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March / April 2014 FEATURES DEPARTMENTS 5 NOTES FROM RIVER FARM 6 MEMBERS’ FORUM 8 NEWS FROM THE AHS Plant societies meeting at River Farm in May, AHS Spring Garden Market in April, River Farm is part of Garden Clubs of Virginia’s Historic Garden Week, 2014 AHS President’s Council trip in Seattle, annual National Children & Youth Garden Symposium in Columbus, Ohio, in July. 13 AHS MEMBERS MAKING A DIFFERENCE Carole Teja. 14 2014 GREAT AMERICAN GARDENERS AWARDS Meet this year’s winners. 44 GARDEN SOLUTIONS Controlling slugs. page 24 46 HOMEGROWN HARVEST Tasty edamame. 18 PLIGHT OF THE BUTTERFLY BY GABRIEL POPKIN 48 BOOK REVIEWS Gardeners and scientists are working together to preserve and Contemporary Designers’ Own Gardens, create habitat that will benefit monarchs as well as other import- The Wildlife-Friendly Vegetable Gardener, ant pollinating insects. and Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Conifers. 24 RUTH BANCROFT’S GARDEN BY SURUCHI MOHAN 50 GARDENER’S NOTEBOOK Ruth Bancroft’s legacy is not only her visionary California gar- Switchgrass is 2014 Perennial Plant of the den but the organization launched to preserve it. Year, fungus threatens banana production, snapdragon genes in tomatoes purported to increase health benefits, free plants entice 29 FOXGLOVES FOR AMERICAN GARDENS BY GRAHAM RICE students to pursue horticultural education, Classic and new selections of this cottage garden favorite add vibrant USDA makes inventory of crop plants’ wild color to summer gardens. relatives, rare water lily stolen from Royal Botanical Gardens, ANLA and OFA merged. 34 HEAVENLY CEANOTHUS BY NAN STERMAN 54 GREEN GARAGE West Coast gardeners have an edge on their East Coast counterparts Tools for spring gardening. when it comes to the beautiful shrubs in the genus Ceanothus. 55 REGIONAL HAPPENINGS 40 PRE-EMPTIVE PRUNING BY CAROLE OTTESEN 58 AHS CORPORATE MEMBER IN FOCUS Cutting back certain herbaceous perennials and grasses at the right Bonnie Plants. time will yield shapelier, more floriferous plants. 61 HARDINESS AND HEAT ZONES AND PRONUNCIATIONS ON THE COVER: A group of monarch butterflies sips nectar from Rocky Mountain blazing star 62 PLANT IN THE SPOTLIGHT SAXON HOLT (Liatris ligulistylis) in a Wisconsin garden. Photograph by Donna Krischan Saruma henryi. March / April 2014 3 AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY Making America a Nation of Gardeners, a Land of Gardens Board of Directors CHAIR Harry A. Rissetto, Esq. Falls Church, Virginia FIRST VICE CHAIRMAN Jane Diamantis McDonald, Tennessee SECOND VICE CHAIRMAN Mary Pat Matheson Atlanta, Georgia SECRETARY Leslie Ariail Alexandria, Virginia TREASURER J. Landon Reeve, IV Woodbine, Maryland IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR Susie Usrey Dayton, Oregon EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Marcia Zech Mercer Island, Washington Sandra Address Chevy Chase, Maryland Q Sally Spangler Barnett Jacksonville, Florida Q Amy Bolton Falls Church, Virginia Skipp Calvert Alexandria, Virginia Q Joel Goldsmith Gilroy, California Q Nancy Hargroves Manakin Sabot, Virginia Tom Johnson Washington, D.C. Q Louis Lynn Columbia, South Carolina Q Ed Snodgrass Street, Maryland EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Tom Underwood PRESIDENT EMERITUS Katy Moss Warner President’s Council The President’s Council is comprised of dedicated members whose annual support makes many of the Society’s programs possible, from youth gardening activities to horticultural awards programs. FOUNDER’S CIRCLE ($25,000+) Mr. and Mrs. George Diamantis Q Mr. and Mrs. Klaus Zech CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE ($10,000–$24,999) Mrs. Leslie S. Ariail Q Mr. and Mrs. Bill Barnett Q Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Bluemel Q Mrs. Elisabeth C. Dudley Q Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Farrell Q Mrs. Shirley Ann Nicolai Q Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Rissetto Q Ms. Katy Moss Warner LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY CIRCLE ($5,000–$9,999) Mrs. Lynda A. Bachman Q Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Bogle Q Ms. Inger Fair Q Mr. and Mrs. Albert Huddleston Q Mr. and Mrs. J. Landon Reeve, IV Q Mr. and Mrs. Tom Underwood Q Mr. and Mrs. W. Bruce Usrey HAUPT CIRCLE ($2,500–$4,999) Mrs. Sandra L. Address Q Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Burke, III Q Ms. Petra Burke Q Mr. and Mrs. Skipp Calvert Q Mr. and Mrs. James R. Cargill Q Mr. and Mrs. Andy Daniel Q Ms. Katherine B. Edwards and Mr. John A. Ronveaux Q Dr. Amy Goldman Fowler Q Mr. and Mrs. Joel Goldsmith Q Dr. and Mrs. William O. Hargrove Q Mr. and Mrs. Herbert F. Hargroves Q Mr. and Mrs. Norman Hofley Q Mrs. Marta J. Lawrence Q Dr. David D. Parrish COUNCIL MEMBER’S CIRCLE ($1,000–$2,499) Ms. Pauline Adams Q Mr. and Mrs. Robert Baillie Q Mrs. Katherine McKay Belk Q Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Benedict Q Dr. and Mrs. Charles A. Binder Q Mrs. George P. Bissell, Jr. Q Mrs. Elspeth G. Bobbs Q Mr. and Mrs. Allen W. Bush Q Mrs. Ellen Cabot and Mr. Matthew Watson Q Ms. Mary Ann Carey Q Mrs. Clarissa H. Chandler Q Mr. and Mrs. John E. Clark Q Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Conlon Q Ms. Linda Copeland Q Ms. Mary O. Dyer Q Mr. Joseph Errington and Mr. William Pullen Q Mr. and Mrs. Carl Estes Q Ms. Megan Evans and Mr. Howard M. Tucker Q Mrs. Walter S. Fletcher Q Dr. and Mrs. John A. Floyd, Jr. Q Mr. and Mrs. A.M. Gellman Q Dr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Hall, III Q Mr. and Mrs. Scott A. Harris Q Ms. Catherine M. Hayes Q Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Hess Q Ms. Nancy Hockstad Q Mr. Philip Huey Q Mrs. Virginia Korteweg Q Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Kral Q Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Latta Q Ms. Elaine Lee Q Mrs. Carolyn Marsh Lindsay Q Ms. JoAnn Luecke Q Mr. and Mrs. R. Scott Lyons Q Mr. and Mrs. Bob J. MacLean Q Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Marshall Q Mrs. Dorothy W. Marston Q Mr. Egon Molbak Q Mr. and Mrs. Peter Morris Q Dr. and Mrs. David E. Morrison Q Mr. James R. Moxley, Jr. Q Mr. and Mrs. James T. Norman Q Mr. and Mrs. Al Osman Q Ms. Julie Overbeck Q Mr. and Mrs. Bill Paternotte Q Ms. Allison Porter Q Dr. and Mrs. Dennis J. Rudzinski Q Mr. and Mrs. James A. Runde Q Mr. and Mrs. Mike Rushing Q Mr. R.P. Simmons Q Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Smith Q Mr. Ed Snodgrass Q Mr. C. Hugh Stephens Q Dr. and Mrs. Steven M. Still Q Dr. Adrian Tiemann Q Mr. Joe Viar, Jr. and Ms. Bonnie Christ Q Mrs. Angela M. Vikesland Q Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Volk Q Ms. Elizabeth M. Wehrle Q Mrs. Dudley B. White Q Mr. and Mrs. Harvey C. White Q Mr. and Mrs. Donald Winship Q Mr. and Mrs. John Zoldak HONORARY PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL Ms. Louise Fruehling* Q Mrs. Enid Haupt* Q Mrs. John A. Lutz* Q Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Miller* *In memoriam Corporate Members Bonnie Plants Q The Burpee Foundation Q The Care of Trees Q Chapel Valley Landscape Company The Espoma Company Q Kurt Bluemel, Inc. Q Monrovia Q Osmocote Horticultural Partners America in Bloom Symposium & Awards Program Q Bellingrath Gardens and Home Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Garden Symposium Q Cox Arboretum MetroPark Friends of Fellows Riverside Gardens Q Garden Centers of America The Gardeners of America/Men’s Garden Clubs of America Q Great Gardens and Landscaping Symposium The Homestead in the Garden Symposium Q Inniswood Garden Society 4 the American Gardener The American NOTES CFROM RIVER FARM GARDENER EDITOR David J. Ellis MANAGING EDITOR AND ART DIRECTOR Mary Yee ASSOCIATE EDITOR Viveka Neveln OME TIME ago, Tom and I visited George Ball Jr., CEO of the Burpee Com- EDITORIAL INTERN pany and a former president of the American Horticultural Society, at Burpee’s Hunter Stanford Fordhook Farm in Pennsylvania. While we CONTRIBUTING EDITOR S were there, we were particularly struck by the large Rita Pelczar collection of hellebores and their great diversity of CONTRIBUTING WRITER bloom color. Hellebores also are well represented at Carole Ottesen our River Farm headquarters in Virginia. Even as the EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD mid-Atlantic region experienced one of its coldest CHAIR Richard E. Bir and snowiest winters, these tough plants remained Brevard, North Carolina unfazed while providing some of the earliest indica- Allan M. Armitage tions of spring. It’s no wonder that the catalogs this Athens, Georgia year offer numerous new hellebore selections that Nina L. Bassuk will undoubtedly be snapped up by aficionados. Ithaca, New York Gardeners seem to gravitate to certain favorite plants or plant groups, whether it’s Steve Bender hellebores, daffodils, dahlias, or rock garden species. Many plants have attracted dev- Birmingham, Alabama otees who formed an organization dedicated to sharing members’ common interest. Panayoti Kelaidis Joining such a group is a great way to meet other like-minded gardeners, increase your Denver, Colorado growing know-how, and even acquire rare or unusual specimens of your favored plants. Richard W. Lighty Kennett Square, Pennsylvania Three years ago, leaders of a number of national plant societies suggested gath- Elvin McDonald ering to discuss opportunities and challenges in a culture where there are so many West Des Moines, Iowa activities competing for people’s time and attention. The first meeting, hosted in Denny Schrock 2012 by the American Rose Society in Shreveport, Louisiana, resulted in the formal Ames, Iowa creation of the Coalition of American Plant Societies (CAPS). Last spring, CAPS met at the headquarters of the American Camellia Society in Fort Valley, Georgia. CONTACT US The American Gardener 7931 East Boulevard Drive This year, the AHS is pleased to host this convening of national plant society Alexandria, VA 22308 leaders here at our River Farm headquarters in Virginia in May (see page 8 for more (703) 768-5700 details).
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