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CONIFERQUARTERLY | WINTER 2019 1 Winter 2019 Volume 36, Number 1 coniferAMERICAN CONIFER SOCIETY | CONIFERQUARTERLY | Volume 36, Number 1/WINTER 2019 CONIFERQUARTERLY | WINTER 2019 1 Winter 2019 Volume 36, Number 1 CONIFERQUARTERLY (ISSN 8755-0490) is published quarterly by the American Conifer Society. The Society is a non-profit organization incorporated under the laws of the CONIFER Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and is tax exempt under QUARTERLY section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Service Code. You are invited to join our Society. Please address Editor in Chief membership and other inquiries to the American Conifer Dr. Ronald J. Elardo Society National Office, PO Box 1583, Maple Grove, MN 55311, [email protected]. Membership: US & Editorial Staff Canada $40, International $60 (indiv.), $30 (institutional), $75 Dr. Ronald J. Elardo, Editor-in-Chief (sustaining), $100 (corporate business) and $150 (patron). Dr. Bryan Bott If you are moving, please notify the National Office 4 weeks in advance. Mary Donaldson Sandy Horn All editorial and advertising matters should be sent to: Sara Malone Ron Elardo, 5749 Hunter Ct., Adrian, MI 49221-2471, David Olszyk, ACS President and (517) 902-7230 or email [email protected] ConiferBase Editor Copyright © 2018, American Conifer Society. All rights reserved. No material contained herein may be reproduced Steve Courtney, ACS National Office Manager in any form without prior written permission of the publisher. Thomas Neff, ACS Vice President-Treasurer Opinions expressed by authors and advertisers are not necessarily those of the Society. Cover Photo Looking West into a Michigan sunset, Pinus Note: Hardiness Zone references in CONIFERQUARTERLY are USDA classifications unless otherwise specified. nigra ‘Arnold Sentinel’ and Pinus ponderosa stand guard at the front entrance of the home of CONIFERQUARTERLY Editor, Ron Elardo. Photo by the Editor Infrared Photos by Bill Blevins PlantsMap from the National Arboretum, DC, at the Northeast Region Meeting 2018 Design and Layout Jason Smart, Smarty Design Co www.smartydesign.co 2 CONIFERQUARTERLY | WINTER 2019 TABLE OF CONTENTS 4 President’s Message David Olszyk 5 Conefest 2019: The National Meeting Comes to The Oregon Garden Sara Malone People, Places and One Remote Conifer 8 Tom Cox Start your bonsai 12 Jack Christiansen Gone with the Wind 16 Ronald J. Elardo 19 UPDATE on Chilgoza (Afghan) Pine Sara Malone 20 Gardens of the Northeast John Waskiewicz 23 Solicitation of Nominations Dennis Groh 24 Humboldt-Huggers Leah Alcyon Member Profile: Peter Kruger 26 Peter Kruger Fishing for the Endangered Paiute Cypress 28 Scott Antrim CONIFERQUARTERLY | WINTER 2019 3 Thanks for a great season! motivated. I’m particularly proud retired, or semi-retired, empty- of those of you who supported us nested, somebody with a great by attending multiple events this deal of motivation and a basic year. My hope is that all of you can understanding about how private make it a resolution in the coming organizations work. Extensive year to attend a regional or national conifer knowledge is not required, event. You’ll be instantly hooked. I just appreciated. If this sounds like guarantee it, and, once you’ve been you, let your regional leadership to one, you’ll want to make the ACS know, or answer the call when the part of your vacation plans every call for nominations is announced in year. early spring. Our first important task for any new Wishing all Coneheads the best for year is the Winter Board Meeting; a fun and successful 2019! this year Atlanta, Georgia, on February 9th, followed on Sunday, February 10th, by a rendezvous David Olszyk at Atlanta Botanical Garden with President, American Conifer Society ACS President David Olszyk docent-led tours and lectures on A message about the 2019 National Photo by Anita Olszyk conservancy and tropical conifers, Meeting and Post-Meeting Tour, Oregon and a presentation of the efforts to Cooler temps, more natural collect seed from Vietnam’s rare and Make your reservations irrigation, and the welcome endangered Pinus krempfii. Your 2019 National Meeting bronzing of the cryptos, arbs, and ACS Board voted to help fund that hinokis means that our season mission late last year. Both your The Oregon Garden Resort (June 4th [or of fun is behind us. In 2018, the Board’s meetings and rendezvous 5th] through June 9th) American Conifer Society took are free to all current members. So, 1-800-966-6490 great leaps forward in the areas if you’re ever in the area of a Board of educating the public about all Meeting, be sure to stop by and see group code: CONIFER things coniferous. Our website, us. Always check our website and nightly rate is $119 specifically the ConiferBase, is social media, too, for information taking over the world with 10’s of on your Board and its activities. Post-Meeting Tour thousands of unique visitors every Riverside Inn and Lodge, Grants Pass, month. Considering that our charter In the spring, our Regions will Oregon is based on educating all people hold elections for one of their two (June 9th through June 11th, 2 nights) about these ancient and special seats on our National Board of 1-541-476-6873 woody plants we are very safe in Directors. We’ve just witnessed our intent to maintain our charitable the importance and power of group code: status. We have just introduced elections, and our leadership is a vastly improved website. It is no less important. In the nearly AMERICAN CONIFER SOCIETY easier to navigate and even more 20 years since I’ve been an ACS nightly rate is $142 enjoyable. I hope you’re as excited member, only once have I ever as I am. seen a contested election in the organization. I firmly believe that I had the pleasure last year of the vibrancy of a successful, non- attending three Western Region profit, all-volunteer organization is events, as well as the Northeast reflected by how enthusiastic its Region’s conference in D.C., and, members are about competing for of course, the big show in Raleigh. leadership roles. A prime candidate Our membership is strong and is someone who is either recently 4 CONIFERQUARTERLY | WINTER 2019 Conefest 2019: The National Meeting Comes to The Oregon Garden text Sara Malone photography Janice LeCocq We love attending our national beautiful combination with companion who don’t, we will have a group of meetings and we know their format: plants. Early June in Oregon is still very volunteers who will happily provide establish a headquarters in a hotel, spring-like, with lingering blossoms, transport. We also plan to use TOG’s conveniently located near worthy fresh new growth on conifers and shuttle to get to and from Conifer conifer-viewing, be it private, public, or the possibility of showers. The moist Kingdom. We are still finalizing the park. Board buses, visit conifers, repair air, abundant rainfall and cool nights schedule, but will release it with plenty to the hotel for dinner, rinse and repeat. produce healthy, vigorous plants that of time for you to make any bookings It’s a great way to enjoy coneheads often show themselves to be stellar you wish. and conifers. But—what if our hotel specimens of their species. were located in one of the most Our dinners, our breakfasts and one of comprehensive and beautiful conifer Because TOG is so lovely (and because our lunches will be onsite at the Resort gardens in the country? What if we there is much, much more to see or the Garden. Guests at the Resort could view choice specimens simply by than the conifer collection), we are can enter the Garden at any time, even walking out the doors of our rooms and designing this meeting with ample when it is closed to the public. In June, into a conifer wonderland? That’s what time at the Resort. In fact, Saturday’s the days are long and the weather mild. you’ll be doing in June 2019 when the agenda is entirely at the Resort! No You can stroll the conifers with coffee or Western Region hosts the ACS National buses, flexible scheduling and a wide cocktail in hand, and your room is close Meeting at The Oregon Garden Resort. variety of activities should make for a by if you need a wrap or an umbrella. relaxing, informative and fun day. We The Oregon Garden: will not only have space in the schedule But what about Friday? for viewing the conifers, we will have Your Saturday Resort! aesthetic pruning demonstrations, Iseli Nursery workshops and lectures, and free time The Oregon Garden (TOG), an ACS for strolling, loafing or spa treatments. Nearby the Oregon Garden, in the Reference Garden, was established in village of Boring, Iseli Nursery sits as the 1990s by the Oregon Association of We will also provide suggestions for a conifer altar, inviting worship. With Nurserymen to showcase the products nearby attractions, such as Conifer one of the most comprehensive and of Oregon’s #1 industry, horticulture. Kingdom/Rare Tree Nursery (3 miles breathtaking display gardens of any In partnership with the ACS, largely from TOG), Silver Falls State Park (11 nursery anywhere, Iseli, not open to the through the efforts of our own Doug miles from TOG) and Western Evergreen public, is rolling out the green carpet Wilson, TOG’s conifer collection has (14 miles from TOG). As there is no for the ACS. Their staff will be on hand grown into one of the best places public transportation from the airport to guide us and answer questions in the country for viewing choice to the Garden, we expect that most and point out the most unusual and cultivars, meticulously labeled, in of you will have rental cars. For those noteworthy specimens.
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