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S. Horn Volume 27, no. 1 Southeastern Conifer Quarterly March 2020 American Conifer Society Southeast Region Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia From the Southeast Region President As I write this, it has been a very mild and wet winter. It has been so wet it has been very difficult to work out in the yard without leaving deep tracks. So much for getting ahead of the cleanup and mulching. We had a hard freeze in late October and a lot of plants, including many conifers, did not like that. Everything should bounce back okay (I hope, fingers crossed), and I’m really looking forward to the new growth. We had several conifer related activities so far this year. Sandy gave a great lecture on miniature conifers for the DC area rock garden society. The winter national board meeting was in Nashville which went very well. Several people were able to make it out to our house and wade through the wet spots, while they were in town for the meeting. I was able to give a lecture to the Region 10 Daylily Society about an overview of conifers. Sandy’s and my crowd were very excited to see the great variety of conifers that are available. Hopefully, we will see a few new members, as a result. Bruce Appeldoorn and Leanne Kenealy gave grafting workshops this spring, as well. You can read about Bruce’s workshop in this newsletter, and Leanne will write about grafting bald cypress and dawn redwoods for the next newsletter. We have canceled our rendezvous in Columbia on March 21, because of covid-19. We hope the worst will be past, soon. Please stay safe, in the meantime. We still plan to hold our next rendezvous/meeting Arborcrest garden in Boone, NC, on August 8th. More details will be provided in the June newsletter, but save the date and plan to join us, now. Arborcrest is a garden you do not want to miss. Anyone near Boone who would like to have an open garden either Friday, August 7, or Sunday, August 9, please let me know, and we will include all the information in the summer newsletter. Finally, we will be holding elections for Vice President and Regional Director in April. Sandy Horn is running for her first full term as Regional Director, and Leanne Kenealy is running for Vice President. If you would like to nominate someone for either position, please contact me at [email protected] by March 25. Everyone will receive an email with voting instructions in early April. Jeff Harvey, President Inside this Issue Around the Southeast Region Conifer Outreach: How Our Reference Gardens are Garden Treasure—A Tribute to Mrs. Eleanor Frye by Tom Spreading the Love of Conifers Across the SER Pages 2 – 5 Cox Pages 9 - 11 Reference Garden List and Map Page 6 In the Garden— My Favorite Ladder, the Hasagawa Tripod Ladder by Sandy Horn Page 11 Growing Your Own: Bruce Appeldoorn Treats the Southeast Region to a Grafting Workshop Pages 7 - 8 Newsletter Wrap-Up; List of SE Officers and Staff Page 12 Page 2 Southeastern Conifer Quarterly March 2020 Around the Southeast Region Conifer Outreach! How Our Reference Gardens Spread the Love of Conifers Across the Southeast Region By Sandy Horn Beth Jimenez and Amelia Lane, our Reference Garden Chairwomen, recently provided the SER Leadership Team with a compilation of reports they had received from our Reference Gardens about programs and projects they had under- taken in the past year. It was so impressive that I thought I would share the information with all of you, so you could see how important the Reference Garden program is for preserving, promoting, and educating the public about the trees we love. Beth and Amelia are the Gold Standard, when it comes to heading up this vitally important program. When I attended the ACS Winter Board meeting in Nashville this February. I met Debbie Merriam, the new chairperson of the ACS Na- tional Reference Garden Committee. When I mentioned the way our RG chairs monitored and communicated with our gardens, she and the other regional board members were all excited to know more! As you are probably aware, the SER has many more Reference Gardens than any other region. This article explores the many reasons why we should be proud of what our Reference Garden Program is accomplish- ing, across the Southeast Re- gion. University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s education depart- ment held its annual wreath workshop where participants made a wreath and learned about conifers. Its horticultural therapy programs also utilized conifers in a variety of ways, including note cards and draw- ings utilizing conifers. School groups throughout the year University of Tennessee, Knoxville Courtesy of UTK were taught about conifers dur- ing tours, and a large variety of specialty conifers were featured at both spring and fall plant sales. UTK has also begun the process of mapping its collections using GIS technology, to be available online in mid-2020 for public access, in which its conifer collection will be a featured collection. UTK added 22 new conifers to its collection in 2019. At the University of Tennessee at Jackson, nine presentations included information on conifers, such as how they can be used to provide winter interest or as screen plantings. They added approximately 25 new conifers to their collection. (Continued on page 4) Page 3 Southeastern Conifer Quarterly March 2020 (Continued from page2 ) Norfolk Botanical Garden (VA) offered classes that incorporated conifers, such as “NBG Champion Trees”, which showcases VA State Champion conifers. NBG also highlights conifers in its Winter Interest classes. Carl Simmons lectured on the successes and challeng- es of growing conifers at NBG at the ACS Southeast Region’s 2019 Annual Meeting in Virginia. After being awarded the ACS Reference Garden Norfolk Botanical Garden—Norfolk—Tourism Media Grant, Norfolk Botanical Garden is in the process of incorporating educational signage, classes, and will be adding several new species to its col- lection. Norfolk Botanical Garden is currently creating the new educational, full-color, interpretative signs that focus on specific aspects of the conifer collection or that answer basic questions. The Garden’s programs will focus on ways to engage visitors with the gardens and landscape. The Garden’s conifer collection offers a wonderful opportunity to con- nect visitors with a diverse family of plants that includes some of the best known trees and shrubs in the world. An ex- tensive list of new conifer taxa will be added in 2020. Our only Florida Reference Garden, Gardens of the Big Bend, discussed conifers dur- ing tours for a number of schools and Master Gardener groups. Eleven conifers were added to the gardens in 2019, including Cephalotaxus har- ringtonii ‘Korean Gold’, Juni- perus virginiana ‘Ascension’, Pinus hwangshanensis, Podo- carpus macrophyllus ‘Variegata’, Podocarpus mac- rophyllus ‘Miu’ Roman Can- dle™, Podocarpus macrophyl- lus ‘Pringle’s Dwarf’, Podocar- pus macrophyllus ‘Sunshine The State Arboretum of Virginia’s ginkgo grove Photo by Tim Farmer Spire’, Taiwania cryptomeri- (Continued on page4 ) Page 4 Southeastern Conifer Quarterly March 2020 (Continued from page3 ) oides, Taxodium mucronatum ‘Oaxaca Child’, Taxus chinensis, and Thujopsis dolabrata ‘Jurassic Park’. The State Arboretum of Virginia held a Ginkgo Ex- travaganza in November as part of the University of Vir- ginia's Lifelong Learning Program. 45 people partici- panted in a half-day program including two formal gink- go presentations and a tour of the Arboretum's 332 tree ginkgo grove. Throughout the year, walking tours of the arboretum take place that all feature conifers to some extent. Two new conifers were added to the collection. As part of an ongoing project to locate and map arbore- tum specimens, The State Arboretum of Virginia took GPS locations for 96 conifers that had not been previ- ously part of its public mapping database. With this ad- dition, the conifer (including ginkgo) collection now in- cludes 1562 specimens that can be located using the on line map. After staff received training in taking standardized canopy measurements, The State Arboretum of Virginia began a process this year of checking its specimens against the Virginia state record database. It now has four conifer specimens listed as state champions: Sci- Conifers in the JCRA Japanese Garden Photo by S. Horn adopitys verticillata, Pinus pungens, Pinus wallichiana, and Cupressus arizonica. The arboretum is checking for oth- ers. East Tennessee State Uni- versity Arboretum conducted tours of its Dwarf Conifer Gar- den and published two articles on its conifers and conifer gar- dens. It also added 84 conifers. JC Raulston Arboretum (NC) featured conifers in its month- ly Plantsman’s tours, as well as other programs like Caring for Your Landscape Month by Month and propagation work- shops. It added 14 conifer taxa including wild collected seed from the very rare Pseudotax- Atlanta Botanical Garden Photo by Irena Rieppi us chienii. (Continued on page5 ) Page 5 Southeastern Conifer Quarterly March 2020 (Continued from page4 ) Reynolds Community Gollege Al Gardener Memorial Conifer Atlanta Botanical Garden (GA) hosted the ACS Na- Garden tional Winter Board Meeting and an ACS Rendezvous in February with presentations on favorite conifers and on conifer seed collecting trips to the Far East. ABG pro- duced an article highlighting Pinus krempfii, a threat- ened species that ACS co-sponsored to bring into pro- tection in the US, and worked with Torreya State Park in Florida to replant and regain genetic diversity after Hur- ricane Michael in October 2018. It also held a Lunch and Learn program talk on The Magic World of Conifers and hosted a tree pruning class with a section on conifers.
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