with, the range of possibility and responsibility. Quite literally, for example, the National Park Service and the Royal we can shape the future, impacting regional, national, and Horticultural Society have been renewed and others such as global issues in the process. We are a family of friends—you that with the National Audubon Society are ongoing. know what that means: working together to ensure a rich You. Out front is each of you! You are the face of The heritage for the next generation; sharing personal grandbaby Garden Club of America—in your families, in your clubs, announcements with glee; initiating a telephone call that in your communities, in your zones, and in our country. starts out on one topic, skips to dozens of others, and ends Stewardship and leadership are embodied in each of us. with an inspiration for a successful medalist proposal; And girding us all is our outstanding staff at beaming at a friend’s success in her first flower show; hiking Headquarters! We simply must applaud exceptional service and digging and pruning and weeding and planting together; to the GCA, led by Chief Operating Officer Jennifer hoping the loss of a loved one will be made more bearable Barnette Cohen, who sets the pace and raises the standard! by email embraces and flowers across the miles; sharing endless highs and lows; and, together, making important Leadership honors, your honors! In recognition of GCA things happen. leadership, I am pleased to share news of honors received by The Garden Club of America since Annual Meeting last year: I look at this audience, or a zone meeting audience, or an NAL audience, or a Meneice audience, and realize that The Open Space Institute honored the GCA for its 100+ every face and name stands for someone whose path I have years of work in the field of conservation. At this June 2016 crossed sometime. While you may not be aware of any event at the Metropolitan Club in NYC, I was joined by special link, just meeting you has shaped my GCA years former presidents Katie Heins, Jan Pratt, and Gina Bissell much more than you might think. I hope you feel as and was presented as a token of appreciation an exquisite richly blessed. engraved crystal sculpture from Tiffany, which now resides in the President’s Office at Headquarters. Yes, please step in So stewardship, leadership, friendship—I will repeat my and admire it! closing words of May 2015, when you gave me the gavel. I encourage you not only to give to the GCA but also to Representing thanks from the Pennsylvania use the GCA to engage the mind, elevate the spirit, and Horticultural Society for the many years of GCA volunteer stimulate the best effort of all who are associated with The support and participation in the Philadelphia Flower Garden Club of America. Thank you for the great privilege Show, it was my honor to be asked to serve as an honorary of serving as your president. chairman of the Philadelphia Flower Show Preview Party on March 10, 2017. A perfectly beautiful painting of daffodils was gifted to The Garden Club of America, and you can see this in our foyer just as you step off the elevator.

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The Committee Blues

2016-17 Committee Bulletin Committee 2016–17

Each June a sadness comes over our Gina Brandt, Chairman committee. It’s not a surprise, because this Hancock Park Garden Club, Zone XII is the way that the national committees are Laura Case, Vice Chairman sustained—new members come on and New Canaan Garden Club, Zone II others go off. But in the course of our time together, we become a family. This Bulletin Pamela Hirsch, Vice Chairman Garden Club of Morristown, Zone IV Committee started with a leader, Ann Price Davis, who, with former GCA President Katie Gay Legg, Vice Chairman Heins (2013-15), determined that it was time St. George’s Garden Club, Zone VI for another revamping of the Bulletin. That zone representatives effort—forging ahead with something new— Ruthie Barker, Fox Hill Garden Club, Zone I created an unbroken bond among us. Louise van Tartwijk, Washington Garden Club, Now we are in our third year, with members once Zone II 2015-16 Committee again departing, and the June sadness is in full swing. Lorraine Alexander, Editor-at-large How do we thank the brilliant Debbie Laverell, our Millbrook Garden Club, Zone III incredible photographer, extreme organizer, and all Kathryne Singleton, Rumson Garden Club, around fun-to-hang-with party girl? Or Ruthie Barker, Zone IV our club news editor—a super detail-oriented job—who kept us on track with her keen focus, organizational Debbie Laverell, The Garden Workers, Zone V 2014-15 Committee skills, and good humor? Or Julie Taylor, who Brooke Morton, Perennial Garden Club, always said “yes” and Zone VI always got it done Madeline Mayhood, James River Garden Club, on time? Or Sandy Dansby, with her Southern charm and Zone VII enthusiasm, sharing her can-do attitude? Julie Badger, Sand Hills Garden Club, Each member of our committee has left an indelible mark Zone VIII on our committee and on our lives. That’s the best part of being Sandy Dansby, The Monroe Garden in the GCA—the bonds we develop while working together for Study League, Zone IX a common purpose. Yes, stewardship, leadership, and friendship ring true on this committee. Betsy Bosway, Indianapolis Garden Club, That brings us to our debt to Anne Copenhaver, who said in her first Bulletin interview “to just Zone X say yes to any opportunity to serve on a GCA committee.” We all said yes, and now it’s our turn Julie Taylor, Cedar Rapids Garden Club, say thank you to Anne for leading us, sharing her wisdom, and responding to our emails with Zone XI lightning speed. Finally, thank you to our liaisons, Crissy Cherry and Malinda Bergen, for their guidance, Teri Taylor, Garden Club of Santa Barbara, and to the GCA staff, particularly to Paige Trubatch, for making our work easier. It is much Zone XII appreciated. executive board liaison Crissy Cherry, Lake Forest Garden Club, —The Bulletin Committee Zone XI zone director liaison Malinda Bergen, Trustees’ Garden Club, Zone VIII gca staff administrator Paige Trubatch

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The Bulletin :: Summer 2017  Annual Meeting 2017 Front and Center If someone were to tell you you’d be spending three days at a meeting, in a large hotel ballroom with 600 (mostly) women, in, say, Baltimore, or Rochester, or Minneapolis, how many of you would sign up in a heartbeat? The thought may not sound appealing, but only if you’ve never attended a GCA Annual Meeting. Annual meetings, on the whole, provide fascinating glimpses into the GCA. What’s more, every meticulously orchestrated nanosecond of any given annual meeting is deliberately planned and seamlessly executed. The thousands of moving parts and pieces—from signage to scarves and trips to workshops—translate into a positively infectious experience. Each step of the way for this year’s meeting in Baltimore was guided by Zone VI Annual Meeting chairs (pictured on the following page, bottom, left) Catherine Lawson, St. George’s Garden Club; Alexandra Secor, Garden Club of Twenty; and Lisa Frulla, Perennial Garden Club, and the hundreds of volunteers who attended to every detail. Business meetings, in particular, are designed to provide an overview of the GCA, introducing club delegates to the breadth Caroline Moser and reach of the GCA through reports by GCA leaders. Business meetings are also an opportunity to hear some of the country’s most fascinating game-changers. GCA Honorary Member Will Baker, CEO of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the official welcome speaker, discussed the very real threats not only to this vital watershed but also to clean water everywhere. The mere presence of GCA scholarship speaker, Dr. Ari Novy, executive director of the US Botanic Garden, reinforced the significance of this important initiative. Keynote speakers Adam Gross, architect and champion of a revitalized Baltimore, and ethnobotanist Paul Alan Cox brought fascinating perspectives to some of our biggest challenges. The GCA’s four new honorary members were also inducted. The culmination of an annual meeting is the Awards Dinner. This year ten recipients were presented GCA medals for their important work throughout the world. New friends and old, steeped in the spirit of the GCA, filled the hotel’s grand ballroom for this memorable event. Ultimately, annual meetings are about camaraderie, friendship, and the power of association—and the energy and excitement that

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by Gay Legg, St. George’s Garden Club, AM 2017 Staging Co-chair

We thought everything was under control—after six years of planning, thousands of emails, and scores of meetings, all the pieces had come together. It was Day Two, Friday night, of the 2017 Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland in May. It had already rained. Two days earlier, as the Baltimore waterfront sparkled in the sun, we had checked the final plan at the Marriott Waterfront Hotel: 92 pages of “BEOs” (banquet event orders—who knew?) documenting every table, every napkin noted with a specific fold, every water station, and easel. More than 300 volunteers knew their assignments. Committee exhibits showcasing the vital work of the GCA were in place. Boutique vendors were eager to sell. Over a thousand alliums had been grown, dried, and painted for “star-spangled” decorations. Buses knew their routes and chase cars were set. Gardens had been mulched. Six hundred tote bags were stuffed, ready for delegates from across the country who had traveled to “Charm City” in the “Land of Pleasant Living.” Our pre-trips went off without a hitch, along with a welcome reception on Thursday evening. Friday events began with GCA President Anne Copenhaver issuing a warm welcome and introducing our impressive speakers. Luncheon and GCA-centric workshops came next. Delegates also learned iPhone photography, sustainable flower arranging, and bonsai pruning, followed by dinner at private clubs. We hadn’t lost anyone. We were halfway through! Behind the Scenes

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Why, then, was a volunteer with a horrified expression on her face standing at the door of our meeting room at 8:00 Friday evening, waving a piece of paper in her hand? “Guess what’s happening tomorrow morning that we didn’t know about?” She announced, “There is a 5K running race taking place, and at 6:00 a.m. the police are shutting down the streets in front of the hotel!” Moments of frantic figuring took place: how long would it take the slowest participants to walk 3.2 miles? Volunteers for the 6:30 a.m. shift would be delayed. Our speakers were scheduled to arrive—was there a back route to the hotel? We re-grouped. We sent out emails. We made arrangements. We had become a team in blue aprons. We could handle it. We still had the Star-Spangled Awards Loan Tran Dinner to go! The dried allium fireworks centerpieces were resplendent. The Fife and Drum Corps had marched perfectly. Dessert was on the way. Was that smoke rising from Table 26? Were the fireworks on fire? A votive too close? GCA ladies just emptied their water glasses! They handled it! GCA annual meetings reinforce the benefit of community and showcase the talent needed to pull it all off. Every job requires a different skill set: some excel as project managers, others are the ones who follow through. Some are the creative forces, others are good at tracking details. And someone has to remember the corkscrew at the end of the day to celebrate a job well done! The real rewards are the friendships that form at annual meetings. Reinforced over the years, they knit together a national network of GCA club members who “can do!” At the end of the meeting, one delegate said, “I don’t ever want to miss an annual meeting! We’ve got to work for a committee—we’ve got to go national!” See you in San Francisco for AM 2018, and in Boston for AM 2019. Their team members were in Baltimore shadowing us— they’ll be ready!

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 The Bulletin :: Summer 2017 Annual Meeting 2017 Passing the Gavel Passing the gavel, according to Roberts Rules of Order, is a time-honored tradition. With its roots in medieval England, it is speculated that the “gavel” refers to a mason’s tool, a setting maul that came into use as a way to maintain order. Throughout her presidency Anne Copenhaver led the GCA with wisdom, unerring vision, and her signature steel magnolia style. Not one to shy away from a problem that needed solving or a challenge waiting for a champion, Anne reminded us that “together we make important things happen.” Stewardship, leadership, and friendship are the ideas and ideals that characterized her tenure. At the conclusion of the business portion of the Annual Meeting, with her Southern elegance and grace, Anne passed the GCA gavel, adorned with allium, wax flower, and rosemary, to her friend and successor, Dede Petri, signifying that a new administration begins this July. As the gavel was passed, five former presidents watched from the audience, each a vital part of the GCA’s continuing 104-year story. “Dede is generous of spirit, fun, always has a smile at the ready, and has the intellect and energy to lead the GCA forward in paths yet uncharted,” observed Anne, noting that their “friendship goes back 20 years and knows no bounds.” Dede, who has worked The official GCA gavel, passed by President closely with Anne, promises equally Anne Copenhaver to Dede Petri at the 2017 compelling leadership as she takes the helm “Those doughty Annual Meeting, was first given by former GCA as the GCA’s 42nd president. President Natalie Wells Peters (Mrs. Harry T. GCA founders “Those doughty GCA founders knew Peters) during her term, 1944-1947. Photo by Linder Suthers what they were doing,” Dede observed in knew what they her acceptance speech. “Can we keep up with them? Can we have the same impact were doing. Can in our times as they did in theirs? Can the we keep up with GCA remain significant and important in an age when tweeting has nothing to do them? Can we with those birds in our backyard?” Her YES! have the same answer? A resounding impact in our times as they did in theirs? Can Five champions of the GCA were at the 2017 the GCA remain Annual Meeting. From left, former GCA presidents: Jan Pratt (1995-97); Joan George significant and (2009-11); Katie Heins (2013-15); Ann Frierson (2001-03); and Marian Hill (2011-13). Photo by important in an Linder Suthers age when tweeting has nothing to do with those birds in our backyard?”

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Keynote Speaker: Adam Gross, FAIA “Designs that Enrich Our World”

Adam Gross is an architect noted for as he would any other—by listening to what people want. ASG organized designing public spaces in major meetings, and what they heard was that people in this impoverished area cities, planning universities wanted what everyone wants in a community—a market, a school, a green around the world, and space. working on famous “Successful master planning is about creating a long-term vision to historic facilities. But inform short-term decisions—and not the other way around.” he’s also working in areas where Gross used this analogy, “Every house is a small city, and every city architects is a large house,” to suggest we think about “systems”—infrastructure are rarely with green spaces—as the HVAC system for cities. He also spoke about seen. Gross detrimental consequences that, for example, result from diverting rainwater related his from “earth catch” into pipes and sewers, and made worse by increased experiences hard surface construction. His point: “No single use can be considered in in his isolation.” keynote address, explaining “Good architects are that when he was practical dreamers, asked by Ronald balancing the visionary Daniels, president of with the realistic.” Johns Hopkins University (JHU), ASG is working on three interrelated projects in Baltimore: the Inner Harbor to visit the pastor of 2.0 Master Plan, the National Aquarium’s Waterfront Campus Plan, and Pratt a small church in East Street redevelopment. Waterfront revitalization began in the 1970s, which Baltimore, an area under turned abandoned piers and neglected warehouses into a showplace for scrutiny after the unrest in retail, restaurants, and attractions with a seven-mile promenade. This revival the city in April 2015, he of course continues to evolve, expanding to Harbor East—the Annual Meeting site. agreed. Arriving with the impression These projects all create better connections between the waterfront and that the church needed renovation, Gross was the city: a walled cement fountain was dismantled and berms were removed told by the pastor, Dr. Donté Hickman Sr., that the project he had in mind was between the sidewalk and Pratt Street, creating bioswales with street bigger than the building—he was looking for an architect and planner to take trees. ASG’s design adds new retail to commercial buildings for a mixed- on the whole neighborhood. use environment, which enlivens the pedestrian edge and adds practical tax Although the city and JHU have been working for more than 15 years to income to help finance redevelopment. At the National Aquarium, ASG’s plan redevelop an 88-acre area in East Baltimore anchored by the Johns Hopkins includes innovative floating wetlands and the reintroduction of tidal marsh Hospital, Pastor Hickman wanted that redevelopment effort to spread closer species to the waterfront’s edge—even encouraging oyster beds that filter to his church. JHU’s president had a vision too—to connect the hospital the water. campus with JHU’s Homewood campus, a few miles across town but a Whether their projects are envisioning public spaces, building university world away. Gross described seeing the aerial perspective and realizing the innovation centers, redeveloping waterfronts, or creating sustainable connection could flow through Pastor Hickman’s neighborhood, creating new landscapes, Gross and ASG hold to their mission: “to engage people and access for jobs and commerce. places to create designs that enrich our world.” Gross’s presentation filled As a principal of Ayers Saint Gross (ASG), headquartered in Baltimore, delegates with ideas, enthusiasm, and inspiration to enrich their world. with offices in Washington, DC, and Arizona, Gross approached this project —Gay Legg, St. George’s Garden Club, Zone VI

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Keynote Speaker: Dr. Paul Alan Cox “Ethnobotany and the Search for Cures”

“How many of you are touched by ALS? By type of neurological Rosetta Stone. “If we Alzheimer’s?” ethnobotanist Paul Alan Cox could figure how [it] kills up to 25 percent asked the packed audience at the beginning of adults in some villages,” he theorized, of his keynote address. Nearly every hand “we might gain insights into brain diseases, shot up, indicating that almost all 600+ especially those with a common link: delegates in the room were in some way protein accumulation in the brain.” He touched by one of these dreaded diseases. discovered that a neurotoxin in the seeds At the top of his field, Cox is on a of the cycad tree (Cycas micronesica), mission to unlock hidden secrets from the amino acid BMAA, is produced by plants. He has assembled some of the cyanobacteria in the plant’s roots. Guam’s world’s finest scientific minds to research Chamorro people make flour tortillas and treatments for the neurodegenerative dumplings from cycad seeds, which exposes diseases of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis them to the toxin. Furthermore, a delicacy (ALS), Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s at in their diet is the flying fox (giant bats). the Brain Chemistry Labs—part of the The flying foxes eat the cycad seeds and Institute for EthnoMedicine in Jackson accumulate the toxin; the Chamorro eat the Hole, Wyoming, where he and his team flying foxes, and the toxic cycle continues. study patterns of wellness and disease from Cyanobacteria, Cox explains, have been indigenous people. The Brain Chemistry around for billions of years and are believed Labs, a unique nonprofit, is a 28-institution to have created earth’s oxygen atmosphere. collaborative and research consortium with Once known as blue-green algae, they one common goal: to search for cures. grow in deserts, reservoirs, oceans, and lakes. Consumption in large quantities can • • • The room grew be deadly, and BMAA exposure over time In the 1980s Cox found what would silent when one of causes insidious effects. The Chamorro eventually be a promising new approach to call it Lytico-bodig, or “listless paralysis”; it the treatment of HIV. Traditional healers the most poignant occurs at a rate of up to 100 times higher on the island of Samoa taught him to use than the rate of ALS elsewhere. “What we the bark of a mamala tree (Homalanthus questions was found was very illuminating,” he explains. nutans) to treat patients with hepatitis. “This particular neurotoxin appeared in the Through collaboration with the National asked: “How brain tissue of the Chamorro people who Cancer Institute, Prostratin was eventually died of Guamanian ALS/PDC, but not in discovered from the Samoan potion, which can I get into the brain tissue of healthy control patients.” has been effective in protecting human cells Until recently the search for against the AIDS virus. Cox ensured that one of your Alzheimer’s drugs has focused on amyloid the Samoans would receive profits from protein accumulation in the brain, which Prostratin in a benefit-sharing agreement. studies?” With manifests as plaque buildup; it is a well- Since 2006 Cox’s energy has focused established hallmark of Alzheimer’s. Over on neurodegenerative diseases, particularly warmth, hope, 400 clinical trials in the last decade have a puzzling paralytic disease found on the centered around ways to prevent or attack island of Guam—Guamanian ALS/PDC and promise, he amyloid deposits in an effort to slow the (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/parkinsonism- disease’s progression. But Cox says that as dementia complex). Its symptoms resemble answered, simply, recently as February of this year the 413th those of ALS, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s, clinical trial failed, a devastating blow to the and Cox thought the disease might be a “See me later.” research community.

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“At Brain Chemistry Labs,” explains but vervets who were given both BMAA Cox, “our focus has been on the molecular and L-serine showed just half the symptoms mechanisms that cause proteins to of those given BMAA alone. This discovery tangle.” Think of a transport system was a potentially gigantic leap in their within nerve cells organized like railroad search for new drugs for neurodegenerative tracks—food molecules, cell parts, and diseases. other vital material travel along the tracks Because of the potential impact of what in an orderly fashion. But, in patients Cox and his team have found, their clinical with Alzheimer’s and several other trials have been fast-tracked by the FDA. neurodegenerative diseases, the proteins A Phase I clinical trial demonstrated that collapse into twisted strands called tangles. ALS patients generally tolerated well up to Eventually these tangles cause neuronal 30 grams daily of L-serine. In early 2017 transport highways to fall apart; nutrients the Brain Chemistry Labs received FDA and other key supplies can no longer move approval for two advanced clinical trials of through cells. But a surprise discovery L-serine. They are currently collaborating by Cox’s Australian collaborators found with Dartmouth’s Geisel School of that the naturally occurring amino acid Medicine on early-stage Alzheimer’s L-serine, when added to cell culture, can research. A second advanced clinical study stop neurons from dying. of L-serine for ALS patients will soon follow. • • • Flying foxes, the world’s largest bats and a Particularly worrisome in the possible Ethnobotany requires several culinary delicacy among the Chamorro people of connection between cyanobacteria and disciplines of study: botany, cultural Guam, accumulate the neurotoxin BMAA when brain disease is climate change; an uptick anthropology, and linguistics. By definition, they forage on cycad seeds. Photo courtesy of in certain neurodegenerative diseases has Paul Alan Cox ethnobotanists respect the traditional been noted where cyanobacteria blooms plant lore of cultures who have lived off are increasing in size. Researchers have the land for centuries. To continue connecting the dots in the reported that disproportionate clusters of their ALS patients live mystery, Cox found that in a remote Japanese village on the island near cyanobacteria algae blooms—around the cyanobacterially of Okinawa, brain diseases like ALS and Alzheimer’s are largely contaminated lakes in New England and around a compromised absent. In Ogimi, known as “longevity village” for its high number estuary in southern France. of centenarians, Cox’s team discovered that the population’s • • • consumption of tofu and seaweed contains up to four times the amount of L-serine than in a typical American diet. Think tofu, The GCA is unique in the bonds that tie us. We are, sweet potatoes, and bacon—all foods high in L-serine. fundamentally, a group defined by fellowship and compassion. Now they were getting somewhere. To see if they could confirm Cox’s presentation resonated and emotion filled the room; he BMAA as the culprit, Cox’s team, and colleagues at the Miami received two standing ovations, and during a brief Q&A delegates Brain Bank, conducted experiments at the Behavioural Science lined both aisles waiting their turn. The room grew silent when one Foundation in St. Kitts, in the Caribbean, where exotic vervet of the most poignant questions was asked: “How can I get into one monkeys are prolific. In addition to their regular diet, the monkeys of your studies?” Fellowship and compassion also define Paul Alan were fed spiked fruit: some received bananas laced with the Cox. With warmth, hope, and promise, he answered, simply, “See neurotoxin BMAA, others received fruit with only L-serine, others me later.” got fruit containing both, and a control group received bananas —Madeline Mayhood, with only rice flour. After nearly five months, the tissue samples James River Garden Club, Zone VII of the vervets’ brains and central nervous systems revealed brain tangles and beta-amyloid plaques in those who were given BMAA,

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$1,318,582 tallied just over $3.8 million. Total organizational expenses, including The Second Century operating costs, committee expenses, Campaign scholarships, and education programs Reminding the audience that healthy finances aggregated $3.7 million, for a net surplus of are as critical to the future of organizations as $140,251. they are to families, Hilary Salatich, chairman The GCA received a clean opinion from of the Second Century Campaign (SCC) ad our auditors. The 990 is available on the hoc committee, said, “The GCA relies on website, and a copy of the audited financial income generated primarily from member statements is available upon request. dues and a draw on the return of the For the fiscal year 2016 our investment investment portfolio.” The SCC is in the initial portfolio was valued at just over $28 million, phase of the campaign and beginning to a $1.4 million decline from the prior year, reach out to major donors. She described the consistent with the fluctuation in the overall funds that will benefit from the campaign: US market. Our investment philosophy • GCA Endowment Fund. Growing this fund, Treasurer Cindy Hilson reporting on the financial reflects a conservative and diversified strategy well-being of the GCA. Photo by Linder Suthers and a long-term approach. As of March which already supplies about half of our 31, 2017, the portfolio improved to $31.6 revenue, will ensure that volunteers, our We are all here today because the GCA million, consistent with the rally in the lifeblood, have the resources to make a real matters. Safeguarding our heritage overall market. impact in their communities. involves securing our financial future, and Based on our Investment Policy, we • Blackburn Conservation & National Affairs stewardship is the foremost objective of the may draw 4.75 percent annually from our Fund. This fund covers activities of the Finance Committee. portfolio: $1,318,582 for fiscal year 2016, Conservation and NAL committees. For the fiscal year ending 2016 we had the majority of which was transferred Increasing funding will allow the GCA to operating revenue of $2,200,352, including to the General Fund with the balance remain at the forefront of advocacy for clean portfolio distributions of $1,015,945. credited to funds that benefit scholarships, air and water, native plants, and sustainable The primary sources of revenue were awards, and other special programs. Aside agriculture. $1,067,040 in membership dues; $57,074 from funding general operations, the • Cudahy Education Fund. This fund ensures that in contributions to the General Fund; and performance of the portfolio is key to annual meetings continue to offer compelling $50,123 from Bulletin advertising and funding the GCA’s philanthropic programs. speakers and programs. miscellaneous income. Last year $300,000 was available from • Partners for Plants Fund. Now 25 years old, Our operating expenses for the our scholarship endowment of nearly $6 with 50 projects nationwide, growing this year were $1,948,830 and represent million. Augmented by current gifts, we fund will allow these club projects to flourish. the functional costs of running GCA awarded a record $335,500 in scholarships. The SCC ad hoc committee members Headquarters. These operating costs are Other awards include $50,000 to the three are Katie Heins, GCA president (2013-15), allocated among supporting services such Founders Fund community projects and Stony Brook GC; Crissy Cherry, GCA vice as management and general operations; and nearly $5,000 to Scenic America to fight president, Lake Forest GC; Katie Downes, program services, including scholarship, billboard blight. GC of Englewood; Kay Klunder, Broadmoor medals, civic projects, and community In closing, please be assured that the GC; Debby Melnyk, Late Bloomers GC; and education. GCA is financially fit and in a stable position Kathy Metz, Millbrook GC. In thanking the Total organizational revenues, including to continue its commitments to conservation delegates for “all you have already done and operating revenues, contributions, decline and education, share our knowledge of will continue to do,” Hilary said, “ideas for in the value of our investments, annual gardening and horticulture, and support the advancing the success of the campaign are meeting registration fees, committee event inspiring work of its membership. welcome. Let us hear from you!” registrations, and the portfolio payout of

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One of the GCA’s highest accolades, honorary GCA membership, is awarded on the national level to Daniel J. Nadenicek individuals who have Proposed by Peachtree Garden Club, Zone VIII Daniel Nadenicek, dean of the College of Environment demonstrated extraordinary & Design (CED) at the University of Georgia, has been accomplishments in a professional educator in landscape architecture for more than 25 years; his particular focus is on landscape fields such as horticulture, architectural history and historic practice. In honoring Nadenicek, the GCA praised him for “dedicating his botany, conservation, life to expanding the knowledge base of the landscape education, design, and architecture profession.” A fellow of the American Society of Landscape gardening. Candidates Architects, Nadenicek has been dean of the CED and its Constance Knowles Draper Chair in Landscape are nominated by GCA Architecture since 2005. His recent achievements clubs, and membership there include expanding study abroad opportunities; Bruce Crawford preparing students to achieve Leadership in Energy Proposed by Stony Brook Garden Club, Zone IV is limited; a maximum and Environmental Design (LEED) accreditation; and In his 12-year tenure as director of the identifying landscape solutions to “nature-deficit disorder” century-old, 180-acre Rutgers Gardens, of four is selected each in children. Nadenicek has written extensively on garden Bruce Crawford has used his diverse talents year. The process of history and the origins of landscape architecture. to transform the official botanic garden “Dean Nadenicek is driven to know and understand of Rutgers University into a center that evaluating and selecting the work of garden designers from the past and how the educates students, intrigues the community, people of different cultures have interacted with their and engages children in nature. Under his honorary members is environments,” stated the GCA. “He is passionately leadership Rutgers Gardens has become a hub the responsibility of the concerned about incorporating these factors into projects of learning and a resource center for gardeners today that reflect the best of design while protecting the of all abilities with programs for home Admissions Committee. landscape for succeeding generations.” gardeners and professionals alike. He opened the gardens to the broader community with a weekly farmers market, an annual plant sale, and a children’s gardening program. Additionally, he initiated both a volunteer sustainable agriculture program and a plant- breeding internship program. His master plan for Rutgers Gardens is centered around the study of plant development and their responses to geologic and geographic changes in the earth. “Crawford understands the importance Members of collaboration and works with a broad range of organizations to spread the love of nature and make gardening attainable for all,” observed the GCA. “He has the ability to make even the most mundane plant utterly fascinating and speaks of plants with an easy familiarity, as if they were old friends.” 2017 GCA Honorary

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Chip Taylor Proposed by Perennial Garden Club, Zone VI Orley “Chip” Taylor, long-time University of Kansas professor, founded Monarch Watch in 1992 as a network dedicated to the study and conservation of the monarch butterfly. Since then more than 1.3 million monarchs have been tagged by volunteers. Taylor’s Monarch Watch has expanded. Because monarch habitats are declining at a rate of 6,000 acres per day in the US, the Monarch Waystation program was launched, which helps generate awareness and create habitats for this critically endangered butterfly; to date over 15,000 Monarch Waystations have been registered across the country. “Bring Back the Monarchs,” an outgrowth of the Monarch Waystation program, is a larger nationwide landscape restoration initiative that advocates restoring milkweed species, the monarch caterpillars’ major food source. “Taylor was among the first to recognize the alarming decline of the monarch. His response was to mobilize the American public to meaningful action in one of the most successful citizen science efforts,” observed the GCA. “[He] has placed conservation and the survival of the monarch in the hands of every North American who owns or tends to a plot of land. This compelling conservation initiative has redefined gardening as essential to the survival of an iconic butterfly,” Susan Rademacher said the GCA. Proposed by Village Garden Club of Sewickley, Zone V Susan Rademacher, “a pioneer in parks conservancy,” is one of the country’s most highly regarded leaders in landscape history, parks planning, and restoration. In her position as parks curator for the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, the first of its kind in her field, Rademacher interprets and safeguards the landscape design of Pittsburgh’s historic parks through master planning and project design, as well as preserving, enhancing, and promoting their cultural significance. With some 1,700 acres to steward, Rademacher helped raise more than $92 million to complete 17 major capital projects in an updated master plan for the city’s park system. Among those projects is the new cutting-edge Frick Environmental Center, a “living building,” educational hub, and gateway to the largest of Pittsburgh’s historic

Members regional parks. Another undertaking has been the restoration of the modernist urban park Mellon Square in downtown Pittsburgh, the first garden plaza atop a parking structure. Rademacher, observed the GCA, “balances respect for historic landscape design, best environmental practices, and the needs of today’s park users.” 2017 GCA Honorary

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Floral Design Awards Horticulture Awards Photography Awards Botanical Arts Awards Founders Fund Award Dorothy Vietor Munger Award Catherine Beattie Medal Photography Creativity Award Botanical Arts Creativity Bee Healthy Garden at Alexandra Secor Freddy Shaw Deborah Fitzgerald Award Boys & Girls Clubs of Garden Club of Twenty, Garden Club of Twenty, Garden Club of Cleveland, Best in Show—Botanical Arts Greater Milwaukee’s Camp Zone VI, Class 4: Maryland Zone VI, Class 28: Zone X, Class 4: Bright Diane Hopper Whitcomb/Mason, proposed Preakness Hats Container Collection Stars Winchester-Clarke Garden by Kettle Moraine Garden Club, Zone VII, Class 2: Bay Club, Zone XI, seconded by Harriet DeWaele Puckett Clarissa Willemsen Best in Show—Photography Bird Lake Geneva Garden Club, Creativity Award Horticulture Propagation Kate Fahey Zone XI Eugenie Pavelic Award Four Counties Garden Club, Conservation and Greenwich Garden Club, Dedee O’Neil Zone V, Class 1: Dawn’s Education Awards Runners-up Zone II, Class 2: Maryland Akron Garden Club, Zone Early Light Marion Thompson Fuller Moon Terrace Learning on Screen and in Film X, Class 29: Succulent Brown Conservation Award Laboratory at the Santa Fe Collection Chesapeake Conservancy Botanical Garden, proposed Sandra Baylor Novice Floral and National Park Service by Santa Fe Garden Club, Design Award Rosie Jones Horticulture Chesapeake Bay Office Zone XII, seconded by Best in Show—Floral Design Award The Portland Garden Club, Anne May Dedee O’Neil Zone XII Santa Fe Garden Club, Akron Garden Club, Zone X, Zone XII, Class 1: Maryland Class 30: Mother & Child Project Dogwood: Staunton’s Writers and Musicians Tradition Reborn, proposed GCA Novice Award in by The Augusta Garden Horticulture Club, Zone VII, seconded Photos from left to right: Nancy Freeman by Albemarle Garden Club, Alexandra Secor and her The Virginia Beach Garden Zone VII award. Photo by Linder Club, Zone VII, Class 28: Suthers Container Collection Dedee O’Neil’s awards. Photo by Loan Tran Best in Show—Horticulture Carol Warner At work at the Flower Hardy Garden Club, Zone Show. Photo by Loan Tran VI, Class 6: Perennials- Peony Carol Warner’s Best in Show—Horticulture. Photo by Linder Suthers 2017 Zone VI Annual Meeting Horticulture Sweepstakes Award Garden Club of Twenty, Zone VI The GCA Awards

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The Garden Club of America’s ACHIEVEMENT MEDAL ELIZABETH CRAIG WEAVER PROCTOR MEDAL national medals are awarded Amy Freitag, Upper Montclair, NJ The Trustees of Reservations, Beverly, MA Theto those individuals who Member, 2017 The Weeders, Zone V “InGCA recognition of 125 years of preservation, have distinguished themselves “For her inspiring leadership, expertise, and stewardship, and conservation of historic through their work in the creative vision in landscape conservation design, and natural landscapes; and for educational fields of horticulture, botany, civic improvement, and historic preservation that conservation and preservation projects that inspire conservation, historic have given life to environmentally challenged initiatives worldwide.” preservation, environmental areas.” Proposed by North Shore Garden Club of protection, flower arrangement, Proposed by The Weeders, Zone V Massachusetts, Zone I Medalistslandscape design, and literature. About the ten medalists for 2017, KATHARINE THOMAS CARY MEDAL CYNTHIA PRATT LAUGHLIN MEDAL Awards Committee Chairman Jane Godshalk, Haverford, PA Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, San Francisco, CA Laura Gregg says, “These are Member, Four Counties Garden Club, Zone V “For unparalleled work in protecting and restoring passionately determined and “For an enthusiastic, passionate, and generous millions of acres of Patagonian wildness and generous people with stories that teacher who continuously expands her own creative creating parklands where nature, scientific research, will inspire you. They work hard, expertise, shares her knowledge, and inspires and human enterprise exist in harmony.” making the world quite literally everyone in the world of floral design.” Proposed by Corbin Harwood, Garden Club of Chevy a better place.” Proposed by Four Counties Garden Club, Zone V Chase, Zone VI TheBulletin and ConWatch FRANCES K. HUTCHINSON MEDAL feature profiles of 2017 medalists MEDAL OF HONOR Gilbert M. Grosvenor, Hume, VA Alice Walton in their current issues; additional , Bentonville, AK “For his distinguished service to conservation, profiles will be in upcoming “In recognition of her vision to celebrate the education, and journalism through the National Bulletin issues. American spirit at Crystal Bridges Museum of Geographic magazine, Kids magazine, and the American Art, uniting the power of art with the Geographic Educational Program; and for his beauty of nature in the Ozark woodlands.” lifetime advocacy for planet Earth.” Proposed by Little Rock Garden Club, Zone IX Proposed by Garden Club of Chevy Chase, Zone VI SARAH CHAPMAN FRANCIS MEDAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION MEDAL Andrea Wulf, London, England Richard Hampton Jenrette, New York, NY “For meticulous historical research revealing the “In recognition of unequaled contributions gardening lives of the Founding Fathers and early to historic preservation through leadership, environmentalist explorers, for a willingness to scholarship, and impeccable restorations of follow in their footsteps, and for writing widely historically significant properties and their appealing books that educate scores of readers on The 2017 Medalists at the Annual surrounding landscapes and gardens; and for gardening history and our ecosystem.” Meeting. From left, back: Gilbert exceptional vision in establishing Classical Proposed by Fauquier and Loudoun Garden Club, Grosvenor; Wendy Judge Paulson; American Homes Preservation Trust.” Zone VII Barbara Erickson on behalf of The Proposed by Green Spring Valley Garden Club, Zone VI Trustees of Reservations; Peter S. DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL Wyse Jackson. Front: Amy Freitag; MARGARET DOUGLAS MEDAL Peter S. Wyse Jackson Jane Godshalk; Alice Walton; , St. Louis, MO Wendy Judge Paulson, Chicago, IL Margize Howell, co-president, Member, The Garden Club of St. Louis, Zone XI Classical American Homes “In grateful recognition of a lifetime of service to “For lifelong leadership in plant discovery and Preservation Trust, on behalf of conservation through education and preservation conservation, world-renowned advancement of Richard Jenrette; and Andrea Wulf. projects that celebrate our fragile and beautiful horticulture, and guidance of major botanical Photo by Linder Suthers natural world.” gardens to prominence locally and internationally.” Proposed by Ridgefield Garden Club, Zone II Proposed by Ladue Garden Club, Zone XI The GCA Awards

The Bulletin :: Summer 2017  Annual Meeting 2017 Amy Freitag A Medalist for Today—2017 Achievement Medal How has the GCA Was your career shaped your life? trajectory connected to your exposure to Akron Garden Club was baked the GCA? into this equation—how I was raised, what became Yes. Without a doubt. I finished important—from both my my graduate work at UPenn mother and grandmother. My in landscape architecture and mom found a voice in national historic preservation and began affairs and conservation through my open space and parks the GCA. Would she have been career in Fairmount Park [in as ardent and well informed Philadelphia]. I was surrounded on issues like strip mining and by many of the women and PCBs had she not been on clubs that had been a huge part Mother and daughter recipients of the GCA Achievement Medal: Amy and the NAL and Conservation of Mom’s GCA network. I was her mother, Christine Freitag, who received the award in 2007. committees? I don’t think so. invited to join The Weeders and Amy Freitag has devoted her Tell us a little about Like generations of women suddenly I was surrounded by professional and volunteer life your background. before her, she found an ideal remarkable horticulturists and to conservation projects, historic outlet for her leadership skills conservationists—super-smart restoration, preservation of I grew up in Akron surrounded with the GCA. women with an intense passion green spaces, environmental by gorgeous farmland and When Mom called me for plants and the planet. I mitigation, and award-winning magnificent protected parkland. to tell me she had been asked learned something new at every architecture and landscape design This shaped my appreciation to take on the multi-year meeting. projects. She is the executive for conservation, preservation, commitment culminating in The chance to work in director of the J.M. Kaplan and civic participation. But the GCA presidency, I had no and around the Central Park Fund, a New York City-based my passion for conservation idea what her journey would Conservancy and the Prospect philanthropic foundation that is most attributable to my mean. Over the next six years I Park Alliance made a move to supports social, environmental, parents, especially my mom. became keenly aware of the vast New York highly enticing. I now and cultural causes across the She was deeply engaged in scope of the GCA’s activities. live in a wonderful town 12 miles globe. Concurrently, she launched the preservation of the scenic, I met amazing women who from Manhattan with enough the Gotham Project to address historic, and ecological assets were her close colleagues and room to raise chickens and bees. I open space issues in the city’s of our community, and my mentors. I came to understand miss being close to my wonderful boroughs and started a campaign dad was her partner in crime. the power and influence of the Weeders, but I manage an to rehabilitate its most neglected As soon as I was old enough, I GCA. It was fantastic to see occasional propagation workshop areas. was encouraged to volunteer. the opportunity it afforded my and have enjoyed hosting them Amy’s GCA roots run deep. My parents were wildly mom to gain a national voice on on tours of some of my projects Her mother, Christine Freitag, enthusiastic and encouraged my a wide range of environmental such as the High Line, various served as GCA president (1993- involvement with nature. issues. community gardens, and Fort 1995), and both her mother and Tryon Park. I look forward to life grandmother are from the Akron being less busy, with more time to Garden Club; Amy is a member garden and attend club meetings. of The Weeders. “I was honored Until then, my family and I beyond measure to receive this cherish frequent trips to Ohio incredible award,” Amy told the and spending time with family in Bulletin in a recent conversation. a landscape we love.

 The Bulletin :: Summer 2017 Dorrance Hill Hamilton o

A GCA Medalist Who Saved a Garden

The Bulletin :: Summer 2017  The Blue Garden

View to the North Pergola, 2014. Photo by Millicent Harvey Photography, courtesy of the Blue Garden

Previous page: The restored garden filled with salvia, lavender, bachelor buttons, balloon flowers, and artemisia. Photo by Millicent Harvey Photography, courtesy of the Blue Garden

For her sustained commitment Blue Garden in the vernacular to the preservation of of American landscape American landscapes and design, Hamilton purchased gardens, passionate support the property in 2012 and to the field of horticulture, set about restoring this and visionary leadership significant New England in conservation, Dorrance garden. Her acquisition of this Hamilton (1928-2017) was former Gilded Age property awarded the GCA Medal demonstrated her commitment of Honor in 2015. In to the historic and cultural Faddition to being an ardent restoration and preservation of preservationist, she was an avid unique American landscapes; Restored pool with arcing fountain jets. Photo by Millicent Harvey and accomplished gardener as the rebirth of the Blue Garden Photography, courtesy of the Blue Garden well as a keen competitor at remains a testament to her the Philadelphia Flower Show prescience and forethought. Cambridge, Massachusetts- Brothers’s original plans, for nearly 30 years, racking up Hamilton assembled a based firm Reed Hilderbrand along with a construction a staggering 2,000 blue ribbons who’s who of landscape design evaluated the site with their team, they set to work to for her various entries. for this ambitious project; client fully engaged in the restore the garden. A major Recognizing the historian Arleyn Levee and process. Using copies and challenge was evaluating the significance of Newport’s landscape architects from the photographs of the Olmsted Olmsteds’ original intent

 The Bulletin :: Summer 2017 The Blue Garden

and reconstructing it using 21st-century standards. The Blue Garden Planting plans, dating from Newport, Rhode Island, is famous for the magnificent homes the early 1900s and housed at the Frederick Law Olmsted built during the late 19th century’s “Gilded Age.” Many of these National Historic Site in grand homes were accompanied by equally glorious gardens that Brookline, Massachusetts, were the result of imagination and craftsmanship rivaling the were involved and intricate; architectural designs of the homes they decorated. In 1908 Harriet maintenance issues and the and Arthur Curtiss James, whose fortune was made in copper pressures of environmental mines and railroads, commissioned Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., of responsibilities were also the nation’s leading landscape firm, Olmsted Brothers, to develop considered. The decision was the gardens of their 125-acre Newport property, Beacon Hill. made to create a sustainable Similar to other Newport estates, Beacon Hill included a stately and maintainable garden that home, roads, walkways, a carriage house, and stables. Once recaptured the Olmsteds’ installed, its formal garden became known as the Blue Garden— The sky reflected in the restored vision—with a simplified because of Harriet James’s preference for a monochromatic lily pond. Photo by Millicent Harvey palette. Dependability, drought horticultural palette of blues and purples. Designed in a cruciform Photography, courtesy of the Blue shape with planting beds, strolling paths, and a square pool at the tolerance, low maintenance, Garden and length of bloom time center of the cross, the Blue Garden had a theatrical quality to became the new model for it. At the southwest end, an elevated pergola offered expansive plant selection thanks to Reed views across the long pool, decorated with Persian-inspired o Hilderbrand’s reinterpretation. blue tiles, and over the open lawn—the “plaisance”—to another At the completion of the elevated pergola. Set in a hollow and hidden behind a dense Blue Garden’s restoration in border of trees and shrubs, the exotic Blue Garden was a secret Throughout her life, “Dodo,” granddaughter of John 2014, friends, dignitaries, and garden, a hortus conclusus. On August 15, 1913, it was officially Dorrance, who invented the preservation and horticultural opened with an extravagant society gala. process of condensing soup leaders gathered to celebrate Harriet James, a member of the Newport Garden Club, hosted and became president of the the resurrection of this numerous meetings over the years in the Blue Garden, including a Campbell Soup Company, important landscape. They lecture in 1920 about native and foreign lilies. In 1929 the garden used her considerable wealth paid tribute to Hamilton’s was a part of the Newport Flower Show. A fragrant, large-flowered to significantly transform commitment, generosity, yellow climbing rose was named “Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James” in organizations in whose and vision in recapturing her honor in 1932. missions she passionately this significant part of After the deaths of both Harriet and Arthur James in 1941, Newport and the retrieval believed. Among the many she Beacon Hill, a labor-intensive responsibility, fell into disrepair. of this noteworthy piece of supported were the Thomas Eventually the mansion, devastated by fire in May 1967, was America’s cultural history. Jefferson University Hospital, demolished and portions of the property were sold for residential With her sound aptitude for the Pennsylvania Academy development. As time passed, Harriet James’s extraordinary preservation, love of gardens, of the Fine Arts, and the sapphire-colored garden became lost under a thick covering of and powerful understanding Hamilton Horticourt, which invasive trees and vines—awaiting rescue that did not come until of the impact her resources houses plant competitions for 2012. could have on communities, the Philadelphia Flower Show. Hamilton recognized that —Louise van Tartwijk, Following its restoration, the the Blue Garden of the past Washington Garden Club, Blue Garden was documented could significantly impact Zone II in the Smithsonian Archives generations of the future. of American Gardens.

The Bulletin :: Summer 2017  True Blue

he color of the sky and sea, blue is Mother Nature’s way of celebrating her strength and power. Baby blue, cobalt, sapphire, periwinkle, and navy signal just the beginning of blue’s Tgigantic range. In its various incarnations, blue is said to symbolize loyalty, strength, wisdom, and trust. Often associated with depth and stability, blue also is known to slow metabolism and have a calming effect on the psyche. It’s no wonder that blue is the color most chosen to integrate into a design. Blue flowers—in celestial hues of the forget-me-not, the deepest indigo of a climbing clematis, electric azures of delphiniums, and a sea holly’s dusty gray-blue—suggest an almost limitless range. Whether annuals or perennials, grasses, trees, shrubs, or vines, blue is one of nature’s strongest statements. • • • My mother missed the lilacs, lavender, and lupine—always in blues—from the landscapes of her New England childhood that she could never quite master in her Southern garden. But she was happy to discover new friends in agapanthus, nigella, and amsonia, who didn’t mind the hot sun. She loved landscaping with blue in her garden. Her containers were always stuffed with purple and blue pansies and Johnny jump-ups in spring that gave way to great chunks of blue petunias, salvia, and ageratum when summer arrived. Her beds and borders were full of blue hydrangeas, allium, and bachelor buttons; blue morning glory scampered up an arbor; and she always had a healthy hedge of butterfly bushes, which she would be dismayed to learn are invasive. She drew the line at wisteria, though, which she claimed would “take down the house.” When I painted a bench blue 30 years ago in the garden of my first house, I watched eyes roll. But I knew I was on to something when I met Rosemary Verey and toured her glorious gardens in the Cotswolds. An electric blue Lutyens bench, blue pots, a blue gate, blue tuteurs, obelisks, and watering cans . . . it was heaven! This was at the end of her life, and as we sat in her library and chatted over tea, I was awestruck. The great Mrs. Verey half apologized, telling me she’d run out of time for niceties. “There are no rules in the garden!” she declared. “Remember that!” Her advice continues to inspire me daily. —Madeline Mayhood, James River Garden Club, Zone VII

Grown for their intense fragrance and prolific blooms—often in blues and purples— lilacs define the old-fashioned garden plant. Photo by Angie Moore

 The Bulletin :: Summer 2017 GCA Profile

Anne Copenhaver, GCA president (2015-2017): Steward, Leader, and Friend

Board, and that is very satisfying. encouragement almost five years turn hosting a zone meeting. Together we make important ago to “say yes, of course!” Supporting the GCA scholarship things happen. program is enriching for many What advice do you have clubs. The GCA offers much Are there goals that you’d for members who aren’t on in return—in the fields of like the GCA to focus on? the national scene? horticulture, conservation, flower arranging, or photography— Increasing interaction with other Some of the most rewarding there are so many ways for our like-minded organizations is a GCA years through the past clubs and their members to way to further impact the “fields decades were when I was “simply” capitalize on resources that are of our endeavor,” and that is a a member of my garden club. “benefits of association.” And, continuing challenge. When However, when asked to serve speaking of “capitalizing,” we leveraging our purpose and our as a zone rep or anything else, must all be prepared to play our people, let’s not underestimate I always said yes and absolutely role and support the Second What aspect of being our power. encourage anyone to do the Century Campaign! president means the most same. My husband used to ask to you? What will you miss about each of our children every night What’s next? Working behind the scenes to being president? at supper to share something new they had learned that day. We shall see! Camp Copenhaver move things forward has been Certainly the years 2013-2017 We must all keep learning, and will unfold over the course of a the most fulfilling aspect of the have been filled with travel and there are myriad ways to do that month this summer with groups presidency to me—daily emails experiences one could not fathom through the GCA. of grandchildren arriving weekly. and phone calls with staff, or forget. When else might I have Suffice it to say, I will work in volunteers, and fellow Executive visited the beautiful gardens and How can clubs and club the garden. I plan to read and Board members, editing homes in Sheboygan, Little Rock, members best support the write. Two books have been publications, and on it goes. Dublin, Syracuse, Natchez, and GCA? germinating for a while, each I most cherish the unfolding the list goes on.… Attending family related. I guess my days of friendships and making every zone meeting seemed such The GCA asks very little of at the computer aren’t really connections between people or a challenge until it became the its clubs—every club pays its numbered after all! organizations, which can take off greatest reward. members’ dues, attends the —Gina Brandt, Hancock Park in so many wonderful directions! annual meeting, and takes a What made you want to Garden Club, Zone XII Is there a project that become president? makes you particularly proud? Not to shock, but I never had the goal to become Three accomplishments president! However, especially we achieved together are with completion of this term the renovation of GCA imminent, I realize it was an Headquarters, the Rare Book overwhelming gift of a lifetime Collection loan, and the offered—a gift from all of you establishment of the Second to me—and I am so humbled Century Campaign. Along the and grateful. The responsibility way, I believe there has been a is huge, the opportunity grand, diminishment of a “we/they” the experience unique on so perception between the club many levels. Thanks go to my membership and the Executive husband for his support and his The Copenhaver family. Photo by Crissy Cherry

The Bulletin :: Summer 2017  Trees in America Crapemyrtles by Julie Badger, Sand Hills Garden Club, Zone VIII

Crapemyrtles are a delight to the senses. From their sculptural branches, sinewy bark on muscular trunks, spectacular fall foliage, and spikes of flowers in bodacious colors—from white to purple, lavender, pinks of all kinds, and reds— they have long been a staple in the Southern garden. And thanks to their significant aesthetic landscape value and superior practical attributes—disease resistance and heat and drought tolerance—crapemyrtles are legitimately popular far and wide. Lagerstroemia indica is native to southeastern China. It is speculated that they have been in cultivation for over 2,000 years. First introduced into British gardens in the 1700s, the crapemyrtle’s performance there was hampered by the rain and mild summers endemic to England; their blooms were lackluster, and they despised all that damp weather. Andre Michaux, plant adventurer and botanist to King Louis XVI, spotted an almost-dead specimen on a Chinese freighter in the 1780s and transported it to his greenhouses in Charleston, South Carolina. Settling into a much more favorable climate, thanks to all that Southern heat and humidity, crapemyrtles were in their element. Fame spread from there, This showy stand of crapemyrtle in full bloom eventually creeping up the East and West coasts, finding its way to the milder parts of the is at the Elizabethan Gardens in Manteo, on the Mid-Atlantic states, across the South, and into California and Oregon. Today breeding Outer Banks of North Carolina. programs, which began in the 1950s, seek to identify and enhance desirable traits such

 The Bulletin :: Summer 2017 Trees in America

as disease resistance, cold-tolerance (Zones 5-10, depending on the variety), bloom time, Crape Murder bark characteristics, and the depth and range of flower color. Thanks to their considerable landscape value and the plethora of cultivars available, this darling of the South has had no trouble making its mark. Crapemyrtles make showy specimens, majestic allées, and stately stands. They’re used as hedges and screens and can be trees or shrubs. They’re grown in beds and borders and in containers for the space-challenged. In addition to being popular in residential gardens, crapemyrtles are now equally prevalent in roadside plantings, corporate landscapes, and public parks. While azaleas and camellias pine for acidic soil, crapemyrtles aren’t particularly fussy. They adore full sun, tolerate neglect and drought, are happy in most soils (as long as they drain), and are fast growers. While crapemyrtles are drought tolerant, it’s a good idea to get them established first in a healthy environment; drought stress is to be avoided. Tending to their habit and sucker control is the only maintenance required. They can be shaped for nearly any space with careful pruning and should be chosen for the ultimate size desired. Crapemyrtles are relatively healthy and hardy, but powdery mildew and aphids are its two main enemies. Aphids can be controlled by a strong blast of water from the garden hose. A horticultural oil eliminates the need for harsh fungicides and usually controls powdery mildew. A third nemesis—sooty mold—can be a problem, but will usually disappear if the Pruning crapemyrtles is a hot topic. aphids are kept at bay. With little fanfare, and barring deep shade, most crapemyrtles thrive “Crape murder”—aggressive pruning—is in almost any landscape. often the chosen option. However, it not only looks unsightly, but it can also cause Top: The crapemyrtle gets its name distress. Because this method is easy in part from the crêpe-like texture and the plant usually recovers, many of its blossoms. homeowners opt for the more murderous Bottom: ‘Natchez’ has a profusion of route, removing up to half of the plant. long-blooming, white flowers. But often the new branches produced are so weak that they are unable to support its flowers. A better solution and one that appeals to true crapemyrtle aficionados is to decide on the chosen form, and prune to achieve the desired structure. All side and crossing branches should be removed as well as higher branches that grow toward the center of the tree. Suckers can be removed from the base of the trunk or left for a natural look. The goal of pruning a crapemyrtle is well-spaced main trunks, which are thin enough to allow penetration of light and air. Some say proper spacing allows for nimble birds to fly through branches. —Julie Badger, Sand Hills GC, Zone VIII

The Bulletin :: Summer 2017  Trees in America Copious Crapemyrtle Cultivars

‘Natchez’ grows to 30 feet. Its warm, cinnamon brown exfoliating bark, lovely white flowers, tolerance to powdery mildew, and stately tree- like stature make it the queen of crapemyrtles. Photo courtesy of Lacebark, Inc.

rapemyrtle breeding pioneered by the late Dr. Donald Egolf, be commercially available in limited programs have been made revolutionary strides by focusing numbers this year, “starts out with dark responsible for an impressive on hybrids, Dr. Carl Whitcomb of wine new growth, then by the time of the release of increasingly Lacebark, Inc., a horticultural research first flowers, the foliage is near black, the interesting and superior company near Stillwater, Oklahoma, has flowers are sterile, and flowers for at least varieties. The National Arboretum (USNA) employed a slightly different crapemyrtle one hundred days,” says Whitcomb. “Save C a space for this one when you can find it. in Washington, DC, which has worked for breeding strategy. During his 30 years of over 50 years to produce disease-resistant research, he stuck to L. indica and kept It is spectacular. The best yet.” Breeding for and cold-hardy varieties, introduced six sorting generation after generation, slowly cold-hardiness is also one of Whitcomb’s Lagerstroemia indica cultivars in the late shifting to plants that were more disease signature achievements, and some of 1960s, all named after Native American resistant with better and more vivid his cultivars can tolerate the plunging tribes. But even greater strides occurred the flowers that don’t fade. He estimates that, temperatures of USDA Zone 5 but must following decade, when the USNA crossed in his 32 years of horticultural research, be treated as hardy perennials. His ‘Whit’ L. indica with L. fauriei. A long-forgotten he has grown somewhere in the range cultivars, especially ‘Pink Velour’ (‘Whit species of crapemyrtle, L. fauriei, was of 750,000 crapemyrtle seedlings; yet, III’), are some of the most cold-hardy discovered in the 1950s on the Japanese he says, “only ten have made the final crapemyrtles available. island of Yakushima; it was found to evaluation cut”—only those ten were Whitcomb is a bit of a purist: “We have superior powdery mildew resistance. patented and introduced to the market. do not do hybrids or use seeds from any ‘Natchez,’ one of the resulting hybrids, has Through his work at Lacebark, he is other source,” he says, “but rather we keep a profusion of white flowers and cinnamon producing crapemyrtles with brighter and sorting and selecting from the original bark. It was introduced by the USNA in sharper colors and exceptionally extended gene pool, which I feel still has more 1978 and remains one of the most superior blooming seasons—true reds, for example secrets to share.” crapemyrtles available. that bloom for well over three consecutive While the USNA’s breeding program, months. ‘Double Dynamite,’ which will

 The Bulletin :: Summer 2017 2017 Scholars The Garden Club of America From the Scholarship Chairman Leadership and Discovery

Scholarship Committee 2016-17 The most incomprehensible Julie Johnson, Chairman “thing about the world is that Little Garden Club of Columbus, Zone X vice chairmen: it is comprehensible. Catherine Gussler, First Vice Chairman Trustees’ Garden Club, Zone VIII — Albert” Einstein Kathy Keller, Akron Garden Club, Zone X Cammie Furber, James River Garden Club, Zone VII he GCA Class of 2017 represents yet another Susan Strayer, Carrie T. Watson Garden Club, wonderful group of talented scholars eager to Zone V comprehend and motivated to improve our Carolyn Batcheller, Garden Club of Tenvironment. Each recipient represents the promise Cleveland, Zone X Julie Johnson, GCA Scholarship of tomorrow as they pursue discovery and grow to Celine Lillie, Lake Geneva Garden Club, Committee Chairman. Photo Judy leadership. Please join the Scholarship Committee in Zone XI Chester celebrating this class by reading about their work. Mary Schubert, Garden Club of Buzzards Discovery has been on the Scholarship Committee’s own agenda, too. Delving into Bay, Zone I the ongoing stories of former scholarship recipients, we have uncovered a wealth of talent Jane Chapman, Rochester Garden Club, and leadership. Leadership is exemplified in the careers of former scholars like Stephanie Zone III Julita, CEO of the Des Moines Botanic Garden; Grace Elton Chapman, CEO of Tower Andrea Stewart, The Little Garden Club of Hill Botanic Garden; Dr. Ari Novy, executive director of the US Botanic Garden; and Scot Rye, Zone III Medbury, president and CEO of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to name a few. zone representatives: In this issue of the Bulletin, we introduce two more leaders: former GCA scholars Matt Laura Nash, Cambridge Plant & Garden Wasson and Rebecca Vidra, both important voices in the environmental arena. Working Club, Zone I with Appalachian Voices, Matt is a national expert on mountaintop-removal coal mining Jane Ghazarossian, Hortulus, Zone II and coal ash contamination. His work today is an outgrowth of his study of the effects of Cindy Mullin acid rain on birds when he was a 1997 Frances M. Peacock Scholar. Rebecca Vidra, a 2003 , South Side Garden Club of Long Island, Zone III Garden Club of America Fellow in Ecological Restoration, now serves as Faculty Director Debra Russell Chambliss of Environmental Leadership at Duke University, where her focus is the ethical challenges , Garden Club of Morristown, Zone IV of ecological restoration. Sandy Greenwood, We think it is important for you to know about our former scholars, and we also want Wissahickon Garden Club, Zone V them to know about each other. Would Rebecca benefit from knowing Matt? We think so. Sherry Locke In the coming year we intend to establish a virtual community facilitating such contacts , Amateur Gardeners Club, Zone VI and the “cross pollination” of ideas. Not only will we enhance the value of being a GCA Margaret Reynolds scholar but we will add depth and accessibility to the resource they represent. A new way of , James River Garden Club, Zone VII thinking about the “benefits of association” that the GCA offers! Courtenay Wilson Finally, the Scholarship Committee is very pleased to announce the establishment of , Late Bloomers Garden Club, Zone VIII The Garden Club of America Montine M. Freeman Scholarship in Native Plant Studies Cayce McAlister to encourage the understanding, development, and use of underutilized native plants. , Garden Club of Nashville, Zone IX This important addition to GCA Scholarship owes much to the efforts of the Horticulture Leslie Marting Committee and its chairman, Barbara Tuffli. Made possible through the generosity of the , Shaker Lakes Garden Club, Zone X Freeman family and by reprogramming surplus medal account funds, as well as the sale of Jane Whitesides many, many wonderful notecards, this new scholarship will enrich us all, open a new field , Winnetka Garden Club, Zone XI of discovery, and provide a new avenue to leadership. Sherry Perkins, Woodside-Atherton Garden Club, Zone XII

 The Bulletin :: Summer 2017 Botany

The Anne S. Colette Berg is a master’s botany with the community. The student at Southeast Missouri State apprenticeship will provide crucial Chatham University in Cape Girardeau. She is knowledge about herbal growth Fellowship studying the evolution of inbreeding cycles, healing properties, and the and outcrossing flowers in Venus’ transformation of harvest into in Medicinal looking glass genus Triodanis. This medicine. Her goal is to become a Botany summer she will collect samples of holistic medicine practitioner. Established in 1997 to protect Triodanis perfoliata from meadows and preserve knowledge about located in Texas, Arkansas, and The Joan K. Hunt medicinal use of plants by Missouri, record the ratio of and Rachel M. inbreeding to outcrossing flowers, Lauren Audi is a master’s providing research support in the and study the differences in genetic student studying plant biology Hunt Summer field of ethnobotany for recent diversity between populations. Her and conservation at Northwestern Scholarship in PhDs or PhD candidates, this goal is to provide more information University and the Chicago Botanic fellowship is administered by the about the evolution of unique mating Garden. Her project is titled “Genetic Field Botany Missouri Botanical Garden. systems of Triodanis. Characterization of Caribbean Established in 2003, this For 2017, funds were awarded Breadfruit: Advancing Food Security scholarship encourages the study directly to the Missouri Botanical and Local Sustainable Agriculture of field botany beyond the regular Garden to support the work of three via Germplasm Conservation and course of study, thus promoting fellows. Collaboration with Local Growers.” the importance of botany to She will study the unique diversity of horticulture. The Garden breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) in the Caribbean, using genetic approaches, Club of America as well as establish a germplasm Summer collection at the St. Vincent Botanic Scholarship Gardens in Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, to conserve this in Field Botany Catherine Hu is a master’s economical and environmentally Established in 2000, this student in environmental conservation important and underutilized tropical scholarship is for students interested at the University of Wisconsin- food crop species. in furthering their studies in field Madison. She interns at the Missouri botany and gaining knowledge Botanical Garden’s Shaw Nature The Zeller Reserve, and her project focuses and experience beyond the regular Summer on a 60-acre woodland restoration. Mary Elizabeth course of study. She will assist with invasive species Scholarship in Patterson is a master’s student control, seed collection, volunteer Rachel Renne is a master’s Medicinal Botany in plant biology and conservation workdays, and prescribed burns. student in the School of Forestry Established in 2003, the Zeller at Northwestern University and She will establish and monitor plots and Environmental Studies at Yale the Chicago Botanic Garden. Her to document vegetation response Summer Scholarship encourages University. She will serve as a field project is titled “Monitoring Protocol to different invasive species control undergraduate students to expand botanist for a study investigating the for Packeria layneae: a Federally techniques and native seed addition. their knowledge of medicinal impacts of livestock grazing on plant Threatened Species.” Her fieldwork She will also create a website to botany by pursuing summer study diversity in Wyoming sagebrush will focus on developing a long-term interpret the objectives and progress (Artemisia tridentate) communities, through course work or internships. monitoring protocol for Packeria of this restoration project for the as well as the influence of local and layneae, also known as Layne’s ragwort public. Her work will provide insight Zoe Jeka is a senior in the regional patterns of soil and water or Layne’s butterweed, a threatened for future restorations of Ozark American Studies program at Tufts disturbances of sagebrush in the species endemic to California. woodlands. University in Massachusetts. She western US. As she becomes more will apprentice with Muddy River Creating a monitoring protocol is proficient in plant identification Herbals, a medicinal herb business, the first step to stabilizing threatened skills and plant collection, she will where organic and sustainable and endangered species populations. mentor two undergraduate students growing practices are used for over Tahoe National Forest botanists and in field botany and contribute to the 100 medicinal herbs. She will assist other managers of P. layneae will use collection of western plants in the Yale with daily fieldwork, including the the protocol to monitor the species’ and Rocky Mountain herbariums. drying and storing of large quantities long-term demographics. of harvested herbs, and help manage Funded by Friends of Nishi Rajakaruna an herb CSA, learning how to make in honor of Nishanta Rajakaruna tinctures, salves, and lip balms. She will also help organize on-site events to share knowledge about medicinal

The Bulletin :: Summer 2017  Botany Coastal Wetlands

The Garden Club Natalie Christian is a PhD marsh vegetation and thereby candidate in the Evolution, Ecology alleviate submergence and hypoxic of America and Behavior Graduate Program at stress for plants. The impacts of Awards in Indiana University Bloomington. crabs may shape the distribution and Her project is titled “Understanding abundance of plant species, which Tropical Botany How Plant-endophyte Symbiotic may be especially pronounced at Established in 1983 and Communities Assemble in Tropical lower latitudes where temperature- administered by the World Wildlife Forests and Identifying the Genetic related stress is already high. Fund’s Education for Nature Mechanisms by which Endophytes Identifying factors that mitigate Division, the awards are to support Affect Host Well-being.” Her this environmental stress (e.g., the Benton Taylor the fieldwork in tropical forests of is a PhD dissertation research takes place in activities of burrowing crabs) will candidate in Ecology, Evolution, doctoral candidates in botany. Panama, where she will study the contribute to conservation strategies and Environmental Biology at fungal microbiome of plant leaves. and acknowledge the resilience of Columbia University. His project is She will combine field collections these ecosystems in the face of climate titled “Understanding the Ecological with manipulative studies and total change. Drivers of Nitrogen Fixation in RNA (ribonucleic acid) sequencing Regenerating Tropical Forests.” He to study how fungal communities are Samantha Apgar is a PhD will focus on the ecology of nitrogen- transmitted and assembled in nature candidate in Dr. Chris Elphick’s fixing trees in regenerating rainforests to interact within their host and affect laboratory at the University of in Costa Rica. Regenerating tropical plant health. Connecticut. She is studying the forests is critical to global conservation Funded by the GCA Visiting Gardens extinction risk of specialist tidal marsh and climate change mitigation efforts; Committee birds in coastal Connecticut. As sea the nitrogen-fixing trees studied levels rise, ground nesting tidal marsh naturally fertilize the regrowth of these The Garden Club birds will be more vulnerable to nest Alexander Linan is a PhD tropical forests following disturbance. failure due to increased flooding. She candidate at St. Louis University His research investigates how changes of America will evaluate how different aspects in affiliation with the Missouri in light and soil-nutrient availability Award in Coastal of the nesting ecology of the seaside Botanical Garden. His research during forest regeneration influences Wetlands Studies sparrow, willet, and clapper rail make combines population genomics, the success and the nitrogen inputs of each species more or less likely to phylogenomics, and taxonomy nitrogen-fixing trees. Established in 1999 to promote fledge chicks over time. Specifically, in order to describe species, their Funded by the GCA Visiting Gardens wetland conservation through the she will study how the nest sites, nest evolutionary relationships, and Committee support of young scientists in their structures, egg qualities, and chick species boundaries in members of the field work and research, this award and adult behaviors in response to ebony and persimmon tree genus, Meredith Martin is a PhD is administered by the Center for flooding vary among species. She Diospyros. He will focus on currently candidate in the School of Forestry Coastal Resources Management, wants to better understand how undescribed species of Diospyros and Environmental Studies at Yale Virginia Institute of Marine specialist species in tidal marshes will endemic to Madagascar, and his University, and holds a Cullman fare as large-scale change occurs. research will provide insight into their Fellowship with the New York Science of the College of William extraordinary diversity in Madagascar. Botanical Garden. Her project is & Mary. Elisabeth B. Powell is a By naming and describing species, titled “Stand Dynamics of Subtropical master’s student in the Biodiversity, strategies can be developed to protect Pine-Oak Forests in Sierra Norte, Earth and Environmental Science against, and properly control, illegal Oaxaca, Mexico, and Implications Department (BEES) at Drexel logging in this group of trees that are for Firewood Management.” Her University in Philadelphia. She sought after for heartwood. research focuses on the ecology of studies gas flux in salt marshes to Funded by the Arundel Scholarship montane pine-oak forests in Oaxaca, reveal the potential for climate Mexico, and specifically on the change mitigation from vegetated growth and regeneration dynamics of coastal habitats. Her master’s thesis oaks (Quercus) harvested for firewood will examine the effect of open and charcoal. While Mexico is a marsh water management practices center of diversity for oaks, little is (OMWM) on the carbon balance of known about the majority of these Janet Walker is a PhD tidal marshes in Barnegat Bay, New species or forest types. Her research candidate in the Joint Doctoral Jersey. OMWM is a mosquito control collaborates with a union of three Program in Ecology at the University technique that is widely used along Zapotec communities, and her results of California, Davis, and San Diego the Atlantic Coast. She will examine will be used to inform others about State University. Her research will the gas flux from the open water sustainable management techniques focus on the role of burrowing crabs systems as well as intact marsh and for firewood. and how they structure California dead plant areas to determine if the Funded by the GCA Visiting Gardens salt marsh plant communities. Crabs carbon balance has been altered by Committee can burrow into soils surrounding this management practice.

 The Bulletin :: Summer 2017 Ecological Restoration Conservation

Nate Stott is a master’s student She plans to incorporate drought her research will be used to inform Henry Fanning, an at Bowling Green University in impacts on the WPBR pathosystem coastal ecosystem management about undergraduate majoring in Ohio. His project is titled “Use of to develop a more accurate habitat dune restoration techniques. environmental and ecosystem sciences Reconnected Lake Erie Wetlands by refugia map that will establish the at Washington State University Fishes: Comparing Native Pike and baseline for white pine management in Pullman, enjoys studying Invasive Common Carp Spawning in the southern Sierra Nevada plant identification, greenhouse Migrations.” His research aims to mountain range. management, and water quality estimate northern pike (Esox lucius) monitoring. A multi-year alumnus, Melissa Booher is a master’s populations in various Lake Erie he has served on six national and ecology student in the Warner College coastal wetlands and determine if a community SCA crews and was of Natural Resources at Colorado more active management strategy an apprentice crew leader with State University in Fort Collins. Her is needed to ensure their success. two community crews. He has project is titled “Carex scopulorum’s By quantifying fish movement into participated in plant propagation in Role in Restoration of the Carbon coastal wetlands, a more robust Tomasz Falkowski is a the Northern Cascades, heavy stone Storing Ecosystem in Tuolumne management strategy may be needed PhD candidate in the Environmental work in New Jersey, and trail building Meadows, Yosemite National Park.” to allow native northern pike into and Forest Biology Department at in Grand Teton National Park. He Her research will assess the fate and coastal wetlands while denying access the State University of New York in would like to be an SCA crew leader contribution of introducing thousands to invasive common carp. Carp are Syracuse. He studies the application to inspire others to love the outdoors. of Carex scopulorum (also known as known to degrade Laurentian Great of traditional ecological knowledge in This summer he will be serving mountain sedge) seedlings to areas Lakes coastal wetland habitats. ecosystem restoration management. at Kennesaw Mountain National of Tuolumne Meadows, a subalpine His research empirically assesses Battlefield Park. The Garden Club Sierra Nevada meadow, with high bare whether Lacandon Maya agroforestry of America soil cover. This sedge species is native, can effectively and sustainably restore Sara (Sadie) Hennen, highly productive, and predicted to ecosystem services in degraded and a 2016 high school graduate with Fellowship in contribute to organic soil building. deforested tropical rainforests in the honors from Cretin-Durham Hall Ecological Understanding how Carex scopulorum Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve High School, St. Paul, Minnesota, contributes to the recovery of this region of Chiapas, Mexico. His work plans to start college this fall. She is a Restoration meadow will help land managers demonstrates how Lacandon Maya two-time alumna of SCA’s National Established in 2000 and administered effectively restore similarly degraded agroforestry can restore forest cover Crew Program and has completed an by the University of Wisconsin, areas throughout the Sierra Nevada. and fulfill the socioeconomic needs of SCA internship as well as one SCA Madison Arboretum, this fellowship rural communities. His research will trail corps. She has participated on supports specialized graduate studies be performed in collaboration with crews for trail maintenance on the and research in ecological restoration, traditional farmers in the Lacandon Blue Ridge Parkway and at Zion National Park; spent a summer as an the active healing of land. Maya community of Lacanja Chansayab, Chiapas, Mexico. interpretive park guide at Mammoth Cave National Park; and constructed The Sara more than ten miles of new trail on Catalina Island. She is dedicated to Shallenberger SCA’s mission and wants to influence Brown Garden others about the importance of Club of America conservation. This summer she will be Katya Jay is a PhD candidate in serving in Olympic National Park. the Integrative Biology Department at National Parks Oregon State University in Corvallis. Conservation Luisa McGarvey is an She studies relationships between undergraduate in environmental beach grasses, dune geomorphology, Scholarship studies and biology at Oberlin College Joan Dudney is a PhD and extreme storm events. She is Established in 2010 and in Ohio. She is a two-time alumna of candidate in the Environmental investigating the recovery of coastal administered by the Student SCA’s National Crew Program and has Science Department at the University dune systems following Hurricane Conservation Association (SCA), participated on crews at the Big South of California, Berkeley. She is studying Matthew by comparing natural and this scholarship encourages college Fork National Park and Marsh Billings Rockefeller National Park, where the current spread and severity of managed dunes along the Outer undergraduates, ages 19-20, to white pine blister rust (WPBR) she built bridges and performed trail Banks of North Carolina in Cape pursue careers in conservation by in California. She aims to develop Lookout National Seashore. The work. Her volunteer activities include science-based management for climate dunes of the barrier island provide experiencing field training while work with after school programs for change and invasive rust. An exotic the coastline with critical protection protecting the treasured resources of disadvantaged children; and serving as fungus from China, Cronortium against flooding and storm surges for America’s national parks through a tour guide at the National Air and ribicola, causes WPBR, which is nearby communities. She will conduct the SCA’s apprentice crew leader Space Museum in Washington, DC. attributed to precipitous population field surveys every four months over program. This summer she will be serving in declines in several white pine species. the next two years, and the results of Denali National Park.

The Bulletin :: Summer 2017  Desert Studies Garden History & Design Horticulture

The Garden Club the genetic connection between the Program at Indiana University The Catherine newly reclassified A. angustifolia and Bloomington. Her interest in archives of America A. murpheyi can be tested to expand and digital preservation aligns well H. Beattie Award in Desert the phylogenetic understanding of the with her goals for the internship at Fellowship in Studies genus Agave. the Smithsonian Institute Archives Conservation Dominic M. Gentilcore of American Gardens (AAG). As an Established in 2006 and intern in garden history and design, Horticulture administered by the Desert is a PhD candidate at the University she will help increase accessibility of Nevada, Las Vegas. He studies Established in 1983 and Botanical Garden, this award of the AAG materials by processing administered by the Center for in the Soil-Plant-Water Stress archival collections and digitizing enables graduate or advanced Interactions Lab under the direction Plant Conservation, Missouri undergraduate students studying items, creating online search aids, of Dr. Scott Abella. His project is cataloging, applying metadata Botanical Gardens, this fellowship horticulture, conservation, botany, a floristic inventory of the newly promotes the conservation of environmental science, and to digital assets, and promoting designated Gold Butte National collection materials on social media. rare and endangered flora in landscape design relating to the Monument (GOBU) in Clark the Southeastern United States arid landscape to further their County, Nevada. GOBU is a triple The Douglas by supporting field research by transition zone between the Mojave studies pertaining to the arid graduate students. environment, with preference Desert, Great Basin Desert, and Dockery Thomas given to projects that generate Colorado Plateau. He will produce a Fellowship in scientifically sound water and plant comprehensive checklist of all vascular plants within GOBU as well as Garden History management. establish a set of ecological plot maps and Design John Miller is a sophomore for the area to allow better protections Established in 2000 to further studying sustainable horticulture and for rare plant habitats. the study of history and design business at Arizona State University The Garden Club in the American garden and also in Phoenix. As an intern at the Desert look to the future of gardens and Botanical Garden, he will develop his of America their place in the environment, knowledge about desert plants, their this fellowship is administered use in different landscapes, and arid Internship in environments. He will learn about Garden History by the Landscape Architecture rainwater harvesting and its essential and Design Foundation. benefits in arid landscapes. Established in 2001, the GCA Kevin Jeffery is a master’s Internship in Garden History and student in landscape architecture at Jordan T. Wood the University of Texas at Austin. is a Design supports independent study master’s student in the Program in in the field of landscape history His objective is to develop a “blue index” project in the City of Austin, Plant Biology and Conservation at and design. Preference is given to which will rank and categorize water Northwestern University and the students planning to intern at the areas of all types for the amount of Chicago Botanic Garden, where Archives of American Gardens at relaxation they induce as well as their he studies conservation biology, the Smithsonian Institution in perceived human value. He will install population genetics, and living Washington, DC. 25 photo stations throughout the collections management. He will city for participants to rank an area research threatened North American for how much it contributes to their oak species to characterize and level of calmness as well as submit a compare the genetic diversity of wild photograph capturing the water scene populations and living collections Cole Larson-Whittaker with their smart device. held in botanic gardens. The resulting is a master’s student in plant biology genetic data may be used by botanic and conservation at Arizona State gardens to increase their capacity to University in Phoenix. He will meet conservation goals of threatened collaborate with the Desert Botanical plants. Garden to determine the genetic Yasmin A. Khan is a master’s origins of Agave murpheyi, one of student in biology at Halmos College the major agricultural crops of the of Natural Science and Oceanography pre-Columbian Southwest. His at Nova Southeastern University, Fort research will use spatial models, Laura Elizabeth Bell is Lauderdale, Florida. Her project is state-of-the-art genetic analysis, and a master’s student in Archives and titled “A Comparative Metagenomic fieldwork to reanalyze A. angustifolia, Records Management Specialization Study of the Microbiome of an taxonomically and molecularly, so that for the Master of Library Science Endangered Florida Lupine Species

 The Bulletin :: Summer 2017 Horticulture

(Lupinus aridorum).” Her research will Kristie Lane Anderson scholarship honors the memory compare the soil, root nodule, and is a master’s student in landscape of the exceptional and inspiring flower microbiomes of the endangered architecture at Temple University Corliss Knapp Engle, a long-time L. aridorum species to the commonly in Philadelphia. She is currently member of the Chestnut Hill found species L. diffuses. She aims to employed by the architecture firm Garden Club. This scholarship provide significant insight into the Fielding Nair International, where complex dynamics that contribute to is open to undergraduate and she specializes in learning spaces graduate students, advanced-degree the species’ growth and development. and peaceful and reflective outdoor Her project serves as a contribution environments for early childhood candidates, or non-degree seeking to the plant conservation initiative at education. Her research will focus on applicants above the high school Bok Tower Gardens in Lake Wales, ecological restoration and educational level. Florida. landscapes. Her thesis will examine Pete Grantham is a junior Nathan Jahnke is a master’s the restoration of wetland ecosystems studying sustainable plant systems student in floriculture post-harvest The Katharine and design for interpretation of focusing in landscape design and handling at North Carolina State ecology and conservation for students M. Grosscup management at The Ohio State University. His research aims to and visitors. Scholarships in University in Columbus. He owns improve the commercial viability Horticulture Josh VanderWeide is a and operates a landscaping company of un-rooted Pelargonium cuttings master’s student studying viticulture in northeastern Ohio and plans (commonly known as geraniums) Established in 1981 as a regional in the Horticulture Department to incorporate his knowledge of during shipment from Central and scholarship, this scholarship at Michigan State University in sustainable landscape practices into South America. He is studying the is designed to encourage East Lansing. He aims to improve his business as well as educate others sensitivity of the cuttings to stresses undergraduate and master’s level the wine grape quality in Midwest within the landscape industry to such as temperature, disease, and students in the study of horticulture growing regions. His research involves promote environmentally friendly ethylene. The fungus Botrytis cinerea and related fields. mechanizing the viticulture practice of methods to care for commercial and (a necrotrophic fungus also known leaf removal, which will help vineyard residential properties. as gray mold) is capable of damaging managers to improve growing hundreds of plant species. Ethylene conditions, yield, and fruit quality. gas and ethylene inhibitors are being tested as screening techniques for Helen Andrews is a Botrytis susceptibility and prevention master’s student of plant health during shipping and storage of management in the Department of Pelargonium cuttings to help growers Plant Pathology at The Ohio State reduce losses and find new technology University in Columbus. Through that will be more effective and safer the interdisciplinary degree program, for the environment. she is studying topics such as disease diagnosis, biological control, and soil Natalie McMann is a master’s student in the Integrated fertility. This program will enable Stephani Milette is a junior Biosciences Graduate Program at the her to offer a well-rounded skill set studying horticulture production and University of Minnesota-Duluth. Her Christian Moore is an in plant health management to those marketing at Purdue University in project is titled “Vascular Transport undergraduate landscape architecture who seek professional guidance. Indiana. She is a ten-year Air Force Capacity and Floral Water Use.” She student at the Knowlton School veteran who served as a logistician in Megan Bender is a aims to understand how physiological of Architecture at The Ohio State Iraq and Afghanistan. As an intern in sophomore studying sustainable limitations may influence flowering University in Columbus. His research floral design and plant propagation, landscape design and urban time in woody species. Her research explores planting design as a means her focus is on greenhouse agriculture at the University of will examine trees and shrubs such as to improve polluted runoff, prevent management and viticulture. She Cincinnati in Ohio. She is interested red maple and forsythia that flower erosion, and establish habitat in aims to discover sustainable growing in garden design and the historical before they leaf out to determine how agricultural contexts. This summer conditions to produce grapes. preservation of gardens and will intern the timing of plant emergence from he will conduct independent research at The Fells Historic Estate & Gardens winter dormancy affects water supply in the Netherlands, studying Dutch The Corliss in Newbury, New Hampshire, where to the flowers and the relationship polder design and the current Room she will learn more about historic Knapp Engle between floral water use and floral for the River project for the Rhine gardens and the maintenance required Scholarship in size. delta. Upon completing his fieldwork, to preserve them. he will study under Cassian Schmidt, Horticulture John Dindia is a master’s Director of Hermannshof Botanical Established in 2010 to encourage student in the Environmental Studies Garden in Weinheim, Germany. the development of research, Graduate Program at the University of documentation, and teaching skills Montana with a focus on sustainable food and farming systems. He in the field of horticulture, this

The Bulletin :: Summer 2017  Horticulture International Work and Study Landscape Architecture

is working with Michigan State Melinda J. Knuth is a PhD The Garden Club The Royal University to develop and convey candidate in horticulture economics IPM (integrated pest management) at Texas A&M University. Her of America Horticultural Society strategies to the rapidly expanding research will focus on consumer and the Royal Interchange Fellow US hop industry. His research will preferences and economic trends focus on evaluating, identifying, in the floriculture industry as well Horticultural Eva Steinberg, a graduate and promoting best IPM strategies as consumers’ perception of water Society in anthropology, biology, and for major pests in emerging hop conservation activities and their Interchange environmental studies from Wesleyan production regions in Michigan. He willingness to pay for a series of University, is passionate about aims to develop phenology-based water-conserving plant attributes. Fellowships sustainable agricultural practices arthropod and disease decision aids She also has developed independent Established in 1948, the and the role that seeds can play to assist growers in hop-growing observation studies for floriculture fellowships provide for a reciprocal in preserving biodiversity. She is regions with pest management timing companies, analyzing the cut flower exchange of British and American interested in collecting and sharing decisions. value chain and movement efficiency. students interested in horticulture, native seeds and in biodiversity cultivation, eventually working She plans to use eye tracking and landscape architecture, and related neurological technology to analyze with the Millennium Seed Bank in consumer preference of cut flower fields to study and intern in each England. Her most recent research attributes to provide consumer data to other’s country for one year. examined modes of seed preservation growers, wholesalers, and retail firms. among farmers in the South, The Garden Club of including seed saving as a mode of The Garden Club America Interchange cultural and biodiversity preservation. of America Fellow The Garden Club Hope Goddard of America Rome Iselin Fellowship Prize Fellowship in Public in Landscape Horticulture Architecture Established in 2013 and Established in 1928, this fellowship Jennifer Lauer administered by the American is a master’s provides American landscape student in landscape architecture Public Gardens Association, architects special opportunity for in the College of Environmental this fellowship furthers the study advanced study at the American Science and Forestry at the State of public horticulture through Academy in Rome. University of New York in Syracuse. experiential learning that takes Polly Stevens will receive Her research focuses on the cultural place at a recognized public garden, her diploma in horticultural practice landscape of Rose Hill Farm in botanic garden, or arboretum from the Royal Horticultural Society Geneva, New York. The site is notable within the United States. (RHS) based at RHS Garden, Wisley. for the development of field-drainage This fall, she will be a master’s student technology, which became a driving Leslie Touzeau is a master’s in landscape architecture at Cornell force in the economic transition from student in rural sociology at the Uni- University. Interested in urban subsistence to merchant farming versity of Missouri in Columbia. Her horticultural design and park rede- in mid-19th-century America. The research examines the life experiences velopment, she envisions cities of the Geneva Historical Society manages of African-Americans in agriculture. future as lush, green environments 27 acres of the original 350-acre In collaboration with the Mizzou where plants grow in every possible property, including a Greek Revival Botanic Garden, she is developing space. Her career path was inspired mansion built in 1839, which is several on-campus gardens to honor by her background in interactive Rosetta Elkin is an assistant considered among the finest examples native Missourian George Washing- art, along with internships at Kew professor at Harvard University’s of its style in the nation. She will ton Carver. The gardens will serve as Gardens and a year-long placement at Graduate School of Design and an provide a cultural landscape report community growing areas on campus Audley End House and Gardens and associate at the Arnold Arboretum. to help restore and preserve the site’s as well as educate students about various horticultural volunteer activi- Her project is titled “Shorelines: The important horticultural heritage. the roles of marginalized groups in ties. She is excited to return to the US, Case of Italian Stone Pine.” Her study agriculture. Through signage, demon- and fondly remembers a childhood will explore the varied ages, adaptive stration plots, and lectures, her project vacation to the West Coast, where she forms, and changing behaviors along intends to teach the public about the was awed by the redwood forests and the Ostia shorelines in order to help forgotten contributions of minorities golden beaches. In 2014 she interned articulate a broader role for plants and women in building and maintain- at the Los Angeles County Arboretum when characterizing future coastal ing our current food system. and Botanic Garden. development in the context of changing climates.

 The Bulletin :: Summer 2017 Native Bird Habitat Pollinator Research

The Frances M. to investigate tricolored blackbird The Garden Club This will help determine how far apart foraging movements in relation habitat patches should be planted Peacock to different habitat types. She will of America Board to increase overall connectivity Scholarship for evaluate pesticide exposure, bird body of Associates and provide essential resources. condition, stress hormone levels, and Results from the study will inform Native Bird insect abundance to determine habitat Centennial conservation and restoration efforts. Habitat characteristics that affect reproductive Pollinator Established in 1994 and success in this species of conservation Fellowship administered by the Cornell Lab concern. Her study provides awareness about the role agricultural Established in the spring of 2013 of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York, pesticides play in population decline and administered by the Pollinator the scholarship is awarded to college of insectivorous wetland and grassland Partnership, this fellowship seniors and graduate students for species. supports one or more graduate the study of habitat-related issues students to advance the knowledge that will benefit threatened or of pollinator science and was made endangered bird species and inform possible by generous gifts given in Jonathan Giacomini land management decisions. honor of the GCA Centennial by is a PhD candidate in the Zoology Megan S. Jones is a PhD members of the Board of Associates. Program at North Carolina State candidate at Colorado State University University. His project is titled “Can Michelle L. Fearon is a Helianthus Heal Bees? Management in Fort Collins. Her project is titled PhD candidate in the Ecology and “Identifying Gardeners’ Barriers and of Bumblebee Parasites with Evolutionary Biology Department at Sunflower Pollen Supplements.” His Motivations to Improve Habitat for the University of Michigan. Her proj- Threatened and Endangered Native research investigates the role of floral ect is titled “Tracking Virus Strains resources in shaping the ecology and Birds.” She will interview residents Spillover: Pollinator Community In- along the Colorado Front Range to evolution of pollinator diseases. Pollen teraction Networks Impact Honeybee plays an important role in bee health understand what factors motivate and Native Bee Virus Prevalence and Anna Tucker is a PhD by providing essential nutrients, but them to adopt new bird-friendly Viral Load.” Her research will focus candidate at Auburn University varies tremendously in chemical gardening behaviors, such as planting on tracking pathogen transmission in Alabama. Her project is titled content between plant species. His native plants, and what challenges in a network of interactions between “A Network Theory Approach to preliminary lab results suggest that may be preventing them from doing honeybee and native bee species in Evaluate Drivers of Stopover Site certain pollen species may have more. Her research will draw on an different pollinator communities. Use by Migratory Shorebirds.” disproportional effects on bee diseases. innovative model of behavior change This research will incorporate realistic Her research provides a better His field study will examine the and will generate recommendations community interactions into the understanding of the ecological impact of medicinal floral resources for how to improve bird-friendly study of bee pathogens to broaden factors that influence movement on the management of bee parasites gardening programs across the US. the understanding of how pollinator patterns and space use during spring using techniques that can be adapted species are infected and how different migration in Delaware Bay, a globally for conservation and management. pathogens are transmitted between important stopover site for Arctic- pollinator species in a community. Rachael E. Bonoan is a breeding migratory shorebirds. By PhD candidate at Tufts University using a network theory approach to Kelsey E. Fisher is a in Massachusetts, and is president quantify dynamic movement patterns, PhD candidate in the Entomology of the Boston Area Beekeepers she will evaluate the effect of factors, Department at Iowa State University. Association. Her project is titled “The including habitat characteristics, food Her project, “Tracking Monarch Effect of Dietary Essential Amino abundance, and predation pressure on Butterflies Through the Iowa Acids on Immunocompetence in those patterns over the past 12 years. Landscape Utilizing an Automated Immune-Challenged Honeybees.” Radio Telemetry System,” researches She studies pollinator nutrition and how monarch butterflies are utilizing is particularly interested in how the fragmented landscape to support honeybees get the right nutrients in the establishment of biological the right amounts from their ever- guidelines for habitat restoration. In Emily Graves is a PhD changing environment. This summer order for monarchs to utilize small candidate at the University of she will investigate how dietary gardens and newly planted habitat, California, Davis. Her project is protein diversity affects honeybee they must be able to detect their titled “Risks and Mechanisms of immunity. In addition to her studies, presence. She will track monarchs Tricolored Blackbird Exposure to she enjoys sharing her research and with active radio telemetry technology Neonicotinoid Pesticides in Wetland the importance of pollinator health to understand their perception of and Grassland Habitats.” Her with beekeepers, garden clubs, and the distance and navigational patterns. research will utilize radio telemetry general public.

The Bulletin :: Summer 2017  Summer Environmental Studies

The Clara Carter The Garden Club Sarah Hossain is a junior at the University of Connecticut Higgins Summer of America Awards majoring in environmental science Environmental for Summer with a minor in ecology and evolutionary biology. Her research, Studies Environmental in the Cape Floristic region of South Scholarship Studies Africa, will focus on the Protea Established in 1964 to encourage Scholarships genus. She will collect samples of Protea to create CO2 curves and college students to further their Established in 1993, this studies and careers in the field study the growth of juvenile plants scholarship encourages in greenhouse experiments under of ecology, this scholarship offers undergraduate summer studies various controlled CO2 levels and Ella Matsuda is a sophomore opportunities to gain knowledge doing fieldwork, research, soil moistures. Her experiments studying ecology and environmental and experience beyond the regular will simulate the increased drought or classroom work in the science at Rice University in Texas. course of study. conditions of the region to determine environmental field beyond Her research in Madagascar investi- the viability of Protea in a changing Johnny Buck the regular course of study. gates the interactions between lemurs, is a junior climate. birds, trees, and mistletoe in tropical studying native environmental Matt Wersebe is a junior forests. Her research will illuminate science at Northwest Indian College majoring in biology with a minor the complex interactions in Malagasy in Bellingham, Washington. A in environmental studies at the seed dispersal networks, emphasiz- second-year Higgins scholar, he will State University of New York, ing the importance of studying the participate in the Harvard Forest Binghamton. His project is titled ecological significance of smaller plant Summer Research Program in Ecology “Independent Research of the Long- and animal species. She will also study at Harvard University. His research term Impacts of Antimicrobials the dispersal of small-seeded mistletoe is titled “Explaining Variation in the on Wetland Communities.” As an seeds by small mouse lemurs, thereby Seasonal Changes of Trees.” He will assistant to Dr. Jessica Hua of The enabling the survival of mistletoe, study the effects of natural and human Hua Lab, he will study the impacts which in turn enables the survival of disturbances on forest ecosystems of agricultural contaminants on large lemurs who disperse large seeded including global climate change, wetland communities. He will tree species. Mistletoe, often consid- hurricanes, forest harvest, wildlife use field research and laboratory Quentin Hubbard, a ered a parasitic plant, may benefit its dynamics, and species diversity. techniques to understand the effect freshman at Rhodes College in host plant. of changing patterns of food resource Tennessee, is participating in the quality elicited by antimicrobials on Rocky Mountain Ecology Field Hannah Gibbs is a Bonner amphibian-parasite interactions in Research summer program in Jackson Scholar sophomore at Centre College degraded habitats. Hole, Wyoming. He will observe the in Kentucky. Last summer as a Funded by Piscataqua Garden Club, grazing effects of aquatic and riparian member of a research team she studied Zone I foraging by resident ungulate species the deep-rooted social and cultural and their effects on water quality as ramifications of coal mining. This Sage Max is a junior studying well as the diversity, abundance, and summer, the research team will focus environmental policy at Barnard distribution of aquatic plant species, on the environmental ramifications College in New York. This summer, all of which support life cycle stages of coal extraction. Through intensive her research will take place in Jordan of Yellowstone cutthroat trout. His interviews with eastern Kentucky with Columbia’s Summer Ecosystem research and analysis will be compiled residents, her research will study its Nathaniel Kiel is a junior Experience program to study the into a final report. effect on the culture, livelihood, and at the College of Environmental effects of animal agriculture across the economic future of those who live Science and Forestry, majoring in the country. Focusing on the habits in the Appalachian Mountains. conservation biology with a minor in of goat herders, she will study the native peoples and the environment impact of goats in national parks as at the State University of New York, well as the environmental footprint Syracuse. His research will observe the for eating meat in a nation where ability of flowering understory plants water resources are scarce. She will to reestablish in post-agricultural use her research about farming and woodlands across central New York. the environment to understand how He will observe and quantify ant environmental questions can help dispersal of forest understory herb shape environmental policy. She also seeds. He aims to learn about plant plans to use this research to complete ecology, particularly in plant-animal her senior thesis. interactions and their roles in habitat Funded by Amateur Gardeners Club, succession and organismal evolution. Zone VI

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plants shape plant defense strategies. work in the field beyond their The Elizabeth He will use a combination of field regular course of study. experiments and genetic analysis to Gardner Norweb investigate how the proximity of well- Soren Struckman is a Environmental defended neighbors, which shelter sophomore biology major with a palatable plants from large savanna minor in computational and applied Studies herbivores (e.g., elephants, zebra, math and statistics at the College Scholarship impala), impacts the defensive strategy of William & Mary in Virginia. He Established in 2005, this will participate in a summer research and epigenetic signature of a common scholarship encourages savanna shrub. program in plant ecology where he will collect field data on common undergraduate summer studies milkweed demographics and leaf doing fieldwork, research, chemistry at various sites across the or classroom work in the Ayla Allen is a junior in state. He will use the data to create a environmental field beyond their the Department of Ecology and computational/mathematical model regular course of study. Evolutionary Biology and Program for of milkweed population dynamics to Environmental Studies at Princeton determine the affect of leaf chemistry University. She was accepted to on population growth. This area of Operation Wallacea, a conservation research has strong implications for organization made up of academics monarch butterfly conservation. conducting environmentally-oriented Colleen Smith research. She will study habitat is a PhD preferences of different primate candidate in the Graduate Program species in the Pacaya-Samiria National Tony Cullen is a PhD candidate in Ecology and Evolution at Reserve in Peru. During the rainy in the Graduate Program in Ecology Rutgers University in New Jersey. season, the Pacaya-Samiria National and Evolution at Rutgers University Her project is titled “Threats to Camille DeSisto is a Reserve experiences heavy flooding in New Jersey. His project is titled the Forest-Associated Bees of New sophomore studying integrative that affects food availability for “The Great Garden Escape: the Role Jersey.” Her research investigates how biology at Harvard. Her conservation primates. Her research will focus of Evolution in the Invasion for Two past and current forest habitat loss biology fieldwork will be conducted on primate responses to extreme Ornamental Viburnums.” His research affects native bee species that require at Madagascar’s Ranomafana National variations in rainfall and compare explores how small populations of forest habitat for floral and nesting Park, where she will study how lemurs the results with past data to make non-native shrubs become larger resources. She will collect bees and and birds facilitate the spread of predictions for the future. naturalized populations. He uses a measure floral resources at 36 forests invasive plant species, particularly the landscape genetics study to determine in New Jersey that vary in forest age strawberry guava, in the rainforests. The Caroline how environmental and geographic and fragmentation. She will collect data on the eating Thorn Kissel features influence gene flow and local Joni Baumgarten is a PhD and defecation patterns of lemurs Summer adaptation. Gaining insight into the candidate in the Graduate Program and birds, gather samples of plant potential rapid microevolutionary in Ecology and Evolution at Rutgers tissues for DNA analysis, record the Environmental change in invasive species will University in New Jersey. She is size and extent of flora, and conduct allow ecologists to understand the interested in learning how plant and germination experiments. Studies factors involved in colonization and soil communities interact. Her project Clara Guillem, a junior Scholarship spread. This knowledge will help investigates how soil nutrients and land managers make more informed studying molecular biology at Eckerd Established in 2004, this the surrounding plant community College in Florida, was a 2016 scholarship promotes environmental decisions about management influence the association of the strategies and restoration practices. Summer Environmental Studies studies for residents of New Jersey rare plant, Knieskern’s beaksedge (SES) scholar. This summer she will or persons studying in the state. The Mary T. (Rhynchospora knieskernii) with continue her research to find causes beneficial mycorrhizae. She will study of “citrus greening,” also known as Tyler Coverdale is a PhD Carothers numerous populations in wetlands HLB, a vector-transmitted pathogen candidate in the Department of Summer throughout New Jersey’s Pine that poses a major threat to citrus Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Barrens. The results of this project crops. She will compare the bacterial at Princeton University. His project Environmental will add to the knowledge of the soil root microbiomes of asymptomatic is titled “Plant Defenses in African Studies conditions favorable to Knieskern’s and HLB-symptomatic grapefruit Savannas: Does Herbivory Drive Scholarship beaksedge, which can be used to help trees. She will focus on the further Epigenetic Variation?” He studies conservation and restoration efforts. characterization of fungal species African savanna plant defenses at Established in 2005, this present near the roots of citrus trees Mpala Research Center and Wildlife scholarship is for undergraduate to provide a greater understanding Foundation in Laikipia, Kenya, with students who are doing summer of citrus health and how it may be a focus on how interactions between fieldwork, research, or classroom affected by citrus greening.

The Bulletin :: Summer 2017  Urban Forestry Hull

The Garden Club and use of forest patches on vacant The Elizabeth Christine Dietz land with those of city parkland in Dallas, TX of America Zone neighborhoods with varying levels Abernathy Hull Proposed by Catherine Corrigan, VI Fellowship in of income. Her research will assess Awards Founders Garden Club, Zone IX qualitatively whether these factors Urban Forestry affect the socio-cultural ecosystem In addition to announcing its Christine Dietz has worked in youth Established in 2005 for advanced services of Baltimore’s urban forests scholarships, The Garden Club education in Dallas for more than undergraduate or graduate and the degree to which these urban of America, through its Hull ten years, and currently works as the students to study urban forestry green spaces are viewed by nearby Awards, “recognizes an individual Children’s Program Specialist at the Dallas Arboretum. She is the lead and related subjects, this fellowship residents as amenities or disamenities. who, through working with children under 16 years of age in wetlands educator in their children’s is administered by the GCA in David Bañuelas adventure garden. More than half is a master’s horticulture and the environment, collaboration with Casey Trees, student at the Center for Regenerative of the 5,000-6,000 students who Washington, DC. Studies at California Polytechnic has inspired their appreciation attend her program each year are only University in Pomona. In 2016 of the beauty and fragility of our familiar with a city biome, and she Benjamin Breger is he started the Southern California planet.” Awardees are proposed by a opens the doors of the natural world a master’s student in landscape Allelopathic Flora for Eradication GCA club or club member. for them. architecture at the University of (SAFE) project to study allelopathic Funded by South Side Garden Club of Massachusetts-Amherst. His project trees that occur in the urban forests LI, Zone III is titled “Tree Survival in the Urban of Los Angeles. Allelopathic plants Landscape: Nursery Treatment, Kathy Gooch emit phytotoxins that inhibit the Site Conditions, and Stewardship.” growth of weedy plant species. His Dayton, OH Interested in the functionality and Proposed by Tracy Bieser, Garden Club research will test how mulch from aesthetics of urban vegetation, he will of Dayton, Zone X various trees can reduce the growth of examine the socio-ecological factors invasive plant species to aid in habitat that impact the survival of urban Kathy Gooch has been an restoration. The results of his research trees such as nursery treatment, site occupational therapy assistant in the may encourage the development conditions, and level of human stew- Dayton public school system for 20 of allelopathic-based pesticides ardship. His field study will take place years. She currently works at an urban and further our understanding of Byrna Bass in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where at-risk school and developed a garden weedy species that are susceptible to Cincinnati, OH thousands of trees have been planted so that her students can connect allelopathy. Proposed by Debbie Oliver, Cincinnati over the past three years as part of a with nature and enjoy the space. The Town & Garden Club, Zone X garden includes a bed of pollinator statewide urban greening initiative. John Roberts is a PhD perennials, native plants, a prairie, Providing more accurate and localized candidate in environmental Byrna Bass is an outdoor classroom raised tables for herbs and vegetables, data on urban tree survival will allow horticulture at the University of educator for inner city elementary a compost area, stump stools, and forestry professionals to better plan Florida in Gainesville. His project students at the Rothenberg Rooftop blackboards. greening initiatives and assess the ben- is titled “Semi-automatic Street Garden in Cincinnati. She teaches efits of large scale urban tree planting environmentally friendly garden Funded by Kilduff Family Foundation Tree Inventory and Assessment in memory of Jane Kilduff, Zone V campaigns. from Mobile Terrestrial Remote practices and is developing a Sensing.” As laser scanning and pollinator garden. In her limited photogrammetric data become more space, she uses beneficial insects, a common, these datasets have been tumble composter, and rain barrel to applied to monitoring urban forests. instill sustainable growing practices Using data collected from ground- and encourage respect for the based and unmanned aerial vehicles, environment. She has dedicated most Roberts creates three-dimensional of her life and work to fostering a love models of urban streetscapes. These of the environment in children. models are being tested for semi- Funded by Jane Chapman, Rochester automatic mapping and measurement Garden Club, Zone III of street trees, potentially leading to Kathryn Kocarnik Nancy Falxa Sonti is a partial updates to existing urban tree PhD candidate in the Department inventories. Techniques to detect Los Angeles, CA of Plant Science & Landscape structural stem defects (i.e., lean Proposed by Edith Frère, Hancock Park Architecture at the University of status, low taper, etc.) from these Garden Club, Zone XII Maryland in College Park. Her project datasets are also being developed. Kathryn Kocarnik is a beloved garden is titled “Socio-Cultural Ecosystem teacher and cooking instructor at the Services of Urban Forests.” She will Garden School Foundation, an out- conduct interviews with Baltimore door experiential school for Title I stu- residents to compare the perception dents in Los Angeles. Described as “a

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rock star on our campus,” she teaches Jack McWilliams Sean Sheppard This whimsical event promotes the value of composting and worms, Baltimore, MD Richmond, VA imagination and observation of the the importance of bees, concepts of Proposed by Lindsay Hardesty, Amateur Proposed by Cameron Furber, James natural world. germination and photosynthesis, and Gardeners Club, Zone VI River Garden Club, Zone VII Funded by Sasqua Garden Club, the science of gardening. Her seed-to- Zone II table curriculum helps students learn Jack McWilliams has been a volunteer Sean Sheppard founded Backyard about the environment, sustainability, at the William S. Baer School, a Farmer in Richmond, Virginia. The Damian Thompson and nutrition. public school for profoundly disabled program builds and runs learning Little Rock, AR Funded by Kilduff Family Foundation students in Baltimore, for 20 years. gardens in schools, community Proposed by Katherine Ann Trotter, in memory of Jane Kilduff, Zone V He turned an unused greenhouse centers, and afterschool programs. Little Rock Garden Club, Zone IX into a garden and gazebo where This past year, he ran gardens in 19 children in wheelchairs can plant and different public schools. Students care Damian Thompson has been a garden pick the fruit and vegetables in the for the soil, plant, weed, compost, educator at the Dunbar Garden raised beds he created, making nature harvest, and taste. The yearlong Project in Little Rock for 14 years and approachable for a population that program teaches garden planning, its director for 12 years. He manages too often is neglected when it comes photosynthesis, pollination, plant the three-acre urban garden and to environmental education. structure, seed-germination, weather, teaching farm, providing curriculum and nutrition. The program has development, fundraising leadership, Catherine Pierson cultivated awe and respect for the animal husbandry, and educational New Orleans, LA natural world through teaching the programming. The purpose of the Proposed by Karin Eustis, New Orleans garden project is to teach sustainable Pat Marks life cycle of plants and giving students Town Gardeners, Inc., Zone IX the gift of working in the garden. Sean urban agriculture to the nearly 800 Houston, TX students it hosts each month. One Proposed by Ruth Flournoy, River Oaks Catherine Pierson serves as a has “cultivated young students’ minds and his exuberance is infectious.” supporter wrote, “Damian and the Garden Club, Zone IX volunteer environmental educator garden are the most powerful assets in the New Orleans School District. Pat Marks, the associate director of to ensure my kids WANT to become After Hurricane Katrina, she helped the Houston Arboretum and Nature stewards of the environment.” to create “Edible Schoolyard New Center, has been an educator for over Orleans,” which changed the way 40 years. She created the original children eat, learn, and live. This curriculum at the center for most of program has created acres of organic their programming and has devoted gardens that are used by five FirstLine her life to educating students about schools—where over 4,000 garden the wonders of native flora and fauna. and culinary classes are taught, and 70 Whether hiking through the woods food education events occur each year. in search of armadillos or hawks, One supporter said, “Cathy knew that dipping in the ponds for crawfish engaging children through their senses and tadpoles, or planting pollinator was a magical and transformative gardens full of wildflowers, she Sally Shwartz experience that many of the urban encourages a love for the environment Providence, RI children never experienced.” Proposed by Kathleen Leddy, Perennial in young children. Cesar Zuniga Aaron Schomburg Planters, Zone II James McCarron Atherton, CA Princeton, NJ Bernardsville, NJ Sally Shwartz, a volunteer coordinator Proposed by Sara Jorgensen, Woodside- Proposed by Bonnie Higgins, Stony Proposed by Dorcas Cochran, Garden at the Roger Williams Park Botanical Atherton Garden Club, Zone XII Brook Garden Club, Zone IV Center in Providence, conducts Club of Somerset Hills, Zone IV Cesar Zuniga has developed school Aaron Schomburg has been a science botany tours for elementary students James McCarron has taught art in community gardens in Redwood teacher at Princeton Day School for and created a program “to help people Bernardsville, New Jersey, for 25 years City and Atherton since 2000. He 25 years. His interactive approach to look more closely at horticulture and has incorporated a love of nature, most recently developed The Selby teaching through outdoor classes and and the environment, to be inspired, gardening, and conservation into Lane School Garden serving as its experiential learning sparks creativity connect people with plants, and his art classes. He turned an unused coordinator. With 85 percent of his and engagement within his students. to foster a sense of stewardship for courtyard into a vegetable garden and students at or below the poverty line, His pond study and wetlands nature.” The goals are accomplished greenhouse, creating a micro-eco- he believes that planting, caring for, education, beehives, “Earth-Walks” at the center through experiential system that incorporates New Jersey and harvesting healthy fruits and curriculum, canal clean-up days, learning and classes. She created native plants and trees in this oasis for vegetables will help these children composting program, rain garden, “Fairy Garden Days,” held for two the community. A high-school senior develop a special relationship with the and Green Team Summer Camp weeks each spring, which attract more who came back to work in the garden earth, and have a new appreciation for focus on sustainability and love of the than 5,000 visitors to the center. Fairy said, “he brings art, nature, conserva- what it provides. environment. “homes” are created from natural tion, environmental awareness, and materials and supplied by volunteers. respect into his classroom.”

The Bulletin :: Summer 2017  Where Are They Now? Former Scholars Making a Difference

Matt Wasson is director of programs for Appalachian Voices (AV), an environmental nonprofit protecting the land, air, and water of central and southern Appalachia. Wasson holds a BS in zoology from the University of Washington and a PhD in ecology from Cornell University. As a 1997 recipient of the GCA’s Frances M. Peacock Scholarship for Native Bird Habitat, Wasson did research on acid rain effects on birds in remote areas of the Adirondack Mountains. With Wasson at the helm, AV collaborated with 12 North Carolina groups to address air pollution; their campaign resulted in the 2002 passage of the Clean Smokestacks Act, one of the nation’s strongest air pollution Matt Wasson. Photo by Erin Savage, courtesy of Appalachian Voices laws at the time. Several years later Wasson helped create a website and online campaign named iLoveMountains.org, aimed at increasing awareness of mountaintop-removal coal mining, an effort that turned what had been primarily an issue of concern in Appalachia into a national one. Recently Wasson has been involved in a movement in Virginia to encourage solar-sourced energy as an alternative to coal. A series of community meetings led to formation of the Southwest Virginia Solar Workgroup made up of state agencies, colleges, planning commissions, and interested citizens and businesses. This May the workgroup hosted an open-to-the-public Solar Fair, where a 5,000-watt mobile solar system built by students demonstrated how solar energy systems work. The Solar Fair also kicked off the Solarize Wise program, making it easier and less expensive for homeowners, small businesses, and farmers to install solar power in Wise County, Virginia. This fall AV will award two $500 grants to teams of students for developing “Solar in Your School” projects. Earlier this year, Wasson testified before Congress on the impacts of the proposed Stream Protection Rule as it relates to the Endangered Species and Clean Water acts. Throughout his career Wasson is making a difference for our environment.

Rebecca L. Vidra, currently with the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, earned her BS from The Ohio State University’s School of Natural Resources. After graduation she was a naturalist with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida and later an AmeriCorps volunteer with the Nature Conservancy in the Florida Keys, training volunteers to monitor coral reefs, fish populations, and water quality. This experience fueled her interest in restoration ecology and, in 2000, led to an MS in ecology from the University of North Carolina. By 2003 the invasion of exotic species throughout the forests of the North Carolina Piedmont region spurred Vidra to obtain a PhD in forestry. That same year Vidra received The Garden Club of America Fellowship in Ecological Restoration to research the control of exotic plants in urban forest corridors. Today Vidra teaches courses in ecology and ethics at Duke University and is a respected storyteller of restoration projects that heal not only nature but also communities. This summer, in an ecological diversity program based in Kaua‘i called DukeEngage, Vidra is leading ten undergraduate students in collaborative work with local organizations. Informed by principles of native Hawaiian traditions blended with tenets of land management, their goal will be sustainable food production, specifically restoration of ancient fishponds, taro fields, coral reefs, and tropical forests. Vidra will lead weekly sessions bringing together students and local residents to create opportunities to share ideas and experiences. Rebecca L. Vidra. Photo by Carlhey Bolz Scholars pictured on page 41. Top row from left: Kevin Jeffery, Luisa McGarvey, Tyler Coverdale, Rachel R. Renne. Middle row: Elizabeth B. Powell, Johnny Buck, Meredith Martin, Soren Struckman. Bottom row: Nathan Jahnke, Leslie Touzeau, David Bañuelas, Samantha Apgar

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Paul Alan Cox: A Life in Botany by Lorraine Alexander, Millbrook Garden Club, Zone III

lilies home in our car, carefully “ Destroying watering them with distilled water, to a greenhouse I’d built. I a rainforest gently misted them each night to for economic try to simulate Pacific coastal fog. Your connection to gain is like plants reached a new level when you lived burning a in a village in the Samoan island chain. Renaissance Would you describe the importance of painting to your experience for cook a meal.” you and the islanders? Paul Cox studying cordyline in 2002 at the National Tropical Botanical Garden I lived for two years with villagers —E.O. Wilson in Kaua’i. Photo by John Fong, Nu Skin Enterprises who treated me with great kindness and patiently helped Professor Cox, tell Forest Service to collect cobra me learn their language. I felt a Professor Paul Alan Cox began the us please about the lilies (Darlingtonia californica) debt to them and was enthralled work that would lead to his career beginnings of your near Gasquet, California. My by the beauty of their lowland as an eminent ethnobotanist when profound interest in parents drove me two days to rainforests. Returning years later, he was nineteen, on a Mormon the natural world? get there, but when we arrived a I discovered that village chiefs mission to help Pacific islanders. My mother researched road project was being bulldozed had sold logging rights to fund a Eventually he helped them save treatments for diseases in fish, right through the plants. I carried school. My wife, Barbara, agreed an entire rainforest. His love of and later became a western four or five of these rescued little to mortgage our house to help plants was evident in childhood regional administrator for the and encouraged by his parents, US Fish & Wildlife Service. particularly his mother, who was My father was a National Parks a scientist. He may be the only ranger, and spent many years as person you’ve met—if you attended a conservation officer, also for this May’s Annual Meeting in the US Fish & Wildlife Service. Baltimore—who’s created a My grandfather was hired national park (in American by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to Samoa). Keenly engaged with help turn large private ranches Earth’s myriad, interconnected into today’s Grand Teton forms of life, he’s found a link National Park; he finished his between a bat, a seed, and career caring for wild fowl certain neurodegenerative diseases along the Great Salt Lake. My (see Keynote Speech, page 25); great-grandfather was an early pioneered the protection of tropical advocate of Arbor Day. There plants; and impersonated a bee at was an expectation that I would a Harvard lecture on pollination. continue the tradition. When I was ten I received Paul Cox with a Samoan healer learning about traditional medicine. Photo a permit from the National courtesy of Paul Alan Cox

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Much of your own his students. As director of the Your commitment career has been National Tropical Botanical to tropical flora led devoted to teaching, Garden (NTBG), I arranged for to the founding of from Utah to Uppsala, elegant meals in our Allerton Seacology at Berkeley in Sweden, where Garden on Kaua‘i. I think we in 1991. What does you were appointed should celebrate the beauty of Seacology do? the first King Carl plants in more joyful, deliberate Seacology is a nonprofit that XVI Gustaf professor ways. grew out of my rainforest of environmental experience in Samoa. It has now science. What was it What do you see as saved more than 1.5 million like to teach and live the most significant acres of island rainforests and where Linnaeus did? role of botanical coral reefs in 58 countries Professor Paul Cox seated in a Life-changing. I realized how gardens? in return for conservation re-creation of Swedish botanist Carl intrepid Linnaeus was for one Botanical gardens are plant covenants. Last July we reached Linnaeus’s study. Photo courtesy of thing. I carried with me a copy archives that often provide an agreement with the Sri Paul Alan Cox of Iter Lapponicum, his personal platforms for research. The Lankan government for the save the Samoan forest. Together diary, as I retraced his steps NTBG, which consists of protection of all of that country’s with students and friends, we through Lapland north of the four gardens in Hawaii and coastal mangrove forests; in paid for the school ourselves. The Arctic Circle. There in 1732 one in Florida, was chartered return Seacology provided villagers in return promised to he interviewed a Sami healer by the US Congress in 1964 small-business microloans to protect their rainforest. about her use of medicinal to be a domestic resource for 15,000 impoverished coastal plants. To my knowledge this tropical plants. An example of women. I knew the project What might an represents the very first time a its work is Dr. Diane Ragone’s would succeed when the Sri aspiring botanist trained botanist studied with development, through the Lankan naval commander tasked today learn from traditional healers. I was thrilled NTBG’s Breadfruit Institute, with enforcing the agreement your globetrotting to interview another Sami healer, of a gluten-free starch that showed me photos of Rhizophora navigation of near the same place, who was promises to feed millions of mucronata seedlings he had academia? still using plants Linnaeus had people in places facing famine. planted himself. I was very fortunate, first, to get recorded. [Ragone received the 2016 an undergraduate scholarship When Linnaeus returned GCA Medal of Honor.] Another Tell us about the to Brigham Young University, to Uppsala he was greeted like organization, San Diego’s connection between where I studied botany and a rock star. Hundreds of people Center for Plant Conservation your faith and life in philosophy. Going forward, I crowded into his lectures on (CPC) and its 42 member science. sought out the people I wanted plants, to which he wore a botanical gardens and arboreta, Indigenous people everywhere most to learn from, some of the traditional Sami costume. I’ve protects wild plants nationwide. seem to agree on one thing: world’s most eminent botanists, followed his example in spirit, Although my personal efforts Our planet is sacred. I too agree. at the University of Wales, having our greenhouse people focus on plants in situ, many We are blessed to live on an Harvard, and Berkeley. I was at BYU simulate a rainforest, endangered species must rely on extraordinarily species-diverse E.O. Wilson’s teaching fellow at complete with smoke machines, botanical gardens, which grow planet alongside life-supporting Harvard for four years. When I in the lecture hall. Linnaeus is them from collected wild seeds, plants. We tend to forget that started out I thought it would a hard act to follow, however. as their only defense against plants are fundamental; without be impossible to make a living as Preceded by trumpeters, he extinction—and their only hope them we would soon perish. My a botanist. I pinch myself every would lead botanical field for reintroduction into the wild. personal view is that if you love time I realize I’ve been able to trips into a forest preserve and the Creator you shouldn’t slash spend my life studying plants. stage beautiful luncheons for His painting.

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John Sonnier: A Gardener’s Story by Betsy Bosway, Indianapolis Garden Club, Zone X

Spending time with John Sonnier, head gardener/ What led you to become a What advice can you give to horticulturist at the British Embassy in DC, “greener” gardener? everyday gardeners? was one of the highlights of the 2017 Annual The first week I worked here a man showed Plant the right plants in the right places! Meeting. He gave delegates a private tour, up in a white HAZMAT suit to spray the Every area of the country has great plants sharing the history of the residence, gardens, and roses. I thought there had to be a better that are well suited for the soil and growing greenhouse as well as explanations of modern-day way! I had an early awareness of the hazards conditions. Walk around your neighborhood practices that keep the estate in regal condition. of pesticides from my uncles, who were and your arboretum to see what’s thriving, Beds, borders, paths, and terraces are features of exposed to high levels of pesticides—mostly and then you won’t need to use chemicals. this beautiful and well-tended property, originally from crop dusting. With the blessing of the And stay away from mulch! It is an designed in 1930 by British architect Sir Edwin ambassador’s wife, we stepped away from afterthought of the lumber industry that can Lutyens. chemicals. We stopped planting finicky tea introduce diseased trees into our gardens. roses, for example, and replaced many with Buy a shredder and use composted leaves How did you get into Rosa rugosa, which are very hardy, disease for your gardens. It is liquid gold! Think of gardening as a profession? resistant, fragrant roses that require far less the forest floor: the leaves break down and I’ve had my hands in dirt my whole life! I was intervention. Through experimentation we’ve fertilize the soil. raised in Houston, where we had gardens, developed beautiful gardens teeming with and my extended family had farms in gorgeous flowers and abundant vegetables. Any parting wisdom? Louisiana. I started studying civil engineering Gardening is all about time. It’s an everyday My coffee mug quotes Thomas Jefferson: “I in college but switched to landscape design job to keep on top of it but well worth the am an old man but a young gardener.” The when a fraternity brother invited me to join effort. older I get the more these words mean to me. his new firm. I’ve worked at Dumbarton Gardening changes. We need to adapt and Oaks, then Hillwood, and now the embassy. Photos by Linder Suthers learn from our successes.

The Bulletin :: Summer 2017  GCA Historian The GCA’s Headquarters:

Above: Detail of needlepoint of state flowers designed by Dorothy Falcon Platt, based on a 1937 gouache painting by Cornelia Platt that was given to the GCA in 1943. Photos by Gay Legg

Right: A view of the living room showing the 1946 watercolor and gouache painting by Lee Adams, Passion Flowers with Two Yellow Birds. Adams was known as the “Audubon of the South,” painting birds and native plants for the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. The 1938 Wedgwood GCA commemorative plates are Then and Now displayed. n the spring of 1913 twelve garden Following page, left to right: Detail of the 19th-century screen presented clubs from the Philadelphia area to the GCA in 1961 by the Japanese I government. joined forces to form what would soon Detail of the Gracie wallpaper become The Garden Club of America. designed for the GCA. The draw of this new affiliation Detail of one of the set of four early-19th-century Chinese among garden clubs was strong, and it watercolors of mandarins in a landscape that hangs in the hallway. quickly became a thriving and very

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influential organization. Surprisingly, perhaps, but within seven a number of organizations, including the Central Park Conservancy. years of the organization’s founding, the headquarters moved from With the move, a volunteer committee carefully reinstalled much Philadelphia, where it all began, to New York City, which had no of the décor and fine art that had been donated through the years GCA-affiliated club. How did the headquarters of the GCA end up in by club members. The new space included the main meeting room, the middle of Manhattan? known as the Crowninshield Room, which was a replica of the same In the early days Elizabeth Price Martin, our founder and room on Madison Avenue and dedicated as a tribute to Louise du president until 1920, held meetings at her Philadelphia home and Pont Crowninshield (1877–1958) for her 38 years of service on the her summer home in Chestnut Hill. When the reins of power were Executive Board and as chairman of several national committees. transferred to a Boston-based president and with five of the eight The room was decorated in the early-19th-century New England executive members situated in or near New York City, some might style with oriental influences—her favorite period in American art— see the move to New York as inevitable. Indeed, space on the east side with contributions from her friends from all over the country. The of Manhattan was offered in the home of first one and then another Crowninshield Room still contains many of these beloved artifacts, club member, at no cost, and off went the files to New York City. including the paneling and furnishings that were moved from While donated space worked for a bit, the GCA’s leadership soon Madison Avenue. began planning for a move to a true, official location. In 1921 our Although much of the recent renovation at Headquarters was headquarters were in a room leased from the American Horticultural behind-the-scenes—upgrades to the plumbing, electrical, HVAC, and Society at 598 Madison Avenue, expanding to two rooms by 1924 to technology systems that were long overdue and necessary to meet 21st- accommodate the library and exhibits. With a three-year lease in hand, century standards (thanks to skillful negotiations, the building owner GCA club members decorated the space with the help of an interior absorbed certain of these line items)—when you next visit our spruced decorator—a sign, perhaps, of a long-term commitment. up headquarters, you’ll see some new additions, but mostly repurposed Roots were now firmly established in New York City. In 1947 we favorites and old friends: the hand-painted Gracie wallpaper still moved to a residential penthouse on 58th Street to save rental costs, hangs in the dining room; the carved wooden figures from the but the space proved inadequate. Our previous 598 Madison Avenue Crowninshield garden in Marblehead, Massachusetts, preside in the location drew us back in 1958, and there we remained for the next room bearing her name as well as in the reception area. The 1938 four decades, growing to occupy an entire floor by 1968. A combined GCA Wedgwood collector plates, “Types of Gardens Throughout the House and Gifts Committee was created to design an inviting Ages,” are on display, along with the beautiful GCA 50th Anniversary environment for visiting club members and an appropriate space to Bowl. Ever the wise steward of our resources, the Renovation and conduct official business. Gifts from clubs and individual members House committees conducted a purposeful, measured, and responsible were used to tastefully, but never lavishly, furnish the space. restoration while meeting modern-day needs. Today every corner In 1998 we moved to our current location at 14 East 60th Street, of GCA Headquarters continues to reflect the beauty and legacy of constructed in 1905 as a residential hotel, and at one point the home headquarters locations throughout our history. of the famous Copacabana nightclub. The building currently houses —Donna Ganson, GCA Historian, Garden Club of Lawrence, Zone III

The Bulletin :: Summer 2017  recently attended a GCA meeting in New Bird Johnson and Betty Ford. The scarf depicted York City. When I approached the building’s flora of the four states in host Zone VII. In 1999 About security guard, he waved me up to the correct the GCA returned to Cherie Pettit for the annual floor. This stopped me in my tracks. “How meeting scarf design. There was no scarf for the Ido you know where I’m going?” The answer: “The 2000 meeting. Making up for lost time, the 2001 that scarf.” We are all familiar with our tradition of an meeting in Orlando, Florida, featured not one but annual meeting scarf; most of us probably own four scarves, with themes that varied from sailboats GCA one or more. We know that they are an important to fox hunts, all designed by Carleton Varney source of funds used to offset annual meeting costs of Dorothy Draper & Co., said to be the first not covered by registration fees. They are beautiful professional decorating firm in the US. Scarf pieces of art, made of silk and reflecting the theme Most scarves have been designed by artistic or meeting location. But whose idea was this? How members of clubs in the hosting zone. Both Cherie did the tradition start? Pettit and the Garden Club of Denver’s Angela You’re You might be surprised to learn that the first Overy, who designed the 2006 scarf, received GCA scarf was not made specifically for an annual the Eloise Payne Luquer Medal, named for the meeting at all, although it had a GCA pedigree esteemed botanical artist and member of Bedford Wearing and was sold at the 1993 meeting in Chicago. In Garden Club. Our club members’ talents are also 1986 the late Cherie Sutton Pettit, botanical artist reflected in the popularity of our annual meeting and member of the Piedmont Garden Club, had scarves. Sally Hough, from New Canaan Garden painted a beautiful watercolor map of endangered Club, designed the scarf for the 2009 Annual plants and flowers from across the US for the Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island, and all 650 GCA Scarves, some in detail, from GCA Conservation Committee. It was hanging scarves were sold out before the meeting took place. top left: 1993 Chicago,1998 at Headquarters in New York when the idea was At the 2010 meeting, in New Brunswick, New Williamsburg,1999 Parsippany, 2001 hatched to sell a GCA scarf incorporating the Jersey, a tie for men was offered, an idea suggested Orlando (three of the four designs, design both to raise awareness of endangered plants by GCA Honorary Member M. Chris Giftos, floral courtesy Dorothy Draper & Co.), and to raise funds. The proceeds from that first designer and retired special events director at the 2002 Dallas, 2004 Washington, scarf were donated to the GCA Scholarship Fund. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2005 Kansas City, 2006 Denver, 2007 Boston, 2008 Norfolk, 2009 The first scarf created specifically for an annual The tradition continues with the 2017 Annual Providence, 2010 East Brunswick, meeting was designed by Frankie Welch for the Meeting scarf, adorned with May blooms typical of 2011 Indianapolis, 2012 Savannah, 1998 meeting in Williamsburg, Virginia. Welch the Baltimore area entwined on a white trellis with 2013 GCA Centennial (in four color was one of America’s preeminent designers of the a light blue background. We all have our favorites schemes), 2014 New Orleans, 2015 day, fashioning scarves for many organizations as and wear them with pride. Rochester, 2016 Minneapolis, 2017 well as fabrics worn by some of America’s most —Donna Ganson, GCA Historian, Baltimore, 2018 San Francisco photographed women, notably first ladies Lady Garden Club of Lawrence, Zone III

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Gardening and books have been friends for most of recorded history. Cicero wrote, “If you have a garden and a library, you will want for nothing.” Even the most ardent gardener comes in from the garden to read, whether to find out how to scarify a seed or feed peonies, or simply for surcease from kneeling on hard ground, weeding out garlic mustard. The founders of the GCA were no different. Shortly after creating this organization, they turned to outfitting a library devoted to gardening, horticulture, botany, flower arranging, and garden history and design, as well as to many publications by its clubs’ members. The first reference to the library in the Bulletin is from April 1915. Generous donations quickly followed. More than a third of the books in the GCA’s Rare Book Collection contain donor information, and nearly a third of the main collection, at Headquarters, is also the result of donations by club members as well as by the authors or publishers. Since no database is ever perfect, a sleuth with time on her hands would undoubtedly turn up more such gifts by paging through each book, looking for lost bookplates, inscriptions, and hand-written notes. Over the past year virtually every book at HQ—over 3,000—has been catalogued according to the Library of Congress system, labeled, dusted, and re-shelved. At the same time, the GCA’s Rare Book Collection of more than 700 volumes has been placed on deposit at the LuEsther T. Mertz Library at the New York Botanical Garden. The driving motivation for the move was to find a safe place for the collection to reside—the NYBG repository offered state- of-the-art climate controls and a 24/7 security system—while making the books available to scholars, writers, and other professionals as well as members of the GCA community. Currently the GCA’s Rare Book Collection is going through the final processes of being evaluated, catalogued, and shelved. Books requiring special care are handled in the conservation lab at NYBG, where conservators use proven techniques to stabilize them. In March, Executive Director Susan Fraser and Head of Special Collections Stephen Sinon conducted a tour for the GCA, which assured us that the GCA’s Rare Book Collection is in the best possible hands. The Library Committee looks forward to your next visit to New York to see our books. —Jane Harris, GCA Library Committee Chairman, Middletown Garden Club, Zone II

The GCA’s Rare Book Collection at NYBG. Photo by Jennifer Barnette

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to spectacular dinners, inspiring Dorothy Vietor Munger Award: Floral Design Class 1: Laura presentations, and the warm Mary Katherine Greene, Amy Haley, Late Bloomers GC; welcome that gives Greenville its Smith, Peachtree GC Class 2: Cameron Garrard, stellar reputation. Sandra Baylor Novice Floral Design Junior Ladies GC; Class 3: Mary Katherine Greene, Amy Speakers Award: Lisa Bertles, GC of Palm Beach Smith, Peachtree GC; Class 4: Mayor Knox H. White, City of Martha Pellett Class 5: Harriet DeWaele Puckett Creativity , CFGC; Greenville, “Making Greenville Sharel Hooper, GC of Lookout Award: Laura Haley, Late the Most Beautiful and Livable Mountain, Zone IX City in America” Bloomers GC A view of the Reedy River Falls. Gillaine Warne, CFGC, Best in Show—Floral Design: Botanical Art Class 1: Embellished “Agriculture Program in Cange, Lee Easterly, GC of Lookout Brooch: Lee Easterly, Sharel Haiti” Mountain, Zone IX Hooper, GC of Lookout GCA Novice Award in Mountain, Zone IX; Class 2 Zone VIII Awards Horticulture: Libby Kehl, CFGC Natural Brooch: Cathy Mebane, 15 clubs in Alabama, Florida, Creative Leadership Award: Amy CFGC Georgia, and South Carolina Catherine Beattie Medal: Helen Nowell, The GC of the Halifax Couch, The Palmetto GC of SC Photography Class 1: Christina Country Kramer Rosie Jones Horticulture Award: , GC of Palm Beach; “The Hills Are Alive” Class 2: Jane Perry McFadden, Zone Civic Improvement Libby Kehl, CFGC April 2-4, 2017 Commendation: Mayor Knox The Palmetto GC of SC; Class 3: Corliss Knapp Engle Horticulture White, City of Greenville, Catherine Dolan, Sand Hills GC; Westin Poinsett Hotel Sweepstakes Award: CFGC proposed by CFGC Class 4: Dorothy Nutant, Late Hosted by Carolina Foothills Clarissa Willemsen Horticulture Zone Conservation Award: Mary Bloomers GC GC, Greenville, SC Propagation Award: Marian St. Palmer Dargan, Cherokee GC Chaired by Murray McCissick, Clair, CFGC Highlights Zone Conservation Commendation: Mary Holt Murphy Best in Show—Horticulture: Kelly • Dinner at Anna Kate & Hayne Brad Wyche, Upstate Forever, Flower Show chaired by Cokey Hagler, Sand Hills GC Hipp’s Paris Mountain home proposed by CFGC Cory GCA Novice Award in • Mayor Knox White on the Barbara Spaulding Cramer Zone, Greenville has rightly been named Photography: Dorothy Nutant, revitalization of Greenville Floral Design Education Award: the most livable city in America Late Bloomers GC • Tour of the Andrew Wyeth Mary Webster, GC of Palm due to the restoration of its once- exhibit and lunch at Greenville’s Beach Photography Creativity Award: derelict downtown area—now Hawley McAuliffe, Grass River Museum of Art Zone Horticulture Commendation: breathtakingly beautiful with GC • Gillaine Warne’s impassioned its setting by the redesigned Falls Joelle Teachey, Trees Greenville, Best in Show—Photography: presentation on her mission Park on the Reedy. Bringing back proposed by CFGC Christina Kramer, GC of Palm work in Haiti the Reedy River Falls, covered by Zone Historic Preservation Award: Beach an overpass built in the 1960s, Anna Kate Hipp, Betty Stall, began in 1967 when the Carolina CFGC, proposed by CFGC Foothills Garden Club bought the Weesie Smith, Horticulture Award: land below the falls with a vision Vicki Denton, GC of Palm Beach to create a park. With the club’s Katherine Eaton Cobb Floral foresight and unrelenting effort, Design Award: Susan Doherty, and a mayor willing to champion Late Bloomers GC the project, the revitalization of Greenville began. Now filled with Flower Show art, people, shops, restaurants, and Awards beauty everywhere, downtown Ann Lyon Crammond Award: Alex The committee had fun planning the fabulous awards banquet at Greenville has it all. Kudos to Whitley, CFGC Genevieve’s. From left: Nora Shore, Katherine Hughes, Georgea Greaves, CFGC! Delegates were treated Stephanie Norris, Anna Pressly, Lisa Ashmore, and Ann Bull.

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Speakers Zone Photography Award: Mary Harriet DeWaele Puckett Creativity Zone IX Mimi Miller, executive director, Haggerty, Founders GC of Dallas Award: JoEllyn Jowers, Magnolia 20 clubs in Arkansas, Historic Natchez Foundation, Zone Judging Award: Ashley GC Louisiana, Mississippi, “Natchez History” Higginbotham, The Monroe GCA Novice Award in Tennessee, and Texas Donna Ganson, GCA Historian, Garden Study League Horticulture; Best in Show— GC of Lawrence, Zone III, Zone IX Garden History and Horticulture: Kathy Rasberry, “Riverside Reflections” “Speaking of History: Sherry Design Award: Elsie Dunklin, The Monroe Garden Study League March 20-23, 2017 Jones and Elsie Dunklin Share Founders GC of Dallas Catherine Beattie Medal: Betsy Natchez Convention Center their Memories” Alice Kain Stout Mentoring Award: Ellis, Shreveport Garden Study Hosted by Garden Lovers of Tom Johnson, executive director, Dodie Jackson, The GC of Club Natchez, Natchez, MS Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, Houston Rosie Jones Horticulture Award: Chaired by Sherry Jones, Charleston, SC, “Searching the Zone IX Appreciation Award: Ann Ledoux, The Monroe Stephanie Punches World for Ancient Camellias” Caroline Brown, The Monroe Garden Study League Flower Show chaired by Pam Barbara Faust, director; Cindy Garden Study League Clarissa Willemsen Horticulture Brown, manager, Horticulture Propagation Award: Stacey Harriss Flower Show Collections Management and Wilson, Knoxville GC Natchez, founded in 1716, is a Awards Education, Smithsonian Gardens, GCA Novice Award in community filled with history GCA Botanical Arts Creativity “Archives of American Gardens: Photography: Charlotte Brown, and defined by Southern charm. Award; Novice Award in Botanical Capturing Garden History” Little Rock GC Once the most important port on Arts: Lori French, The Monroe the Mississippi River, its stunning Awards Garden Study League Photography Creativity Award: antebellum mansions bear witness to Laura Zachry, Alamo Heights- Zone Civic Improvement Award: Best in Show—Botanical Arts: the wealth of its early days. Beautiful Terrell Hills GC Carlton Long, Knoxville GC Debbie Robinson, The GC of homes and gardens were on every Zone Civic Improvement Commen- Houston Best in Show—Photography: street, and delegates were treated Maryan Mercer dation: Jennifer Carson, proposed , Memphis GC to private tours, elegant candlelit Ann Lyon Crammond Award: by Gertrude Windsor GC Highlights dinners in historic homes, and Garden Lovers of Natchez presentations that were informative Zone Communications Award: Dorothy Vietor Munger Award: • Awards dinner at the Natchez Tootsie Crutchfield and fascinating. Coinciding , Magnolia GC Kathy Rasberry, Marti Lepow, Community Center—the 1946 with the “Natchez Pilgrimage,” Zone Conservation Award: Gloria Shreveport Garden Study Club Service Motor Company auto delegates experienced “old” Natchez Walker, The GC of Jackson Sandra Baylor Novice Floral Design showroom and garage and enjoyed the graciousness and Zone Conservation Commendation: Award; Best in Show—Floral • Natchez-style hospitality hospitality that characterizes the George Dunklin, proposed by Design: Ashley Bright, New • Our guests, of course! South. Little Rock GC Orleans Town Gardeners Zone Floral Design Achievement Award: Audrey Curl, Alamo Heights-Terrell Hills GC, Carole Bailey, River Oaks GC Zone Horticulture Award: Kingslea Von Helms, The GC of Houston Zone Historic Preservation Award: Susan Hardtner, Shreveport Garden Study Club Zone Historic Preservation Dodie Jackson tearfully receiving Commendation: Natchez City the Alice Kain Stout Mentoring Cemetery, proposed by Garden Award. Photo by Nancy Keely Anne Copenhaver, GCA president; Camilla Burbank, Zone IX director; and Lovers of Natchez Nancy Thomas, former GCA president (1991-93). Photo by Nancy Keely

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vironmental protection, the New Milton Garden Club Canaan Garden Club has made a Milton, MA financial contribution to the New Canaan Land Trust (NCLT) for Every March, the Boston future stewardship of its recent Flower Show transforms the acquisition, the Silvermine Fowler concrete walls of the Seaport Preserve—a 6.35-acre parcel along World Trade Center’s exhibit a migratory bird route with mead- hall into garden and amateur ows, woodlands, and wetlands. competitions featuring floral The property, which includes Still design, horticulture, and Pond, hosts abundant wildlife photography. The smell of newly such as the eastern wood peewee, spread mulch and forced bulbs red-eyed vireo, and northern flick- gives everyone who walks through er. NCLT, dedicated to perma- the doors spring fever. The show’s nently protecting diverse natural CGC President Susan Pile with Stacy Sturdy, Debbie Shadd, Margaret Cotter, photography committee included environments, now owns or has and DPW consultants and planters. Photo by Georgia Carroll GCA club members Chris Wood, conservation easements over 380 Noanett GC; Helen Glaenzer, acres of land. The Fowler Preserve North Shore GC; and Christine is named after Betsey and Jim Zone I Paxhia, Milton GC. Fowler, who lived in New Canaan by Cohasset’s tree warden in —Christine Paxhia for many years and reached an Cohasset Garden consultation with Bartlett Tree agreement with NCLT to preserve Club Experts. the property. Upon completion Cohasset, MA Three autumn cherry trees of the purchase, NCLT will begin (Prunus subhirtella ‘Autumnalis’) additional work to improve appro- As part of its community outreach with their lovely pink spring flow- priate public access. program, Cohasset Garden Club ers were placed around the Com- —Ellen McMahon donated five new trees to replace mon’s pond. As part of CGC’s dying and diseased ones on commitment to native trees, a Cohasset Common. Concerned tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipif- residents approached the club era) and an ‘October Glory’ red for help in obtaining new trees maple (Acer rubum) were added in to beautify and revitalize the prominent spaces. The tulip tree’s Common. The request was a blossoms give way to lovely yellow Taking a rest between setup and judging are Chris Wood, Helen perfect catalyst for using CGC’s foliage in the fall. The red maple’s Glaenzer, and Christine Paxhia. outreach funds, which had been spectacular crimson foliage lasts Photo by Christine Paxhia earmarked for new tree plantings weeks after other trees have shed as part of the 2013 GCA their colorful mantles. Identifi- Centennial Tree Project. With a Zone II cation tags will soon be added to NCLT Executive Director Mike local landscape designer’s input, the new and already existing trees Johnson, NCGC President Jane CGC members Debbie Shadd, on Cohasset Common. We hope New Canaan Garden Club Gamber, NCGC Conservation Co- Susan Pile, and Susie Davis helped these trees will be enjoyed by all chair Lisa Kaine-Dunn, The Trust for purchase the trees, which were who live here or visit for many New Canaan, CT Public Land’s Acting Connecticut planted in April by Cohasset years to come. State Director Walker Holmes, and Department of Public Works. The —Georgia Carroll In keeping with the GCA’s com- NCLT President Art Berry. Photo by tree installation was supervised mitment to conservation and en- Ellen McMahon

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1st District), a speaker at the NAL Zone III conference, to fight for funding North Suffolk to restore the Long Island Sound Garden Club and Natural Estuary—a resource Stonybrook, NY enjoyed by residents across Long Island. The expanded dumping of dredging debris has known and One week after the GCA’s 2017 unknown pollution risks. NSGC National Affairs & Legislation members applaud NAL, Con- (NAL) Conference concluded, gressman Zeldin’s commitment to North Suffolk Garden Club’s the restoration of the Long Island Program Chair Barbara Gray Sound, and Esposito’s Citizens Members of The Gardeners, from left: Cathy Decker, Sarah Collier, Deb organized a lecture with Donaldson, Lyn Marinchak, and Gail Gillespie. Photo by Lyn Marinchak for the Environment campaign. conservation advocate Adrienne Members feel better equipped to Esposito, a founder of Citizens for lobby for conservation issues as a the Environment. Members were Zone V result of attending NAL and by inspired by Esposito’s passionate accumulating the greatest number being inspired by individuals like dedication and tireless work for The Gardeners of points in all competitive classes. Esposito, who is a past recipient of clean water as well as her ideas Villanova, PA The club’s star exhibitor is Deb the Environmentalist of the Year about how to advocate more Donaldson, who amassed 3,625 award by the Times Beacon Record. effectively. (She explained that Founded in 1827, the Pennsylva- points, which was instrumental Sending members to NAL, one email to a US congressman nia Horticultural Society held the in winning this prestigious award. followed up by a stimulating equates to 300 constituent voices, nation’s first flower show in 1829. Other important awards went to a conservation program the next motivating members to send Today the Philadelphia Flower total of ten talented club mem- week, formed a perfect storm of emails.) Show is the world’s largest indoor bers. The efforts made by many awareness and activism. NSGC NSGC members had already flower show, attracting 250,000 Gardeners to support this spec- is committed to sending two learned from their two NAL people annually. It is held at the tacular show were tremendous. delegates to NAL annually— delegates, President Jennifer Pennsylvania Convention Center Already decisions are being made pairing a new delegate with an Lawrence and Conservation each March with amazing floral for 2018’s show, Wonders of Water. experienced one. NSGC is pleased Co-chair Kathleen Mich, about displays, impressive botanical —Wyn Coghlan to have another educational the importance of airing environ- jewelry, and a profusion of horti- opportunity provided by the mental concerns with legislators, culture. GCA. NAL spurs action! and about the specific pledge of Entering and volunteering at —Christa Amato Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-NY, the Philadelphia Flower Show are time-honored traditions for The Gardeners. In addition to volunteers among our members, four are on the Philadelphia Flower Show Committee, working on documents and signage, and serving as competitive class chairs. Numerous Gardeners enter both Horticulture and Artistic classes. For the third year in a row The Winning entry by mother-daughter Gardeners won the Margaret team Sue Hansen and Elizabeth Long Island Sound. Photo by Jennifer Lawrence Buckley Zantzinger Award for Gross. Photo by Wyn Coghlan

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Zone VII On April 22 members of the Wissahickon Garden Founders Garden Club of Club Sarasota, Inc., enjoyed “Blossoms Philadelphia, PA Dolley Madison Garden Club and Brunch,” a celebration of Orange, VA the Sarasota Ringling Museum’s Wissahickon Garden Club Mable Ringling Rose Garden. members Lisa Walker and Jennifer Dolley Madison Garden Club Mabel Ringling, wife of circus Fiss’s “Queen Bee-atrix’s Bonnet” magnate John Ringling, designed won numerous accolades at held a much-anticipated “Flowers Chopped” competition for the the Italian-style formal garden 2017’s Philadelphia Flower Show. on their estate in 1913. Over Clocking a total of 75 hours’ club’s May meeting. Flower Show Committee chairs Annie 1,000 roses and garden statuary preparation, the pair used 27 were laid out in a circular wagon different materials—including Vanderwarker and Pat Filer crafted a fun and spirited contest modeled wheel pattern. Before brunch live flowers, from ground moss to Gail Babnew’s Tussie Mussie after the popular Food Network on a beautiful spring day, guests gilded coriander seeds and kiwi winner. Photo by Gale Martin had the opportunity to sip vine. Surrounding the bonnet are show Chopped. There were three rounds with three competitors exciting competition left members mimosas as they explored Mabel’s buzzing bees created from black beloved garden. There is a special beans, cannellini beans, lentils, in each. Judges Tasha Tobin and anticipating the next “Flowers Vibeke Ober selected the winners. Chopped” event. affiliation between the FGC and sesame seeds, cumin seeds, pine the Ringling Museum—Mabel seeds and skeletonized rubber Each competitor received a basket —Mary Stroh Queitzsch and containing identical flowers and Gale Martin was one of our founding members tree leaves. Copper beech leaves and first president (1927-1929). became parrot tulips with centers a surprise element. The type of arrangement was announced Under the guidance of club fashioned from rose of Sharon and member Sara Bagley, ten members sensitive, or bead, fern. Hats off to before the participants were Zone VIII permitted to open their baskets. created the centerpieces for the Lisa and Jennifer! Founders Garden occasion—20 gilded birdcages —Carolyn Adams Containers, mechanics, additional flowers, and greens Club of Sarasota, filled with a profusion of roses in were available in the “kitchen” Inc. shades of gold and coral. nearby. Everyone had ten Sarasota, FL —Jeannie Russell minutes to produce a completed arrangement using all of the “ingredients” in their baskets, plus chosen items from the kitchen. The assignment for round one was a small mass arrangement for a side table using peonies, roses, hellebore, and red licorice. Carla Passarello’s placed first. Round two arrangers were assigned a line design using ferns, Siberian and bearded iris, baptista, and striped Queen Bee-atrix’s Bonnet. Photo by straws, which was won by Joanne Lisa Walker Davies. In round three, won by Gail Babnew, Victorian-era Tussie FGC members Marybeth Goddard, Beth Gourlay, Mimi Hernandez, Jeannie Mussies were created with roses, Russell, Carrie Lee Major, and Gina Gregoria, creating centerpieces. Photo by carnations, and lollipops. This Sara Bagley

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Zone IX Zone XI New Orleans Town Gardeners, Inc. Ladue Garden Club Saint Paul New Orleans, LA St. Louis, MO Garden Club Saint Paul, MN In April, fourteen members of the Ladue Garden Club traveled to Saint Paul Garden Club members Santa Barbara, CA, to tour seven have found an effective and deeply private and five public gardens. satisfying way to help achieve their “The Garden Club of Santa goals by funding gardening and Barbara outdid itself,” said LGC conservation projects of small, Visiting Gardens Chair Frances local nonprofit organizations. Gay. “Members opened their “People want a heart connection private gardens and welcomed in their volunteer work today,” says us into their homes, making a club member Deb Venker. “What’s memorable time for all.” Each so wonderful is the diversity of garden had its own unique twist. what we fund. They tug at our One garden had no flowers but heartstrings.” The garden club showcased foliage and plant has disbursed proceeds and structure combining textures, donations from its annual Holiday Tea Dance and other fundraisers New Orleans Town Gardeners launched Weed Wrangle® New Orleans, colors, and shapes to create a Louisiana’s first P4P project. Club members were joined by Tulane University stunning effect. Another garden’s totaling more than $700,000 for volunteers along with Linda Walker and Cathy Pierson, committee co-chairs. design, which was dictated by a projects, mostly on public land. Sarah Howard, land manager and supervisor of Grow Dat Youth Farm in City limited water supply, relied on Many grants from SPGC’s Park, provided instruction on eradicating invasives from the property along small rocks and architectural Community Fund, typically the birding corridor. This effort cleared the way for the NOTG to introduce hardscape. Another home had $2,000 to $4,000, engage children native plants on the trail. By Pamela Bryan; photo by Sarah Howard been rebuilt with amazing results and youth from diverse neighbor- after a fire. hoods. SPGC’s projects include: A hallmark of the GCSB is Green Plant Therapy Program its active presence in the local where every child at the local community. GCSB members were children’s hospital, no matter guides at all the public gardens we how sick, receives a plant to care visited. Our group felt honored to be welcomed by the director of the notable Santa Barbara Botanic Gar- den at the start of our tour. Dan- ielle Hahn, GCSB member and owner of Rose Story Farm, guided us through her 15-acre garden with over 25,000 rose bushes, which was followed by a picnic lunch. Casa del Herrero, Lotusland, and the Old Mission were other public SPGC members Penny Rendall and Ladue GC members in Sue McKinley’s Santa Barbara garden. Photo by Sue gardens on our trip. Rita Parenteau at Saint Paul’s Rice McKinley —Louise Gazzoli Park. Photo by Sarah Meek

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for and take home; Urban Roots 2013 GCA Margaret Douglas where children learn to grow, The Westport Medal recipient and Honorary cook, and market vegetables; Garden Club Member; and Roy Diblik of a new pollinator garden that Kansas City, MO Northwind Perennial Farm in educates visitors at the Minnesota Wisconsin. A subsequent field Governor’s Residence; Gardens-in- The plants and pollinators trip for WGC members to Dunn a-Box, which helps families learn in Angela Overy’s beautiful Ranch Prairie and a conservation to grow vegetables through a state pollinator illustration for the workshop inspired the club to take Horticultural Society program; a GCA’s Horticulture Committee a leadership role in the formation turtle-shaped garden planted with are just a few of the hundreds of the Kansas City Native Plant 19th-century medicinal plants found on the prairie in Zone XI. Initiative. Now a community-wide that educates schoolchildren at GCSL members Carrie Polk and In February 2014, The Westport nonprofit, this partnership brings Gibbs Museum of Pioneer and Jeana Reisinger with Jeff Leatham, Garden Club formed the WGC together over 60 organizations Dakotah Life; and a program Art in Bloom 2017 guest designer. Native Plant Task Force following working collaboratively across Photo by Meredith Holbrook where college students plant a an inspirational program about city, county, and state lines in the prairie by Doug Ladd, community vegetable garden on over three days and was co-chaired an effort to promote the use of director of conservation science campus and donate produce to a by GCSTL members Carrie Polk native plants and pollinators in at the Nature Conservancy, and local food shelf. and Jeana Reisinger with other the Greater Kansas City region. a challenge from Bob Berkebile, “It’s a compelling story,” Deb club members on the planning The current president of the environmental architect and says. “Although it takes more committee. The weekend was organization is WGC member WGC honorary member, to effort on our club’s part to review kicked off with a cocktails and Kathy Gates. Additionally, club become pollinator advocates for proposals for grants and visit dinner preview party. Club members oversee the maintenance native plants. The mission of projects, we’re spreading our seed members Mark Critchfield and of the KCNPI demonstration WGC’s task force is to educate wider. In terms of diversity and Laura Streett received the People’s garden at Loose Park, which was members and the community numbers, it’s really quite astonish- Choice for Traditional Design designed by Alan Branhagen, about native plant usage in the ing what we’ve been able to do.” award for their interpretation former head of horticulture for Greater Kansas City area. In —Marge Hols of The Annunciation by Italian Powell Gardens, and now head partnership with Powell Gardens artist Paolo de Matteis, marking of horticulture operations at the two experts and outstanding the third year in a row that Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. The Garden Club of speakers on native plants were GCSTL members have earned a A second garden will soon be St. Louis invited to a community event: ribbon at this prestigious event. added to further showcase the use St. Louis, MO Doug Tallamy, University of Jeff Leatham, artistic director of of native plants. Delaware professor, author, and the Four Seasons Hotel George —Wendy Powell The Garden Club of St. Louis was V in Paris and known for his well-represented at the Saint Louis breathtaking floral installations, Art Museum’s annual festival of was the featured guest designer. fine art and fresh flowers known Leatham attended the preview as Art in Bloom. Celebrating the dinner, gave an entertaining museum’s works of art, displays lecture and stunning visual floral throughout the galleries featured demonstration, and signed copies 38 imaginative floral designs of his latest book, Visionary Floral created by talented garden club Art and Design. members and florists from the —Carrie Polk region. The February event attracted about 22,000 visitors The Westport GC members at Loose Park in Kansas City, MO. Photo by Laura Sutherland

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Zone XII preserve it. In 1980 rancher Ellen community outreach project for Straus and biologist Phyllis Faber The Portland the 350 members of the club! In founded the Marin Agricultural Garden Club March 2014 PGC approved the Hillsborough Portland, OR Garden Club Land Trust (MALT), the first land project proposal and created a Hillsborough, CA trust of its kind—a model that vision document with the goal of has been replicated throughout In 1936 Alice Agnes Hutchins making the Lilac Garden at Duni- the US to preserve family farms. Matthiessen, a member of The way Park “one of Portland’s special Point Reyes is one of the few Portland Garden Club, on exhibit gardens and a premier gar- NPS properties with working the club’s behalf purchased an den in the Northwest.” The project landscapes. important collection of lilac plants offered a broad range of activities HGC conservation and from the estate of B. O. Case, appealing to the diverse talents of photography committee chairs a nurseryman in southeastern its members. By partnering with organized the trip to explore, Washington. The Lilac Garden Portland Parks & Recreation, PGC photograph, and, of course, enjoy was built in 1938 at Duniway could offer a range of assistance the local food! Starting with two Park. According to an original having greater community impact. short hikes, we saw wild flowers planting plan, the Case lilacs were Members have been working Point Reyes Lighthouse, built in that decorated open fields and placed in 16 beds. Portland Parks tirelessly to bring the garden back. 1870. Photo by Mary McGee viewed the Point Reyes lighthouse & Recreation assumed care and Documenting the type and color maintenance, but over the years the Do you have a visual image of with the crashing surf below. of the lilacs and maintaining the Lilac Garden’s connection to PGC Point Reyes National Seashore? Our next stop was to Cowgirl beds are just the beginning. A was lost. Thanks to an overnight trip, 17 Creamery, known for ethically and well-known landscape architect In 2012 a PGC member members of the Hillsborough environmentally sound practices, who specializes in urban resto- found an obscure article about Garden Club now have vivid followed by a tour of Hog Island ration projects and sustainability the garden’s origin and its link to images of this spectacular coastal Oyster Farm, where sustainable was recently hired to redesign the PGC while doing research on the preserve. Club members were shellfish are hand-raised on garden for the benefit of the lilacs, park’s website. The Lilac Garden at awestruck by the windswept Tomales Bay. Our two-day stay the community, and the club. Duniway Park would be a perfect bluffs, emerald green hills, and also included delicious meals at —Nancy Herpers quiet bays of this 71,000-acre restaurants known for locally national treasure. sourced ingredients and sticky On the brink of being sold for buns that are rumored to be development, the Point Reyes coveted by Martha Stewart. We area became part of the US heard that her request for the National Park Service in 1969 recipe was politely declined! after conservationists fought to —Elizabeth Lewis

HGC members before their hike. Photo by Lennie Gotcher The Lilac Garden at Portland’s Duniway Park. Photo by Nancy Herpers

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events. The Courtyard Garden The schedule of classes included will be a cornerstone of the Floral Design’s “Que Seurat, museum’s centennial celebra- Seurat,” Horticulture’s “Spanish tions, which begin in November. Tile,” and Photography’s “Cele- To mark the completion of the brating Early California Archi- garden’s renovation, SFGC held a tecture.” The conservation and special celebration in June. education exhibit, winning the —Anne May Marion Thompson Fuller Brown Conservation Award, contained 500 plants from WAGC’s Part- Woodside-Atherton ners 4 Plants site along the San Garden Club Francisco Bay, a boardwalk, and Woodside, CA pictures illustrating restoration work being done to revive the They arrived by the busload, in Santa Fe GC members breaking ground to renovate the New Mexico fragile ecosystem. Signage and Museum of Art Courtyard Garden. From left: Jackie McFeeley, Dora Horn, cars, and on foot to admire The video provided explanations, Enid Tidwell, Carol MacDonald, Shelly Green, and Barbara Asarch. Arts of the Garden at the Allied while birdsongs and a table with Arts Guild, a 1929 Spanish postcards and pens created a Entering its centennial year, the Colonial arts complex in Menlo contemplative corner. Several Santa Fe museum recognized that time had Park, CA; they left surprised that a WAGC members earned Best Garden Club taken a toll on its infrastructure. flower show could entail so much in Show. Sandy Patterson was Sante Fe, NM Sadly, the extensive repair work more than flowers. Between the awarded the Harriet DeWaele meant the total destruction of hundreds of people who attended; Puckett Creativity Award for Gardening at an altitude of the garden. Under the leadership the dozens of participants, judges, her contemporary floral design. 7,000 feet is an endurance event. of two SFGC presidents, Carol and clerks from as far away as Barbara Tuffli’s Arisaema ringens Extreme temperatures, wind, hail, McDonald (2015-17) and Cyndie New Jersey and Hawaii; and ‘Cobra Lilly’ won the Catherine and blistering sun can destroy an Gullickson (2017-19), the club the months of planning and Beattie Medal, and novice Wendy untended garden in a few days saw the opportunity to create workshops, Woodside-Atherton Rohn picked up a ribbon for her and the sturdiest of structures in an even more beautiful garden Garden Club’s event created haunting photo of a diving board a few decades. A beloved space space. SFGC members rallied, a sense of community and on a lake enshrouded in fog. exists in Santa Fe that welcomes formed a committee, established a celebrated beauty, excellence, —Kate Daly visitors to a tranquil retreat budget, retained the expertise of a and education in floral design, featuring green grass, splashing landscape designer, and dedicated horticulture, photography, and water, three seasons of flowers, and funds for the garden’s redesign and conservation. masterpieces of art. Founded in installation. The Museum’s direc- 1917 the New Mexico Museum of tor and project architect collabo- Art was built around a courtyard rated on the plans for the renova- garden, and for over 65 years the tion of the garden, which include Santa Fe Garden Club has been a modern irrigation system, plants dedicated to this special place, indigenous to New Mexico, hardy first tending the garden in 1951. perennials, and small evergreens. Through the years an enduring The lawn and enlarged walkway partnership between the museum’s that border the garden will ensure staff and SFGC members has the redesigned space continues to flourished. be the center of many museum Woodside-Atherton GC’s conservation exhibit. Photo by Gail Morey

The Bulletin :: Summer 2017  Late Bloomers

Late Bloomers and Sage Advice —Betsy Bosway, Indianapolis Garden Club, Zone X

Many years ago, after Most established gardens do Dragonflies are addicted Once Siberian iris forms a “melting” an untold number not require a lot of care; they to mosquitos. Attract these circle it is time to divide. The of Heuchera plants growing require regular care. Timely colorful winged creatures to plants grow away from the in my Memphis garden, I tried weeding, watering, deadheading, your garden by using upright center, which has died, and planting one in a large urn. and staking will improve the stakes as perches—for example, will not regenerate. Fifteen years later it is still looks of your garden. Treat bamboo poles, 3’-4’ tall and —Sue Welch thriving along with its many problems immediately. Most set 4’-5’ apart, in full midday Indianapolis GC, Zone X Feb/March 2008 relatives in well-drained pots. insect/disease problems will sun. Dragonflies will not —Lynn Fulton not disappear by themselves. sting people and are a natural “Hummingbird in My Garden” The Little GC of Memphis, Zone IX Identify offenders and treat them remedy. June/July 2009, The hummingbird will pause specifically. Use the least toxic —Donna Eure and hover remedy first: Don’t go after a Virginia Beach GC, Zone VII flea with an elephant gun! Aug/Sept 2001 Over a flower to discover To relieve itching, rub the Its depth, and then will sharply —Mary Ann McGourty inside of a banana peel on Plant garlic next to vegetables dip poison ivy rashes. GCA Honorary Member, Zone II Apr/May 2009 to repel aphids. Nasturtiums Into the flower’s scarlet lip. —Margaret Hall Intoxicated by such wine The Westport GC, Zone XI attract good insects that prey December 2010 Osmocote (and other timed- on bad bugs. Marigolds are It rockets from the trumpet release fertilizers) may be a great way to deter certain vine In the event of watering labeled as a 90-day fertilizer, beetles. Into the morning’s golden light restrictions try this tip. Drill but that assumes a temperature —Susie Wilson And prismatizes into flight. holes in the bottom of a large of 70 degrees and watering Knoxville GC, Zone IX —Barbara Avirett Feb/March 2003 twice a week. With cooler Amateur Gardeners Club, Zone VI (5-gallon) bucket, place it near May 1957 the base of a tree or shrub, and temperatures and less frequent fill with water. If necessary, use watering, it may last four wooden golf tees to control months. During a hot summer water flow. This slow-flow Osmocote may provide method is preferable to surface nutrients for fewer than six watering, as it allows water to weeks with twice-weekly go deep into the soil and roots watering, and for only one atercolor aintin W Your pet or your home P- from a photo g rather than spreading across month with daily watering. the surface of the dry ground. —Dedee O’Neil —Joan Sadler Akron GC, Zone X Oct/Nov 2003 Catonsville GC, Zone VI Feb/March 2003

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interest in nature. The book itself, hundreds of engravings to beautifully designed by Timber German botanist Hieronymus Press, has the look of a textbook, Bock’s Kreuterbuch (literally which it is. There is not even a “plant book”) of 1546. Plant dust jacket. And yet, somehow, reveals a fascinating juxtaposition: it is pretty enough for any coffee Kandel’s original engravings of table or guest bedside table. two lavender species are paired —Ellen Petersen with a brilliant color-enhanced Millbrook Garden Club, Zone III scanning electron micrograph of a cannabis plant. While the Kandel engraving shows the differences in Plant: Exploring the root, foliage, and flower between Botanical World two lavenders, the cannabis plant by Phaidon Editors photo reveals the psychoactive Phaidon Press, Inc. 2016 resin globules that cannot be and brief biographies of dozens identified without extreme A Botanist’s of significant artists, illustrators, A visually stunning book, Plant: magnification. Vocabulary: 1300 writers, photographers, explorers, Exploring the Botanical World Whether for a botanist, an Terms Explained and and botanists. celebrates the astonishing beauty art-lover, gardener, illustrator, Illustrated We quickly learn that botanical and diversity of plants and plantsman, or collector of fine art by Susan K. Pell and illustration likely began as a way surveys their complex world, books, it would be difficult Bobbi Angel to safeguard hungry or ailing their explorers, and illustrators. to think of a more perfect Timber Press 2016 people from plants that might Arranged in a uniquely structured gift than Plant: Exploring the poison them or fail to cure. Only way, Plant includes over 3,000 Botanical World. This collaboration between an the most careful illustrations, years of botanical art. Three —Jane Harris esteemed botanist, Susan Pell, and after all, can distinguish between hundred illustrations—from GCA Library Committee Chairman a renowned botanical illustrator, the flowers of the wholesome photographs to watercolors Middletown Garden Club, Zone II Bobbi Angel, has resulted in a carrot and the dangerous poison and oils, black-and-white delightful book, albeit with a hemlock. Renaissance artist David sketches, early printing and rather dry sounding title. It is an Kandel (1520-1592), one of the engraving methods, as well as illustrated dictionary of the terms best-known pioneers of botanical more modern-day inventions of you read in plant descriptions art and science, contributed and, for me anyway, so often do electron microscopy and scanners not understand. Almost every and printers—bring to life this one of the 1300 definitions has a spectacular tribute to botanical beautiful pen and ink drawing to art. further clarify it. Each photograph contained in For a plant nerd like me, this engrossing book is captioned looking into it is like eating with a discussion of the plant peanuts. Every time I look up one and its culture, as well as the definition, I am compelled to go artist’s intent and artistic process. find another. It belongs on the In addition to a fascinating working desk of anyone who loves history of botanical illustration, plants. Yet the exquisite clarity the volume includes a timeline of both prose and illustrations of plant-human interaction, a would appeal to all who have an plant taxonomy and glossary,

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July September 13-14 GCA Flower Show (IV), The 24-26 GCA Flower Show/Zone 9-21 Visiting Gardens Trip: 10-14 Conservation Study Trip, Rose City: Preserving the Past, Meeting (VII), Cultivating Sweden. Info: Elizabeth Snellings Cleveland, OH. Info: Jane Protecting the Future, GC of a Lasting Legacy, Twin City ([email protected]) Ellison ([email protected]) Madison, Madison, NJ. Info: GC, Winston-Salem, NC. Janet Baker (bakerjan@optonline. 15 19-20 10-31 On the Road with GCA, Garden Tour (I), Exclusive GCA Flower Show/Zone net) House and Garden Tour, Meeting (I), Where Stone Central Park Celebration, 16-18 Lenox GC, Lenox, MA. Info: Walls Meet the Sea at Little GCA Flower Show (IX), GCA HQ. Info: gca@gcamerica. Anne Fredericks (mermaid@bcn. Compton Community Echoes at the Art Museum of org net), lenoxgardenclub.net Center, Little Compton GC, Southeast Texas, Magnolia 10-29 FASG Workshop, La Jolla, GC, Beaumont, TX. Info: to 18-25 Home and Garden Tour Little Compton, RI. Info: 11-4 CA. Info: Fleur Rueckert (fleur. Heather Steers (heathersteers@gmail. Karen McCormick (macstop@aol. [email protected]) (XII), Behind Adobe Walls®, com) Santa Fe GC, Santa Fe, NM. com) November 17-19 Info: Enid Tidwell (etidwell01@ 19-21 Zone Judging Workshop GCA Flower Show (X), GC of Michigan, Grosse Pointe 8 Zone Mini-Meeting comcast.net); tickets: 1-800-283- (XII), Honolulu, HI. Info: (V), Wissahickon GC, 0122 ([email protected]) Emmy Seymour (emmy.seymour@ Farms, MI. Info: Carol Whitehead Philadelphia, PA. Info: Joan gmail.com) ([email protected]) 19-20 GCA Flower Show (I), Meet Biddle ([email protected]) 20-22 10-19 On the Road with GCA, Me on Nantucket, Nantucket GCA Flower Show (XI), 11-13 Zone Judging Workshop GC, Nantucket, MA. Info: Floral, Flora and Flash, Ladue Environmental Film Festival, GCA HQ. Info: gca@gcamerica. (VIII), Floral Design, Kathy Cruice (kathycruice@gmail. GC, St. Louis, MO. Info: Horticulture, & Photography, com) Margot Bean ([email protected]) org Augusta, GA. Info: Amy Nowell 18-20 27 Floral Display (I), Main 25-27 Shirley Meneice Horticulture Photography Study Group ([email protected]) Workshop, Shaker Village, Street Blooms, GC of Mount Conference, Lauritzen 29 Zone Judging Workshop (IV), Desert, Northeast Harbor, Gardens, Omaha, NE. Info: Harrodsburg, KY. Info: Eloise Carson ([email protected]) Floral Design, Horticulture, & ME. Info: Meredith Moriarty Linda Grieve (linda@lindagrieve. Photography, Springfield, NJ. ([email protected]) com) 18-20 Zone Judging Workshop (X), Info: Lynn Filipski (lynn.filipski@ (630) 654-1879 October Somerset Inn, Troy, MI. Info: gmail.com) Mary Smart (maryfsmart@gmail. August 10-12 GCA Flower Show/Zone com) 9 Annual House Tour (I), A Meeting (XI), Glaciers to Cliff Walk, Nantucket GC, Gardens, Garden Guild of 18-20 Boutique Fundraiser (V), Nantucket, MA. Info: Barb Jones Winnetka, Winnetka, IL. Pizzazz, GC of Allegheny ([email protected]) Info: Gail Hodges (gailhodges@ County, Pittsburgh, PA. Info: gmail.com) www.gcacpgh.org/pizzazz)

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