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JANUARY, 1989 PHS NEWS Volume XXX, No. 1 THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURALSOCIETY
than a dozen landscapers, greenhouse Pepperpot growers and crew members will work for the nine days at Show to create this dis- An everchanging roster of volunteers is
play that has been in the planning stages one of the important ingredients in the for almost 3 years. Of the effort, Bo says, Society's With them these volun- '89 FLOWER SHOW WELCOMES success. "It's been a lot of fun and more CANADIAN SCHOOL OF teers bring solutions to existing importantly, we believe the great variety HORTICULTURE challenges, new ideas and lots of energy of plants in these gardens will benefit all to fire up me and other staff members. The renowned Niagara Park's who visit the Show." At the heart of this volunteer corp is the Commission School of Horticulture will Society's governing board the Council, a send several of its top flight students to VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR FLOWER group of up to 40 men and women each decorate the entrance to this year's TENT of whom serves the Society for a three- Flower Show with a dazzling display of SHOW MEMBERS' year term with an option to renew for one color entitled, "Kaleidoscope: The Help us greet our special guests and additional term. Each of our officers, all of Wonderful World of Color". This theme fellow members by offering them refresh- in the Tent during the whom are elected by the Council, serve display is sponsored by AT&T and the ments Members' for a two-year term with the option to Government of Ontario, Ministry of Flower Show. renew for one additional term. Agriculture. For a hint of what lies in If you are interested in volunteering to For the past four years the Council has store, imagine a gargantuan kaleidoscope be on our "hospitality crew" please call flourished under the watchful eye of chair alive with light and color reflecting Janet Evans (21 5) 626-8261. Robert S. Ryan to whom we owe many fabulous elevated beds of annuals on all thanks for his leadership. Our new chair, sides. Donald L. Felley, has served as the just beyond the entrance visitors will TRIPS ABROAD Society's vice-chair for the past two years stroll through a spectacular house and PHS will sponsor two exceptional trips and is also president of the Neighborhood garden setting created by our Central this spring, each with a different focus. In Gardens Association/A Philadelphia Feature exhibitor, Waterloo Gardens of June Jane Pepper will travel to Germany Land Trust, a new non-profit organization Devon and Exton . The massive display to visit outstanding nurseries and private the Society helped found last yearto assist will present color for all seasons begin- and public gardens. German horticulture in preserving neighborhood gardens and ning with spring displays of bulbs and sets many trends for the rest of the world community-managed open space. perennials and finishing up with a color- to follow. In late April PHS members will ful winter garden. Roberts (Bo) and Linda explore private and public gardens in Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Don is a Leboutillier, proprietors of Waterloo, say Holland and Belgium with Betsy Gullan. chemist with a doctorate in organic chemistry from the University of Illinois. the challenge of creating every display at To receive itineraries for either trip, With and Haas, the company Don the Flower Show is exciting but this year please check the box on the reservation Rohm surpasses the rest in high expectations. form. joined following graduate school, he has Thousands of snapdragons, geraniums, travelled the world and lived with his wife lubelia.ageratum, impatiensandahostof June and family in France before return- other annuals, perennials, shrubs and MEMBERSHIP NOTES ing to the corporate headquarters in In trees will fill the display in a design that Check your mailbox for your final Philadelphia in 1964. 1978 he was will be viewed from the inside looking renewal notice. If you have not renewed elected president and chief operating out. Bo, who first became involved with yet, please do so as soon as possible so officer of Rohm and Haas, a position he until retirement in 1986. the Flower Show 1 5 years ago, likens this that we're sure to include your name in held year's effort to "building three Flower the Flower Show ticket mailing the last When president of Rohm and Haas, Shows at once. The winter garden will be week in January. In addition to Flower Don participted in numerous city and the easiest to create in terms of forcing Show tickets, this mailing will include community organizations, serving as and the biggest challenge when it comes general Show information, spring chairman of the Greater Philadelphia First to displaying color. And, we'll have a few activities list, and membership cards. Corporation, as a director of the Greater surprises in the winter garden that If you paid your dues but have not Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and
include, a lavish greenhouse and tips on received your tickets by February 1 3, planting for color in the winter land- please call Linda Davis at (215) 625- Continued on page four scape." Bo, Linda and a team of more 8265. Activities Program begins promptly at 5:45 pm FLOWER ARRANGING SEMINAR FOR followed by wine and nibbles. BEGINNERS January-February Fee: $6 members; $8 guests Saturday, February 4, 10 am-3:30 pm Note: The Library will be open until This seminar is designed for those who 5:45 this evening. want to become familiar with the LECTURE, MEETING unique qualities of flowers, foliages, and (Open without charge to all) branches as an art medium. Students will PENNSYLVANIA BONSAI SOCIETY learn balance, pleasing size relationships, Friday, January 20, 8 pm and depth through discussion, slides, and Program: "Insects and Diseases", TWO LECTURES ON INTERNATIONAL exercises. Jeffjabco HORTICULTURE Participants will create arrangements
PHS is pleased to welcome Dr. J. C. to take home. Containers, mechanics, LECTURE: A GARDEN LOVER'S VIEW Raulston for two lectures on horticulture and plant material will be provided. OF CHINA in Holland/Belgium and Germany. Dr. Bring lunch; beverages will be provided. Wednesday, January 11, 5:45-7:15 pm Raulston is professor at North Carolina Instructor Priscilla-Gene Shaffer
State University and director of its Patricia Schrieber will share her teaches flower arranging at Temple arboretum. He travels extensively and is experiences and slides from a recent University, Ambler Campus. well-acquainted with gardens, plants, horticultural exchange program in China. Fee: $66 members; $70 guests and commercial horticulture industries Patricia is program planning manager at throughout Holland, Belgium, and Philadelphia Green, the Pennsylvania Germany. LECTURE: COLOR AND PATTERN Horticultural Society's community IN THE GARDEN outreach gardening program. Tuesday, February 7, 5:45-7:15 pm Program will begin promptly at Judy Glattstein, landscape consultant 5:45 pm followed by wine and nibbles from Wilton, Connecticut, will discuss Fee: $6 members; $8 guests HORTICULTURE IN HOLLAND color from a scientific, emotional, and The Library will be open until 5:45 pm AND BELGIUM aesthetic viewpoint, stressing how our this evening. Wednesday, January 25, 5:45 pm eye perceives color and our responses to The Dutch and Belgian horticultural tints, tones, shades, and hue. The focus industries excel in developing LECTURE: GETTING STARTED WITH new will be subtle and dynamic flower and markets and promoting new plants. The ROCK GARDENING foliage combinations. A slide presenta- Dutch are the first to import and export Saturday, January 14, 10 am-noon tion will range from computer-generated new plants, and Holland has becrJrne the Snow date: Saturday, January 21, 10 am- images and still life arrangements to world's center for plant production, dis- noon flowers, single and in combination, in Anita Kistler will discuss the essentials tribution, and marketing. Bulbs and cut garden settings. flowers are only part of the appeal; plants for successful rock gardening including Ms. Glattstein teaches at The Brooklyn and their landscape uses considered fresh site selection, soil preparation, placement Botanic Garden and The N.Y. Botanical and new in American gardens have of rocks, plant selection, care and culture Garden and has written many articles for often existed in Dutch and German of appropriate plants. national gardening magazines as well as gardens for many years. Anita is a long-time member of the the New York Times. Program will begin promptly at American Rock Gardening Society and Program will begin promptly at 5:45 pm followed by wine and nibbles. many other gardening societies. She does 5:45 pm followed by wine and nibbles. Fee: $6 members; $8 guests most of her own propagating and culti- Fee: $8 members; $10 guests vates her own extraordinary gardens in Note: The Library will be open until Note: The Library will be open until West Chester. 5:45 pm this evening. 5:45 this evening. Fee: $8 members; $10 guests
BORDER DESIGN LECTURE: USE OF COLOR IN MONET'S HERBACEOUS GARDEN Wednesday, February 8, 10 am-2:30 pm four-hour class Wednesday, January 18, 5:45-7:15 pm Judy Glattstein's on HORTICULTURE IN GERMANY herbaceous border design will explore Giverney was a painter's garden from Thursday, January 26, 5:45 pm color and plant combinations. Dis- which Claude Monet derived inspiration The Germans are technical innovators cussions will include: combining plants for studies of color and light. Monet's use and this is reflected in their commercial in a border for aesthetic effect; different of color in his original garden and the production and private and commercial plant categories to be combined; seasons restoration changes that have evolved development of outstanding plants. of bloom; value of seed head or fruit. will be discussed in an illustrated talk by German gardens are the most innovative We'll see the same plant in different situa- Elizabeth Murray, who worked at in garden style; their new technology and tions and hone our perceptions of how Giverney for a year. new varieties set the trends that are color and texture behave in combination. Elizabeth Murray ran a successful embraced in other parts of the world. Ms. Glattstein is a lecturer, author, and landscape business in California and begins promptly at 5:45 landscape consultant from Wilton, coordinated the San Francisco Landscape Program pm followed by wine and nibbles. Connecticut. Garden Show in 1 986 and 1 987. She is Participants should bring a brown bag the author of a garden calendar entitled Fee: $6 members; $8 guests lunch; coffee and tea will be provided. "Monet's Passion" and cultivates a Note: The Library will be open until
1 guests 2-acre garden in Bucks County. 5:45 pm this evening. Fee: $ 7 members; $20 6 9
PROPAGATION WORKSHOP: After a lecture/demonstration, partici- DEMONSTRATION: ARRANGING GROWING FROM SEED pants will plant three containers of un- WITH COLOR Tuesday, February 14, 2-4 pm or 6-8 pm usual seeds rarely available in the trade. Friday, February 17, 10am-noon Learn basic techniques for growing All materials will be provided. Color and flower selections are very your own plants from seed from expert Limited registration for members and personal choices, but there are guidelines Roxie Gevjan, whose blue ribbon entries guests. Fee: $19 members; $21 guests. for using color combinations in arranging in the Philadelphia Flower Show are Evening registrants may bring a sand- to evoke the desired mood or reaction. nearly all grown from seed. Roxie wich; coffee and cookies provided. You will see how different color combi- achieves a high rate of germination using nations can highlight, blend, or contrast, various techniques. as Audrey Nichols demonstrates clever use of color in flower arranging by creat- ing monochromatic, analagous, and opposite color arrangements.
Arranging mechanics and skills will not Clip and mail reservations to: be taught; the emphasis will be on how PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, colors affect each other.
19106 Audrey Nichols is an experienced
Reservations: arranger who is a frequent winner at the Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form Philadelphia Flower Show. Her back-
below to speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. ground is in the decorative arts, and she Confirmations for events at PHS are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we has her own flower design business. will expect you. Field trip confirmations with important trip information are Fee: $16 members; $19 guests
mailed ten days prior to the event. There is limited space for all activities (except
spring garden visits). Each activity is listec in two consecutive issues of the PHS LECTURE: CREATIVE FENCES AND News. WALLS Thursday, February 23, 5:45-7:15 pm LECTURE: GARDEN LOVER'S LECTURE: COLOR AND Barbara Brown, landscape designer at VIEW OF CHINA PATTERN IN THE GARDEN Heritage Garden in Mendenhall, will
1 Members $6 Guests $8 Members $8 Guests $10 explore the creative aspects of fences anc walls, styles, architectural and site com- HERBACEOUS BORDER DESIGN GETTING STARTED WITH ROCK patibility, construction materials, and Members $1 7 Guests $20 GARDENING plants that can be used in conjunction Members $8 Guests $10 WORKSHOP: GROWING FROM with them. SEED Ms. Brown will briefly discuss con- LECTURE: MONET'S GARDEN Members $19 Guests$21 struction of dry walls and stonewalls as Members $6 Guests $8 2 pm 6 pm well as style selections —free standing, retaining, and terracing. LECTURE: HOLLAND AND DEMONSTRATION: ARRANGING Program will begin promptly at BELGIUM WITH COLOR 5:45 pm, followed by wine and nibbles. Members $6 Guests $8 Mem bers $ 1 G uests $ 1 Fee; $6 members; $8 guests Note: The Library will be open until LECTURE: GERMANY LECTURE: CREATIVE FENCES 5:45 this evening. Members $6 Guests $8 AND WALLS Members $6 Guests $8 FLOWER ARRANGING FOR PANEL: PLANT REGISTRATION PANEL DISCUSSION: PLANT BEGINNERS PATENTS AND REGISTRATION, PATENTS, AND Members $66 Guests $70 # Attending TRADEMARKS Tuesday, February 21,7 pm A knowledgeable panel of professionals Please send more information on Spring 1989 trip to Holland/Belgium or Gprmany will explore the world of plant registra- tion, patents, and trademarks from the viewpoints of a lawyer, wholesale
I would like to help in the Flower Show Membership/Information Booth grower, and plant breeder. This public
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I would like more information on new Flower Show Video
PHS News (UPS 7636-40) is published monthly except NAMF July by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut Street. Philadelphia. Pa I9106. Subscription— addrfss $8. 50 per year— Single copies 80c. Second class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. Postmaster: send address
changes to PHS News, 325 Walnut Street. Phila , Pa. 19106. ZIP TFI FPHONF: home Chair: Robert S Ryan President: Jane G Pepper wnrk Editor: Lisa Stephano Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth C Cullan Pepperpot continued patents and trademarks, will discuss the Cooking with flowers, Jenny Leggatt, legal ins and outs of applying for and 1987. chairman of a special task force that using patents, costs, timing, and benefits Garden style, Penelope Hobhouse, studied Philadelphia's ports. He also derived. Steve Hutton, president of 1988. served as a member of the Board of Conard-Pyle, will talk about options for Trustees of Abington Memorial Hospital lapanese garden construction, Samuel the plant breeder who wants to market his and on the Chairman's advisory Group of Newsome, 1988. new plant emphasizing realistic aspects the World Affairs Council. My weeds, Sara B. Stein, 1988. of new plant production, marketing, and We keep Don pretty busy around The new seed-starters handbook, 325 distribution. Walnut Street with Society and Land Trust Nancy Bubel, 1988. Rick Lewandowski, curator for business, but he still finds time to play Rodale's garden insect, disease and horticultural research at the Morris tennis, ski and serve on the boards of the weed identification guide, Miranda Smith Arboretum, will discuss the initial plant University of Illinois Foundation and the and Anna Carr, 1988. registration, and sometimes final steps for Maison de la Chimie in Paris and to tend those developing new plants. Rick will his apple orchard in upstate outline reasons and procedures for Pennsylvania. registering plants from a public garden's Statement of Ownership Management and Circulation (Act Working with Don will be two vice- of October 23, 1962; Section 4369, Title 39, United States perspective. Code). I. Date of Filing September 16, 1988, 2. Titleof chairs, Morris Cheston, and Publi- Jr. Barbara cation: PHS News. 3. Frequency of Issue: Monthly, except Program will begin promptly at 7 pm My 4-5. Location of Known Office of Publication and Head- Heckert. Morris chaired the 1 988 Flower for about one hour, followed by a ques- quarters: 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. Show Preview Dinner and is a partner in 6. Names and Addresses of Publisher, Editor and Managing tion and answer session and Editor: Publisher — Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, the law firm of Ballard Spahr, Andrews Philadelphia, Pa. 19106; Editor — Lisa Stephano, 325 Walnut refreshments. Street, Philadelphia, Pa, 19106. 7. Owner — the Pennsylvania and Ingersoll. He's active in many civic Horticultural Society, Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. 8. Known Although there is no charge for this organizations and is a director of the bondholders, mortgages and other security holders holding program, reservations are required to one percent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages or Zoological Society of Philadelphia, a other securities; None, 9 Extent and Nature of Circulation: assure ample seating. Please use the reser- Average member of the Board of Managers of Actual No. No. Copies Copies of vation form on page three. Pennsylvania Hospital and as a director of Each Issue Single Issue Extent and Nature During Published The Mutual Assurance Company. In addi- of Circulation Preceding Nearest to 12Mos. Filing Date tion to gardening, Morris and his wife A Total No. Copies Cynthia do a little farming in Montgomery New in Library (Net Press Run) 7829 7900 B Paid Circulation County, with pigs and chickens as their 1. Sales through dealers and key producers. carriers, street vendors counter sales Babs Heckert was born in Kentucky American gardens, Peter Loewer, 2. Mail Subscription 7705 7681 1988. C Total Paid Circulation and has lived near Unionville for 25 (SumoflOBI and 10B21 7705 7681 years. A member of The Seedlings garden Annuals and bedding plants, Graham D Free Distribution by Mail, Carrier or other means club, she became active in PHS programs Rice, 1986. Samples, Complimentary, and other free copies 66 66 through the Harvest Show in the early 70s The backyard vegetable factory, Duane E. Total Distribution (Sum of C andD) 7777 7747 when she and her husband Dick pro- Necomb, 1988. F. Copies Not Distributed 1. Office left over, un- duced some marvellous exhibits from The bonsai book of practical facts, use, accounted, spoiled after their large-scale vegetable garden. Later, Jerome Meyer, 1 988. printing 58 153 2. Return from News Agents she chaired the Show and has served on The book of fresh flowers, Malcolm G Total (Sum of E, F1 and 2 • should equal net press run the Awards, Exhibits and Nominating Hillier, 1988. shown in A) 7829 7900 committees. She serves on the boards H 1 certify that the statements of Cooking from the garden, Rosalind made by me above are President the John Bartram Association, Chester Creasy, 1988. correct and complete lane G. Pepper County Hospital, the Delaware Symphony and Wilmington's Grand Opera.
Second Class Postage laneG. Pepper PMS NEWS paid at President THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY Philadelphia, PA 325 WALNUT ST. • PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 Activities Phone (215) 625-8250
PANEL DISCUSSION (continued) service program is geared towards professionals developing new cultivars, the amateur (hobbyist) who has de- veloped a new variety, and to anyone who has found a sport or a new plant and is uncertain about ways to protect it and, at the same time, benefit from its introduction.
Bill Elliott, a lawyer with Synnestvedt
and Lechner and a specialist in plant \\OR// Visit PHS Exhibit: Flower Show Memorabilia
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FEBRUARY, 1989 PMS NEWS Volume XXX, No. 2 THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURALSOCIETY
^ If you do not plan to attend the managed to force 78 pots of bulbs for Members Preview on Saturday, try to competition. Last fall Walt retired and
plan your visit for Monday evening built a new coldframe allowing him to
his entries. 1 March 6 or later in the week between nearly double bulb By 992, we figure Walt will be forcing for the 3 and 6 pm when crowds are smaller. central feature. v* Plan to spend between three and four In addition to participating in the entry- hours at the Show. You won't want to exhibit, has the miss anything major or mini. way AT&T sponsored FLOWER SHOW TREASURES production of a brochure on color in the k* If possible, take public transportation. A richness exists at the Philadelphia garden. Be sure to pick up a copy at the A SEPTA shuttle bus will take you from Flower Show that surpasses the splendor Show. 30th Street Station to the Civic Center of even the most extravagant floral dis- We're also grateful to the Margaret and back again for a small fee. Call plays. It isthe feeling of family- exhibitors, Dorrance Strawbridge Foundation for SEPTA information for other route and volunteers, members and staff who have assisting us in the production of the information, 574-7800. worked year after year to create a fare (215) atriums, the exciting new garden class, horticultural showcase for the world. c" If you plan to drive, Valet Parking is "Let the Sun Shine In." Mary Jo The Flower Show family like all other available across the street from the Strawbridge, garden class chair, reports families, has a history filled with bright Civic Center for a fee of $10.00. that the following clubs will exhibit: The moments and darker times and, fortu- i* And finally, bring a large shopping bag Gardeners, Greene Countrie Garden nately, with people who had the foresight - there's a ton of garden goodies in the Club, Penn Valley Garden Club and West to see us through the latter. 1 989 marks Flower Show Market Place. Chester Garden Club. the 25th anniversary of PHS' manage- We're also pleased to welcome the ment of the Flower Show. Prior to 1 964, Mercedes-Benz Authorized Dealers of the Show was run by Philadelphia Flower Delaware Valley as the sponsors of the Show, Inc. When management was Florist Invitational exhibit. Last year, as turned over completely to PHS, the our first experiment with this class, we budget was lean, and it was the Flower welcomed ten local flower shops with Show family that kept things rolling magnificent floral arrangements. This through thick and thin. year, look out for the Florist Invitational Happy Anniversary to all of you who Pepperpot exhibit at the foot of the escalator. have joined us in this labor of love. You Last but not least, thanks go to two are PHS' Flower Show treasures. The PHS mailbag often brings good friends who are sponsoring portions
surprises, such as the package I received a of the Preview Dinner on March 4th. First couple of months ago includinga will and Pennsylvania Bank will provide the floral a check. Also enclosed was a touching decorations for Convention Hall and note from a widow, explaining that her some 200 table arrangements, and the husband had left a donation to PHS with Pepsi Cola Bottlers of the Delaware grateful thanks for all the visits to the Valley and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Philadelphia Flower Show he and his wife Honickman have generously provided a had enjoyed. Thank you good friend. donation and assistance with the Preview '89 FLOWER SHOW TIPS Thanks from the Flower Show also to Dinner cocktail party.
This year's big event Kaleidoscope: AT&T, once again a Show sponsor, in Thanks to all our sponsors for giving us
The Wonderful World of Color promises support of the entryway kaleidoscope. that little edge to make this a very special
to be an exciting adventure into the world When we first invited AT&T to partici- event. of floral color. To enjoy a leisurely visit to pate in the Show several years ago, we the Show we encourage you to take a look were deighted to find that Walt Fisher, at the check list below prior to making company vice president, had been an "Jo^e
your trip. active exhibitor in the competitive classes )aneG. Pepper »»* Wear comfortable shoes — the for several years. For the '88 Show, when President Flower Show covers six acres. Walt was working in North Jersey, he 2
Activities Registration Events After a lecture/demonstration, partici- pants will plant three containers of un- February-March usual seeds rarely available in the trade. All materials will be provided. Special Events Limited registration for members and FLOWER ARRANGING SEMINAR FOR guests. Fee: $19 members; $21 guests. BEGINNERS MEMBERS' PREVIEW, PHILADELPHIA Evening registrants may bring a sand- Saturday, February 4, 10 am-3:30 pm FLOWER SHOW wich; coffee and cookies provided. This seminar is designed for those who Saturday, March 4, 12:30-3:30 pm want to become familiar with the Members may use their tickets for the unique qualities of flowers, foliages, and Members' Preview on Saturday, March 4, branches as an art medium. Students will 12:30-3:30 pm, or any other day, March learn balance, pleasing size relationships, 5-12. and depth through discussion, slides, and If you wish to bring a guest for the exercises. Preview, there is a charge of $25 for Participants will create arrangements adults and $10 for children under 12. to take home. Containers, mechanics, DEMONSTRATION: ARRANGING Preview tickets are available at PHS or at and plant material will be provided. WITH COLOR the Civic Center on March 4. Bring lunch; beverages will be provided. Friday, February 17, 10am-noon Life members will receive a weekly Instructor Prist 'ilia-Gene Shaffer Color and flower selections are very pass and one member's ticket. Individual teaches flower arranging at Temple personal choices, but thereare guidelines members receive one ticket each; family University, Ambler Campus. for using color combinations in arranging and contributing members, three tickets; Fee: $66 members; $70 guests to evoke the desired mood or reaction. sustaining members ten tickets. Those You will see how different color combi- families with more than three members nations can highlight, blend, or contrast, living under one roof who want addi- as Audrey Nichols demonstrates clever tional tickets forchildren under the age of use of color in flower arranging by creat- 2 1 should apply in writing, enclosing a LECTURE: COLOR AND PATTERN ing monochromatic, analagous, and self-addressed, stamped envelope to )ane IN THE GARDEN opposite color arrangements. C. Pepper, President, PHS, 325 Walnut Tuesday, February 7, 5:45-7:15 pm Arranging mechanics and skills will not Street, Philadelphia, 19106-2777. Please Judy Glattstein, landscape consultant be taught; the emphasis will be on how state the names and ages of all family from Wilton, Connecticut, will discuss colors affect each other. members and the number of additional color from a scientific, emotional, and Audrey Nichols is an experienced tickets needed. No tickets will be mailed aesthetic viewpoint, stressing how our arranger who is a frequent winner at the unless all of the above conditions are eye perceives color and our responses to Philadelphia Flower Show. Her back- met. tints, tones, shades, and hue. The focus ground is in the decorative arts, and she Advance sale tickets are available at the will be subtle and dynamic flower and has her own flower design business. PHS reception desk and at many local foliage combinations. A slide presenta-
Fee : $ 1 6 mem bers ; $ 1 9 guests garden centers and nurseries and through tion will range from computer-generated
Ticketmaster: $8.25 for adults ($9 at images and still life arrangements to
Show); $4.50 for children under 12 (same flowers, single and in combination, in price at Show). Ticketmaster prices will garden settings. be slightly higher to accommodate Ms. Glattstein teaches at The Brooklyn handling charges. Botanic Garden and The N.Y. Botanical Garden and has written many articles for national gardening magazines as well as the New York Times. LECTURE: CREATIVE FENCES AND Program will begin promptly at WALLS MEMBERS' LOUNGE, PHILADELPHIA 5:45 pm followed by wine and nibbles. Thursday, February 23, 5:45-7:15 pm FLOWER SHOW Fee: $8 members; $10 guests Barbara Brown, landscape designer at Note: will until Heritage in will Sunday, March 5-Sunday, March 1 The Library be open Garden Mendenhall, 5:45 this evening. explore the creative aspects of fences and A quiet oasis does exist at the Philadelphia Flower Show. PHS members walls, styles, architectural and site com- patibility, construction materials, and are invited to the Members' Lounge in the plants that can be used in conjunction Hospitality Tent to relax with a cup of with them. coffee or tea. The Members' Lounge is PROPAGATION WORKSHOP: open each day Sunday through Sunday GROWING FROM SEED Ms. Brown will briefly discuss con- walls from noon-4 pm. To gain entry, please Tuesday, February 14, 2-4 pm or 6-8 pm struction of dry walls and stone as well as style selections free standing, bring your membership card, which was Learn basic techniques for growing — retaining, and terracing. mailed with your Flower Show tickets in your own plants from seed from expert latelanuary. Roxie Gevjan, whose blue ribbon entries Program will begin promptly at followed by wine and nibbles. If you would like to volunteer to greet in the Philadelphia Flower Show are 5:45 pm, our special guests in the Members' nearly all grown from seed. Roxie Fee; $6 members; $8 guests
Lounge, please call )anet Evans at achieves a high rate of germination using Note: The Library will be open until (215)625-8261. various techniques. 5:45 this evening. 5
LECTURE/WORKSHOP: AN include design shapes, color, scale, and PLANNING A PERENNIAL GARDEN APPROACH TO WEDDING DESIGN mechanics. Each participant will arrange Tuesdays, March 21, 28, April 4 Tuesday, March 14, 10 am-1 pm an attendant's bouquet from fresh flowers 9:30-1 1 :30 for Beginners; 1-3 pm
Prise ilia Gene Shaffer will repeat this and materials provided. Experienced Gardeners program for members who are interested Priscilla teaches arranging at Temple Three 2-hour sessions on planning and in doing wedding design as a business or University, Ambler Campus, and has her planting a perennial garden will be con- hobby. Discussions will include basic own floral design business. ducted by Jane Reed Lennon, whose side horticultural background includes train- information about the business of Program limited to 15. Fee: $33 wedding work: purchasing and condi- ing at Hillier's Nursery in England. members; $36 guests tioning flowers, planning the complete Each participant will learn about the Bring a sandwich; coffee and tea will project, budgeting time, and pricing. Dis- tools, techniques, and to be provided. plants necessary cussions of the aesthetic aspects will create an effective perennial garden. Dis- cussion topics will include: selection of compatible plants for sunny and shady locations, soil and feeding, propagation, low maintenance plants, and tips for ongoing maintenance.
The morning session is planned for new gardeners with new gardens and the Clip and mail reservations to: afternoon session for more experienced
PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, gardeners. Each session limited to 1 19106 participants.
Reservations: All materials will be provided includ- Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form ing a garden catalog and a perennial below to speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. handbook. Confirmations for events at PHS are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we Fee: $43 members; $46 guests will expect you. Field trip confirmations with important trip information are
mailed ten days prior to the event. There is limited space for all activities (except
spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two consecutive issues of the PHS News. WORKSHOP: DESIGNING A KNOT GARDEN Wednesday, March 22, 10 am -noon Holly Shimizu, public program FLOWER ARRANGING FOR PANEL: PLANT REGISTRATION specialist atthe S. Botanic Garden and BEGINNERS AND PATENTS U. former curator of the National Herb Members $66 Guests $70 # Attending Garden at the National Arboretum, brings LECTURE: COLOR AND WEDDING DESIGN her knowledge of herbs and experience in PATTERN IN THE GARDEN Members $33 Guests $36 growing them to this practical program on Members Guests $6 $10 PLANNING A PERENNIAL designing a knot garden. Combining WORKSHOP: GROWING FROM GARDEN (3 sessions) lecture and demonstration, Holly will SEED Members $43 Guests $46 teach the intricacies of knot garden design with emphasis on suitable plants Members $19 Guests $21 9:30 am 1 pm alone and in combination, tips for LECTURE: CREATIVE FENCES DESIGNING A KNOT GARDEN successful designs and their implementa- AND WALLS Members $20 Guests $24 tion, constraints of size, space, soil, and Members $6 Guests $8 climate, how to get started, and ongoing maintenance. Fee of $20 for members and $24 for guests includes workshop materials. Please send more information on Spring 1 989 trip to Holland/Belgium Participants should have a project in or Germany. mind plus space measurements and come ready to sketch out the designs on paper.
I would like more information on new Flower Show Video
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Chair Robert S. Ryan
work _ President: laneC Pepper Editor: Lisa Stephano Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth G Gullan PANEL DISCUSSION: PLANT Trips Abroad New in Library REGISTRATION, PATENTS, AND TRADEMARKS JOIN US FOR ADVENTURE IN The complete book of cut flower care, Tuesday, February 21, 7 pm THE LOW COUNTRIES Mary )ane Vaughan, 1988. knowledgeable panel of professionals A PHS invites you to join us for two A countryman's bed book, Roy will explore the world of plant registra- unique trips planned for Spring 1 989. Barrette, 1987. tion, patents, and trademarks from the We'll visit outstanding private and public Gardens of paradise, )ohn Brookes, viewpoints of a lawyer, wholesale gardens and museums in Holland and 1987. grower, and plant breeder. This public Belgium from April 27-May 1 1 . Starting in A history of horticulture in America to service program is geared towards Amsterdam, we'll travel to Apeldoorn, 1860, Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick, 1988. professionals developing new cultivars, Kerkrade, Brussels, Brugge, The latest country gardens, George the amateur (hobbyist) who has de- Scheveningen and The Hague with land- Plumptre, 1988. veloped a new variety, and to anyone scape architect Arend ]an van der Horst as Lilacs: the genus syringa, John L. Fiala, who has found a sport or a new plant and our guide. We'll explore the Low 1988. is uncertain protect it and, about ways to Countries as we learn about the bulb and The magic of kew, James at the time, benefit its same from cut-flower industries and enjoy wonder- introduction. Bartholomew, 1988. ful private gardens and hospitality. Yes, Bill Elliott, a lawyer with Synnestvedt Old garden roses and selected modern we'll see the bulbs and so much more . . . and Lechner and a specialist in plant hybrids, Josh Westrich, 1988. We'll be home long enough to catch patents and trademarks, will discuss the Patio roofs and gazebos. Sunset, 1988. our breath, view our slides, and pack our legal ins and outs of applying for and Private gardens of Scotland, James bags before departure for Germany, a using patents, costs, timing, and benefits Truscott, 1988. horticultural mecca where many out- derived. Steve Hutton, president of standing perennials and innovative Rodale's garden problem solver, Jeff Conard-Pyle, will talk about options for garden trends have originated. Travelling Ball, 1988. the plant breeder who wants to market his south from Frankfurt, we'll visit Tree Maintenance, 6th ed., Pascal P. new plant emphasizing realistic aspects Weisbaden, RothenburgobderTauber, Pirone, 1988. (reference book) of new plant production, marketing, and Stuttgart, Freiburg- im-Breisgau, Lindau, A view from a window. Heather Angel, distribution. and Munich. Southern Germany is the 1988. Rick Lewandowski, curator for land of fairy-tale castles, impressive horticultural research the Morris at public and private gardens, good food, FLOWER SHOW Arboretum, will discuss the initial plant and extraordinary sights. June 5-June 19 ADVANCE SALE TICKETS registration, and sometimes final steps for Please join us for one or both trips. ON SALE NOW AT PHS those developing new plants. Rick will We're saving a space for you. 325 WALNUT STREET outline reasons and procedures for To receive detailed itineraries, please FOR GROUP TICKET registering plants from a public garden's check the appropriate box on the reserva- INFORMATION perspective. tion form. CALL (215) 625-8250 Program will begin promptly at 7 pm for about one hour, followed by a ques- tion and answer session and refreshments.
Although there is no charge for this program, reservations are required to assure ample seating. Please use the reser- vation form on page three.
Second Class Postage PHS NEWS paid at THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY Philadelphia, PA 325 WALNUT ST. • PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 Phone (215) 625-8250 Visit PHS Exhibit: Frogs In My Garden \\ORT/ ( Marjory Niblock March 1-31, 1989
MARCH, 1989 PMS NEWS Volume XXX, No. 3 TI1C PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURALSOCIETY Pepperpot where flexibility and creativity are key DISTINGUISHED SERVICE attributes for good stagers as they juggle RECOGNIZED the entries and allotted spaces, praying The Board of Directors of the American As we roll into the final stages before that a giant azalea or a huge hanging Rock Garden Society presented the opening the '89 Flower Show, I wanted to basket doesn't appear unannounced at Award For Service to Charlotte and Alan acknowledge the Society's gratitude to the last minute, just as the committee is Slack recently for their distinguished two key volunteers, who complete their trying to get the area set for judging. service in the Delaware Valley Chapter. terms as chair of the Flower Show Executive Committee and chair of the Betsy proved to have the qualities for a Charlotte and Alan are long time perfect stager, along with lots of others of the and PHS. Their Competitive Classes at the close of this members ARCS Show. and we're deeply grateful to the effective contributions as propagators of all kinds job she's done in leading the team of of plant materials have contributed Herb Clarke's first official connection nearly 500 volunteers who make it all run greatly to ARCS' plant sales and PHS' with the Society was as honorary chair of smoothly in the Competitive Classes. plant dividend and their respective talks the City Gardens Contest in the early '80s. and workshop have inspired many. We soon realized that Herb wasn't in- Charlotte and Alan are regular exhibitors terested in a traditional "honorary" role. Jon£ and blue ribbon winners of several of just showing once a year to Instead up lane G. Pepper classes in the Flower Show. participated give away the prizes, Herb President actively in brownbag lunches and early morning planning sessions. The next year in TO: MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL New the Library we dropped the honorary title and asked HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY Herb if he would join the Council and the All about landscaping, Ortho Books, If you are a member of RHS wondering Flower Show Executive Committee, both 1988. what to do with the tickets they send you of which he did with such The art: of the kitchen garden, Ethne each year to the Chelsea Flower Show, enthusiasm that we later asked him if he Clarke, 1987. '87 please consider sending them on to PHS. would chair the committee for the Gifts and crafts from the garden, Each year, several of our members call to Show. Maggie Oster, 1988. ask if the Society has tickets for Chelsea. During that and subsequent Shows, A heritage of roses, Hazel Le Rougetel, We do —but just a couple and they're Herb has proved to be a wonderful sup- 1988. snapped up early. If we get extra tickets, porter. It's not easy to fit the Show's Home Landscaping, Elizabeth Murray, we place them on file in the Library and activities into his schedule as weathercas- 1988. they are always called upon by other ter for WCAU-TV, Channel 1 because The house and garden book of English members. If you have tickets to offer, he rarely gets to bed before the wee hours, gardens, Peter Coats, 1988. please send them to)anet Evans, Librarian by which time most show volunteers and On flowers, Kathryn Kleiman, 1988. at PHS. exhibitors have already enjoyed several Pergolas, arbours, gazebos, follies, hours sleep. But during Show week he's David Stevens, 1987. SEEDS AVAILABLE up with the rest of us larks, appearing at AZALEA Social gardens, Charlotte M. Frieze, the Civic Center in the early morning to Seeds of Exbury hybrid deciduous 1988. rally exhibitors, to chair a meeting or lead azaleas have been donated by an Vertical gardening, Caroline Boisset, a tour, and frequently he will return again anonymous PHS members. 1988. in the early evening to open his daily Since the plants are open-pollinated, Water gardens, Roddy Llewellyn, weather report from the Show. the color cannot be determined until they 1987. As his term as Show chair comes to an bloom about 4 years after germination. Wreaths, Richard Kollath, 1988.
end, Herb has stated his desire to stay The first 30 people to write to PHS, c/o involved and you can be sure we're going Lisa Stephano, will receive a gift envelope F LOWER SHOW to take him up on that offer. of azalea seeds to plant about 50 square Betsy Gray, chair of Competitive inches of surface. MARCH 5-12
for '88 '89 Shows, is Along with your seed packet, you will Classes the and Philadelphia another trooper who has spent countless receive a copy of the 1 980 Green Scene hours helping the Show. Betsy started on article, Growing Deciduous Azaleas from Civic Center the Staging Committee in the Horticourt Seed. 5 2
Activities Elizabeth Murray ran a successful land- transport completed project. All other
scape business in California and materials will be supplied. Limited to 1 coordinated the San Francisco Landscape participants. March-April Garden Show in 1 986 and 1 987. She is Bring a sandwich; coffee and tea will the author of a garden calendar entitled be provided. "Monet's Passion" and is working on a Fee: $34 members; $39 guests WORKSHOP: DESIGNING A KNOT book about Givernev. GARDEN This is a repeat of the lanuary program LECTURE: FRAGRANCE IN THE that filled so quickly. Wednesday, March 22, 10 am- noon GARDEN Program begins promptly at 5:45 pm Holly Shimizu, public program Tuesday, April 11, 5:45-7:30 pm followed by wine and nibbles. special ist at the U. S. Botanic Garden and Fragrance is frequently an integral part Fee: former curator of the National Herb $6.00 members; $8 guests of our enjoyment of a garden, and this Garden at the National Arboretum, will Note: The Library will be open until illusive element can happen bv design, teach the intricacies of knot garden 5:45 pm this evening. not by chance. Holly Shimizu of the U.S. design with emphasis on suitable plants Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C.,
alone and in combination, tips for WORKSHOP: PROPAGATING HERBS will talk about fragrance —what it is, how
successful designs and their implementa- Wednesday, April 5, 10 am-noon it affects us, how to add fragrance to a
tion, constraints of size, space, soil, and The focus of this workshop is propa- garden bv using trees, shrubs, perennials, climate, how to get started, and ongoing gating herbs, but the procedures are ap- biennials, and annuals that grow well in maintenance. plicable to the propagation of other her- the Philadelphia area. The focus will be Fee of $20 for members and $24 for baceous perennials. Yvonne Giunta of fragrant plants, plant combinations, and guests includes workshop materials. Giunta's Herb Farm in Honey Brook will extending fragrance through the seasons. Participants should have a project in demonstrate herb propagation by divi- Program will begin promptly at mind plus space measurements and come sion and by cuttings. Discussions will 5:45 pm, followed by wine and nibbles. ready to sketch out the designs on paper. include five types of roots and how to Fee: $6 members; $8 guests handle them, soil mixes, and tips for Note: The Library will be open until PLANNING A PERENNIAL GARDEN successful propagation. 5:45 pm this evening. Tuesdays, March 21, 28, April 4 Each participant will need clippers and a box or to transport eight small pots. 9:30-1 1 :30 for Beginners; 1-3 pm bag LECTURE: OLD ROSES—THEIR Experienced Gardeners Fee: $21 members; $24 guests. Limited HISTORY AND PLACE IN THE Three 2-hour sessions on planning and to 25 participants. GARDEN TODAY planting a perennial garden will be con- Thursday, April 1 3, 5:45-7:30 pm ducted by Jane Reed Lennon, whose WORKSHOP: PLANTING AN Hazel Le Rougetel, English garden horticultural background includes train- ENGLISH TROUGH designer, lecturer, and writer, will ing at Hillier's Nursery in England. In West Chester journey to PHS to talk about classic roses, Each participant will learn about the Monday, April 10, 10 am-noon their history, and their uses in today's tools, techniques, and plants necessary to Raindate: Tuesday, April 11, gardens. Le Rougetel will offer advice on create an effective perennial garden. Dis- 10 am-noon creating rose gardens, companion plants, cussion topics-will include: selection of Anita Kistler, propagator and rock and even growing roses in containers. compatible plants for sunny and shady gardener extraordinaire, will teach the ins Her own garden is in Hampshire, outstanding locations, soil and feeding, propagation, and outs of planting and maintaining a England where she has an low maintenance plants, and tips for garden trough. Each participant will collection of old roses. ongoing maintenance. receive seven plants, including a conifer. A limited number of autographed Rougetel's beautiful The morning session is planned for Registrants must bring a trough, or a clay copies of Le new new gardeners with new gardens and the saucer at least 4" deep, or a redwood box. book, A Heritage of Roses, will be avail- at this evening. afternoon session for more experienced Travel directions will be mailed in early able PHS
gardeners. Each session limited to 1 April. Limited to 20 participants. Program will begin promptly at 5:45 pm, followed by wine and nibbles. participants. Fee of $30 for members and $35 for
All materials will be provided includ- guests includes all materials except the Fee: $8 members; $10 guests ing a garden catalog and a perennial trough or container. Note: The Library will be open until handbook. 5:45 pm this evening. Fee: $43 members; $46 guests BASIC ANIMAL TOPIARY WORKSHOP: TEDDY BEAR AT-HOME SERIES: NATURALIZING LECTURE: USE OF COLOR IN Tuesday, April 11, 9:30 am-3:30 pm BULBS MONET'S GARDEN Create a small animal topiary that will In Hatboro, PA Monday, April 17, 10 am-noon Monday, April 3, 5:45-7:15 pm be happy on a windowsill or on your Kitty Lapp's is an Giverney was a painter's garden from patio. Betsy Nutt and Becky McBrien, "Tupenny Meadows" naturalized which Claude Monet derived inspiration experienced instructors of topiary techni- idyllic spot with thousands of daffodils growing companion for studies of color and light. Monet's use ques, will teach how to design, shape, among wildflowers in deciduous woods. Kitty of color in his original garden and the plant (using Ficus pumila), and maintain will discuss naturalizing bulbs, how to get restoration changes that have evolved small animal topiaries. This year's design started, tips on planting, tools easily used, will be discussed in an illustrated talk bv will be a teddy bear. bulb sources, and best varieties. Elizabeth Murray, who worked at Bring pliers, wire cutters, and a card- 8" Kitty naturalizing bulbs Giverney for a year. board box or tray at least 1 square to Lapp has been for many years as a hobby in addition to WORKSHOP: VICTORIAN FLOWER include flowers grown in this area during being a keen gardener, a PHS 1 8th ARRANGING Victorian times and Victorian attitudes Century Garden volunteer, and a (Intermediate level) towards them. member of the PHS Library Committee. At The Highlands, Ft. Washington, PA Participants will complete one arrange-
Travel directions will be mailed in early Tuesday, April 18, 9:45 am-noon ment and will need clippers and a box to April. Accomplished arranger Audrey transport the finished project. All other
Program limited to 20. Fee: $12, Nichols will teach the Victorian style of materials will be provided. members arranging, emphasizing appropriate Audrey Nichols has a background in containers and flowers. Discussion will the decorative arts and has her own flower design business.
Because the emphasis of this program Clip and mail reservations to: is on style, not arranging principles, the PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, class is not appropriate for beginning 19106 arrangers. Reservations: Travel directions to The Highlands will Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form be mailed in early April. below to speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. Fee: $42 members; $45 guests Confirmations for events at PHS are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we will expect you. Field trip confirmations with important trip information are
mailed ten days prior to the event. There is limited space for all activities (except LECTURE: SEASHORE GARDENING
spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two consecutive issues of the PHS Tuesday, April 18, 5:45-7:30 pm News. Horticulturist Antoinette Serrell will share her knowledge and experiences of DESIGNING A KNOT GARDEN VICTORIAN ARRANGING gardening in Montoloking, NJ, a barrier Members $20 Guests $24 Members $42 Guests $45 reef with the ocean to the east and the bay on the topics will PLANNING A PERENNIAL LECTURE: SEASHORE west. Discussion include microclimates and peculiarities GARDEN (3 sessions) GARDENING of gardening at the seashore, what will Members $43 Guests $46 Members $6 Guests $8 grow near the bay and the ocean, 9:30 am 1 pm (Wait List) AT-HOME SERIES: SPRING indigenous plants and their uses, an LECTURE: COLOR IN MONET'S GARDENING PRACTICES alternative to grass lawns, protection of GARDEN Members $12 plants, and container gardening. Members $6 Guests $8 COMBINATION GARDENS Serrell gardens in the Valley Forge area PROPAGATING HERBS members $35 Guests $38 and Montoloking, NJ, writes and lectures
1 on various horticultural subjects, and is Members $2 Guests $24 PRUNING SMALL TREES AND PLANTING GARDEN TROUGHS SHRUBS technical advisor to Thompson and Morgan Seed Company. Members $30 Guests $35 Members $15 Guests $17 Program begins promptly at 5:45 pm, ANIMAL TOPIARIES ARRANGING FOR BEGINNERS: followed by wine and nibbles. Members $34 Guests $39 MAY BASKET Fee: $6 members; $8 guests Members $33 Guests $36 LECTURE: FRAGRANCE IN THE Note: The Library will be open until GARDEN AT-HOME SERIES: ROCK 5:45 pm this evening. Members $6 Guests $8 GARDENING Members LECTURE: OLD ROSES—THEIR $12 AT-HOME SERIES: SPRING HISTORY AND PLACE IN THE FIELD TRIP: WALDOR ORCHIDS GARDENING PRACTICES GARDEN AND FISCHER GREENHOUSES In Honey Brook, PA April 10 am-noon Members $8 Guests $10 Members $2? Guests $25 Wednesday, 19, Raindate: Friday, April 21, 10 am-noon Pick 1 )p CC HC AT-HOME SERIES: Twenty-five PHS members are invited NATURALIZING BULBS GARDEN VISITS: CHESTER to visit Yvonne Giunta's garden for a Members $ 1 2 COUNTY TO WILMINGTON hands-on program on spring gardening Members $2 Guests $5 practices, procedures to help insure attractiveness, efficiency, and abundant bloom for the rest of the growing season. Yvonne will discuss general clean-up, I would like more information on new Flower Show Video (Continued on page four)
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Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth C. Gullan Activities (continued) box to transport completed arrangement. We'll eat our brown-bag lunch at All other materials will be supplied. Fischer's Greenhouse and then tour the fertilizing, several methods of staking, Fee: complex, including a production edging, revitalizing the plant $33 members; $36 guests.
limited 1 greenhouse. The Fischers specialize in border, division of hardy perennials, and Program to 5. gesneriads but also offer tropical plants routine garden maintenance. AT-HOME SERIES: ROCK GARDENING and field azaleas. Yvonne Giunta's garden has woody West Chester, PA Details of bus pick-up in Fairmount trees, shrubs, and herbaceous perennials Saturday, April 29, 10 am-noon Park and Center City will be mailed in natural as well as a pond and a bog. Raindate: Saturday, May 20, 1 am-noon mid-April. Participants will need clippers and PHS members are invited to visit Anita appropriate shoes clothing. Travel Fee: $22 members; $25 guests and Kistler, expert propagator and rock directions will be sent in early April. gardener, in West Chester, PA. Anita GARDEN VISITS Fee: $12, members manages hersizeablesunny rock gardens visits the most single-handedly and combines dwarf Spring garden are among WORKSHOP: COMBINATION popular PHS activities because members conifers with an extraordinary collection GARDENS can visit interesting and unusual gardens of alpine and rock garden plants, many of April Thursday, 20, 10 am-noon of fellow members. Gardens will be open which she has propagated herself. Meadowbrook Farm, Meadowbrook, PA to members on Sunday, April 23, in the Anita will discuss the ins and outs of Nanci K. Walsh, retail manager at Wilmington to Chester County area, rock gardening, alpine and rock garden Meadowbrook, will teach how to create 1-5 pm; Sunday, May 7, 1-5 pm, on the plants, and their culture. combination gardens, which blend Main Line; and Sunday, June 11, Travel directions will be sent to foliage in blooming and plants decorative 1 -5 pm, in Bucks County. participants in mid-April. Limited to 20 baskets or other containers. After we receive your reservations by members. Discussion will include techniques for ma/7, we will send tags, maps, garden Fee: $12 members creating combination gardens, tips on descriptions, and travel instructions. when, what, and how to plant for longer Look for details and reservation forms FIELD TRIP: WALDOR ORCHIDS AND lasting arrangements, and use of house FISCHER GREENHOUSES for May and June garden visits in future plants for greater versatility. issues of the PHS News. Lin wood, N) All materials (plants plus basket) will be Monday, April 24, 8:30 am-3:45 pm supplied. Each participant will complete Plant fanciers and orchid enthusiasts, GARDEN VISITS: CHESTER one project using annuals for summer please don comfortable clothes, pack COUNTY—GREENVILLE- bloom. WILMINGTON your lunch, and fill your pockets for an Travel directions to Meadowbrook Sunday, April 23, 1-5 pm interesting day at two retail greenhouses Farm will be mailed in mid-April. near Linwood, NJ. Our first stop will be Seven gardens open to PHS members Fee: $35 members; $38 guests Waldor Orchids, where Walter Off will and guests include a city property with garden rooms, a wildflower garden, PRUNING SMALL TREES AND SHRUBS take us in hand. After a tour of the greenhouses daffodils in a plant collector's garden, Saturday, April 22, 10 am-noon and an orchid-potting demonstration, Walt will lead to the greenhouses, a perennials nursery, a rock At Chanticleer in Wayne us adjacent Brighton Farms, the largest garden, and a look at wildflowers on the Horticulturist Peter Brindle will supplier of cattleya cut flowers on the east serpentine barrens. demonstrate basic pruning for trees, coast. Fee: $2 per member; $5 per guest shrubs, and roses. Discussions are aimed at the homeowner who needs informa- tion about proper tools and their uses, timing, and techniques.
Travel directions will be mailed in early April.
Program limited to 20 participants. Second Class Postage Fee: $15 members: $17 guests PI1S NEWS paid at FLOWER ARRANGING WORKSHOP: THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY Philadelphia, PA MAY BASKET FOR BEGINNERS 325 WALNUT ST. • PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 Wednesday, April 26, 9:45 am-noon Phone (215) 625-8250 Step into flower arranging and gain confidence with experienced arranger Audrey Nichols, who will show how to create a May basket, a light and airy mass arrangement. Discussion will include elements and techniques of effective arranging.
Participants should bring clippers and a WORTj Visit PHS Exhibit: Artwork by Ann Simon
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APRIL, 1989 PUS NEWS Volume XXX, No. 4 TI1C PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURALSOCIETY
Philadelphia's gardeners are a skillful, Pepperpot imaginative group growing many By the time this edition of the News interesting sometimes unusual crops - lands in your mailbox, we should be well cotton, tobacco and a fascinating variety into a big new project, relandscaping JUNIOR FLOWER SHOW of medicinal herbs along with an endless Fairmount Park's Azalea Garden, which SALUTES EDUCATION selection of vegetables, fruits and flowers, was planted by the Society and given to Geography, Science, Music and Math judging only takes one day. the city in 1952. Those familiar with the play a significant role in this year's spring To receive more Information, check the Garden, located to the west of the competition. Natalie Kempner, Show appropriate box on the reservation Philadelphia Museum of Art, know of its chair, and her enthusiastic Committee coupon or call Flossie Narducci at PHS beautiful situation, but also that it's have come up with the theme "It's (215)625-8280. recently been in deplorable condition. Academic" which integrates the Show's Last the Society artistic classes with scholastic subjects to summer Council that the first create: a desk arrangement for the music decided Garden was to be the teacher, a table arrangement for a foreign project of a new Pennsylvania exchange student, hats from history, Horticultural Society program, Center mobiles, a book marker, and scholarly City Green. Under the guidance of pro- THE CITY IN BLOOM scarecrows. gram manager Barbara Olejnik, we hired Springtime throughout the region is a Shusterman & Schiller as design con- The junior Flower Show is an excellent time to rejoice but never so in much as the sultants. Over the winter they have introduction to horticulture for the junior city neighborhood where empty lots once worked with William Mifflin, Director, set. Hands-on projects such as garbage strewn with trash are now bursting with and Donaghy and Carol gardening teach children Jim Gangewere about the bloom. of Fairmount Park to nail down the design wonderful garden that exists in their own One of this year's brightest "bloomers" and prepare the bid package for this sub- kitchens - citrus fruit seeds, root vegetable is the lie Ife Community Park in North stantial renovation project. As the project tops, sweet potatoes. And, there are more Philadelphia. The garden has benefitted designer, for Shusterman & Schiller, than a dozen other horticultural from contributors many including the Victoria Olin's challenge is to maintain categories students aged pre-school Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the the graceful character of the Garden through 1 2th grade can enter. Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network and while extending the period of bloom To receive a copy of the 1 989 Philadelphia Green, The Pennsylvania beyond the traditional April/May splash Exhibitor's Schedule, call Horticultural Society's community out- of color. (215) 625-8280. Send your completed reach horticultural program. The "blood, The construction schedule was regblidllori blank lu PHS by April 26 sweat and tears" of this effort however developed Entries will be accepted on Tuesday, May to accommodate appropriate was contributed by the neighborhood's planting times, so in early spring you'll 1 7 from 1 1 am-5 pm. children, local artist Lily Yeh and neigh- see contractors laying water I i nes, prepar- The junior Flower Show will be held borhood leader Joseph "jo-Jo" Williams. ing beds and planting trees and shrubs. Thursday and Friday, May 18-19, The garden started out as compacted Several of Victoria's design decisions 9 am-5 pm and Saturday, May 20, 10 am clay, trash and glass. After clearingihe lot, were based on our desire to make the to 2 pm at the First Bank of the United the children pushed wheelbarrow after most of four large trees, one linden, one States, 3rd Street between Walnut and wheelbarrow of black soil onto the site Japanese scholar tree and two elms that Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia. Special and gradually the garden began to greatly enhance the landscape. Working events will be held each day. Free emerge. Lily Yeh described the transfor- directions from Richard Campana, admission. with mation as magical and although the an elm specialist, we have treated the
garden is still in its initial stages, it has latter for Dutch Elm disease. So far the made a vast improvement in the local trees seem to be responding well and TAKE A PEEK OVER THE FENCE AT landscape - a colorful wall mural pro- great precautions will be taken during YOUR NEIGHBOR'S BACKYARD vides the backdrop for climbing ivy and a construction not to damage these and Jim LaRosa, chair of The City Garden's centerpiece sculpture of mosaic tile. The other trees. Contest committee, is looking for a few garden is a symbol of hope for the neigh- good gardeners to join his team of judges borhood, a place to relax and enjoy for this year's Contest. spring. (continued on page six) 2
ques, will teach how to design, shape, WORKSHOP: VICTORIAN FLOWER Activities plant (using Ficus pumila), and maintain ARRANGING small animal topiaries. This year's design (Intermediate level) April-May will be a teddy bear. At The Highlands, Ft. Washington, PA
Bring pliers, wire cutters, and a card- Tuesday, April 18, 9:45 am-noon LECTURE: USE OF COLOR IN 8" board box or tray at least 1 square to Accomplished arranger Audrey MONET'S GARDEN transport completed project. All other Nichols will teach the Victorian style of Monday, April 3, 5:45-7:15 pm materials will be supplied. Limited to 1 arranging, emphasizing appropriate was a painter's garden from Giverney participants. containers and flowers. which Claude Monet derived inspiration Bring a sandwich; coffee and tea will Participants will complete one arrange- for studies of color and light. Monet's use be provided. ment and will need clippers and a box to of color in his original garden and the Fee: $34 members; $39 guests transport the finished project. All other restoration changes that have evolved materials will be provided. will be discussed in an illustrated talk by LECTURE: FRAGRANCE IN THE Audrey Nichols has a background in Elizabeth Murray, who worked at GARDEN the decorative arts and has her own Giverney for a year. Tuesday, April 11, 5:45-7:30 pm flower design business. Elizabeth Murray is the author of a Holly Shimizu of the U.S. Botanic Because the emphasis of this program garden calendar entitled "Monet's Garden in Washington, D.C., will talk is on style, not arranging principles, the Passion" and is working on a book about about fragrance —what it is, how it affects class is not appropriate for beginning Giverney. us, how to add fragrance to a garden by arrangers. This is a repeat of the lanuary program using trees, shrubs, perennials, biennials, Travel directions to The Highlands will that filled so quickly. and annuals that grow well in the be mailed in early April. Program begins promptly at 5:45 pm Philadelphia area. The focus will be Fee: $42 members; $45 guests followed by wine and nibbles. fragrant plants, plant combinations, and Fee: members; $8 guests $6.00 extending fragrance through the seasons. Note: The Library will be open until LECTURE: SEASHORE GARDENING Program will begin promptly at this evening. April 5:45-7:30 5:45 pm 5:45 pm, followed by wine and nibbles. Tuesday, 18, pm Horticulturist Antoinette Serrell will Fee: $6 members; $8 guests WORKSHOP: PROPAGATING HERBS share her knowledge and experiences of Note: The Library will be open until Wednesday, April 5, 10 am-noon gardening in Montoloking, N), a barrier 5:45 pm this evening. Yvonne Giunta of Giunta's Herb Farm reef with the ocean to the east and the bay in Honey Brook will demonstrate herb LECTURE: OLD ROSES—THEIR on the west. Discussion topics will propagation by division and by cuttings. HISTORY AND PLACE IN THE include microclimates and peculiarities Discussions will include five types of GARDEN TODAY of gardening at the seashore, what will roots and how to handle them, soil mixes, Thursday, April 13, 5:45-7:30 pm grow near the bay and the ocean, and tips for successful propagation. Hazel Le Rougetel, English garden indigenous plants and their uses, an Each participant will need clippers and designer, lecturer, and writer, will alternative to grass lawns, protection of a box or bag to transport eight small pots. journey to PHS to talk about classic roses, plants, and container gardening. Fee: $21 members; $24 guests. Limited their history, and their uses in today's Program begins promptly at 5:45 pm, to 25 participants. gardens. Le Rougetel will offer advice on followed by wine and nibbles. creating rose gardens, companion plants, Fee: $6 members; $8 guests and even growing roses in containers. WORKSHOP: PLANTING AN Note: The Library will be open until ENGLISH TROUGH Program will begin promptly at 5:45 pm this evening. nibbles. In West Chester 5:45 pm, followed by wine and Monday, April 10, 10 am-noon Fee: $8 members; $10 guests AT-HOME SERIES: SPRING 1 Note: The Library will be open until Raindate: Tuesday, April 1, GARDENING PRACTICES 10 am-noon 5:45 pm this evening. In Honey Brook, PA Anita Kistler, propagator and rock AT-HOME SERIES: NATURALIZING Wednesday, April 19, 10 am-noon gardener extraordinaire, will teach the ins BULBS Raindate: Friday, April 21, 10 am-noon and outs of planting and maintaining a In Hatboro, PA Twenty-five PHS members are invited garden trough. Each participant will for Monday, April 1 7, 10 am-noon to visit Yvonne Giunta's garden a receive seven plants, including a conifer. hands-on program on spring gardening Kitty Lapp will discuss naturalizing Registrants must bring a trough, or a clay practices, procedures .t&help insure bulbs, howto get started, tips^jR planting, saucer at least 4" deep, or a redwood box. attractiveness, efficiepfc^ and abundant tools easily used, bulb soptcSs, and best Travel directions will mailed in early be bloom for the rest otBtegrowing season. varieties. April. Limited participants. ^5> to 20 Yvonne will discuss^general clean-up, Kitty has been naturaUzmg bulbs Fee of $30 for members and $35 for fertilizing, several methods of staking, for many years as a hobby in addition to guests includes all materials except the edging, revitalising the plant being a keen gardert^a PHS 1 8th trough or container. border, divis^n.b) hardy perennials, and Century Garden votjioteer, and a routine gardSCmaintenance. BASIC ANIMAL TOPIARY WORKSHOP: member of the Pr^STibrary Committee. will need clippers and TEDDY BEAR Travel direetiirjKis will be mailed in early Participants appropriate shoes and clothing. Travel Tuesday, April 11,9:30am-3:30pm April. directions will be sent in early April. Betsy Nutt and Becky McBrien, Program limited to 20. Fee: $12, experienced instructors of topiary tech- members Fee: $12, members —
WORKSHOP: COMBINATION supplied. Each participant will complete demonstrate basic pruning for trees, GARDENS one project using annuals for summer shrubs, and roses. Discussions are aimed
Thursday, April 20, 1 am-noon bloom. at the homeowner who needs>rfrforma- Meadowbrook Farm, Meadowbrook, PA Travel directions to Meadowbrook tion about proper took artd^fia)r uses, will in Nanci K. Walsh, retail manager at Farm be mailed mid-April. timing, and teciwrtques^cP Fee: $35 members; $38 guests Meadowbrook, will teach how to create Travel dftectfions will be mai led in early gardens, which blend combination PRUNING SMALL TREES AND SHRUBS blooming and foliage plants in decorative Saturday, April 22, 10 am-noon Program limited to 20 participants. baskets or other containers. At Chanticleer in Wayne Fee: $15 members; $1 7 guests All materials (plants plus basket) will be Horticulturist Peter Brindle will
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LECTURE: COLOR IN MONET'S COMBINATION GARDENS WORKSHOP: ARRANGING IN GARDEN members $35 Guests $38 GLASS Members $6 Guests $8 Members $39 Guests $43 PRUNING SMALLnTR£*S AND PROPAGATING HERBS sHRuiMf y*& PROPAGATION WORKSHOP: Members $21 Guests $24 Members' $15 Guests $17 NEW SHRUBS FROM OLD PLANTING GARDEN TROUGHS ARRANGING FOR BEGINNERS: WOOD Members $17 Guests $19 Members $30 Guests $35 MAY BASKET ANIMAL TOPIARIES Members $33 Guests $36 FIELD TRIPS: Members $34 Guests $39 AT-HOME SERIES: ROCK WALDOR ORCHIDS GARDENING LECTURE: FRAGRANCE IN THE AND FISCHER GREENHOUSES Members $12 GARDEN Members $22 Guests $25 Members $6 Guests $8 AT-HOME SERIES: GARDENING Pick Up CC HC IN THE WOODS LECTURE: OLD ROSES—THEIR BARNES ARBORETUM Members $14 HISTORY AND PLACE IN THE Members $12 Guests $15 GARDEN AT-HOME SERIES: GARDENING Members $8 Guests $10 IN THE SHADE MT. CUBA CENTER Members $8 Members $10 Guests $12_ AT-HOME SERIES: ^=r? NATURAL^tNG |l)ri85« WORKSHOP: MAY BASKET HARRISBURG GARDENS Mpmh£rt#t (INTERMEDIATE) V Pick-up: CC HC Members $34 Guests $38 VICTORIAN ARRANGING Members $34 Guests $37 Members $42 Guests $45 NATIVE PLANTS FOR THE HOME GARDEN DUMBARTON OAKS, LECTURE: SEASHORE HILLWOOD GARDENING Members $15 Guests $18 Pick-up: CC HC_ Members $6 Guests $8 WORKSHOP: NANTUCKET Members $54 Guests $59_ LIGHTSHIP BASKET AT-HOME SERIES: SPRING Members $1 25 Guests $1 30 GARDENIr^P^ACTPCES GARDEN VISITS: CHESTER Members $12 COUNTY TO WILMINGTON Members $2 Guests $5
I would like to receive information on judging City Gardens Contest GARDEN VISITS: MAIN LINE I would like to participate in the 1 989 Harvest Show Challenge Class. members $2 Guests $5 Flowering kale, 'Peacock White' Miniature Rose, 'Sunbird' Eggplant, 'Pink Bride' PHS News (UPS 7636-40) is published monthly except luly by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 325 NAME Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. Subscription- SB. 50 per year— Single copies 80c. Second class postage ADDRESS paid at Philadelphia, Pa. Postmaster: send address changes to PHS News, 325 Walnut Street, Phila, Pa. 1 9106
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Editor: Lisa Stephano work_ Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth G. Gullan FLOWER ARRANGING WORKSHOP: David Benner is assistant professor in WORKSHOP: FLORAL DESIGN IN GLASS MAY BASKET FOR BEGINNERS ornamental horticulture at Delaware Wednesday, May 24, 10 am-1 pm Wednesday, April 26, 9:45 am-noon Valley College. His garden has been Priscilla Gene Shaffer of Temple Step into flower arranging and gain featured in magazines and Architectural University, Ambler Campus, will explore confidence with experienced arranger Digest's 1984 Gardens. the peculiarities of arranging with clear Audrey Nichols, who will show how to Because of restricted walking space, glass, the mechanics, and various create a May basket, a light and airy mass only ten members can tour the garden at approaches for creating unique arrange- arrangement. Discussion will include one time. Please indicate which tour you ments. Each student will take home one elements and techniques of effective want — 10 am or 11 am. completed arrangement plus ideas for arranging. Travel directions will be mailed in late using all those unused glass containers at Participants should bring clippers and a April. home. box to transport completed arrangement. Fee: $8 members, limited to 1 Participants should bring pruning All other materials will be supplied. shears, scissors, wire cutters, and a box to Fee: $33 members; $36 guests. transport arrangement. Container and Program limited to 1 5. FLOWER ARRANGING WORKSHOP: flowers will be supplied. Please bring a MAY BASKET (Intermediate) sandwich; beverages will be provided. AT-HOME SERIES: ROCK GARDENING Wednesday, May 10, 10 am-noon Fee: $39 members; $43 guests West Chester, PA Floral designer Audrey Nichols will Saturday, April 29, 1 am-noon gu ide you in making a basket handle from WORKSHOP: NEW SHRUBS FROM Raindate: Saturday, May 20, 1 am-noon vines to complete your light, airy mass OLD WOOD PHS members are invited to visit Anita arrangement. Saturday, May 27, 9:30-noon Kistler, expert propagator and rock Audrey will emphasize mechanics, An easy and foolproof method for gardener, in West Chester, PA. Anita style, color, and flower conditioning. increasing your collection of broad- manages her sizeable sunny rock gardens Participants should bring clippers and a leaved shrubs (including azaleas) has single-handedly and combines dwarf transport finished arrangement. All box to been developed by Alan Slack, PHS collection conifers with an extraordinary will be provided. other materials council member and experienced prop- of alpi ne and rock garden plants, many of Fee: $34 members; $38 guests agator. Participants will learn by doing, which she has propagated herself. and all materials will be provided. How- Anita will discuss the ins and outs of ever, if you want to propagate more of rock gardening, alpine and rock garden NATIVE PLANTS FOR your favorite shrubs, bring branches that plants, and their culture. THE HOME GARDEN have been cut the morning of the work- Travel directions will be sent to Saturday, May 1 3, 9 am-noon shop and placed in a polyethylene bag participants in mid-April. Limited to 20 At Chanticleer in Wayne with some water. Sharing with other members. Horticulturists Elizabeth Sullivan and participants is encouraged. Fee: $12 members Peter Brindle of Chanticleer, a private Early May is the best time to look estate in Wayne, PA., will present a three- around your neighborhood to see AT-HOME SERIES: hour program on native plants for the varieties you might want to grow. GARDENING IN THE WOODS home garden — trees, shrubs, and Appropriate plants include leucothoe, Newtown Square herbaceous perennials. Discussion topics azaleas, pieris, small-leaved Thursday, May 4, 9:30-noon include landscaping uses of native plants rhododendrons, contoneasters, and Roxie Gevjan, PHS member and expert and their care and culture, pests and viburnums. propagator, will tell how to plan and diseases. Fee: $17 members; $19 guests develop a controlled wildflower garden. Travel instructions will be mailed in
This will be an on-site study of soils, late April. Program limited to 20. FIELD TRIP: WALDOR ORCHIDS AND exposures, and mini-climates with sug- Fee: $ 1 5 members; $ 1 8 guests gestions on how to create these special FISCHER GREENHOUSES conditions to meet plant requirements. Linwood, NJ Monday, April am-3:45 We will see various degrees of light and WORKSHOP: NANTUCKET LIGHTSHIP 24, 8:30 pm
shade and consider the advantages and BASKET Our first stop will be Waldor Orchids, disadvantages of different mulches ... all Wednesday, May 17, 10 am-4 pm where Walter Off will take us in hand. in half an acre of woodland garden. Martha Wetherbee, one of America's After a tour of the greenhouses and an
Travel instructions will be mailed in best known basketmakers, will journey to orchid-potting demonstration, Walt will
late April. Limited to 1 5 members. PHS to teach techniques for making the lead us to the adjacent Brighton Farms, Fee: $14 members famous Nantucket lightship basket using the largest supplier of cattleya cut flowers splints she has gathered from northern on the east coast. AT-HOME SERIES: GARDENING New England brown ash trees in the old We'll eat our brown-bag lunch at IN THE SHADE Shaker tradition. Fischer's Greenhouse and then tour the
New Hope, PA The Nantucket lightship basket is 4Vi" complex, including a production
Saturday, May 6, 10 am or 1 1 am high and 3%" wide with a rim and handle. greenhouse. The Fischers specialize in
Raindate: Saturday, May 1 3, 9 am or Martha guarantees that each participant gesneriads but also offer tropical plants 10 am will complete a basket during this 6-hour and field azaleas.
David Benner's two acre garden in workshop. All materials will be supplied. Details of bus pick-up in Fairmount New Hope features mosses that are used Bring a lunch; coffee and tea will be Park and Center City will be mailed in
as an alternative to grass in this shady provided. mid-April. garden. Fee: $1 25 members; $1 30 guests Fee: $22 members; $25 guests 2
BARNES ARBORETUM DUMBARTON OAKS AND Other Events Friday, May 5, 10 am-1 pm HILLWOOD, WASHINGTON, D.C. WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION PHS trips to the Barnes Arboretum are Thursday, May 25, 7 am-7:30 pm Spring Conference and Annual Meeting always among the most popular each Our first stop will be the famous Garden State Park year. Barnes Arboretum, situated on 1 gardens of Dumbarton Oaks, designed by April 13 acres in Merion, PA, has a notable collec- the noted landscape gardener Beatrix For information: (215) 783-0634 tion of the best woody ornamentals for Farrand. The formal 10-acre gardens this zone. feature a series of garden rooms with HADDONFIELD GARDEN CLUB Elizabeth Farley, assistant director of plants chosen for beauty and year-round ANNUAL HERB SALE the Barnes Arboretum, will lead 25 PHS interest. Our special guided tour will April 27, 10am-4:30pm members and guests through the include perennial borders, roses, Haddonfield Historical Society Arboretum, where the seasonal attrac- peonies, fountains, pools, wrought iron 343 Kings Highway East, Haddonfield, N) tions include spring flowers, trees and and garden sculpture, specimen trees and Information: (609)428-2652 shrubs. shrubs. HILL PHYSICK KEITH HOUSE Participants should bring a sandwich; After lunch at Hillwood we'll have a Plant Sale dessert and coffee will be provided. After two-hour tour of the former home of 321 S. 4th Street lunch, walk around to the entrance of the Marjorie Merriweather Post, whose April 28-30 Barnes Foundation's gallery and tour the Russian collection is the most representa- For information: (21 5) 925-7866 collection at leisure. tive outside the Soviet Union. On display of FARMER'S ALMANAC 1989 FLOWER Travel instructions will be mailed to are extraordinary pieces by some artists, cabinetmakers, SHOW participants in late April. Europe's foremost and silver and goldsmiths, plus Faberge Delaware Valley College, Student Union Fee: $12 members; $15 guests eggs, porcelains, icons, Beauvais Building tapestries, and 18th century French Tuesday, May 2, 1 :30-5 pm CENTER MT. CUBA furniture. Information: (21 5) 884-4048 Friday, May 12,1-3 pm Fee includes round-trip transportation, PROVIDENCE GARDEN CLUB Thirty PHS members and guests will refreshments on the bus, lunch, all Plant Sale tour Mt. Cuba Center, in Greenville, entrance and guide fees. Tyler Arboretum Delaware, on the private estate and home Information about bus pick-ups in May 6 of Mrs. LammotduPontCopeland. Center City and Horticulture Center in For Information: (215) 565-3838 Knowledgeable guides will lead us Fairmount Park will be mailed in mid- through the wildflower garden areas and ANNUAL WILMINGTON GARDEN May. Limited to 25. naturalistic plantings as pictured in The DAY Fee: $54 members; $59 guests American Women's Garden. Over 100 Tour of distinctive homes and gardens kinds of wildflowers bloom in the spring May 6 656-6628 along with native rhododendrons, GARDEN VISITS For Information: (302) mountain laurel, and fothergillas. Spring garden visits are among the most SECOND ANNUAL GARDEN TOUR: Participants must provide own trans- popular PHS activities because members VILLA FELICITA, HARRISBURG portation. Travel directions will be can visit interesting and unusual gardens Saturday, May 6 mailed in late April. of fellow members. Gardens will be open Information: (71 7) 531 -6086 Fee: $10 members; $12 guests to members on Sunday, April 23, in the Reservation deadline: April 10 Wilmington to Chester County area, AFRICAN VIOLET SOCIETY 1-5 pm; Sunday, May 7, 1-5 pm, on the DAY IN HARRISBURG Show and Plant Sale Main Line; and Sunday, June 11, Thursday, May 18, 8 am-5 pm Plymouth Meeting Mall 1 -5 pm, in Bucks County. PHS members are invited to visit Villa May 6-7 After we receive your reservations by Felicita, a private garden developed over For Information: (215) 836-5467 mail, we will send tags, maps, garden fifteen years on the site of an abandoned CLUB HERB descriptions, and travel instructions. SWARTHMORE GARDEN farm. With a French country home as the SALE Look for details and reservation forms radiate all centerpoint, gardens in direc- Borough Hall (in front), Park Avenue, for )une garden visits in future issues of the tions and blend into island beds, transi- PHS News. Swarthmore tional shrub areas, a woodland, and many May 13, 10am-2 pm theme gardens. In the 20-25 developed UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA acres, there are more than 1 00,000 trees, GARDEN VISITS: CHESTER Philadelphia Garden Tour shrubs, herbaceous plants, and ground COUNTY—GREENVILLE- June 4 covers including a large number of WILMINGTON For Information: (215) 247-5777 or specimen plants from the Bergman Rara Sunday, April 23, 1-5 pm (215)662-2454 Flora Collection. Seven gardens open to PHS members Price includes round-trip bus transpor- and guests include a city property with HERB SOCIETY OF AMERICA - PA tation, box lunch at the garden, and late garden rooms, a wildflower garden, HEARTLAND UNIT afternoon refreshments on the bus. daffodils in a plant collector's garden, 7th Annual Herbal Delights Symposium greenhouses, a perennials nursery, a rock 20-21 Details of bus pickup at the )une garden, and a look at wildflowers on the 921-7513 Horticultural Center in Fairmount Park For Information: (215) serpentine barrens. and Center City will be mailed in early DELAWARE VALLEY DAYLILY SOCIETY May. Fee: $2 per member; $5 per guest Flower Show Longwood Gardens ]uly 9 Fee: $34 members; $37 guests (continued on page six) For Information: (215) 388-6741 (continued from page one) a donation towards the restoration of this (continued from page five) wonderful Garden. The opportunities GARDEN VISITS: MAIN LINE According to Heidi Shusterman, weed range from large trees to benches and Sunday, May 7, 1 -5 pm removal in the Azalea Garden will be a trash containers and I'd love to hear from Seven Main Line gardens open to PHS spring challenge because many "pernici- you. members and guests offer a great variety ous" perennial weeds such as knotweed In a future issue of the News we'll com- in horticulture and design. From smaller have become well entrenched in the ment on our plans for maintaining the gardens to large properties visitors will Garden. In some beds, close to the roots Garden. They're ambitious and we're enjoy espaliers, specimen trees and of the old trees, the contractors must hand going to need your help here too. shrubs, an old walled garden with box- cultivate rather than use systemic wood, gardens featuring wildflowers and weedkillers. 'JOaC azaleas, rhododedrons in a hillside set- By late April you will find several new lane G. Pepper ting and in a plant collector's garden, an shade trees in place including American President English park-like landscape, and a garden lindens and red oaks, as well as flowering planted to attract birds. trees such as sweet bay and large-leaf 1989 HARVEST SHOW CHALLENGE Fee: $2 per member; $5 per guests magnolias (Magnolia virginiana and M. If there's still a little room inyourspring macrophylla); Franklinia (Franklinia garden plans, consider participating in New in the Library alatamaka), fringe trees (Chionanthus vir- this year's Harvest Show Challenge Class. The backyard book, Rachel Carley, ginicus), fragrant snowbel I (Styrax obasia) The categories are: A flowering Kale - 1988. and Japanese stewartia (stewartia pseudo 'Peacock White', an Eggplant - 'Pink camellia). Several large-growing trees The Cattleyas and their relatives, Carl L. Bride', and a yellow miniature rose - will be planted in the shrub beds along Withner, 1988. 'Sunbird' (3" potted roses provided). A Kelly Drive to provide additional shade Chinese penjing, Hu Yunhua, 1987. limited number of entries are accepted so for the azaleas. The companion to roses, John Fisher, please register early by calling Flossie In selecting azaleas, Shusterman & 1986. Narducci at (2 1 5) 625-8280 or check the Schiller have worked with Paul Meyer The complete book of herbs, Lesley appropriate box on the reservation and Ann Rhoads of the Morris Arboretum Bremnes, 1988. coupon on page three. Your seeds will be and also with Fred Galle, garden con- Creating a Victorian flower garden, mailed to you along with growing instruc- sultant and formerly director of Callaway Stefan Buczacki, 1 988. tions. Roses may be picked up at our Gardens, Georgia, to incorporate plants The creative art of bonsai, Isabel le Annual Garden Day, April 29 at such as Rhododendron mucronulatum, Samson, 1986. Fairmount Park's Horticulture Center. azalea native to Japan an early-blooming Garden glory, Ted Humphris, 1969. While you're still in a "challenging" and late-blooming deciduous native Parahebes, Douglas Chalk, mood, look over your Harvest Show Hebes and azaleas such as Rhododendron 1988. Exhibitor's Schedule, which should arrive prunifolium and Rhododendron bakeri to at your home any day now, and decide Japanese courtyard gardens, Haruzo extend the season of bloom. what other garden delights you'd like to Ohashi, 1988. The Azalea Garden restoration has enter in the Show. If you would like to Landscaping: a five year plan, attracted a ground swell of support, be- receive an extra Schedule for a friend, Theodore James, 1988. ginning with two pruning days last spring please call Cheryl Monroe at (215) 625- Miniature and dwarf geraniums when members of the Philadelphia Com- 8250. (Pelargoniums), Harold Bagust, 1988. mittee of the Garden Club of America
volunteered their time and skills. Earlier
this year the Committee announced its intention to donate $5,000 towards the planting of trees. Conservation Projects, Inc., which has done a wonderful job of planting and beautifying Kennedy Second Class Boulevard from 20th to 30th Streets, has Postage also made a planting donation of $9,000. PI1S paid at A new feature in the Garden, "the icing NEWS Philadelphia, PA THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY on the cake" as Barbara Olejnik calls it, 325 ST. • PA 19106 will be an entrance pergola with teak WALNUT PHILADELPHIA, Phone 625-8250 benches and bluestone sitting walls (215) which will be generously contributed by The McLean Contributionship with a donation of $31,000. While a significant portion of the quarter million dollars needed for this restoration project will be funded through revenues raised through the Philadelphia
Flower Show, we still have many "giving opportunities" as development officers
call them, if members would like to make WORT, Visit PHS Exhibit: Art In The Garden May 5-June 30 JUNIOR FLOWER SHOW MAY 18-20
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Pepperpot week, then he rented a U-Haul and crammed it with props we no longer use. We wish Mike and the staff and volun- teers of the Matthei Botanical Garden good luck with their show and we're Hooked by the glories of last year's delighted to think that Philadelphia's Flower Show, Gloria Ludwig and Bob Show props have another life further Kleiser both called to ask how they could west. In Memory of become involved in the set-up. For Among our international visitors to the HERBERT W. GOODALL, JR. Gloria, the answer was to enter, so she '89 Show was Jean-Luc Van Klaveren, a persuaded her club to participate in the 1911-1989 landscape designer with the parks depart- Room Section. "Wow" she wrote on ment in Monaco, who will be back next March 9 "what a week this has been. One Bert Goodall joined the Council year to work on a joint exhibit between I'll never forget." The experience was fun of the Pennsylvania Horticultural the Garden Club of Monaco and the and Gloria sensed that special Flower Society in 1 966. During the next 1 7 Garden Club of Philadelphia. Plans for Show spirit, "Everyone," she wrote "from years he served as Council 1990, whose theme will be "Purely for the carpenter, electrician, and committee member, Vice President, Vice Pleasure, Gardens for the Senses," also heads" went out of their way to help the Chairman, Flower Show Chairman include a giant central feature with roses "greenies from Wyomissing Hills Area and Chairman of Council. His and perennials, to be staged by Gale Garden Club." Entering in the Show for good humour, sensible advice and Nurseries, Gwynedd. the first time can be confusing and even sound instincts in all matters con- But before we leave '89, very grateful for seasoned exhibitors things don't go as cerning publications, public rela- thanks to Sallie Korman and her commit- planned. The snowstorm on Monday, tions, marketing and promotion
tee for the wonderfu I Preview Dinner they March 6, for instance, made driving were invaluable to an institution organized on Saturday, March 5th. Play- treacherous and the cold winds the which found itself changed almost ing host to 2,200 guests for dinner and following day were hard on plants as overnight from a quiet membership some 500 additional patrons for cocktails exhibitors moved them from windowsills organization to an active agency is no mean feat, but Sallie carried it all off and greenhouses into the Show. Spirits occupying significant space in the beautifully, while at the same time raising never flagged however and my thanks go Independence National Historical significant funding for Philadephia to the committee people and exhibitors in Park and managing the Philadelphia Green, our community gardening all sections of the Show who participated Flower Show. programs. in "Kaleidoscope, the Wonderful World In addition to his important roles of Color." in Society governance, Bert en- Bob Kleiser's phone call led to his JOa£ couraged many members to culti- volunteering on the set-up crew, led by lane G. Pepper vate beautiful plants. He was a Floor Manager Kathy Mills. Crew vete- President skillful grower himself, and ap- rans Ed Heitman, Joe Vona and Gary preciated the efforts of Flower Show Faford work with 16 students from the exhibitors, both amateur and pro- Saul Agricultural High School in prepar- fessional. THE 1989 STYER AWARD OF ing the endless pieces of staging that go Being horticulturists, we often GARDEN MERIT together to make the Horticourt. Once the commented that it would be nice to For the second year, the Styer Award plants and arrangements are in place the have a cutting of this lovely man. Committee is pleased to announce the staging fades into the background, but The Pennsylvania Horticultural winners of PHS's Styer Award of Garden when you see the crew unloading those Society is lucky to have had him Merit. These six award winners listed on six tractor trailer loads of pedestals, work for it for all those years. six are little known or underused niches, benches, windowsills, iron fenc- page Ernesta D. Ballard woody ornamentals that exhibit excep- ing, tables, and odds and ends we all tional garden merit. Detailed information wonder how it will ever get into place. on these plants can be found in your Another valuable crew volunteer this January/February 1989 issue of the Creen year was Mike Hommel, Floor Manager Scene. To receive a source list, call Cheryl for a new flower show that will open in Monroe at (21 5) 625-8250. Ann Arbor, Michigan next spring. Mike got quite an education during set-up (Continued on page six) Activities May-June—1989
FLOWER ARRANGING WORKSHOP: the peculiarities of arranging with clear TRICKS OF THE TRADE MAY BASKET (Intermediate) glass, the mechanics, and various Wednesday, June 7, 10 am-noon Wednesday, May 10, 10 am-noon approaches for creating unique arrange- Flower arranging hobbyists and begin- Floral designer Audrey Nichols will ments. Each student will take home one ning professional designers alike will guide you in making a basket handle from completed arrangement plus ideas for benefit from this program on the practical vines to complete your light, airy mass using all those unused glass containers at aspects of flower arranging. arrangement. home. Audrey Nichols will lead us through Audrey will emphasize mechanics, Participants should bring pruning the ABC's of flowerarranging from choos- style, color, and flower conditioning. shears, scissors, wirecutters, and a box to ing, conditioning, and extending the life Participants should bring clippers and a transport arrangement. Container and of fresh flowers to the pros and cons of box to transport finished arrangement. All flowers will be supplied. Please bring a mechanics and specialized equipment. topics will include the origin other materials will be provided. sandwich; beverages will be provided. Discussion of flowers, best market days, seasonal Fee: $34 members; $38 guests Fee: $39 members; $43 guests availability and price fluctuations, handling equipment from floral tape to tubes, and choosing containers for ease in
arrangi ng. The finale wi 1 1 be a demonstra- NATIVE PLANTS FOR WORKSHOP: NEW SHRUBS FROM designed for THE HOME GARDEN OLD WOOD tion of arrangements a smaller budget by using fewer flowers. Saturday, May 1 3, 9 am-noon Saturday, May 27, 9:30-noon Audrey is a flower designer and At Chanticleer in Wayne An easy and foolproof method for frequent exhibitor at the Philadelphia Horticulturists Elizabeth Sullivan and increasing your collection of broad- Flower Show. Peter Brindle of Chanticleer, a private leaved shrubs (including azaleas) has Fee: $15 members; $18 guests estate in Wayne, PA., will present a three- been developed by Alan Slack, PHS hour program on native plants for the council member and experienced prop- home garden — trees, shrubs, and agator. Participants will learn by doing, herbaceous perennials. Discussion topics and all materials will be provided. How- include landscaping uses of native plants ever, if you want to propagate more of WORKSHOP: SUCCULENT and their care and culture, pests and your favorite shrubs, bring branches that WREATHS diseases. have been cut the morning of the work- Thursday, June 8, 10-1 1 :30 am Travel instructions will be mailed in shop and placed in a polyethylene bag Wyndmoor late April. Program limited to 20. with a little water. Sharing with other Ginny Simonin, PHS member, talented is encouraged. Fee: $15 members; $18 guests participants arranger and gardener, and frequent Early May is the best time to look Flower Show exhibitor, will present a 1 Yi around your neighborhood to see hour workshop on making wreaths using varieties you might want to grow. live succulents. Each participant will LIGHTSHIP Appropriate plants include leucothoe, WORKSHOP: NANTUCKET make an 8" wreath of hardy succulents, a azaleas, pieris, small-leaved BASKET year-round outdoor decoration suitable rhododendrons, contoneasters, and -4 Wednesday, May 17, 1 am pm ornament. viburnums. as a centerpiece or wall Dis- Martha Wetherbee, one of America's cussion topics will include suitable Fee : $ 1 7 members; $ 1 9 guests best known basketmakers, will journey to plants, their care and culture. to teach techniques for making the PHS All materials will be supplied. Travel famous Nantucket lightship basket using directions to Wyndmoorwill be mailed in splints she has gathered from northern EXTENDING PERENNIALS early June. New England brown ash trees in the old INTO FALL Fee: $28 members; $33 guests Shaker tradition. Tuesday, June 6, 1 am-noon
The Nantucket lightship basket is 4'/2" We'll spend two hours poking around high and 3%"widewitharimand handle. the perennial gardens of the People's Martha guarantees that each participant Light and Theater Company in Malvern will complete a basket during this 6-hour with Jane Lennon, perennial specialist ROSES workshop. All materials will be supplied. who runs her own perennial nursery in Saturday, June 10, 9 am-noon Bring a lunch; coffee and tea will be Morgantown. At Chanticleer in Wayne, PA provided. The focus of this program is extending Horticulturist Tim Jennings will care Fee: $125 members; $130 guests perennial bloom throughout the summer demonstrate and discuss the and through sound maintenance. Jane will culture of roses. Discussion topics will share tips on how to ensure bloom into include feeding, pests and diseases, prun-
fall by dead-heading, cutting back, ing, and winter protection. WORKSHOP: FLORAL DESIGN staking, and supplementing existing This program will be held at IN GLASS plants. Chanticleer, a private estate in Wayne, in Travel instructions will be mailed to Wednesday, May 24, 1 am- 1 pm Travel directions will be mailed late PA. Priscilla Gene Shaffer of Temple May. participants. Limited to 20.
University, Ambler Campus, will explore Fee: $15 members; $17 guests. Fee: $ 1 5 members; $ 1 8 guests
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AT-HOME SERIES: ELEMENTS OF Reservations FLOWER GARDENING
Tuesday, June 1 3, 6-8 pm Swarthmore Clip and mail reservations to: Horticulturist Charles Cresson has a PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 knack for creating extraordinary gardens
through skillful use of plant combinations effective Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form below to speed and placement. We'll see some processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. Confirmations for events at PHS of his gardening theories in practice as we are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise we will expect you. Field trip confirmations with tour his garden and discuss elements that important trip information are mailed ten days prior to the event. There is limited space for all constitute an interesting composition. activities (except spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two consecutive issues of the PHS News. Topics will include borders, using roses with perennials, in Refunds and cancellations: water the garden,
If you wish to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative fee will be deducted from trained plants, using disparate situations your refund as follows: to our advantage, and how elements can all events other than one-day field trips provided your request is received no later $2 fee for be put together. than two days prior to the event. Travel directions will be mailed in early $5 fee for one-day field trips provided /our request is received no later than four days prior to the event. June. Fee: $15 members
WORKSHOP: MAY BASKET EARLY EVENING TOUR— GARDENING (INTERMEDIATE) MEADOWBROOK FARM MEADOW Wednesday, June 14, 10 am-noon Members $34 Guests $38 Members $15 Guests $20 At Chanticleer in Wayne, PA WORKSHOP: INCREASING NATIVE PLANTS FOR THE A meadow garden in full bloom can be PERENNIALS HOME GARDEN a dramatically beautiful landscape Members $14 Guests $1 7 Members $15 Guests $18 feature, but creating such a garden re- GARDEN VISITS: MAIN LINE quires much planning and preparation. WORKSHOP: NANTUCKET Members $2 Guests $5 Senior horticulturist Christopher LIGHTSHIP BASKET GARDEN VISITS: BUCKS Woods will discuss the ins and outs of Members $125 Guests $ 1 30 COUNTY meadow gardening based on his experi- WORKSHOP: ARRANGING IN Members $2 Guests $5 ence with Chanticleer's four-year-old GLASS annual meadow. Discussion topics soil choosing plants Members $39 Guests $43 FIELD TRIPS: include preparation, and seed mixes for annual or perennial PROPAGATION WORKSHOP: meadow gardens, seeding methods, plant DAY IN HARRISBURG NEW SHRUBS FROM OLD sources, tips on handling unwanted Members $34 Guests $37 WOOD plants, and on-going maintenance.
Members $1 7 Guests $19 DUMBARTON OAKS, Travel directions will be mailed in early HILLWOOD EXTENDING PERENNIALS INTO June. |une 23 Fee: members; $17 guests FALL $15 Pick-up: CC HC Members $ 1 5 Guests $ 1 Members $54 Guests $59 TRICKS OF THE TRADE GLENCOE FARM AND Members $15 Guests $ 1 LONGWOOD Members $30 Guests $33 SUCCULENT WREATHS Members $28 Guests $33 SUMMER BLOOM WALK- SCOTT ARBORETUM ROSES Members $7 Guests $10 Members $15 Guests $18 DAY IN MALVERN AT-HOME SERIES: ELEMENTS Members $28 Guests $30 PHS News (UPS 7636-40) is published OF FLOWER GARDENING monthly except July by the Pennsyl- WAVE HILL AND PEPSICO Members $ 1 5 vania Horticultural Society, 325 SCULPTURE GARDENS Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. MEADOW GARDENING Pick-up: CC HC Subscription—$8.50 per year—Single
Members $15 Guests $17 Mem bers $4 1 G uests $4 5 copies 80<2. Second class postage paid
at Philadelphia, Pa. Postmaster: send
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5th ANNUAL EARLY EVENING Other Events PHS EXHIBIT: ART IN GARDEN TOUR: THE GARDEN Meadowbrook Farm Meet-the-Artists Reception: EBENEZER MAXWELL MANSION Wednesday, June 21, 5-7 pm Friday, May 5, 5-7:30 pm GARDEN TOUR Raindate: Thursday, June 22, 5-7 pm The exhibit, which continues through Self-guided tour of eight gardens in Distinguished horticulturist J. Liddon June 30, will emphasize integrating art in Mt. Airy, Chestnut Hill and Cermantown. Pennock, Jr., will host members of the the garden. May 13 Society for a leisurely early evening visit A representative selection of garden For Information: (215)438-1861 to Meadowbrook Farm near Jenkintown. sculptures of bronze, stone, and terra PHS members will tour the house and SWARTHMORE GARDEN CLUB HERB cotta will be exhibited by seven guest gardens, famous for topiaries, terraces, SALE sculptors. Participating artists include statuary, espaliers, and gazebos. The Borough Hall (in front), Park Avenue, Ann Armstrong, Else Martinus Chapman, commercial greenhouse and nursery will Swarthmore Lotte Dolezalek, Jolande Goldberg, be open, as well as the display gardens of May 13, 10am-2 pm Edward Fenno Hoffman, Sarah Smith, herbs, perennials, and ornamental UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA and Charlotte Stokes. grasses. Philadelphia Garden Tour The reception is free for PHS members, We are grateful to the Members June 4 but reservations are required. To register, Committee who have helped organize For Information: (21 5) 247-5777 or kindly use the reservation form from page this event under the leadership of chair, (215)662-2454 three. D.J. Brosius. Wine and nibbles will be - PA served. HERB SOCIETY OF AMERICA HEARTLAND UNIT Travel instructions will be mailed to 7th Annual Herbal Delights Symposium registrants. New in the Library June 20-21 Fee: $15 members; $20 guests For Information: (21 5) 92 1 -75 1 DELAWARE VALLEY DAYLILY SOCIETY Arranging everlasting flowers, Mary WORKSHOP: INCREASING Flower Show Longwood Gardens July 9 Newnes, 1987. PERENNIALS For Information: (215) 388-6741 Bamboos of China, Wang Dajun, Saturday, June 24, 9:30 am-noon 1987. Participants will learn simple, sure-fire The garden in winter, Rosemary propagation methods to increase their SPECIAL LECTURE: BOTANICAL Verey, 1988. favorite garden perennials under the EXPLORATION IN THE The gardens of San Francisco, Joan tutelage of Alan Slack, PHS council COLONIES Hockaday, 1988. member and experienced propagator. Tuesday, 4:30 May 23, pm The gardens of William and Mary, Registrants should bring a stem or an Auditorium, of Academy David Jacques, 1988. entire plant fresh from the garden. Addi- Natural Sciences Hydroponics for everyone, Struan K. tional perennials and all workshop The John Bartram Association is Sutherland, 1986. materials will be provided. celebrating our botanical heritage Insect-eating plants, Adrian Slack, Fee: $ 1 4 members; $ 1 7 guests with a special lecture about botani- 1988. cal exploration in the Colonies — The /.ou/s/anafr/s, Marie Caillet, 1988. the people, the plants, the interna- GARDEN VISITS: MAIN LINE Painted gardens, Penelope Hobhouse, tional connection. David H. Sunday, May 7, 1-5 pm 1988. Rembert, Jr., will explore the Seven Main Line gardens open to PHS The perennial gardener, Frederick interest and involvement in Colo- members and guests offer a great variety McGourty, 1989. nial North America by European in horticulture and design. From smaller Successful botanists, gardeners, and patrons bonsai growing, Peter gardens to large properties visitors will Adams, 1987. who shared in this glorious time of enjoy espaliers, specimen trees and botanical enlightenment. The wreath book, Rob Pulleyn, 1988. shrubs, an old walled garden with box- Rembert, professor and associate Members may borrow books by mail. If wood, gardens featuring wildflowers and chairman of the Biology Depart- you would like one or more of the above azaleas, rhododedrons in a hillside set- ment at the University of South books sent to you, check off the title, fill ting and in a plant collector's garden, an Carolina, isaFellowoftheLinnean out the form below and mail to: Library, English park-like landscape, and a garden Society of London. PHS, 325 Walnut St., Phila., PA 19106. planted to attract birds. Program begins promptly at Or, phone your request to (215) 625-8256. Fee: $2 members; $5 guests 4:30 pm with a wine and cheese When returning book(s) please enclose reception to follow. $1.75 per book in the envelope provided.
Our new books are popular. If you don't GARDEN VISITS: BUCKS COUNTY Advance reservations are receive your choice within 2 weeks, -5 required. For more information or Sunday, June 1 , 1 pm reservations, you'll know you are on a wait list. The seven gardens chosen for our please call Sue King at Bartram's Garden, Bucks County tour also offer great variety. NAME We'll see a large vegetable and flower (215)729-5281. garden, a garden with herbs, a cottage Fee: $10 adults; $5 students; ADDRESS. garden, colorful perennials in shade, and free for members of Bartram's a rare plant nursery. Garden. Fee: $2 members; $5 guests DAYTIME TELEPHONE
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DAY IN HARRISBURG GLENCOE FARM Reed will lead a tour of the house and Thursday, May 18, 8 am-5 pm AND LONGWOOD GARDENS grounds. Ker-Feal, originally built in
PHS members are invited to visit Villa Thursday, June 15, 8:30 am-5 pm 1 775, is furnished with country Felicita, a private garden developed over PHS members and guests will travel by (primitive) furniture and is known for its fifteen years on the site of an abandoned bus to Unionville to visit Sir )ohn collection of Pennsylvania red slip ware farm. With a French country home as the Thouron's Clencoe Farm. These large pottery. The gardens are informal, with centerpoint, gardens radiate in all direc- estate gardens range from elegant double expanses of lawn and trees. No high tions and blend into island beds, transi- herbaceous borders to island beds, an heels, please. tional shrubareas, a woodland, and many alpine garden, and a meadow garden. We'll travel a short distance down the theme gardens. In the 20-25 developed There is also an idea flower garden for road to Longview Farm, Joanna Reed's acres, there are more than 1 00,000 trees, people who garden in limited space. home and garden. After a box lunch by shrubs, herbaceous plants, and ground After lunch on our own at nearby Long- Gou rmet Productions, Joanna wi 1 1 lead us covers including a large number of wood Gardens, we'll join knowledgeable through her woodlands and celebrated specimen plants from the Bergman Rara guides for a 1 Vi hour tour of the outdoor country garden, bursting with perennials Flora Collection. gardens and grounds. We'll see the new and herbs. Joanna's garden is included in Price includes round-trip bus transpor- herb garden, new area featuring grasses, The American Woman's Garden. tation, box lunch at the garden, and late rose garden, and the experimental Fee of $28 for members and $30 for afternoon refreshments on the bus. vegetable and flower gardens. Before de- guests includes entrance fees to houses
Details of bus pickup at the parture at 4 pm we'll see two new indoor and gardens, box lunch, and refresh-
Horticultural Center in Fairmount Park areas —the Silver Garden and the lily ments. Participants must provide own and Center City will be mailed in early ponds. transportation. Travel directions will be May. Details of bus pick-up in Center City mailed in early June. Fee: $34 members; $37 guests and Horticulture Center in Fairmount Park will be mailed in early )une. Fee of $29 for members and $31 for guests includes all entrance and guide fees, WAVE HILL AND PEPSICO round-trip transportation. Lunch is not SCULPTURE GARDEN DUMBARTON OAKS AND included. Thursday, June 29, 7:15 am-7:15 pm HILLWOOD, WASHINGTON, D.C. Horticulturist Peggy Bowditch and Our first stop will be Wave Hill in the Thursday, May 25, 7 am-7:30 pm Betsy Gullan, Membership/Activities Bronx neighborhood of Riverdale, a Friday, June 23, 7 am-7:30 pm Coordinator, will lead the group, limited public garden estate that is landscaped to Our first stop will be the famous to 40 participants. perfection. In addition to the Wild gardens of Oaks, designed Dumbarton by Garden, greenhouses, herb gardens, the noted landscape gardener Beatrix herbaceous borders, and a water lily dis- Farrand. The formal 1 0-acre gardens SUMMER BLOOM WALK play, Wave Hill presents many temporary feature a series of garden rooms with Scott Arboretum, Swarthmore horticultural exhibits on its 28 land- plants chosen for beauty and year-round Monday, June 19, 10 am-noon scaped acres overlooking the Hudson interest. Our special guided tour will Raindate: Tuesday, |une 20 River. The manor houses contain galleries include perennial borders, roses, with changing exhibits relating to Join us for a leisurely stroll through the peonies, fountains, pools, wrought iron horticulture, garden design, or local Scott Arboretum, located on the campus and garden sculpture, specimen trees and history. of Swarthmore College. Our tour will shrubs. highlight summer-blooming trees, After our guided tour and lunch at After lunch at Hillwood we'll have a shrubs, and herbaceous plants for the Wave Hill, we'll travel to Pepsico in two-hour tour of the former home of home garden, including hardy crepe Purchase, NY, where the corporate head- Marjorie Merriweather Post, whose is gardens and a myrtles. We'll have a peek at the newly quarters surrounded by Russian collection is the most representa- planted teaching garden, which com- comprehensive collection of 20th tive outside the Soviet Union. On display bines some of the best plants from the century sculpture owned by Pepsico. are extraordinary pieces by some of Arboretum's collection. We'll have a leisurely self-guided tour Europe's foremost artists, cabinetmakers, before our 4 pm departure for Participants must provide own trans- and silver and goldsmiths, plus Faberge Philadelphia. portation. Travel directions will be eggs, porcelains, icons, Beauvais for mailed in early June. Limited to 25. Fee: $41 for members and $45 tapestries, and 1 8th century French includes round-trip transportation, Fee: members; guests guests furniture. $7 $10 entrance and guide fees, lunch, and Fee includes round-trip transportation, return-trip refreshments. Details of bus refreshments on the bus, lunch, all pick-up in Center City and Horticulture entrance and guide fees. A DAY IN MALVERN Center in Fairmount Park will be mailed Information about bus pick-ups in Wednesday, June 28, 10 am-2:30 pm to registrants. Center City and Horticulture Center in Our first stop will be Ker-Feal, formerly Fairmount Park will be mailed in mid- the summer home of Dr. and Mrs. Albert May. Limited to 25. Barnes and now a part of the Barnes
Fee: $54 members; $59 guests Foundation. At 1 am, caretaker Gar .
GARDENING VIDEO TAPES ORNAMENTAL GRASSES TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HONORS AVAILABLE IN THE LIBRARY Bluemel, Kurt, Inc. Video catalog of PHILADELPHIA GREEN DIRECTOR PHS members may borrow tapes in ornamental grasses, Baldwin, MD, Kurt Blaine Bonham was honored recently person, by mail or by telephone. Listed Bluemel, Inc., 1986. 2 COPIES. by the Pan-African Studies Community below are just a few of the video Education Program for his leadership in selections available. For a complete list- Philadelphia as director of Philadelphia ing and information on loan periods and Green. Bonham accepted the award, mailing charges, please call 625-8256. which is presented to those who make significant contributions serving the BEAT GOES . . BONSAI AND THE ON FLOWER SHOW 1990 people of the community, at Temple's Rosade, F. Chase. Shaping techniques, Night. Other honorees Barbara Keenan and Rosemarie annual Roots Masters Bonsai series, vol. 1, Kawaguchi- included community activists, educators, Vassalluzzo, Pressed Plant Classes chair Shi, Saitama-Ken, Japan, Tokyo Eihosha, and members of the clergy. and vice-chair respectively, encourage Inc., 1986. exhibitors to plan now for next year's CHILDREN AND GARDENING Pressed Plant Classes. "Dive into the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Get ready, garden and select plants for their texture; get set grow; a kid's guide to good garden- shape and color. Be adventurous and try ing, Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn Botanic things" says Barbara, who finds that new STYER AWARD (continued) Garden, 1986. Includes two pamphlets, yellow daffodils and buttercups and blue Kid's Ideas for parents and teachers and A delphiniums are good choices but lilies in The 1 989 award winners are: time: guide to good gardening. Running general, are trickier when it comes to Callicarpa dichotoma, Deutzia gracilis 15 minutes. color retention. Barbara recommends 'Nikko', Hamamelis mollis 'Pallida', FLOWERS The Arco Book of Dried and Pressed Hydrangea quercifolia 'Snow Queen', Derbyshire and Renee 'Donald Wyman', and Malus Macqueen, Sheila and Ann Ord. The Flowers by Jane Malus Burgess and Penny Black's Book of 'Jewel berry'. joy of flower arranging, vol. 1 , San sources of Francisco, CA, One Up Productions, Pressed Flowers as good In addition, new entries are reviewed information. several are chosen for Pre- 1 985. Running time: 60 minutes. each year and Macqueen, Sheila and Ann Ord. The 1 990's Pressed Plant Classes are: liminary Commendation. Those chosen Class 141: Fair Lady — A design for a are evaluated and considered for an joy of flower arranging, vol. 2, San My lady of fashion. It may be in future. The following plants Francisco, CA, One Up Productions, award the appropriate for any time, any for preliminary commenda- 1985. Running time: 60min. were chosen place, any occasion. tion in 1989: Cornus sericea 'Silver and Carter, Louise. Gardening with Class 141: Dinner is Served — A design Gold', Daphne caucasica, Fothergilla perennials, Wayne, PA, Taproot Produc- for a dinner plate. To be gardenii 'Blue Mist', Hamamelis x in- tions, 1987. 55 min. 2 COPIES presented in actual size. termedia 'Diane', Hydrangea FRUITS & VEGETABLES Class 143: A Child's Garden of Verses — macrophylla 'Blue Billow', Magnolia x Ball, Jeff. How to design and build a An illustration of any child- 'Galaxy', Malus 'Red Swan', Pinus vegetable garden, Yardening Series, hood verse. sylvestris 'Saxatilis', Sciadopitys verticil-
Indianapolis, IN, Karts Video Communi- Class 1 44: lust for You — A design for lata, and Stewartia pseudocamellia var. cations, 1986. gift wrapping paper. koreana. GENERAL GARDENING OPERATIONS Anon. Plant propagation training video, volume I , Arizona, Idea Bank, 1987. 25 min. Anon. Plant propagation training video, volume 2, Arizona, Idea Bank, Second Class 1987. 25 min. Postage Park Seed Co. Starting seeds indoors, PMS NEWS paid at Philadelphia, Pa Greenwood, SC, Park Seed Co., 1986. THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY Running time: 20 minutes. 325 WALNUT ST. • PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 Herbert, Mark and Dave Schaefer. Phone (215) 625-8250 Herbs and annuals. Garden Way's Joy of
Gardening series, St. Louis, MO, Magic Video, 1986. Running Time: 35 min. Booklet included.
LAWNS & GROUND COVERS
Ball, Jeff. How to care for your lawn, yardening Series, Indianapolis, IN, Karts Video Communications, 1986.
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CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES CREATE YOUR OWN VIEW OF FALL Friday, September 22 (Members' THROUGH A HARVEST WINDOW
Preview), 4-6 pm; Saturday, September "This special horticultural category is 23, or Sunday, September 24, an excellent way to display your garden's 10am-4 pm bounty and a chance to demonstrate your Volunteers are needed to assist young- design skill," says Ann Benzel and Jesse VOLUNTEER AT THE 1989 sters in creating seed masks, scarecrows, Carter, Horticulture Classes Chairs for the HARVEST SHOW and pumpkin painting. 1989 Harvest Show. Sally Graham, Show Chair, invites you If you would like to volunteer at this The exhibitor must design a harvest to join the team of PHS volunteers that put year's Harvest Show, please check the scene indoors that overlooks an outer dis- together our favorite fall event — THE appropriate space on the reservation play filled with vegetables, fruit and/or HARVEST SHOW. Come help us with the form. A committee member will contact flowers. Baked goods and preserved Show and we guarantee you will have lots you. products may also be incorporated into of fun and meet some very special people. the design. PHS will provide the staging for this 6' x 6' area and will hold a work- We welcome your assistance in the THREE PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITIES shop for registrants in July. following areas: TARGETED FOR INTENSIVE If you would like to participate, call GREENING EFFORTS SETTING-UP Flossie Narducci at (21 5) 625-8280. A recent Philadelphia Inquirer article Deadline for registration is July 1. Tuesday, September 1 9, or Wednesday, noted the presentation of the City's September 20, or Thursday, September Philadelphia Volunteer of the Year Award 21,9 am-1 2 pm or 1 pm-4 pm to Dorsha Mason, block captain, PHILADELPHIANS DEBUT AT 1989 )oin staff and committee members in community activist, fundraiser, board CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW painting, burlapping and other staging 70 years old going member, and strong. For Dottie Sheffield and Audrey jobs that help put the Show on the road. Community leaders like Dorsha have Nichols, it was a thrill of a lifetime. The contributed greatly to Philadelphia ENTRY AIDES invitation from the Royal Horticultural Green's stepped-up greening efforts in Society to participate in the Chelsea Friday, September 22, 7:30 am-1 am three communities this spring: Flower Show (May 23-26) marked an Assist exhibitors in finding correct loca- 1 in Susquehanna, a 00-block community important first — the first time an tions and entering exhibits. Aid in prepar- North Philadelphia; Strawberry Mansion American had been invited to participate ing classes prior to judging and help get situated along the Schuylkill River in in the Floral Arrangement displays. Their ready for our Members' Preview. Fairmount Park between 22nd and 33rd entry, a topiary form of the Statue of CLERKS Sts. between Oxford and Cumberland Liberty, would be entered in Class 2, Sts., and Norris Square in the North/ Friday, September 22, 10 am-3 pm. Home Away From Home. Central section of the City known as Be on hand to assist judges by record- Two other compatriots, Maud Lower West Kensington. ing their decisions and ensuring that Littleton and Carol Sagendorf joined the In Susquehanna, scheduled to be dedi- entries receive the correct awards. design team to stage an arrangement in cated a Greene CountrieTowne in the fall the same Class later in the Show week. INFORMATION AIDES of 1 990, Rachel Bagby, Willie Mae Both displays were sponsored by the Saturday, September 23 or Sunday, Bullock, Dorsha Mason and James Taylor Garden Club of America. September 24, 10am-12:30pm, are experienced hands at rallying their 12:30 pm-3 pm, or 3 pm-5 pm. neighbors around the greening effort. In
1 a ten-block area within this com- During the Show, aides assist visitors in 982, finding exhibits, demonstrations, munity known as West Hagert became a Greene Countrie Towne. Today, the activities, etc. They also ensure the safety emphasis will be on the remaining 1 30 of entries and provide hospitality to visitors. (Continued on page five) Activities June 1989
EXTENDING PERENNIALS All materials will be supplied. Travel sources, tips on handling unwanted INTO FALL directions to Wyndmoorwill be mailed in plants, and on-going maintenance. Tuesday, June 6, 10 am-noon early June. Travel directionswill bemailed inearly We'll spend two hours poking around Fee: $28 members; $33 guests June. the perennial gardens of the People's Fee: $15 members; $1 7 guests Light and Theater Company in Malvern with Jane Lennon, perennial specialist who runs her own perennial nursery in ROSES Morgantown. 5th ANNUAL EARLY EVENING Saturday, June 10, 9 am-noon GARDEN TOUR The focus of this program is extending Chanticleer in Wayne, At PA 5-7 perennial bloom throughout the summer Wednesday, June 21, pm Horticulturist Tim will Jennings Raindate: Thursday, June 22, 5-7 pm through sound maintenance. Jane will demonstrate and discuss the care and Meadowbrook Farm share tips on how to ensure bloom into culture of roses. Discussion topics will Distinguished horticulturist Liddon fall by dead-heading, cutting back, J. include feeding, pests and diseases, prun- staking, and supplementing existing Pennock, Jr., will host members of the ing, and winter protection. plants. Society for a leisurely early evening visit will held This program be at to Meadowbrook Farm near Jenkintown. Travel directions will be mailed in late private estate in Wayne, Chanticleer, a PHS members will tour the house and May. instructions will be mailed to PA. Travel gardens, famous for topiaries, terraces, Fee: members; $1 7 guests. $15 20. participants. Limited to statuary, espaliers, and gazebos. The Fee: $15 members; $18 guests commercial greenhouse and nursery will be open, as well as the display gardens of TRICKS OF THE TRADE herbs, perennials, and ornamental gras- will provided harpist Wednesday, June 7, 10 am-noon ses. Music be by lanet Biely. Flower arranging hobbyists and begin- AT-HOME SERIES: ELEMENTS OF We are grateful to the Members ning professional designers alike will FLOWER GARDENING benefit from this program on the practical Committee who have helped organize Tuesday, June 1 3, 6-8 pm this event under the leadership of chair, aspects of flower arranging. Swarthmore Brosius. Nichols will lead us through D.J. Audrey Horticulturist Charles Cresson has a the of flower arranging from choos- Wine and nibbles will be served. ABCs knack for creating extraordinary gardens ing, conditioning, and extending the life Travel instructions will be mailed to through skillful useof plant combinations of fresh flowers to the pros and cons of registrants. and effective placement. We'll see some mechanics and specialized equipment. Fee: $15 members; $20 guests of hisgardening theories in practice as we Discussion topics will include the origin tour his garden and discuss elements that of flowers, best market days, seasonal constitute an interesting composition. availability and price fluctuations, Topics will include borders, using roses handling equipment from floral tape to WORKSHOP: INCREASING with perennials, water in the garden, tubes, andchoosingcontainersforeasein PERENNIALS trained plants, using disparate situations arranging. The finale will be a demonstra- Saturday, June 24, 9:30 am-noon to our advantage, and how elements can tion of arrangements designed for Participants will learn simple, sure-fire a be put together. smaller budget by using fewer flowers. propagation methods to increase their Travel directions will be mailed in early perennials under the Audrey is a flower designer and favorite garden June. a prize-winning exhibitor at the tutelage of Alan Slack, PHS council Fee: $15 members Philadelphia Flower Show. member and experienced propagator. Fee: $15 members; $18 guests Registrants should bring a stem or an entire plant fresh from the garden. Addi-
tional perennials and all workshop MEADOW GARDENING materials will be provided. WORKSHOP: SUCCULENT Wednesday, June 14, 10 am-noon Fee : $ 1 4 members ,$17 guests WREATHS At Chanticleer in Wayne, PA
Thursday, June 8, 10-1 1 :30 am A meadow garden in full bloom can be Wyndmoor a dramatically beautiful landscape Ginny Simonin, PHS member, talented feature, but creating such a garden re- AT-HOME SERIES: GARDEN arranger and gardener, and frequent quires much planning and preparation. REJUVENATION FOR LATE- Flower Show exhibitor, will present a Senior horticulturist Christopher SUMMER ENJOYMENT workshop on making wreaths using live Woods will discuss the ins and outs of Saturday, August 19, 10 am-noon in succulents. Each participant will make an meadow gardening based on his experi- Swarthmore, PA. 8" wreath of hardy succulents, a year- ence with Chanticleer's four-year-old Horticulturist Charles Cresson will talk round outdoor decoration suitable as a annual meadow. Discussion topics about ways to enliven and rejuvenate centerpiece or wall ornament. Discussion include soil preparation, choosing plants your flower garden for enjoyment topics will include suitable plants, their and seed mixes for annual or perennial through the last days of summer into the care and culture. meadow gardens, seeding methods, plant cooler days of autumn.
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Discussion topics will include: selec- GARDEN VISITS: BUCKS COUNTY in tive grooming, clean up, improving the Sunday, June 11,1-5 pm New the Library appearance of plantings, integrating fall- The seven gardens chosen for our blooming perennials and annuals into Bucks County tour also offer great variety. ] The art of indoor bonsai, )ohn your design, and accenting your garden's We'll see large vegetable and flower Ainsworth, 1988. strongest qualities. gardens, a garden with herbs, a cottage The craft of gardens, Ch'eng Chi, Travel directions will be mailed to garden, colorful perennials in shade, and 1988. participants in early August. a rare plant nursery. Easy care perennials, Patricia A. Fee: $15 members. Fee: $2 members; $5 guests Taylor, 1989. Flower gardens of Victorian England, Andrew Clayton-Payne, 1988. Reservations The green tapestry, Beth Chatto, 1 988.
Greer's guidebook to available
rhododendrons, Harold E. Greer, 1988. Clip and mail reservations to: A handbook of Mexican roadside PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 1 9106 flora, Charles T. Mason, 1987. Ornamental grass gardening, Thomas Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form below to speed A. Reinhardt, 1989. processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. Confirmations for events at PHS Shrubs, Roger Phillips, 1989. are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we will expect you. Field trip confirmations with
important trip information are mailed ten days prior to the event. There is limited space for a The small garden book, )ohn Brookes,
activities (except spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two consecutive issues of the PHS 1989. News. 5ow/'nga better garden, John Kelly, Refunds and cancellations: 1988. If you wish to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative fee will be deducted from blueprints, Maggie Oster, your refund as follows: 35 garden $2 fee for all events other than one-day field trips provided your request is received no later 1989. than two days prior to the event.
$5 fee for one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than four days prior Members may borrow books by mail. If to the event. you would like one or more of the above
books sent to you, check off the title, fill EXTENDING PERENNIALS INTO AT-HOME SERIES: out the form below and mail to: Library,
FALL GARDEN REJUVENATION PHS, 325 Walnut St., Phila., PA 19106. Members $1 5 Guests $1 7 Members $ 1 5 Or, phone your request to (215) 625-8256. TRICKS OF THE TRADE GARDEN VISITS: BUCKS When returning book(s) please enclose Members $15 Guests $18 COUNTY $1.75 per book in the envelope provided. Our new books are popular. If you don't SUCCULENT WREATHS Members $2 Guests $5 receive your choice within 2 weeks, Members $28 Guests $33 FIELD TRIPS: you'll know you are on a wait list. ROSES GLENCOE FARM AND NAME Members $ 1 5 Guests $ 1 LONGWOQLW \S* Members, Guests $33- AT-HOME SERIES: ELEMENTS SS^^— ADDRESS OF FLOWER GARDENING SUMMER BLOOM WALK- Members $15 SCOTT ARBORETUM MEADOW GARDENING Members $7 Guests $10_ DAYTIME TELEPHONE Members $15 Guests $17 DAY IN MALVERN EARLY EVENING TOUR— Members $28 Guests $30_ MEADOWBROOK FARM WAVE HILL AND PEPSICO Members $15 Guests $20 SCULPTURE GARDENS WORKSHOP: INCREASING Pick-up: CC HC PERENNIALS Members $4 L Guests $45- PHS News (UPS 763-640) is published monthly except July by the Pennsyl- Members $14 Guests $1 7 vania Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. I would like to volunteer for The 1989 Harvest Show Subscription —$8.50 per year —Single Setting-up Information Aide Children's Activities copies 80C Second class postage paid Entry Aide Clerk at Philadelphia, Pa. and additional
I would like to judge in The City Gardens Contest mailing office. Postmaster: send address changes to PHS News, 325 NAME Walnut Street, Phila., Pa. 19106. Chair: Donald L. Felley
ADDRESS President: Jane G. Pepper
Editor: Lisa Stephano ZIP -TELEPHONE: home Activities Section Editor: work- Elizabeth C. Cullan
- 3 PHS PUTS OUT THE NEWS ABOUT Field Trips TREES Several years ago, equipped with a grant from the William Penn Foundation,
GLENCOE FARM AND Foundation. At 1 am, caretaker Gar PHS formed the Tree Corps to help inform LONGWOOD GARDENS Reed will lead a tour of the house and Philadelphians about the vital impact Thursday, June 15, 8:30 am-5 pm grounds. Ker-Feal, originally built in trees have on our environment. Now, at
•PHS members and guests will travel by 1 775, is furnished with country the culmination of this effort, the Tree bus to Unionvilleto visit Sir John (primitive) furniture and is known for its News was developed and mailed to City Thouron's Glencoe Farm. These large collection of Pennsylvania red slip ware residents, corporations, foundations, and estate gardens range from elegant double pottery. The gardens are informal, with neighborhood organizations to continue herbaceous borders to island beds, an expanses of lawn and trees. No high tree awareness and encourage City alpine garden, and a meadow garden. heels, please. dwellers to care for existing trees. The newsletter contains good, solid informa- There is also an idea flow^rgarden for We'll travel a short distance down the tion on tree care, the many bonuses of people who garden in Iftrjfjea space. road to Longview Farm, Joanna Reed's having trees in the City and, a list of After lunch on our'tHwipat nearby Long- home and garden. After a box lunch by varieties that do well in the City. The Tree wood Gardens, we'll join knowledgeable Gourmet Productions, Joanna will lead us News is also a good resource for those guides for a I'&TOur tour of the outdoor through her woodlands and celebrated seeking help from outside agencies that gardens and^|t@unds. We'll see the new country garden, bursting with perennials offer information on tree pruning, plant- herb gafdeXi}-and another new area and herbs. Joanna's garden is included in ing and removal. featurfhg^rasses, the rose garden, and the The American Woman's Garden.
If like of experimental vegetable and flower Fee of $28 for members and $30 for you would a copy the Tree please call Sally gardens. Before departure at 4 pm we'll guests includes entrance fees to houses News, McCabe (215)625-8280. see two new indoor areas —the Silver and gardens, box lunch, and refresh- Garden and the lily ponds. ments. Participants must provide own
Details of bus pick-up in Center City transportation. Travel directions will be and Horticulture Center in Fairmount mailed in early June. Park will be mailed in early June. Fee of $30 for members and $33 for guests includes all entrance and guide fees, round-trip transportation. Lunch is not included. Horticulturist Peggy Bowditch and Betsy Gullan, Membership/Activities WAVE HILL AND PEPSICO Coordinator, will lead the group, limited SCULPTURE GARDEN to 40 participants. Thursday, June 29, 7:15 am-7:15 pm
Our first stop will be Wave Hill in the Bronx neighborhood of Riverdale, a
public garden estate that is landscaped to SUMMER BLOOM WALK perfection. In addition to the Wild Garden, greenhouses, herb gardens, Monday, June 19, 10 am-noon herbaceous borders, and a water lily dis- Raindate: Tuesday, June 20 play, Wave Hill presents many temporary Scott Arboretum, Swarthmore horticultural exhibits on its 28 land- Join us for a leisurely stroll through the scaped acres overlooking the Hudson 1989 Scott Arboretum, on the campus of River. The manor houses contain galleries Swarthmore College. Our tour will high- HARVEST SHOW with changing exhibits relating to light summer-blooming trees, shrubs, and horticulture, garden design, or local herbaceous plants for the home garden, Saturday and Sunday history. including hardy crepe myrtles. We'll September 23 and 24 After our guided tour and lunch at have a peek at the newly planted teaching Horticulture Center Wave Hill, we'll travel to Pepsico in garden, which combines some of the best Purchase, NY, where the corporate head- Belmont Avenue and plants from the Arboretum's collection. Horticultural Drive quarters is surrounded by gardens and a Participants must provide own trans- comprehensive collection of 20th Fairmount Park portation. Travel directions will be century sculpture owned by Pepsico. mailed in early June. Limited to 25. We'll have a leisurely self-guided tour ''QTUiwje&t Q/rvoutooa£' J Fee: $7 members; $10 guests before our 4 pm departure for Philadelphia. Time: 10 am - 5 pm both days
Fee: $41 for members and $45 for Admission: $3.00 adults guests includes round-trip transportation, $1.50 children under 12 A DAY IN MALVERN entrance and guide fees, lunch, and Members Preview: Wednesday, June 28, 10 am-2:30 pm return-trip refreshments. Details of bus Friday, September 22, Our first stop will be Ker-Feal, formerly pick-up in Center City and Horticulture 4-7 p.m. the summer home of Dr. and Mrs. Albert Center in Fairmount Park will be mailed Barnes and now a part of the Barnes to registrants. GREENING EFFORT VOLUNTEERS MAKE THE DIFFERENCE (Continued From page one) As I review the 1988-89 activities I'm
blocks that stretch from Broad to 22nd keenly aware of all the people who have Streets, Norris to Lehigh Avenue with a contributed to the success of this year's special focus on the magnificent sloping programs. The Members Committee, un-
banks at 18th and Glenwood Streets, the der the able leadership of Sylvia Lin, is start-up site of the Society's new Ribbon involved in many ways: to oversee of Gold project. membership policy; to suggest new
High atop a hill overlooking the programs; to help in the Membership/
Schuylkill near Kelly Drive sits the com- Information Booth at the Philadelphia munity of Strawberry Mansion, a neigh- Flower Show; to organize or host large
borhood known for its historic homes and events such as the spring garden visits, the beautiful architecture. In recent years, the garden tour at Meadowbrook Farm, New community has been the focus of exten- Members Open House, the Members' sive restoration work and the establish- Preview at the Harvest Show, and the THE CITY GARDENS CONTEST - ment of a local shopping center, Annual Plant Dividend. Up Close and Personal Strawberry Square Mall at 29th and Each spring over 1 200 PHS members to Susquehanna Avenue. Working with Here's the perfect opportunity view and guests enjoy the garden visits in April, Philadelphia's finest gardens in prime Marva Harris and the City's Neighbor- May, and )une. Their success is directly hood Action Council and community condition at the peak of their summer attributable to this hard-working commit- leader, Florie Dotson, Philadelphia bloom. Jim LaRosa, Contest Chair is look- tee and especially to Margaret P. Green has concentrated greening efforts ing for judges who will visit gardens Bowditch, garden visits coordinator. throughout Philadelphia from the small on the creation of 1 1 garden blocks, 3 Peggy selects the gardens, writes the lotscapes and the development of a courtyard garden to block-long vegetable garden descriptions, and then laboriously Demonstration Garden in the area and flower gardens. Many of the travels each recommended route to surrounding the Mall. The Demo Garden gardeners you will meet along the way ensure the accuracy of the maps to be will provide a meeting place for are participants in the Society's mailed to each participant. We know Philadelphia are community workshops on topics such as Green Program and some of you get lost, but as Peggy says she in right building garden paths and trellises, celebrities their own having over- "doesn't have advanced training in planting herb gardens and garden come enormous odds to create a green cartography". development. oasis in the City. Chair Alan P. Slack and co-chair Dot
The deadline for entries is June 10 and Sister Carol Keck, Iris Brown and Plyler start early to organize the judging continues through )uly. If Tomasita Romero stand out as the propel- you September Annual Plant Dividend. In like join our judging teams, lents of Norris Square's greening efforts. would to April Alan and Dot write to 75-100 PHS please check the appropriate box on the After 1 5 years of children's gardening plant propagators to request plants for our programs and neighborhood greening reservations coupon on page three. members. During the summer, they com- efforts through the Norris Square Neigh- pile the plant lists, check botanical borhood Project, Inc. and their involve- names, and rework the lists for a good ment with Philadelphia Green, this representation of perennials, house community now boasts more than 20 plants, trees, and shrubs. During the week community gardening projects and of the event, Alan, Dot, and committee
plans for extensive revitalization for members check each of the 1 500 donated Norris Square Park are also afoot. The APHIDS GOT YOU DOWN' plants for general health and proper label- focus of this spring's greening efforts has ROSES BEING RAVAGED? ling before distribution to the member- DESPAIR. CALL been at the Hunter Elementary School. DON'T THE PHS ship. On opening day, committee Working with students, Tomasita Romero HORTICULTURAL HOTLINE FOR members are back at PHS to greet ALL has developed a garden that will be SOLUTIONS TO YOUR members, re-supply plants, set up refresh- planted by them before the end of the GARDENING PROBLEMS. ments, and even carry an occasional bag school year and maintained throughout Each Weekday From to a member's car. to Noon, the summer by the children in Norris 9:30 am PHS salutes the Members Committee Square's greening programs. (215)922-8043 and thanks them for all they have con- Over the next several years, these three tributed to the Society during the past Committee: Sylvia Lin, areas will become part of a growing year. Members Bitner, Fran Borie, number of Philadelphia communities that Chair, Richard have found strength and leadership Margaret Bowditch, D. ). Brosius, Tina Disston, Louise within their neighborhoods to overcome Colehower, Mary Harrity, Margaret Krengel, Dot Plyler, the odds and add a bit of green space into Harriett Richards, Alan Slack, Phyllis their lives. As Dorsha Mason put it, "Not HARVEST SHOW POSTERS AVAILABLE me, but we are wonderful. My neighbors Weisman and Susan Wilmerding. Help us promote the 1989 Harvest and me. Nobody in this life does anything 1" Betsy Gullan Show by displaying colorful 8V2" x 1 by themselves." Membership/Activities Coordinator posters in your local, school, library or stores.
To receive yours, call Ellen Gittleman at (215) 625-8266 or stop in PHS to pick up a handful. Pepperpot VOLUNTEER GARDEN POSITIONS OPEN
The PHS 1 8th Century Garden has a The Society's 18th Century Garden is few positions open for volunteer always a spring star on Walnut Street, but gardeners. This group of dedicated this year our volunteers outdid people meet each Wednesday from April themselves and drew acclaim from neigh- through October to plant, maintain and bors and visitors alike. The color change the seasonal displays in the combination, Blue Delft and Gypsy Society's garden on Walnut Street. Queen (pale apricot) hyacinths and Gardening experience is helpful, but not Apricot Beauty tulips, mixed with deeper necessary. Applicants should enjoy apricot pansies was a smash. plants, people and being outdoors. In a formal garden such as ours, Moderate physical activity is involved. hyacinths are wonderful not only for their The rewards are interaction with big colorful blossoms but also for their knowledgeable gardeners and the many FLOWER SHOW BULB CLASSES fragrance. In past years squirrels have visitors to the garden and the sense of Sue Armstrong, Chair of 1 990's destroyed our display by digging up the satisfaction from maintaining one of Horticulture Classes announces the hyacinths and tulip bulbs over the winter. America's most famous gardens located following selections for the Bulb Classes: This year, after planting in the fall, Ann in beautiful Independence National CLASS McPhail and our team of gardeners Historical Park. 01 NARCISSUS 'LITTLE BEAUTY' (min- covered the beds with sheets of black iature) grown and shown in a 4" pot. If you are interested in additional plastic mesh netting, and although it 02 information please call Kathy Mills, NARCISSUS 'UNSURPASSABLE' greatly decreased the squirrels' fun over (trumpet) grown and shown in an 8" Assistant Horticulturist at 625-8250. the winter, it's the only way to get a good bulb pan or azalea pot display of bulbs in this part of town. The 03 NARCISSUS 'PEEPING TOM' netting (Ross Gro-Net) is sold in garden NOMINATIONS SOUGHT FOR PHS (Cyclamineus) grown and shown in centers for protecting berries and other MAJOR AWARDS an 8" bulb pan or azalea pot. fruit from birds. To make sure the netting 04 NARCISSUS 'WHITE LION' The PHS Awards Committee is now 8" stays in place over winter, follow the (double) grown and shown in an seeking nominations for the 1 990 Distin- example of volunteer Charles Holman bulb pan or azalea pot. guished Achievement Medal and the 05 HYACINTHUS 'GYPSY QUEEN' who secured it with endless pegs he cut Certificate of Merit. grown and shown in an 8" bulb pan from the poi nted ends of wi re coat The Distinguished Achievement Medal or azalea hangers. pot. is awarded to an individual from the mid- 06 TULIPA 'NEGRITA' grown and In addition to Ann and Charles, grateful Atlantic states who has made outstanding shown in an 8" bulb pan or azalea thanks to all the volunteers who work so contributions to the field of horticulture in pot. hard to keep the 18th Century Garden in an area of particular interest to the Note: The Cyclamineus is to be exhibited tiptop condition: Wilma Crane, Ed Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. in an 8" pot not a 6" as last year's Doelp, Johanna Goedel, Helen Kaufman, The Certificate of merit is awarded to Cyclamineus selection was. Kitty Lapp, Matt McConnell, Jane an individual, organization, institution or Newcomer, Harriett Richards, Kinnie business corporation for outstanding con- Schmidt and Frances Vollmer. If you'd tributions to horticulture. endorsement to Martha Barron, chair, like to join them see note on this page re: Please submit a portfolio with one Awards Committee, c/o PHS, by volunteer garden positions. nominating letter and two letters of September 15. In addition to the hyacinths, the second week of April brought good news from
David Poe, Area Representative, F. A. Bartlett Tree Company who called to say Second Class the company wanted to celebrate Arbor Postage Day '89 by donating time to the Azalea PMS NEWS PAID Garden restoration project. Last year THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY Bartlett worked to help in our efforts to us 325 WALNUT ST. • PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 save the Garden's last elm and at the end Phone (215) 625-8250 of April they returned to cable several limbs on the elm and to prune and fertilize the linden and Japanese scholar tree. Grateful thanks to Bartlett for joining us in this restoration project with more than 30 man-hours of specialized work.
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lane G. Pepper President \\ORT/r
Visit PHS Exhibit: Harvest Heritage "Seed Catalogs"
Through August 3 1 PHS I NEWS 8 21 The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Volume XXX, No. 7 AUGUST, 1989 N^M
For those who want to be part of the receptionist direct to the appropriate Pepperpot you Show, we offer all sorts of glamorous department. opportunities. In September we'll be run- And, to the several thousands who The annual new members' event ning the Harvest Show, with jobs avail- already volunteer, many grateful thanks. always makes a fascinating evening, giv- able in hospitality, children's activities, at
ing me and other staff members a chance the Members' Preview, as passers, or you to get acquainted with new members, to could even serve as an information aide IMS hear how and why they joined the Society (we can teach you all you need to know in and also to learn of their expectations a hurry). lane G. Pepper from their membership. To get over your winter blues, there's no President This year, a significant number tonic quite like the Philadelphia Flower expressed interest in volunteering for the Show and here there's a range of Society, and were curious to know in possibilities for just plain friendly folks as 1989 PERENNIALS CONFERENCE what areas we needed help and how they well as for expert horticulturists and The Perennials for the Landscape and would go about offering their services. especially for those who like to get out Garden Center Industries Symposium will
Their questions led me to write this and greet the public in our Membership/ be held Tuesday, October 24, 1 989 at column. We welcome your help, dear Information Booth. In playing host to Swarthmore College. This conference is
members, and we want to make it as easy more than 200,000 visitors we need all designed for nursery and garden center as possible for you to figure out how to get the help we can get. personnel, landscape designers, and
involved. If you're into shows, we're always look- horticulturists.
Let me give you some idea of the areas ing for help in planning and running the A terrific group of speakers includes in which other members volunteer. In our Junior Flower Show, a Philadelphia Pamela Schwerdt, head gardener at
headquarters, there's always room for a Green event that takes place annually in Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, England, few good gardeners to join the dedicated May. Philadelphia Green also reaches out Nancy Bechtol, Integrated Pest Manage- crew that keeps our beautiful 1 8th each year for some 350 gardeners to assist ment Coordinator, American Tree Care, century garden in such good order. This in judging the City Gardens Contest in Inc., Southampton, NY, Pamela Harper, group shows up in blue jeans every July and August. To participate you need Author and Consultant, Seaford, VA, Wednesday morning from April through to enjoy city gardens and other gardeners, Dale Hendricks, President, North Creek
October. If you're not available on such a but you don't have to be a trained judge. Nurseries, Inc., Landenberg, PA, Barbara
regular schedule, or would preferto live it Another arm of Philadelphia Green Olejnik, Center City Green Manager, The up in our comfortable library, our library directs the Azalea Garden project, and Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, staff welcome help on specific projects. here we need help from anyone who Philadelphia, PA, Cliff Russell, Owner,
For some projects it's helpful to have loves this space — help in weeding, in Russell Gardens, Churchville, PA, and training in library matters; for others it's planting bulbs and perennials and in rais- Marco Polo Stufano, Director of even more important to be neat and ing funds to keep it in tip-top condition. In Horticulture, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY. They orderly and to have an eye for detail. the September News we'll cover this new will cover a variety of topics on plant In the membership department, we're Friends Group in more detail. propagation, maintenance and design of
always on the lookout for friendly souls So — here are just a few ideas. If you're perennial gardens, and Integrated Pest who will assist with garden openings, interested in participating in any of the Management approach to pests.
with special events at headquarters and in above (or in any other aspects of the The Conference cost is $30. To receive private homes where we need help Society's activities), please call our main a brochure, call PHS at (215) 625-8250.
welcoming members and guests. number at (215) 625-8250 and let our Space is limited so register early. Activities
LECTURES, MEETINGS our garden while you ponder your plant blooming perennials and annuals into (Open to all without charge) and book selections. your design, and accenting your garden's
The Members Committee is very grate- strongest qualities. ful to PHS members who propagate plants Travel directions will be mailed to CENTER CITY ORCHID SOCIETY for the Annual Plant Dividend. We participants in early August. Monday, September 18, 7 pm appreciate the work, time, and energy Fee: $15 members. Program: African Orchids, Herman spent on this project on behalf of PHS. Pigors Many thanks to those who have already
agreed to donate plants for 1 989: Ernesta BEGONIA DEMONSTRATION D. Ballard, Richard Bitner, Toni Brinton, Wednesday, September 1 1 am-noon Aldys Davis, Elizabeth Farley, Roxie 3, Raindate: Thursday, September 14 Special Events Gevjan, Janet and John Cyer, George Sylvia Lin, frequent Harding, Tarn Hartell, Joseph Heiler, Flower Show top prize Richard Hutton, Anita Kistler, David winner in horticulture, has invited a small group of begonia fanciers to her Lautt, Jane Lennon, Sylvia Lin, Evi Loeb, PHS EXHIBIT: THREE VIEWS Cheryl and Tom Monroe, Robert home for an informal program on Exhibit Opening: Friday, September 15, begonia culture. Sylvia will share her Montgomery, Claire Muller, Dee Peck, J. 5-7 pm experience on growing begonias for Liddon Pennock, Jr., Dot Plyler, Joanna Exhibit: September 15 through October Reed, Helen Roback, Herbert Schiffer, pleasure and for show. 31,1989 Liz Sharp, Charlotte and Alan Slack, Topics for discussion will include E. H. Hauck, Brian E. Mackenzie, and Irene Slater, Rosemarie and Jules indoor and outdoor care, repotting, daily E. Sokol, graduates of the Tyler Julia Vassalluzzo, Robert Way, Susan maintenance, growing begonias in a con- School of Art, will have their works Wilmerding, Mary Lou Wolfe, Chris tained environment using soil-less mix, featured in the exhibition room at PHS. Woods, and Sally Yow. and making moss baskets. Pencil drawings as well as oil and acrylic Fee: $12 members; $15 guests. pieces will be on display. Styles range Registration is limited to 1 5 persons. from whimsical interpretation to realism. Travel directions will be sent to Included are European and American participants early in September. landscapes, still lifes with plants, and cityscapes. MEMBERS' HARVEST SHOW PREVIEW
Opening reception to meet the artists Friday, September 22, 4-7 pm on Friday evening, September 1 5, Plan to attend the 1 989 Harvest Show • • SPECIAL • • 5-7 pm. Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres will Members' Preview immediately follow- LATE SUMMER GARDEN VISIT: be served. ing the judging of exhibits. Cider, wine, THE BALLARD GARDEN and light snacks will be served. Reservations required. Please use Thursday, September 14, 4-7 pm Members may bring guests to the reservation form, page three. Chestnut Hill Preview for a charge of $5 each, payable Ernesta and Fred Ballard invite PHS at the entrance. Members' tickets to the members and guests for a late summer Show will be mailed later this month. PHS ANNUAL PLANT DIVIDEND visit to their garden, located on the edge AND BOOK SALE of the Wissahickon in Chestnut Hill. The Ballard for Friday, September 8, noon-7:30 pm garden has something Saturday, September 9, 9:30 am-noon everyone: wonderful mature trees and shrubs and a wide variety of plants. Many The Annual Plant Dividend will be of their plants are in containers, including held in conjunction with the Library Book Registration Events an outstanding bonsai collection. Sale. Travel directions will be mailed in early Members are invited to visit PHS to September. Fee: $4 members; $6 guests select a complimentary plant for each AT-HOME SERIES: GARDEN individual membership and three plants REJUVENATION FOR LATE- for a family and other memberships. This SUMMER ENJOYMENT annual plant distribution, one of the many Saturday, August 19, 10 am-noon in
benefits of PHS membership, is a great SwarthmoreTEAv GARDENING WITH PERENNIALS opportunity to obtain plant(s) you've HorticulturistChwIes Cresson will talk Saturday, September 16, 9 am-noon
always wanted but could not find. A list of about ways to enliven and rejuvenate At Chanticleer in Wayne
plants, all donated by PHS members, will your flower garden for enjoyment Chris Woods, senior horticulturist at be printed in the September NEWS. through the last days ofoummer into the Chanticleer, a private estate in Wayne, We are sorry we cannot set aside plants cooler days of autumn.^V will give a practical demonstration on
or take telephone orders— if s first come, Discussion topics will include: selec- ways to grow, cultivate, and maintain first served. We hope you will visit PHS tive grooming, clean up, imptfovmg the perennials in a perennial or mixed
and enjoy iced tea and a leisurely stroll in appearance of plantings, integrating fall- border. The program's focus will be 2 5
promoting the use of perennials. REJUVENATING A PERENNIAL will reap the rewards in the spring. Discussions will include the care, culture, GARDEN Horticulturist Jane Lennon's talk on and propagation of perennials and Tuesday, September 19, 10 am -noon perennial garden rejuvenation will cover achieving the desired result by using Peoples Light and Theater Company, the fall maintenanceprocedures, dividing effective plant combinations. Malvern perennials, proper spacing, cutting back,
Travel directions will be mailed to Autumn is the best time to appraise the and preparation for winter. participants in early September. perennial garden, to revise garden plans, Travel directions will be mailed in early Fee: $15 members; $17 guests and to effect basic changes for which you September. Fee: $13 members; $16 guests
"STICK AND STUFF" NON-ARRANGING IN MALVERN Wednesday, September 20, 10 am-noon Reservations PHS members who have visited Joanna Reed's Longview Farm have admired her charming, informal bouquets from her
Clip and mail reservations to: garden and will enjoy her relaxed PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 approach to "fixing" flowers, rather than
arranging. Her intent is to bring her garden into her house by attractively Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form below to speed arranging flowers and foliage in vases by processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. Confirmations for events at PHS using what describes, with a are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we will expect you. Field trip confirmations with Joanna important trip information ire mailed ten days prior to the event. There is limited space for all twinkle in her eye, as her "stick and stuff" activities (except spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two consecutive issues of the PHS method. News. Joanna will talk about informal arrang- Refunds and cancellations: ing and conditioning of flowers and will If you wish to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative fee will be deducted from demonstrate ways to use fall-fruiting your refund as follows: $2 fee for all events other than one-day field trips provided your request is received no later shrubs and foliage with flowers as than two days prior to the event. accents. This program represents basic $5 fee for one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than four days prior flower arrangi ng at its most enjoyable and to the event. promotes a philosophy rather than a discipline.
Travel instructions will be mailed to participants in early September. AT HOME SERIES: REJUVENATING A PERENNIAL Fee: $12 members; $15 guests GARDEN REJUVENATION GARDEN, SEPT. 19 Limited to one guest per member. Members- $15 Members $1 3 Guests $16 AT HOME SERIES: BEGONIAS STICK AND STUFF ARRANGING PROPAGATION WORKSHOP: Mem bers $ 1 G uests $ 1 Members $12 Guests $15 BROAD-LEAVED EVERGREENS LATE AFTERNOON GARDEN PROPAGATING BROAD-LEAVED Saturday, September 30, 9:30 am-noon VISIT: ERNESTA AND FRED EVERGREENS Alan P. Slack, experienced propagator BALLARD Members $1 7 Guests $20 and PHS Council member, has Members $4 Guests developed a following among members $6 FIELD TRIP: BARNES and reliable prop- GARDENING WITH PERENNIALS ARBORETUM eager to master easy agating techniques. This session is Members $15 Guests $17 Members $13 Guests $16 devoted to propagating broad-leaved evergreens, including hollies, camellias, and broad-leaved rhododendrons.
Branches of unusual plants plus all other equipment and materials are included in the fee of $17 for members and $20 for guests. Limited to 25.
I will attend the Exhibit Opening Friday, September 1 5 (# )
I would like to help with the Harvest Show Members' Preview. PHS News (USPS 763-640) is published monthly except July by the Pennsylvania NAME Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. Subscription— ADDRESS $8.50 per year—Single copies 80«. Second class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. and additional mailing office. Postmaster: send ZIP .TELEPHONE: home address changes to PHS News, 325 Walnut Street, Phila., Pa. 19106. work_ Chair: Donald L. Felley President: JaneG. Pepper Editor: Lisa Stephano Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth C. Cullan LIBRARY BOOKSALE Field Trips in the Library Join us at PHS on Friday, September 8 New and Saturday, September 9 when you'll Building health gardens, Catherine be able to purchase both new gardening BARNES ARBORETUM: FALL Foster, 1 989. books and your old favorites. The FOLIAGE AND FRUITS The chemical free Lawn, Warren Booksale is held concurrently with the Schultz, 1989. Friday, October 6, 10 am-1 pm Members' Plant Dividend. Clematis, Barry Frerwell, The PHS trips to Barnes in spring and 1989. Hours: Friday, September 8, 1989, fall are always among the most popular The flower arranger's garden, Friends of Library Booksale Preview 1 each year. Barnes Arboretum, situated on Rosemary Verey, 1989. am-noon. PHS Members and public 1 2 acres in Merion, PA, has a notable From vines to wines, Jeff Cox, 1 985. noon-7 pm. Saturday, September9, 1989 collection of the best ornamentals The handbook for woody 9:30 am-noon. flower shows, for this zone. National Council of State Garden Clubs, The Library gladly accepts gardening Elizabeth Farley, assistant director, Inc., 1987 rev. ed. books as donations to this sale. teacher, and expert guide, will lead Lawns and 25 Amnesty Days landscaping, Garden Way PHS members and guests through the Publishing, 1989. During the Booksale, you can return Arboretum, emphasizing fall foliage and The making of an English country overdue books and pay no fines! Amnesty ornamentals with interesting fall fruit. garden, Deborah Kellaway, 1988. is restricted to Booksale hours only. Registrants should bring lunch; dessert The Practical Gardener, Roger B. and coffee will be provided. After lunch, Swain, 1989. the entrance of the Barnes walk around to Tree Pruning, Alex L. Shigo, 1989. The Library is updating its List of Foundation's gallery and tour the art A Year of flowers, Peter Loewer, 1 989. Speakers on Horticulture and Re- collection at your leisure. The year-round flower gardener, Anne lated Topics. This list is sent to PHS Fee: $13 members; $16 guests Halpin, 1989. members and garden clubs who re- Travel instructions will be mailed to quest information on individuals to Members may borrow books by mail. If participants in late September. contact for speaking engagements. you would like one or more of the above
sent you, off the title, fill If you area lecturer and would like books to check out the form below and mail to: Library, • • • to be included on this list, please call the Library at 625-8256 and PHS, 325 Walnut St., Phila., PA 19106. request a questionnaire. Or, phone your request to (215) 625-8256. WATCH YOUR MAILBOX When returning book(s) please enclose $1 .75 per book in the envelope provided. Please be on the lookout for three Our new books are popular. If you don't important PHS mailings that should arrive HARVEST SHOW HELPERS NEEDED receive your choice within 2 weeks, at your homes in late August - mid Sylvia Lin, PHS Members Committee you'll know you are on a wait list. September. Your 1989 Harvest Show Chair, invites volunteers to help with the announcement and ticket(s) will be Harvest Show Members' Preview on NAME mailed in late August, closely followed by September 22, from 4-7 pm. If you would membership renewals for 1990. The like to help, please check the appropriate ADDRESS. 1 990 Philadelphia Flower Show Ex- box on the reservation form, page three. hibitors Schedule will be mailed in early We will be in touch with you in early September. If you have not received your September. DAYTIME TELEPHONE Harvest Show tickets) or renewal notice
by September 1 1 , please give us a call at (215)625-8250. We are always particularly grateful to the members who respond promptly to Second Class the first dues notice, thereby eliminating Postage the expense of additional reminders and PHS NEWS PAID the confusion that results when responses The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and additional notices cross in the mail. 325 Walnut St. 'Philadelphia, PA 19106 Phone (215) 625-8250 Visit PHS Exhibit: THREE VIEWS Exhibit Opening: Friday, September 15,5-7 pm Exhibit: September 15 through October 31, 1989 PHS NEWS The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
1 8 27 me XXX, No. 8 SEPTEMBER, 1989
HARVEST SHOWBOAT IS THEME FOR HARVEST SHOW DEMONSTRATIONS GREENING GROUPS TO GATHER 1989 HARVEST SHOW AT PHILADELPHIA'S INTERNATIONAL SEPTEMBER 23 AND 24 Saturday, September 23 HOUSE — OCTOBER 8-13
After a rather wetgrowing season in the 1:00 A creative touch for setting your PHS's Philadelphia Green program, in Delaware Valley, Harvest Showboat will Autumn tabled hr.) cooperation with the Penn State Urban take us back to Old Times On The Jeannette Goldberg, party planning Gardening program, is co-hosting the Mississippi where we'll enjoy supper at consultant 10th Annual American Community the Captain's Table and gaze afar on Red Gardening Association (ACGA) confer- 2:00 Flower arranging in glass: in and all in in Philadelphia. The theme, Sails at Sunset — of this the Show's under water (20 min.) ence Development Through Design Classes. Bernice Makin, professional flower "Community The rest of the Show, from Preserved arranger Greening, will highlight the tremendous Products and individual floral entries to impact gardening has on the inner city 2:30 An introduction to Ikebana, aromatic neighborhood. crisp garden vegetables and Japanese flower arranging (20 min.) herbs, will herald the annual harvest in a As to the largest and most Helen Flaig, teacher in the home gardening pro- blaze of color and fragrance. Ikenobo School of Ikebana successful community
Sally Graham, 1 989 Show chair, says gram in the country, Philadelphia has a 3:00 From the city to the 'burbs' — If more than 1 500 entries are expected in lot to show off to ACGA members. you cooking with Autumn herbs (1 hr.) would like to attend the conference or this year's Show along with a fun-filled Greg Funk, Executive Chef, activities for of the would like more information, please call schedule of members Nature's Gourmet entire family. Eva Ray at our Philadelphia Green office, Sunday, September 24 (215)625-8280. HARVEST SHOW SPECIAL EVENTS 1:00 A bountiful serving of home 10am-5 pm preserving: safety tips and tech-
Jack Eden, KYW Newsradio garden niques (2 hr.) commentator, will answer gardening Richard Bitner, Harvest Show questions. (Saturday only) preserved products, chair
1 1 am-4 pm 2:00 Artistic Autumn Arrangements — Robert Harvey, proprietor of Harvey's decorating with dried flowers Honey, will perform beekeeping (20 min.) demonstrations and don his famous Ellen Piatt, proprietor of the beard of bees. Meadow Lark NEW FLOWER SHOW 1-2 2:30 May the Force be with you: spring pm DATES Harley Newman's Washtub Circus, bulbs for your home (20 min.) billed as America's biggest one-man Walt Fisher, Phila. Flower Show MARCH 11-18, 1990 circus and world's smallest sideshow, prizewinner
will perform near the Children's Tent. 3:00 The Appeal of Apples (1 hr.) • • • Rosemarie Vassalluzzo, food 1-4pm HORTICOURT SYMPOSIUMS Children's Activities Tent will feature columnist, Advance of Bucks Join us on Friday, October 13th pumpkin painting, scarecrow making, County at PHS (9:30 am) and Monday, apple games and leaf mask making along November 6th at The Highlands in with mounds of hay for play. Fort Washington (10 am) as sev- (Seed Mask Making for children will MEMBERS' HARVEST SHOW PREVIEW eral of the Flower Show's veteran take place during Members Preview, Friday, September 22, 4-7 pm Horticultural exhibitors conduct September 22) Plan to attend the 1 989 Harvest Show two symposiums designed to take 1-4 pm Members' Preview. Cider, wine, and the mystery out of entering the Strolling musicians will play bluegrass, light snacks will be served. Show. To receive more information old-time and Dixie-style music. Members may bring guests to the call Marge Meer at 625-8292. (Performance will also take place dur- Preview for a charge of $5 each, payable ing Members Preview) at the entrance. Activities
MEETINGS REJUVENATING A PERENNIAL LECTURE: PENSHURST PLACE (Open without charge to all) GARDEN Thursday, October 5, 5:45-7:15 pm Tuesday, September 19, 10 am-noon William, 1st Viscount De L'lsle, will CENTER CITY ORCHID SOCIETY Peoples Light and Theater Company, talk about Penshurst Place, his fascinating
Monday, September 1 8, 7 pm Malvern old family home and exceptional
Herman Pigors: "African Orchids" Autumn is the best time to appraise the gardens, built in the 14th century.
Monday, October 1 6, 7 pm perennial garden, to revise garden plans, Located in Tonbridge, Kent, both house Ed Carter and )ohn Slowik: 'Home and to effect basic changes for which you and garden have been subject to the vicis- Orchid Culture" will reap the rewards in the spring. situdes of political and social change; and Horticulturist Jane Lennon's talk on an examination of Penshurst Place perennial garden rejuvenation will cover becomes a history lesson from the Middle through Elizabethan England into BEGONIA DEMONSTRATION the fall maintenance procedures, dividing Ages Wednesday, September 13, 10 am-noon perennials, proper spacing, cutting back, the 20th century. Raindate: Thursday, September 14 and preparation for winter. Viscount De L'lsle served as Secretary
Sylvia Lin, frequent Flower Show top Travel directionswill be mailed in early of State for Air in Churchill's second
prize winner in horticulture, has invited a September. government, Governor General of banking small group of begonia fanciers to her Fee: $13 members; $16 guests Australia, and director for many home for an informal program on and insurance companies. begonia culture. Sylvia will share her Program will begin promptly at experience on growing begonias for "STICK AND STUFF" 5:45 pm, followed by wine and nibbles. pleasure and for show. NON-ARRANGING IN MALVERN Fee: $8 members; $10 guests Topics for discussion will include Wednesday, September 20, 10 am-noon Note: The Library will be open until indoor and outdoor care, repotting, daily PHS members who have visited Joanna 5:45 pm this evening. maintenance, growing begonias in a con- Reed's Longview Farm have admired her WORKSHOP: COUNTRY-STYLE soil-less mix, charming, informal bouquets from her tained environment using ARRANGING-INTERMEDIATE LEVEL and making moss baskets. garden and will enjoy her relaxed Thursday, October 5, 10 am-noon Fee: $12 members; $15 guests. approach to "fixing" flowers, rather than Audrey Nichols, frequent exhibitor and arranging. Her intent is to bring her Registration is limited to 1 5 persons. winner at the Philadelphia Flower Show garden into her house by attractively Travel directions will be sent to will teach how to achieve the mellow, arranging flowers and foliage in vases by participants early in September. unstudied appeal of country-style using what Joanna describes, with a arranging. twinkle in her eye, as her "stick and stuff" Each participant should bring: clippers, method. • • SPECIAL • • box to transport finished arrangement, Joanna will talk about informal arrang- LATE SUMMER GARDEN VISIT: and a container with an opening not to ing and conditioning of flowers and will 8". THE BALLARD GARDEN exceed A su itable conta i ner cou Id be a demonstrate ways to use fall-fruiting Thursday, September 14, 4-7 pm favorite old basket, antique red ware, or a shrubs and foliage with flowers as Chestnut Hill container of wood, tin, pewter, etc. All accents. This program represents basic Ernesta and Fred Ballard invite PHS other materials will be supplied. flower arranging at its most enjoyable and members and guests for a late summer The emphasis of this program is style, promotes a philosophy rather than a visit to their garden, located on the edge not arranging principles. Participants discipline. of the Wissahickon in Chestnut Hill. The should have knowledge of flower arrang- Travel instructions will be mailed to Ballard garden has something for ing basics. participants in early September. everyone: wonderful mature trees and Audrey Nichols has a background in shrubs and a wide variety of plants. Many Fee: $12 members; $15 guests decorative arts and wide experience for parties. of their plants are in containers, including Limited to one guest per member. designing weddings and Fee: $40 members; $45 guests an outstanding bonsai collection. Travel directionswill be mailed in early DEMONSTRATION: PARTY FLOWERS PROPAGATION WORKSHOP: September. Fee: $4 members; $6 guests Wednesday, October 11, 10 am-noon BROAD-LEAVED EVERGREENS Jamie Rothstein, who specializes in Saturday, September 30, 9:30 am-noon creative arrangements for entertaining, Alan P. Slack, experienced propagator GARDENING WITH PERENNIALS returns to PHS with more ideas for effec- Saturday, September 16, 9 am-noon and PHS Council member, has tive arrangements for all occasions. following among members At Chanticleer in Wayne developed a Discussion topics include the careful eager master easy and reliable prop- Chris Woods, senior horticulturist at to selection of common and unusual agating techniques. This session is Chanticleer, a private estate in Wayne, flowers, importance and appropriateness will devoted to propagating broad-leaved give a practical demonstration on of color in given situations, and compati- evergreens, including hollies, camellias, ways to grow, cultivate, and maintain bility of flowers and linens. perennials in a perennial or mixed and broad-leaved rhododendrons. Jamie Rothstein, a distinctive floral border. Branches of unusual plants plus all designer in Olde City, Philadelphia, Travel directions will be mailed to other equipment and materials are participated as a major exhibitor in the
participants in early September. included in the fee of $17 for members 1 989 Philadelphia Flower Show.
for Limited to 25. Fee: 1 7 members; $20 guests. Fee : $ 1 5 members; $ 1 7 guests and $20 guests. $ 6
LECTURE: A HERITAGE OF BEAUTY- plantsman, Charles Nelson is a lecturer, LECTURE: SISSINGHURST'S PLANTS IRISH GARDENS AND THEIR PLANTS garden historian, and writer best known AND THEIR NEIGHBORS Tuesday, October 17, 5:45-7:15 pm for his books and articles on the history of Thursday, October 19, 5:45-7:15 pm
Dr. E. Charles Nelson, taxonomist to gardens and garden plants. Sissinghurst, one of the world's most the National Botanic Gardens in Dublin, Program will begin promptly at celebrated gardens, provides the back- Ireland will show some of Ireland's best 5:45 pm, followed by wine and nibbles. drop for this lecture on garden plants. gardens from the largest demesnes with Fee: $6 members; $8 guests Pamela Schwerdt, co-head gardener at parklands to the smallest town gardens Note: The Library will be open until Sissinghurst, will discuss choice plants, growing a surprising variety of plants. 5:45 pm this evening. effective color combinations for flowers An internationally acknowledged and foliage, and the skillful integration of roses, perennials, and shrubs into the Reservations mixed border. Pamela Schwerdt and Sibylle
Clip and mail reservations to: Kreutzberger have been the head garden- Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PHS, 325 19106 ers at Sissinghurst since 1 959, three years
Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form below to before the death of Vita Sackville-West. speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. Confirmations for Program begins promptly at 5:45 pm, events at PHS are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we will expect you. Field trip followed by wine and nibbles. confirmations with important trip information are mailed ten days prior to the event. There Fee: $8 members; $10 guests is limited space for all activities (except spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two consecutive issues of the PHS News. Note: The Library will be open until Refunds and cancellations: 5:45 pm this evening.
If you wish to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative fee will be deducted from your refund as follows: $2 fee for all events other than one-day field trips provided your request isreceived no later than two days prior to the event. LECTURE: THE ROLE OF NATIONAL $5 fee for one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than four days PLANT COLLECTIONS prior to the event. Morris Arboretum AT HOME SERIES: BEGONIAS LECTURE: SISSINGHURST'S Friday, October 20, 1 pm Members $12 Guests $1 5 PLANTS AND THEIR PHS joins six other horticultural institu- tions in the Delaware Valley to co- LATE AFTERNOON GARDEN NEIGHBORS Members $8 Guests $10 sponsor a free lecture on horticultural VISIT: ERNESTA AND FRED BALLARD IKEBANA SAMPLER conservation. 'The Role of National Plant Members $4 Guests $6 Members $90 Guests $95 Collections: Principles, Problems, and GARDENING WITH FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY Administration of Horticultural Conser-
PERENNIALS EVENING vation" is the subject of the talk by R.A.W. Members $15 Guests $17 Members $18 Guests $20 Lowe, General Secretary of England's REJUVENATING A PERENNIAL FORCING BULBS National Council for the Conservation of GARDEN Members $30 Guests $34 Plants and Gardens (NCCPG). Mr. Lowe's presentation will include an Members $13 Guests $16 WORKSHOP: COUNTRY-STYLE analysis of factors leading to the loss of STICK AND STUFF ARRANGING (INTERMEDIATE horticultural diversity in cultivation, argu- ARRANGING LEVEL) ments for conservation, observations on Members $12 Guests $1 5 Members $40 Guests $45 organizing and administering a national PROPAGATING BROAD-LEAVED LECTURE: THE ROLE OF plant collections program, and a brief EVERGREENS NATIONAL PLANT history of the struggles and successes of Members $17 Guests $20 COLLECTIONS the NCCPG. Reserve places LECTURE: PENSHURST PLACE Although there is no charge for this Members $8 Guests $10 FIELD TRIP: BARNES program, seating is limited. Kindly reserve space by checking the appropriate box on DEMONSTRATION: PARTY ARBORETUM the reservation form. FLOWERS Members $ 1 3 Guests $ 1 FIELD TRIP: STROLL Members $17 Guests $20 AUTUMN (continued on page 6) AT CHANTICLEER LECTURE: A HERITAGE OF Members $5 Guests $7 BEAUTY—IRISH GARDENS AND THEIR PLANTS PHS News (USPS 763-640) is published Members $6 Guests $8 monthly except My by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. Subscription — NAME $9.75 per year —Single copies 80c. Second class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. and ADDRESS additional mailing office. Postmaster: send address changes to PHS News. 325 Walnut Street, Phila, Pa. 19106. ZIP -TELEPHONE: home Chair: Donald L. Felley President: janeC. Pepper work _ Editor: Lisa Stephano Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth G. Gullan .
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF MEMBERS
November 15, 1989
Please join us for the Society's 162nd Annual Meeting on Wednesday, November 15 at 5:00 pm at the Society's offices, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA. We will elect new council members, take up any other business which may properly come before the meeting, and celebrate the recipients of the Society's awards.
The Society's Nominating Committee, Henry H. Reichner, Jr., Chair; Morris Cheston, Jr., Ruth Colket, Donald L. Felley, Sally Graham, Barbara Heckert, Richard W. Lighty and Jane Ward propose the following
Council members for re-election for additional three year terms: Richard W. Billings, Morris Cheston, Jr.,
Charles H. Gale, Sr., Sally Graham (who was elected last year to fill the final year of an unexpired term), Barbara Heckert, Mary B. Hopkins, Vernoca Michael and Alan P. Slack. In addition they will place in nomination for three year terms the following persons who are not currently members of council:
Herb Clarke is a gardener from way back, and has Lee M. Raden has been an active member of the
chaired the Philadelphia Flower Show for the past American Rock Garden Society for 27 years and is
three years, as well as serving as honorary chair of currently its president. He is a former PHS Council
the City Gardens Contest for many years. Herb is a member, has written for Green Scene and serves on former member of the PHS Council, a member of the Passing Committee for the Competitive Classes the board of the Presbyterian Hospital as well as the at the Flower Show as well as being a long-time and
much beloved weatherman on WCAU-TV. highly successful exhibitor. Lee is currently Director of Sales, Fabricated Metal. Sallie Korman chaired the 1 989 Flower Show
Preview Dinner. In addition, Sallie is an active Robert S. Ryan has been associated with PHS for participant in many groups at the University of almost two decades and is the immediate past
Pennsylvania, including the Board of Overseers of chairman of the PHS Council. He is currently a the School of Nursing, a member of the Institute of member of the Flower Show Executive and Finance
Contemporary Art and of the Abramsohn Committees and is a partner with Drinker Biddle & Committee. Reath.
Under the new by-laws of the Society adopted at the 1988 Annual Meeting, members now can vote either in person or by proxy. We hope that you can attend the meeting, but if you cannot, please cl ip out and return the proxy form. WE NEED YOUR HELP ON THIS. We may not have a quorum at the meeting unless enough proxies are returned.
Raul Betancourt, Secretary
PROXY FORM THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING OF MEMBERS, NOVEMBER 15, 1989
The undersigned hereby appoints Donald L. Felley, Jane G. Pepper and Raul Betancourt and each of them the true and lawful attorneys or attorney of said member, with full power of substitution to vote at the annual meeting of the members of The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, called to be held at 5:00 pm on
Wednesday, November 15,1 989, and at any adjournments thereof, with all the powers the undersigned would possess if personally present:
1 For the election of Council Members
2. For the transaction of such other business as may come before said meeting.
(Date)
Please return to: If both husband and wife are members, The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society both should sign. 325 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA19106 A Rejuvenated Azalea Garden
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In the 1 950's PHS installed the Won't you join us to keep the Azalea Garden to the west of the momentum going? Friends of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Now, Azalea Garden, chaired by DJ and
PHS is leading a cooperative com- Howard Brosius, is a growing group munity effort to rejuvenate this of people who love the garden and much-loved and much-used want to contribute time, enthusiasm Philadelphia spot. and money to assure continued care
In cooperation with the Fairmount after the restoration is completed. Park Commission, we've planted Please return the form at the new beds, rejuvenated old ones, bottom of this page to become a pruned and fertilized existing healthy Charter Member of Friends of the shrubs, and installed hundreds of Azalea Garden with a donation of new plants. Many are azaleas, but $25.00 we've added magnolias, chionanthus and hydrangeas to ex- tend the Garden's blooming season. BUY A BENCH As part of a new design by left Tree Company donated services Included in the Azalea Garden's Shusterman and Schiller, we're also to prune, cable and fertilize the large new design are teak sitting installing a grand entrance pergola trees within the Garden. benches. A donation of $1,000 with a brick terrace, benches, and Funding for the initial phases of allows Friends to purchase a classic Wissahickon schist sitting walls adja- this project came from monies raised Dunkirk style bench which can be cent to the Sea Horse Fountain. through the Philadelphia Flower dedicated in recognition or mem- ory of a friend or family member. The Garden's restoration is truly a Show, The McLean Contribution- The Garden's design includes community group effort. Garden ship, Conservation Projects, Inc., the spaces for only 12 of the benches. Club of America volunteers and the Philadelphia Committee of the To take advantage of this limited grounds crew from Friends Hospital Garden Club of America, The Park- opportunity, please contact Jane pruned every azalea. Fairmount Park lands Foundation and several gener- Pepper at the Society. crews removed diseased trees. Bart- ous donors.
(Be sure to return Proxy Form on reverse side, Pg. 4) YES, I WOULD LIKE TO BE A FRIEND OF THE AZALEA GARDEN
I am interested in contributing: Time to: Enthusiasm to: • help plant additional perennials and bulbs • lead tours for visitors • weed and prune • tout the Garden's virtues to friends Money to: • buy a bench • hire a maintenance crew to do clean-up and lawn mowing • purchase specialized services such as tree pruning
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Enclosed is my check for $25 (payable to PHS/Azalea Garden) to enroll as a member of the Friends of the Azalea Garden. Return to: Jane Pepper, President, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2777. Activities (continued) grooming and exhibition, cold storage Special Events WORKSHOPS: IKEBANA SAMPLER techniques, and best varieties for forcing. FOR BEGINNERS Each participant will plant two 8" clay PHS ANNUAL PLANT DIVIDEND Mondays, October 23, 30, November 6, pots using Tulipa 'Negrita' (purple) and Friday, September 8, noon-7:30 pm 13,27, and December 4, 6:45-8:45 pm Narcissus 'Unsurpassable' (large, Saturday, September 9, 9:30 am-noon PHS members interested in oriental yellow), two bulbs designated for the This Annual Plant Dividend will be flower arranging have an opportunity to competitive classes for the 1 990 Show. held in conjunction with the Library sample the three major schools of All materials will be provided. Limited Booksale. Ikebana during six evening sessions. to 20 participants. Bernice Makin, guiding beginning Fee: $30 members; $34 guests Members are invited to visit PHS to arrangers through the Ikenobo, Sogetsu, select a complimentary plant for each in- and Ohara schools, will emphasize the dividual membership and three plants for Field Trips basic principles, differences, and styles of family, contributing, and life memberships. each. Classes will feature new BARNES ARBORETUM: FALL approaches to design based on time- FOLIAGE AND FRUITS We are sorry we cannot set aside plants participants or take telephone orders it's first come, tested patterns. Each week, Friday, October 6, 10 am-1 pm — will create a design suitable for home or first serve. Elizabeth Farley, assistant director, flower shows and should bring clippers, a An impressive variety of plants have teacher, and expert guide, will lead 25 large low container, and a pinholder. been grown by members for this annual PHS members and guests through the Bernice Makin is a teaching master of event. Houseplantsof maidenhairfern for Arboretum, emphasizing fall foliage and two schools of oriental flower arranging shady spots and succulents for bright ornamentals with interesting fall fruit. and master judge of the Garden Club windows; Perennials of Canterbury bells Registrants should bring lunch; dessert Federation. and toad lily and Trees and Shrubs of and coffee will be provided. After lunch, Fee of $90 for members and $95 for Chinese dogwood and dwarf Japanese walk around to the entrance of the Barnes guests includes instruction, flowers, and azalea are just a few of the treats avai lable Foundation's gallery and tour the art all other materials for six sessions. to members. collection at your leisure. We hope you will visit PHS and enjoy Fee: $13 members; $16 guests iced tea, a leisurely stroll in the garden Travel instructions will be mailed to FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY EVENING and take advantage of the opportunity to participants in late September. Thursday, October 26, 6-9:00 pm make some interesting purchases at the Step back into 19th century rural Library Booksale. CHANTICLEER STROLL IN WAYNE America with Cornell University pro- Wednesday, October 18, 10 am-noon fessor and heirloom vegetable enthusiast Chris Woods, senior horticulturist, will Robert F. Becker, who will present a slide lead PHS members and guests on an lecture "What Granny Grew; heirloom autumn walk through Chanticleer, the vegetables in books and catalogues." private estate of Adolph Rosengarten, |r. Mr. Becker will tell us how old books and The tour emphasis will be seasonal color seed catalogues are used to verify and fall-fruiting or blooming plants. heirloom vegetable varieties. Travel directions will be mailed in early Reservations from Friends of the October. Participants must provide own Library will be given first preference until transportation. October 9, when the evening's events Fee: $5 members; $7 guests will beopentoall PHS members. Support from Friends of the Library assists the
Society in the renovation and develop- ment of our historical collections. To become a Library Friend, please contact Second Class Postage Janet Evans at 625-8261. PHS NEWS PAID Cocktails at 6:00 pm (donation bar); The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society buffet 6:45 pm; program 7:45 pm. Fee: $18.00; $20 guests. 325 Walnut St.* Philadelphia, PA 19106 Phone (215) 625-8250 WORKSHOP: FORCING BULBS Friday, October 27, 10 am-noon Walter Fisher, PHS Council member and runner-up for the Horticultural
Sweepstakes at the 1 989 Philadelphia
Flower Show, will teach all the essentials of forcing including methods of attaining full, robust pots of bloom, mechanics of planting, forcing timetables, tips on r Visit PHS Exhibit: THREE VIEWS s *£! /e Through October 31, 1989 18 2 7 lume XXX, No. 9 OCTOBER, 1989 1989 MAJOR AWARD Geers remains as enthusiastic as he was Major Awards presentations will be NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED in 1953. From farmers to agriculturists to made at the Society's Annual Meeting, The Awards Committee, under the consumers, Gary brings news of the Wednesday, November 15 at 5:00 pm. leadership of Committee chair, Martha environment and the economy its and FLOWER SHOW Barron, announced the following effects on horticulture and agriculture in ARRANGEMENT SYMPOSIUM nominees for the Society's most prestigi- the Delaware Valley. His special guests )oin us for the Philadelphia Flower Show ous awards. have included experts in the field and Arrangement Symposium November 1 at The Distinguished Achievement children who garden in the city, com- The Highlands. Helen Jones, Helene medal will be presented to Elisabeth munity gardeners and extension agents. Detweiler and Marion Felheimer, Woodburn, doyenne of the botanical Very few of the area plant societies, experienced Flower Show exhibitors, tell and horticultural book world in the arboreta and garden clubs have escaped all you need to know to make a winning United States. From her converted barn/ the generosity of Sally Reath. Many of entry in the Show. For more information home known as Booknoll Farm, their members have toured her magnifi- call Marge Meer at (215) 625-8292. Elisabeth has created an outstanding cent garden in Devon and everyone has horticultural book business housing come away from her outstanding collec- Please more than 14,000 books, a testimony to tion of plants much the wiser horticultur- Clip and Mail her knowledge of the history and litera- ally and usually with a plant in hand. THE PENNSYLVANIA ture in the field. Sally is respected throughout the nation HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY Elisabeth's contribution to libraries as a horticulturist par excellence, but her ANNUAL MEETING OF MEMBERS, across the country is unsurpassed. She greatest gift has been her ability to moti- NOVEMBER 15, 1989 has served on the PHS Library vate, to teach, and to inspire others. Sally Committee since 1965 and it is to her served on the PHS Council 1 980-86, as The undersigned hereby appoints that we owe the inspiration for the President of the Four Counties Garden Donald L. Felley, Jane G. Pepper and Raul library's Pennsylvania Collection. Club 1 965-67, as Director of the Betancourt and each of them the true and Elisabeth has carried this philosophy of National Horticulture Committee lawful attorneys or attorney of said local completeness to libraries all over 1 978-80 and has received numerous member, with full power of substitution to the country, ensuring regional strength awards from the Garden Club of vote at the annual meeting of the mem- and preservation of the ephemeral yet America. Her invaluable contributions bers of The Pennsylvania Horticultural important local materials like seed to the Competitive Classes and Judges Society, called to be held at 5:00 pm on catalogs and pamphlets. From the forma- and Awards Committees of the Wednesday, November 1 5, 1 989, and at tion of the Council on Botanical and Philadelphia Flower Show are surpassed any adjournments thereof, with all the Horticultural Libraries in 1965 to her only by her many winning entries as a powers the undersigned would possess if work with the collection building Show exhibitor. personally present: process at such institutions as the Uni- Albert F.W. Vick, Jr. has played a vital 1. For the election of Council versity of Delaware, PHS and the role as a major exhibitor in the Members Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Philadelphia Flower Show for more than 2. For the transaction of such other Elisabeth has proven herself a 20th 50 years. His award winning, business as may come before said century evangelist for the cause of naturalistic designs have been a skillful meeting. horticulture and the preservation of not blend of country landscape and excep- only the older works but also those from tional specimen plantings. Through his (Date) the 1 9th and 20th century. nursery business, Vick'sWildgardens, Al Certificates of Merit will be presented has built a reputation as an expert on to Gary Geers, Sally Reath and Albert wild flower plantings and as a F.W. Vick, Jr. restorationist of naturalistic beauty. One If both husband and wife are members, This past year, FARM, HOME & of his many notable works being the both should sign. GARDEN celebrated its 35th year on gardens at Deerfield. Please return to: KYW-TV, making it the Delaware Al served as President of the Penn- The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Valley's longest-running television show sylvania Nurserymen's Association in 325 Walnut Street and the country's oldest farm program. 1 954 and received the PNA's highest Philadelphia, PA 19106 As its writer, producer, and host, Gary honor, Nurseryman of the Year for 1974-75. Activities LECTURES, MEETINGS LECTURE: A HERITAGE OF BEAUTY- WORKSHOPS: IKEBANA SAMPLER (Open to all without charge) IRISH GARDENS AND THEIR PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS Tuesday, October 17, 5:45-7:15 pm Mondays, October 23, 30, November 6, CENTER CITY ORCHID SOCIETY Dr. E. Charles Nelson, taxonomist to 13, 27, and December 4, 6:45-8:45 pm Monday, October 1 6, 7 pm the National Botanic Gardens in Dublin, Bernice Makin, guiding beginning Ed Carter, John Slow ik: Ireland will show some of Ireland's best arrangers through the Ikenobo, Sogetsu, Home Orchid Culture gardens from the largest demesnes with and Ohara schools, will emphasize the Monday, November 20, 7 pm parklands to the smallest town gardens basic principles, differences, and styles of Van Ewert: Paphiopedilums growing a surprising variety of plants. each. Classes will feature new An internationally acknowledged approaches to design based on time- LECTURE: PENSHURST PLACE plantsman, Charles Nelson is a lecturer, tested patterns. Each week, participants Thursday, October 5, 5:45-7:15 pm garden historian, and writer best known will create a design suitable for home or William, Viscount L'lsle, will 1st De for his books and articles on the history of flower shows and should bring clippers, a Place, his fascinating talk about Penshurst gardens and garden plants. large low container, and a pinholder. old family home and exceptional Program will begin promptly at Bernice Makin is a teaching master of gardens, built in the 14th century. 5:45 pm, followed by wine and nibbles. two schools of oriental flower arranging Viscount De L'lsle served as Secretary Fee: $6 members; $8 guests and master judge of the Garden Club of State for Air in Churchill's second Note: The Library will be open until Federation. government, Governor General of 5:45 pm this evening. Fee of $90 for members and $95 for Australia, and director for many banking guests includes instruction, flowers, and and insurance companies. all other materials for six sessions. Program will begin promptly at LECTURE: SISSINGHURST'S PLANTS 5:45 pm, followed by wine and nibbles. AND THEIR NEIGHBORS Fee: $8 members; $10 guests Thursday, October 19, 5:45-7:15 pm FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY EVENING Note: The Library will be open until Sissinghurst, one of the world's most Thursday, October 26, 6-9:00 pm 5:45 pm this evening. celebrated gardens, provides the back- Step back into 1 9th century rural drop for this lecture on garden plants. America with Cornell University pro- WORKSHOP: COUNTRY-STYLE Pamela Schwerdt, co-head gardener at fessor and heirloom vegetable enthusiast ARRANGING-INTERMEDIATE LEVEL Sissinghurst, will discuss choice plants, Robert F. Becker, who will present a slide Thursday, October 5, 10am-noon effective color combinations for flowers lecture "What Granny Grew; heirloom Audrey Nichols, frequent exhibitor and and foliage, and the skillful integration of vegetables in books and catalogues." winner at the Philadelphia Flower Show, roses, perennials, and shrubs into the Reservations from Friends of the will teach how to achieve the mellow, mixed border. Library will be given first preference until unstudied appeal of country-style Pamela Schwerdt and Sibylle October 9, when the evening's events arranging. Kreutzberger have been the head garden- will beopentoall PHSmembers. To Each participant should bring: clippers, ers at Sissinghurst since 1 959, three years become a Library Friend, please contact box to transport finished arrangement, before the death of Vita Sackville-West. Janet Evans at 625-8261. and a container with an opening not to Program begins promptly at 5:45 pm, Cocktails at 6:00 pm (donation bar); exceed 8". A suitable container could be a followed by wine and nibbles. buffet 6:45 pm; program 7:45 pm. favorite old basket, antique red ware, or a Fee: $8 members; $10 guests Fee: $18 members; $20guests container of wood, tin, pewter, etc. All Note: The Library will be open until other materials will be supplied. 5:45 pm this evening. The emphasis of this program is style, WORKSHOP: FORCING BULBS not arranging principles. Participants Friday, October 27, 10 am-noon should have knowledge of flower arrang- LECTURE: THE ROLE OF NATIONAL Walter Fisher, PHS Flower Show ing basics. PLANT COLLECTIONS executive committee member and Fee: $40 members; $45 guests Morris Arboretum runner-up for the Horticultural Sweep- Friday, October 20, 1 pm stakes at the 1 989 Philadelphia Flower DEMONSTRATION: PARTY FLOWERS PHS joins six other horticultural institu- Show, will teach all the essentials of Wednesday, October 11, 1 am -noon tions in the Delaware Valley to co- forcing including methods of attaining Jamie Rothstein, who specializes in sponsor a free lecture on horticultural full, robust pots of bloom, mechanics of creative arrangements for entertaining, conservation. planting, forcing timetables, tips on returns to PHS with more ideas for effec- 'The Role of National Plant grooming and exhibition, cold storage tive arrangements for all occasions. Collections: Principles, techniques, and best varieties for Discussion topics include the careful Problems, and Administration forcing. selection of common and unusual of Horticultural Conser- 8" flowers, importance and appropriateness vation" is the subject of the talk bv R.A.W. Each participant will plant two clay Lowe, General Secretary of England's pots Tulipa 'Negrita' (purple) and of color in given situations, and compati- using National Council for the Narcissus 'Unsurpassable' (large, bility of flowers and linens. Conservation of Jamie Rothstein, a distinctive floral Plants and Gardens (NCCPG). yellow), two bulbs designated for the designer in Olde City, Philadelphia, Although there is no charge for this competitive classes for the 1 990 Show. participated as a major exhibitor in the program, seating is limited. Kindly reserve All materials will be provided. Limited 1 989 Philadelphia Flower Show. space by checking the appropriate box on to 20 participants. Fee: $17 members; $20 guests. the reservation form. Fee: $30 members; $34 guests FLOWER ARRANGING SEMINAR qualities of flowers, foliages, and Participants will create arrangements FOR BEGINNERS branches as an art medium. Students will to take home. Containers, mechanics, Friday, November 3, 10am-3:30pm learn balance, pleasing size relation- and flowers will be provided. Bring This seminar is designed for those who ships, and depth through discussion, lunch; beverages will be available. want to become familiar with the unique slides, and exercises. Instructor Priscilla Shaffer teaches flower arranging at Temple University, Ambler Campus. Reservations Fee: $66 members; $70 guests Clip and mail reservations to: LOIS W. PAUL MEMORIAL LECTURE: PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 DESIGNS ON A BORDER Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form below to Tuesday, November 7, 5:45-7:15 pm speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. Confirmations lor Frederick McGourty, noted author events at PHS are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we will expect you. Field trip and nurseryman, will share his confirmations with important trip information are mailed ten days prior to the event. There knowledge, expertise, is limited space for all activities (except spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two and opinions on consecutive issues of the PHS News. the many aspects of perennials and Refunds and cancellations: gardens. Discussions will If you wish to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative fee will be deducted include site selection, types of borders, from your refund as follows: organizing perennials for display and $2 fee for all events other than one-day field trips provided your request is received no relatively low maintenance, orchestrat- later than two days prior to the event. $5 fee for one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than four days ing bloom sequence, combining colors prior to the event. and textures, and ways to include annuals and appropriate shrubs. LECTURE: PENSHURST PLACE ARRANGING FOR BEGINNERS Fred was editor of the BBG Handbook Members $8 Guests $10 Members $66 Guests $70 series for fifteen years and, served as WORKSHOP: COUNTRY-STYLE LOIS PAUL MEMORIAL LECTURE president of the Connecticut ARRANGING (INTERMEDIATE DESIGNS ON A BORDER Horticultural Society and the New York LEVEL) Members $8 Guests $10 Hortus Club. Members $40 Guests $45 Fee: $8 members; $10 guests WORKSHOP: GROWING AND Note: The Library will be open until DEMONSTRATION: PARTY TRAINING STANDARDS 5:45 pm this evening. FLOWERS Members $34 Members $17 Guests $20_ WORKSHOP: GROWING PLANTS HORTICULTURAL AS STANDARDS LECTURE: A HERITAGE OF PHOTOGRAPHY Friday, November 10, 10 am -noon BEAUTY—IRISH GARDENS AND Members $1 5 Guests $18 THEIR PLANTS Meadowbrook Farm, Meadowbrook, PA Members $6 Guests $8 WORKSHOP: GATHERED Horticulturist Charles W. Rogers, Jr. WREATHS will introduce plants suitable for training LECTURE: SISSINGHURST'S Members $28_ Guests $32 as standards and will teach the basic PLANTS AND THEIR principles for house or greenhouse NEIGHBORS WORKSHOP: ARRANGING IN culture, planting, maintaining, fertiliz- Members $8 Guests $10 ACANDLEHOLDER ing, and pruning. Members $33 Guests $36 LECTURE: THE ROLE OF Students will start a 8-10" window-sill NATIONAL PLANT WORKSHOP: HOUSEPLANTS size standard using myrtus or serissa and COLLECTIONS Members $35 Guests $38 should bring sharp clippers or shears; Reserve places clay pot, plant, and all other materials FIELD TRIP: AUTUMN STROLL will be provided. AT CHANTICLEER IKEBANA SAMPLER (6 SESSIONS) Chuck Rogers, retired curator of Members Guests Members $5 Guests $7 $90 $95 horticulture for theZoological Society of Philadelphia, now manages The FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY FIELD TRIP: WALDOR ORCHIDS EVENING AND FISCHER GREENHOUSES Greenhouse at Meadowbrook Farm. Members $1 8 Guests $20 Members $22 Guests $25 Travel directions will be mailed in Pickup: CC HC early November. FORCING BULBS Fee: $34 members Members $30 Guests $34, (Continued on page four) PHS News (USPS 763-640) is published Please send an itinerary for the trip England, 10, 1990 PHS to June 25-July monthly except July by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. Subscription — NAME $9.75 per year— Single copies 80c. Second class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. and ADDRESS additional mailing office. Postmaster: send address changes to PHS News, 325 Walnut ZIP -TELEPHONE: home Street, Phila., Pa. 19106. Chair: Donald L. Felley work_ President: laneC. Pepper Editor: Lisa Stephano Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth C. Cullan 1 Activities (continued) Bring your favorite candlestick, Travel directions will be mailed in early HORTICULTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY clippers, and a box to transport com- October. Participants must provide own Saturday, November 11, 10 am-noon pleted arrangement. All flowers and transportation. Walter Chandoha is a professional other materials will be provided. Fee: $5 members; $7 guests horticultural photographer whose Audrey Nichols, a frequent exhibitor FIELD TRIP: WALDOR ORCHIDS AND photos have appeared in national in the Philadelphia Flower Show, has a FISCHER GREENHOUSES magazines, books, calendars, and background in the decorative arts. Linwood, NJ frequently on the cover of Green Scene. Fee: $33 members; $36 guests Monday, November 6, 8:15 am-4 pm Walt will share some of his ideas and WORKSHOP: HOUSEPLANTS Our first stop will be Waldor Orchids, secrets on horticultural photography Saturday, November 18, 10 am-noon where Walter Off will take us in hand. through a slide presentation and com- Avid gardener Ed Lindemann will After a tour of the greenhouses and an mentary on why and how specific suggest ways to promote a healthy orchid-potting demonstration, Walt will pictures were taken. He will show the indoor garden with tips on culture, lead us to the adjacent Brighton Farms, differences between good and bad shots maintenance, grooming, fertilizing, and the largest supplier of cattleya cut and discuss composition, quality of pruning. Discussions will cover air flowers on the east coast. light, lens adjustment, and changes a circulation, light, disease prevention, We'll eat our brown-bag lunch at photographer can make to enhance and propagation techniques. Fischer's Greenhouse and then tour the photo opportunities. Discussions will Participants will divide and repot complex, including a production also include a brief segment on market- different types of plants and should bring greenhouse. The Fischers specialize in ing photos, what editors look for, and a medium size kitchen knife and a box to gesneriads but also ofer tropical plants how to get started. transport several 4-5" clay pots. and field azaleas. Camera functions will not be taught; Ed Lindemann is PHS horticulturist, Details of bus pick-up in Fairmount the emphasis will be analyzing and Flower Show designer, and an Park and Center City will be mailed in improving the photographer's ability to experienced home gardener. mid-October. visualize. Do not bring camera equip- Fee of $35 for members and $38 for Fee: $22 members; $25 guests ment; just come and enjoy. guests includes plants and all other Fee: $15 members; $18 guests materials. GATHERED WREATH WORKSHOP Other Events Monday, November 13, 10 am-noon Many fragrant and easily dried herbs Field Trips Southeast Pennsylvania Orchid and wildflowerscan be found in city lots Society Auction and country meadows. Herb CHANTICLEER STROLL IN WAYNE Wednesday, October 1 craftspeople Ruth Flounders and Frank Wednesday, October 18, 10 am-noon 7:30 pm Keiser will show how to use and handle Chris Woods, senior horticulturist, will For information: (21 5) 635-3836 gathered materials as they guide students lead PHS members and guests on an through steps for constructing a wreath autumn walk through Chanticleer, the of sweet Annie, mountain mint, Queen private estate of Adolph Rosengarten, )r. Anne's lace and a wealth of other The tour emphasis will be seasonal color common, yet beautiful, plants. and fall-fruiting or blooming plants. Bring clippers and a box to transport finished 14" wreath. All other materials will be provided. Limited to 12. Fee: $28 members; $32 guests WORKSHOP: ARRANGING IN A CANDLEHOLDER (Intermediate Level) Second Class Wednesday, November 15, 10 am-noon Postage Audrey Nichols will show how to PHS NEWS PAID create simple but sophisticated arrange- The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society ments that emanate from a small base 325 Walnut St.* Philadelphia, PA 19106 on a candleholder and can be adapted Phone (215) 625-8250 for use with fewer flowers. . . SLV. PHS NEWS The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 18 11 ume XXX, No. 10 NOVEMBER, 1989 GREAT GARDENS OF ENGLAND year's Harvest Show but the sun shone Pepperpot Join 25 PHS members and guests for a on our gardening efforts and once again, two-week tour of great private and under the able leadership of Show chair, With heavy rains just finished and public gardens in southern England, Sally Graham, the Show was a smashing more forecast most of us would likely try )une 25-July 10. We'll visit outstanding success. to figure out how to stay indoors for the rest of the day. Out in the Society's gardens in Kent, the Cotswolds and The 1 989 Harvest Show set a record Eighteenth Century Garden, however, Somerset, including the famous gardens with more than 1 ,700 entries that at Sissinghurst, Hidcote, Barnsley included many displays from 71 of some real troopers were going to work, House, Penshurst Place, and Great Philadelphia's community gardens. removing summer annuals in prepara- tion for the fall planting of mums. Even Dixter. The best of the best of this year's with mud up to their elbows they still The tour will be a good blend of extra- winners follows: had smiles. behalf of everyone ordinary horticultural and cultural sights On who walks through that beautiful garden on a through charming villages and towns, PHS AWARDS regular basis and on behalf of the ending in London where you'll have The Certificate of Excellence was thousands of visitors that gain pleasure opportunities to shop and explore the awarded to the Scott Arboretum of from it each year, grateful thanks to our cultural and historic treasures of the city. Swarthmore College for their educa- loyal team of garden volunteers: Wilma Those interested in architecture will tional display; Bill and Mary Coppens, Crane, A. Doelp, Helen Evelyn, enjoy Bath, afine example of town plan- Edward Philadelphia, for their container garden Johanna Goedel, Charles S. Holman, Jr., ning, and Salisbury, considered by many and the Pennsylvania Bonsai Society. Helen Kaufman, Kitty Lapp, Matthew H. to have the most beautiful cathedral in The PHS Gardener's Sweepstakes to the England. McConnell, Ann McPhail, Jane M. individual winning the greatest number Newcomer, Harriett Richards, Kinnie Betsy Gullan, PHS Membership of blue ribbons in two or more sections Schmidt and Frances Vollmer. Coordinator, of and Jean Lenehan Tours of the Show was awarded to Stephen Thanks also to Kathy Mills who has al la Carte will accompany the group. Roberts and William Marshall, Malvern, worked with the gardeners for the past To receive an itinerary, kindly check with 22 blue ribbons. The Community two years in her role as Assistant the box on the reservation form, page Garden Sweepstakes Certificate went to Horticulturist. We wish her all the best in three. the garden at Pearl and Conestoga Sts. her new job as Horticulturist at the with 1 1 blue ribbons and the PHS Club Wilmington Garden Center and look for- Sweepstakes was won by Four Counties HARVEST SHOWS AND HURRICANES - ward to working with her on other Garden Club with 1 blue ribbons. A Bountiful, Blustery Pair projects. Hurricane Hugo, with Iris in pursuit, C. Pepper tried its darndest to create a scene at this (Continued on page four) Jane President ^ Gifts to Grow On What better way to celebrate the holidays than by giving a friend a year's membership in PHS. This year round pleasure provides a free plant, subscriptions to the award-winning Green Scene magazine and PHS News, a free ticket to the Philadelphia Flower Show and the Harvest Show, as well as advance notice on workshops, trips and many other activities. Individual price — $3S Family price $45 (entitles you to three Show tickets) Send gift membership to: Sent from: Philadelphia Flower Show Video Name Name A look behind the scenes Address Address at this world-famous event City City To order, check box on State _Zip_ State_ -Zip. Reservation Coupon, page three. Return form to GIFTS, PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadel- Amount of check enclosed: phia, PA 1 9 1 06 no later than December 1 0. 1 Activities LECTURES, MEETINGS ing bloom sequence, combining colors Camera functions will not be taught; (Open to all without charge) and textures, and ways to include the emphasis will be analyzing and annuals and appropriate shrubs. improving the photographer's ability to Fred was editor of the BBG Handbook visualize. Do not bring camera equip- CENTER CITY ORCHID SOCIETY series for fifteen years and, served as ment; just come and enjoy. Monday, November 20, 7 pm president of the Connecticut Fee: $15 members; $18 guests Van Ewert: Paphiopedilums Horticultural Society and the New York Monday, December 1 HortusClub. GATHERED WREATH WORKSHOP Barbara Tisherman: Odontoglossum Fee: $8 members; $10 guests Monday, November 13, 10 am-noon Species and Hybrids Note: The Library will be open until Many fragrant and easily dried herbs 5:45 pm this evening. and wildflowers can be found in city lots PENNSYLVANIA BONSAI SOCIETY and country meadows. Herb Friday, November 1 8 7, pm craftspeople Ruth Flounders and Frank Keiser will show how to use and handle gathered materials as they gu ide students SPECIAL EVENTS WORKSHOP: GROWING PLANTS through steps for constructing a wreath AS STANDARDS of sweet Annie, mountain mint, Queen Anne's lace and a wealth of other ANNUAL MEETING Friday, November 10, 10 am-noon common, yet beautiful, plants. Wednesday, November 15, 5 pm Meadowbrook Farm, Meadowbrook, PA Bring clippers and a box to transport The Pennsylvania Horticultural Horticulturist Charles W. Rogers, Jr. finished 14" wreath. All other materials Society Annual Meeting will be held to will introduce plants suitable for training will be provided. Limited to 1 2. elect new Council members and to as standards and will teach the basic Fee: $28 members; $32 guests present 1 989 awards for distinguished principles for house or greenhouse achievement and merit. culture, planting, maintaining, fertiliz- ing, and pruning. WORKSHOP: ARRANGING IN A CANDLEHOLDER Students will start a 8-10" window-sill • • • (Intermediate Level) size standard using myrtus or serissa and should bring sharp clippers or shears; Wednesday, November 15,10 am-noon clay pot, plant, and all other materials Audrey Nichols will show how to FLOWER ARRANGING SEMINAR will be provided. create simple but sophisticated arrange- ments that emanate from a small base FOR BEGINNERS Chuck Rogers, retired curator of on a candleholderand can be adapted Friday, November 3, 10 am-3:30 pm horticulture for the Zoological Society of for use with fewer flowers. This seminar is designed for those who Philadelphia, now manages The Bring your favorite candlestick, want to become familiar with the unique Greenhouse at Meadowbrook Farm. clippers, and a box to transport com- qualities of flowers, foliages, and Travel directions will be mailed in pleted arrangement. All flowers and branches as an art medium. Students will early November. other materials will be provided. learn balance, pleasing size relation- Fee: $34 members Audrey Nichols, a frequent exhibitor ships, and depth through discussion, in the Philadelphia Flower Show, has slides, and exercises. a background in the decorative arts. Participants will create arrangements Fee: $33 members; $36 guests to take home. Containers, mechanics, and flowers will be provided. Bring HORTICULTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY lunch: beverages will be available. Saturday, November 11, 10 am-noon WORKSHOP: HOUSEPLANTS Saturday, November 18, 10 am-noon Instructor Priscilla Shaffer teaches Walter Chandoha is a professional Avid gardener Ed Lindemann will flower arranging at Temple University, horticultural photographer whose suggest ways to promote a healthy Ambler Campus. photos have appeared in national magazines, books, calendars, and indoor garden with tips on culture, Fee: $66 members; $70 guests frequently on the cover of Green Scene. maintenance, grooming, fertilizing, and Walt will share some of his ideas and pruning. Discussions will cover air secrets on horticultural photography circulation, light, disease prevention, LOIS W. PAUL MEMORIAL LECTURE: through a slide presentation and com- and propagation techniques. DESIGNS ON A BORDER mentary on why and how specific Participants will divide and repot Tuesday, November 7, 5:45-7:15 pm pictures were taken. He will show the different types of plants and should bri ng Frederick McGourty, noted author differences between good and bad shots a medium size kitchen knife and a box to 4-5" and nurseryman, will share his and discuss composition, quality of transport several clay pots. knowledge, expertise, and opinions on light, lens adjustment, and changes a Ed Lindemann is PHS horticulturist. the many aspects of perennials and photographer can make to enhance Flower Show designer, and an gardens. Discussions will include photo opportunities. Discussions will experienced home gardener. site selection, types of borders, also include a brief segment on market- Fee of $35 for members and $38 for organizing perennials for display and ing photos, what editors look for, and guests includes plants and all other relatively low maintenance, orchestrat- how to get started. materials. . 9 WORKSHOP: COMBINATION for creating combination gardens, tips DEMONSTRATION: HOLIDAY GARDENS FOR THE HOLIDAYS on when, what, and how to plant for DESIGNS Tuesday, December 5, TO am-noon longer lasting arrangements, and use of Wednesday, December 6, 10 am-noon Meadowbrook Farm, Meadowbrook, PA house plants for greater versatility. Floral designer Audrey Nichols Nanci K. Walsh, a retail manager at All materials (plants plus basket) will returns to PHS to demonstrate a personal Meadowbrook, will teach how to create be supplied. Each participant will approach to holiday decorating and combination gardens for the holidays, complete one project. arranging. She will create arrangements varying in style from country to tradi- blending blooming and foliage plants in Travel directions to Meadowbrook tional to contemporary. Discussions will decorative baskets or other containers. Farm will be mailed in late November. include appropriate designs, color com- Discussions will include techniques Fee: $35.00 members; $38 guests binations, and compatibility with setting. Reservations Fee: $17 members; $19 guests Clip and mail reservations to: PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 DEMONSTRATION: HANGING THE Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form below to GREENS speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. Confirmations for Thursday, 6:30-8:30 events at PHS are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we will expect you. Field trip December 7, pm confirmations with important trip information are mailed ten days prior to the event. There Charles W. Rogers, Jr., manager of is limited space for all activities (except spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two Meadowbrook Farm, will present a consecutive issues of the PHS News. practical program on the mechanics of Refunds and cancellations: holiday decorations. Chuck will If you wish to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative fee will be deducted demonstrate techniques for creating from your refund as follows: $2 fee for all events other than one-day field trips provided your request is received no festive wreaths, swags, small topiaries, later than two days prior to the event. and even small trees by using natural $5 fee for one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than four days materials. prior to the event. Participants may bring sandwiches; coffee and tea will be provided. ARRANGING FOR BEGINNERS WORKSHOP: HOUSEPLANTS Fee: $12 members; $15 guests Members $66 Guests $70 Members $35 Guests $38 LOIS PAUL MEMORIAL LECTURE COMBINATION GARDENS WORKSHOP: GREENS FOR WREATHS DESIGNS ON A BORDER Members $35 Guests $38 Members $8 Guests $10 AND ARRANGEMENTS WORKSHOP: GROWING AND HOLIDAY DESIGNS Friday, December 8, lOarp-noon TRAINING STANDARDS Members $ 1 7 Guests $ 1 PHS staffers Peggy Grady and Flossie Narducci will teach the ins and outs of Members $34 HANGING THE GREENS using fresh greens for wreathmaking and Members $12 Guests $15 HORTICULTURAL arranging. Discussions will include PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP: GREENS FOR using and handling greens and combin- Members Guests $18 $15 WREATHS AND ing shades and textures for a pleasing WORKSHOP: GATHERED ARRANGEMENTS decorative touch. WREATHS Members $30 Guests $35 Each participant will complete a Members $28 Guests $32 wreath and an arrangement in a basket. FIELD TRIP: WALDOR ORCHIDS 0" 1 greens, basket and WORKSHOP: ARRANGING IN AND FISCHER GREENHOUSES Ribbon, a frame, all decorative materials will be supplied. ACANDLEHOLDER Members $22 Guests $25 Bring clippers. Members $33 Guests $36 Pick up: CC HC Horticulturist Peggy Grady is PHS assistant librarian and Flossie Narducci I would like to volunteer as a Flower Show Aide. (See page 4 col. 3) Philadelphia Please check only one is activities coordinator for Green. Arrangements Barriers-Horticulture Fee: $30 members; $35 guests Barriers-Arrangements Hospitality Please mail me a copy of the Philadelphia Flower Show video. My check for $16.95 is enclosed. PHS News (USPS 763-640) is published monthly except July by the Pennsylvania Please send an itinerary for the PHS trip to England, June 25-July 10, 1990 Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. Subscription — NAME $9.75 per year—Single copies 80c. Second class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. and additional mailing office. Postmaster: send ADDRESS address changes to PHS News, 325 Walnut Street, Phila., Pa. 19106. ZIP ^TELEPHONE: home Chair: Donald L. Felley President: laneC. Pepper work_ Editor: Lisa Stephano Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth C. Cullan GARDEN CLUB FEDERATION Japanese gardens of the modern era, Field Trips OF PENNSYLVANIA HaruzoOhashi, 1987. Susan Godfrey, Reading, PA, received FIELD TRIP: WALDOR ORCHIDS AND Members may borrow books by mail. If the Special Recognition Award for her FISCHER GREENHOUSES you would like one or more of the above entry in the Design Class "Delta Drift". Linwood, NJ books sent to you, check off the title, fill The Educational and Conservation Library, Monday, November 6, 8:15 am-4 pm out the form below and mail to: Award was presented to Scott PHS, 325 Walnut St., Phila., PA 19106. first stop will be Waldor Orchids, Our Arboretum for their special display, Or, your request to (215) 625-8256. where Walter Off will take us in hand. phone "Fragrance Plants for the Garden". returning book(s) please enclose After a tour of the greenhouses and an When DISTRICT 1 in the envelope provided. orchid-potting demonstration, Walt will AWARD $1.75 per book books are popular. If you don't lead us to the adjacent Brighton Farms, The District 1 Trophy awarded to the Our new receive your choice within 2 weeks, the largest supplier of cattleya cut blue ribbon winner in the Design you'll you are on a wait list. flowers on the east coast. Section Table Class was presented to know Hope Wood and Sandy Young, both of We'll eat our brown-bag lunch at NAME Chester, for their entry entitled, Fischer's Greenhouse and then tour the West Table". complex, including a production "Captain's ADDRESS greenhouse. The Fischers specialize in PHILADELPHIA AREA JUDGES gesneriads but also offer tropical plants COUNCIL AWARD and field azaleas. Ginny Tietjens and Jeannie Craig DAYTIME TELEPHONE Details of bus pick-up in Fairmount captured the Katharine Littlewood mailed in Park and Center City will be Reiger Memorial Trophy for their out- mid-October. standing blue ribbon entry in the Design AIDES NEEDED FOR 1990 Fee: $22 members; $25 guests Class, Red Sails At Sunset. PHILADELPHIA FLOWER SHOW Arrangement Aides are needed daily New in the Library March 10-17 (except Sunday) from 6:45 to 9:30 am. HARVEST SHOW AWARDS ^| American landscape architecture: Barrier Aides are needed daily (Continued from page one) places, H. designers and William March 12-1 7 to facilitate judging NATIONAL COUNCIL OF STATE Tishler, 1989. of design classes from 8 am until crops, Craig Wallin, GARDEN CLUB AWARDS Backyard cash judging is completed around 1 pm. Elizabeth Moore of Darling, PA 1989. Hospitality Aides are needed daily captured the Creativity Award for her The bamboo fences of japan, Isao (except Sunday) March 10-1 7 from arrangement in Class 3, "At The Helm". Yoshikawa, 1988. 6:45 to 9:30 am. The Tricolor Award was presented to Designing with trees, Anthony Paul, Horticulture Barrier Aides are needed Jeannie Craig and Ginnie Tietjens, Fort 1989. on Tuesday, March 13 and Friday, Washington, for their entry in Class 8, The field & garden vegetables of March 16 from 8:45 until judging is "Red Sails At Sunset" and the Award of America, Fearing Burr, 1988. completed. Horticultural Excellence for the Fruit, berry and nut inventory, Kent We welcome PHS members as Horticultural Exhibit scoring 95 points or Whealy, 1989. volunteers; please check the appropriate more and judged as the finest in the In search of flowers of the Amazon box on the Reservations coupon on page National Council Sections of the Forests, Margaret Mee, 1988. three. Horticultural Division went to Margaret Hunter of Dresher for her display entitled, "Weighing In The Harvest", an entry in the Through a Harvest Window Second Class class. Walt Fisher, a perennial Harvest PHS NEWS Postage Show winner from Bryn Mawr, won the PAID Award of Merit for his celosia. The The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Arboreal Award, presented in the Cut 325 Walnut St.* Philadelphia, PA 19106 Branches Section of the Show went to Phone (215) 625-8250 Tod Phillippi, Philadelphia. Bill and Mary Coppens took home the Educa- tional Award for their container garden exhibit. Junior Achievement Awards were presented to Kira Morrow of Carson Kindergarten, Pennsauken, NJ, and Harry Milboume, Philadelphia, in the Junior Design Sections of the Show and to Malik Johnson and Aaron (ones, both of Philadelphia, for their Horticultural entries. 1 4 Visit PHS Exhibit — Holiday ornaments December 6-28 PHS NEWS The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society /olume XXX, No. 1 DECEMBER, 1989 c/f- tfyizzninq ^JzoditLon O^uti Out JVzvj tzRooks. the next four will 1 990 will be another banner year for Over years, we plant Three other public housing sites, PHS's Philadelphia Green program. Since 3,000 trees throughout the city with an Johnson Homes, Wilson Park and Emlen 1 974, the Society has worked with more emphasis on plantings in North Arms have begun greening activities with than 700 groups in Philadelphia to help Philadelphia. fence-making workshops, pruning days plant vegetable gardens and window Currently, Philadelphia has about half and planting sessions. These PHA sites boxes, street trees and sitting parks in an the number of trees it could support and are large and at times the progress may effort to breathe new green life into some many of these are in a state of natural and seem slow, but Juanita Wooten and of the City's low-and moderate-income environmental decline. For this reason, Deborah Hall, Philadelphia Green staff neighborhoods. and because of the increasing problems members who run these programs, have Assisting us in the development of caused by pollutants, the Tree Champion learned to appreciate each gardener be- these programs is generous support from Program is timely and we're grateful to cause he or she has the potential to inspire local foundations and corporations, a the Foundation for the opportunity to a couple of neighbors. Gradually the grant from the Office of Housing and improve the "lungs" of the City. We're snowball begins to roll and the greening Community Development (OHCD) and also pleased at the opportunity to experi- movement picks up momentum. funding from the Philadelphia Flower ment by planting species not currently The Greene Countrie Towne Program, Show and the Preview Dinner. Recently, used extensively as street trees, to test started in 1980 and expanded in 1986 Philadelphia Green Director Blaine their adaptability for future plantings in with funding from The Pew Charitable Bonham and his staff initiated a crop of Philadelphia and other cities. Trusts to fulfill the increasing demand for challenging new Philadelphia Green The program will be led by Jonathan greening in certain clustered areas of the projects. Frank, dubbed johnny Appleseed by the City, now boasts four official Greene Philadelphia Inquirer, with assistance Countrie Townes (West Hagert, West ^Loticahs \Pxoaxam from Susan B. Phillips, tree program Shore, Francisvilleand Point Breeze) with With contract funding from the coordinator. With the landscape crew, three others (Susquehanna, Strawberry Department of Licenses and Inspections, they will plant trees at gateways and Mansion, and Norris Square) scheduled and in conjunction with the Philadelphia along commercial strips, as well as on for completion over the next three years. Anti-Graffiti Network (PAGN), this fall residential streets. Philadelphia Green In the coming year we will continue Philadelphia Green began work on 100 will be working with the City's Planning work on the West Philadelphia Project, of the 1,000 vacant lots scheduled for Commission and the Office of Housing & also funded by Pew and started in 1987 as greening over the next few seasons. Community Development to develop a cooperative venture between Under the direction of site develop- planting strategies that reflect efforts to Philadelphia Green and The Department ment manager Michael Groman, lots- implement the Mayor's North of Landscape Architecture and Regional cape coordinator Mark Teller and mem- Philadelphia Plan. The program also calls Planning at the University of bers of the Philadelphia Youth Service for educational workshops with neigh- Pennsylvania. Corps, a non-profit educational develop- borhood groups throughout the City. Workingwith residents in three areas of ment organization for young adults, small West Philadelphia, students and ContLnulna Snoxti. trees and a variety of low-maintenance Philadelphia Green staff members Denise shrubs and perennials were planted after Depressing stories about public Jefferson and Susan Ross joined with PAGN installed the fences. The lotscape housing appear all too frequently in the neighbors to design and plant gardens program's goals are to make a visual press. Rarely do we hear about positive that met the specific needs of each com- impact in several neighborhoods, most of aspects, such as the drive, energy and munity. One of the most ambitious which are located in North Philadelphia, inspiration of Philadelphia Housing gardens is at 49th and Aspen Streets. and also to encourage community groups Authority (PHA) residents when it comes After analyzing several designs presented to take an active role in further greening to creating gardens. by students, Aspen Farms gardeners efforts in their areas. Residents in Champlost Public Hous- chose one featuring an arbor and 1 ing, several blocks of two-story raised beds in geometric configurations. _/T££ cJzamhiom rowhouses, have met the greening The results are stunning. Stop by next In September, Philadelphia Green challenge head-on and created an oasis summer and get acquainted with the began a new tree planting program in East Oak Lane with colorful front yard gardeners at Aspen Farms. funded by The William Penn Foundation. gardens and window boxes. (Continued on page four) Activities LECTURES, MEETINGS DEMONSTRATION: HANGING THE WORKSHOP: FLOWER ARRANGING (Open to all without charge) GREENS FOR BEGINNERS Thursday, December 7, 6:30-8:30 pm Tuesdays, January 9 and 16, 10 am-noon CENTER CITY ORCHID SOCIETY Charles W. Rogers, Jr., manager of Audrey Nichols, floral designer and Monday, December 11,7 pm Meadowbrook Farm, will present a frequent blue ribbon winner at the Barbara Tisherman: Odontoglossum practical program on the mechanics of Philadelphia Flower Show, will take in species and hybrids holiday decorations. Chuck will hand members who have just started to demonstrate techniques for creating arrange or those who feel insecure about Monday, January 15, 7 pm festive wreaths, swags, small topiaries, the basics. This workshop in two sessions Mark Werther: Broughtonia species and and even small trees by using natural will focus on arranging guidelines, condi- hybrids materials. tioning flowers, arranging tools, and Participants may bring sandwiches; mechanics. Audrey will discuss design, SPECIAL EVENTS coffee and tea will be provided. form, color, balance, and proportion with Fee: $12 members; $15 guests the aim of developing more confidence PHS HOLIDAY EXHIBIT and training the eye regarding elements of December 6-28 flower arranging. WORKSHOP: GREENS FOR WREATHS The holiday exhibit will feature hand- Each session participants will create made ornaments by Ruth Hoegberg. The AND ARRANGEMENTS a mass arrangement to take home. Fee of Friday, December 8, 10 am-noon exhibit will be open Monday-Friday, $79 for members and $89 for guests 9am-5 pm. PHS staffers Peggy Grady and Flossie includes materials and flowers for both Narducci will teach the ins and outs of sessions. fresh for using greens wreathmaking and Program limited to 1 2. arranging. Discussions will include using and handling greens and combin- *%& ing shades and textures for a pleasing LECTURE: GARDENS OF MAINE decorative touch. Wednesday, January 10, 5:45-7:15 pm Each participant will complete a Coastal Maine holds a special lure for WORKSHOP: COMBINATION wreath and an arrangement in a basket. PHS members because of extraordinary GARDENS FOR THE HOLIDAYS 0" Ribbon, a 1 frame, greens, basket and gardens that flourish in the near-perfect Tuesday, December 5, 10 am-noon all decorative materials will be supplied. weather akin to British summers. A wide Meadowbrook Farm, Meadowbrook, PA Bring clippers. range of interesting flora abounds in this Nanci K. Walsh, retail manager at Horticulturist Peggy Grady is PHS region of mists, sunshine, and moderate Meadowbrook Farm, will teach how to assistant librarian and Flossie Narducci temperatures. create combination gardens for the holi- is activities coordinator for Philadelphia Avid Maine gardener Peggy Bowditch days, blending blooming and foliage Green. has photographed favorite plants and plants in decorative baskets or other Fee: $30 members; $35 guests gardens, some of which will be included containers. in the PHS trip to Maine in August 1 990. Discussions will include techniques Included are spectacular scenery, for creating combination gardens, tips on BASKETRY WORKSHOP: wildflowers, country gardens, and when, what, and how to plant for longer TWO - PIE BASKET elegant estates with lush perennial lasting arrangements, and use of house- Monday, January 8, 10 am-2 pm borders. plants for greater versatility. Snowdate: January 15, 10 am-2 pm Program begins promptly at 5:45 pm All materials (plants plus basket) will be Experienced basket weaver Linda followed by wine and nibbles. supplied. Each participant will Tenaglia returns to PHS with a new series Fee: $6 members; $8 guests complete one project. of baskets to whether you're just make, NOTE: The Library will be open until Travel directions to Meadowbrook starting basketry or adding an existing to 5:45 pm this evening. Farm will be mailed in late November. collection. Fee: $35 members; $38 guests This long shallow basket, capable of carrying two pies side by side, is very LECTURE: RANDOM RAMBLINGS OF DEMONSTRATION: HOLIDAY functional and can be used for gathering A GARDENER DESIGNS vegetables from the garden or carrying Thursday, January 18, 5:45-7:15 pm picnic. 20" long, 10" Wednesday, December 6, 10 am-noon food to a Measuring This lecture is a totally personal 4" Floral designer Audrey Nichols wide, and high, it is woven in dyed and illustrated essay on plants and gardens returns to PHS to demonstrate a personal natural splint reed with a pre-formed oak through the eyes of Marco Polo Stufano, Suitable for beginners/ approach to holiday decorating and handle. Director of Horticulture at Wave Hill, arranging. She will create arrangements intermediates. N.Y. and the person responsible for the varying in style from country to tradi- Participants should bring a bucket, garden's development and ongoing tional to contemporary. Discussions will straight-edged ruler, scissors or clippers, creative planting and care. Marco will include appropriate designs, color com- and one dozen spring-type clothespins; show a selection of plants of distinction binations, and compatibility with all other materials will be provided. Bring and gardens of note photographed at setting. lunch; coffee and tea will be available. home and while traveling over the past 20 Fee: $17 members; $19 guests Fee: $35 members; $39 guests years. 2 The program begins promptly at Learn about varieties, culture, uses, will discuss orchids suitable for home 5:45 pm, followed by wine and nibbles. and how to propagate smaller evergreens culture and potting techniques in this Fee: $8 members; $10 guests including dwarf conifers. Discussion practical workshop designed for begin- orchid growers. NOTE: The Library will be open until topics will include many uses of ever- ning 5:45 pm this evening. greens from use in the garden to patio Discussion topics will include plant containers. Participants will propagate selection, potting mixes, pot selection, some rarer forms of evergreens. staking, watering, fertilizing, and tips on PROPAGATION WORKSHOP: All materials will be provided. initiating new growth. Each participant ORNAMENTAL EVERGREENS Fee: $24 members; $29 guests will repot and take home an orchid which Saturday, January 20, 9:30-noon is six to twelve months from blooming. Alan P. Slack, experienced propagator )ohn Leonard, longtime member of and PHS Council member, has WORKSHOP: ORCHIDS FOR PHS and the American Orchid Society, developed a following among members THE HOME exhibits prize-winning orchids at the eager to master easy and reliable Monday, January 22, 6:30-8:30 pm Philadelphia Flower Show. propagating techniques. This session is Orchid hobbyist John Leonard insists Bring a sandwich; coffee and tea will devoted to ornamental evergreens, which that growing orchids in the home is a be provided. add interest and variety to our fairly easy, straight-forward process in- Fee of $25 for members and $35 for volving neither landscapes. mystery nor magic. He guests includes all workshop materials. Limit: 25 participants. Reservations Clip and mail reservations to: PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 LECTURE - GARDEN MEMORIES: Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form below to APPEAL TO THE SENSES speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. Confirmations for Thursday, February 1, 5:45-7:15 pm events at PHS are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we will expect you. Field trip confirmations with important trip information are mailed ten days prior to the event. There The old-fashioned flowers that is limited space for all activities (except spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two enhanced gardens in earlier times are consecutive issues of the PHS News. hard to find today, having given way to Refunds and cancellations: "new and improved" although not If you wish to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative fee will be deducted necessarily better varieties. In some cases, from your refund as follows: vintage species are easier to grow, more $2 fee for all events other than one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than two days prior to the event. fragrant, and more beautiful than their $5 fee for one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than four days modern counterparts. prior to the event. Elsa Bakalar, Massachusetts garden designer, lecturer, and writer, believes we can enjoy the best of today and yesterday COMBINATION GARDENS side by side in the garden to enrich the Members $35 Guests $38 LECTURE: GARDENS OF MAINE visual impact and to appeal to the other HOLIDAY DESIGNS Members $6 Guests $8 senses. Mrs. Bakalar will discuss old- fashioned flowers that conjure up feelings Members $1 7 Guests $19 LECTURE: RANDOM RAMBLINGS of romance or nostalgia and will explore OF A GARDENER HANGING THE GREENS ways to bring them back and to use them Members $8 Guests $10 Members $12 Guests $15 in gardens today. EVERGREEN WORKSHOP: GREENS FOR WORKSHOP: Program will begin promptly at WREATHS AND PROPAGATION 5:45 pm, followed by wine and nibbles. $24 Guests $29 ARRANGEMENTS Members Fee: $10 members; $12 guests Members $30 Guests $35 WORKSHOP: ORCHIDS FOR NOTE: Library will be open until BASKETRY WORKSHOP THE HOME 5:45 pm this evening. Members $35 Guests $39 Members $25 Guests $35 WORKSHOP: BEGINNING LECTURE: GARDEN MEMORIES Members $ 1 Guests $ 1 FLOWER ARRANGING (2 sessions) Members $79 Guests $89 PHS News (USPS 763-640) is published monthly except luly by the Pennsylvania Please send an itinerary for the PHS trip to England, )une25-July 10, 1990 Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut Street. Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. Subscription — NAME $9.75 per year—Single copies 80«. Second class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. and additional mailing office. Postmaster: send ADDRE5S address changes to PHS News, 325 Walnut Street, Phila., Pa. 19106. ZIP ^TELEPHONE: home Chair: Donald L. Felley President: laneC. Pepper work_ Editor: Lisa Stephano Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth C. Gullan 5 New in the Library c/jr (f^izs-nina JxaditLon (Continued from page one) The Book of potpourri. Penny Black, 1989. The Complete garden planning c# Ckoncz "Jo & manual. Derek Fell, 1989. LJnuoLuza Epiphyllum. Marga Leue, 1989. 1990 PHILADELPHIA FLOWER SHOW Floral art. Wolfgang Hageney, 1988. PHS members, our most valuable Arrangement Classes Winter Workshops Garden furniture design & construc- resource, can assist in the greening of January 24-March 7 Jackson, 1988. becoming judges in the tion. Anthony Philadelphia by Arrangementworkshopswill be held at City Gardens Contest, by joining us as Gardening with style. Peter King, 1 988. The Highlands in Fort Washington on How does your garden grow. Pamela volunteers for the Junior Flower Show or Wednesdays from 10am-12. Exhibitors Harvest Show, and by continuing to Jones, 1989. the may try out their designs, backgrounds cheerleaders and promoters of the Landscaping the American dream: the be and lighting in regulation Flower Show greening movement in Philadelphia. If gardens and film sets of Florence Yoch; niches and receive helpful suggestions contact Eva 1890- 1972. James Yoch, 1989. you wou Id like to help, please from experienced advisors, Katie King Ray, Assistant to the Director, Market what you grow. Ralph J. Hills, and Ginnie Simonin. Philadelphia Green, at 625-8280 or write 1989. Each week a short demonstration in to her at PHS. The New age herbalist. Richard one of the exhibit spaces will be featured: Mabev, January 1988. 24 Open Space -Sally Yow Rose gardens. Jane Fearnley- 31 Miniature Niche- Ginny Tietjens Whittingstall, 1989. February The Shell guide to gardens of England 7 Large Niche- Audrey Nichols 14 Small Niche - Sanna Drake and Wales. Sarah Hollis, 1 989. LANDSCAPE DESIGNER/ 21 Defined Space - Pat McLoud CONSULTANT LIST 28 Medium Niche - Anne Coste From time to time PHS is asked to All niches and pedestals will be avail- The Hotline will be closed for the suggest names of firms and individuals able for practice every Wednesday, month of December. We will who will do landscape design consulta- January 24 to March 7. resume our regular hours of tions. We are redoing our listing for 1990. operation, Monday through Friday If you are a landscape designer/ Calendar from 9:30 to 1 2:00 on January 3, Mark Your consultant and would like to receive the 1 990. The Hotline number is Flower Show Dates questionnaire from which we will com- 922-8043. March 11-18, 1990 pile our listing, please contact Janet Evans, PHS Library (625-8261 ) before January 15, 1990. GREAT GARDENS OF ENGLAND June 2 -July 10 If you haven't completed your holiday gift list, consider giving an unusual and unforgettable trip to great private and public gardens in southern England. We'll preparea holiday package contain- ing promises of all the good things to come. Second Class Betsy Gullan, Members Activities Postage Coordinator, and Jean Lenehan of Tours a PHS NEWS PAID la Carte will lead members and guests The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society through southern England on a tour of 325 Walnut St.* Philadelphia, PA 19106 outstanding horticultural and cultural Phone (215) 625-8250 sights. We'll travel from Kent to the Cotswolds with the final days in London. Highlights of the tour will be the famous gardens at Sissinghurst Castle, Barnsley House, and Tintinhull inter- spersed with visits to extraordinary private gardens. Nada Jennett will be our British horticultural guide. To receive an itinerary, kindly check the box on the reservation form, page three. Visit PHS Exhibit — Drawing On The Garden January 5-February 16 Exhibit Opening — January 5, 5-7 pm mSEfo Wine and cheese reception PHS NEWS A The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society vV dume XXXI, No. 1 JANUARY, 1990 flowered climbing roses, Hybrid Teas, VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR FLOWER standards, miniatures and mounds of SHOW MEMBERSHIP/INFORMATION shrub roses, all blooming in shades of BOOTH pink - blush, rose, coral - and contrasted Sylvia Lin, Members Committee chair, with whites, for the Central Feature. The invites interested members to help in the centerpiece of Gale's multi-garden Membership/Information Booth at the SPONSORSHIPS PROVIDE ELEGANT central exhibit will be a sparkling Philadelphia Flower Show, Sunday, EDGE TO FLOWER SHOW fountain and thousands of Gale's famous March 1 1 through Sunday, March 18. The opulent life of Monaco is portrayed perennials primped to perfection. Volunteers will sign up for three-hour in glorious floral splendor at this year's Conard Pyle's generous donation shifts to direct visitors to exhibits, answer Flower Show as the Garden Club of coupled with Gale's creative talents questions, and sell PHS memberhips and Monaco, presided over by H.S.H. promise us one of the finest exhibitions of Show souvenirs. Princess Caroline of Monaco, stages a roses ever presented at the Philadelpia If you enjoy working with people and collaborative exhibit with the Garden Flower Show. would like to represent PHS in the booth Club of Philadelphia chaired by Cynthia on the Show floor, please check the Cheston. Thedisplay entitled, "Laloiedu appropriate box on the reservation form. Jardinage- The Joy of Gardening" will Additional information about duties and transport you to a palatial balcony over- times will be sent in late January. looking the famous harbor at Monte Carlo where your view is enhanced by lush MEMBERSHIP NOTES plantings and rich furnishings. Air Please check your mailbox early this France, the official carrier for the 1 990 for 1990 PHS TRAVEL PROGRAM Show, will provide complimentary trans- month your final membership renewal notice. If Now that the holidays have passed, it's portation for our special exhibitors from you have not renewed yet, Monaco. kindly do so as soon as possible so that time to think about travel adventures for we're sure to include your name in the 1990. The Pennsylvania Horticultural Sponsorships in the Flower Show allow Flower Show ticket mailing this month. In Society is planning two smashing us to enjoy the international world of addition to Flower Show tickets, this mail- horticultural trips here and abroad, begin- gardening by inviting acclaimed ing will include general Show informa- ning with a 1 4-day tou r of great private horticulturists and horticultural institu- in England. tion, spring activities list, and member- and public gardens southern tions to share their creative talents and ship cards. Betsy Gullan, Members Activities expertise with Show visitors. AT&T has Coordinator, and Jean Lenehan of Tours If you paid your but not been a key sponsor in the Show for dues have al al Carte will lead the group from received your tickets February 1 several years and we are happy to have by 3, Tunbridge Wells west to Penelope please call Linda Davis at (215) 625- their participation in 1 990 in this exciting Hobhouse's Tintinhull, with the final few Monaco/Philadelphia collaborative 8265. days in London. display. You'll have just enough time to Here at home, Gale Nurseries of develop your film and repack your suit- Gwynedd takes center stage as this year's case before departing for four days of Central Feature exhibitor. Gale will mostly private garden visits in Maine, Au- create a 7800 square foot display featur- gust 6-9. Horticulturist Peggy Bowditch ing more than 900 roses donated by The FLOWER SHOW POSTERS AVAILABLE and Ed Lindemann, Philadelphia Flower Conard-Pyle Company of West Grove. Help us spread the word about the Show designer, will lead the group to Charlie Gale, a master in the art of forcing upcoming Philadelphia Flower Show, gardens around Bar Harbor and Dark plants into bloom, will work with excep- "Purely For Pleasure . . . Gardens For The Harbor. tional French stock introduced by the Senses". Itineraries for the English trip are ready House of Meilland - 'Queen Elizabeth', This colorful 8 x 10 poster will brighten now. Maine itineraries will be ready in "Grace de Monaco", "Sonia" and up your local library, shop or employee mid-)anuary. For more information, "Stardance" - to be used in the Monaco/ bulletin board. To receive yours call kindly check the appropriate box on the Philadelphia collaborative display, and 625-8266 or stop by PHS and pick up a reservation form, page three. will work with a wide variety of large handful. Activities LECTURES, MEETING LECTURE: GARDENS OF MAINE WORKSHOP: ORCHIDS FOR (Open to all without charge) Wednesday, January 10, 5:45-7:15 pm THE HOME Coastal Maine holds a special lure for Monday, January 22, 6:30-8:30 pm CENTER CITY ORCHID SOCIETY PHS members because of extraordinary Orchid hobbyist John Leonard insists Monday, January 15, 7 pm gardens that flourish in the near-perfect that growing orchids in the home is a Mark Werther: Broughtonia Species and weather akin to British summers. A wide fairly easy, straight-forward process in- Hybrids range of interesting flora abounds in this volving neither mystery nor magic. He Monday, February 19, 7 pm region of mists, sunshine, and moderate will discuss orchids suitable for home Walter Off: Orchid Culture and Plant temperatures. culture and potting techniques in this Sale Avid Maine gardener Peggy Bowditch practical workshop designed for begin- has photographed favorite plants and ning orchid growers. • • • gardens, some of which will be included Discussion topics will include plant in the PHS trip to Maine in August 1990. selection, potting mixes, pot selection, Included are spectacular scenery, staking, watering, fertilizing, and tips on BASKETRY WORKSHOP: wildflowers, country gardens, and initiating new growth. Each participant TWO -PIE BASKET elegant estates with lush perennial will repot and take home an orchid which Monday, January 8, 10 am-2 pm borders. is six to twelve months from blooming. Snowdate: January 15, 10 am-2 pm Program begins promptly at 5:45 pm |ohn Leonard, longtime member of Experienced basket weaver Linda followed by wine and nibbles. PHS and the American Orchid Society, Tenaglia returns to PHS with a new series Fee: $6 members; $8 guests exhibits prize-winning orchids at the of baskets to make, whether you're just NOTE: The Library will be open until Philadelphia Flower Show. starting basketry or adding to an existing 5:45 pm this evening. Bring a sandwich; coffee and tea will collection. be provided. This long shallow basket, capable of Fee of $25 for members and $35 for carrying two pies side by side, is very guests includes all workshop materials. functional and can be used for gathering LECTURE: RANDOM RAMBLINGS OF Limit: 25 participants. vegetables from the garden or carrying A GARDENER 20" 0" food to a picnic. Measuring long, 1 Thursday, January 18, 5:45-7:15 pm - wide, and 4" high, it is in LECTURE GARDEN MEMORIES: woven dyed and This lecture is a totally personal APPEAL TO THE SENSES natural splint reed with a pre-formed oak illustrated essay on plants and gardens Thursday, February 1, 5:45-7:15 pm handle. Suitable for beginners/ through the eyes of Marco Polo Stufano, intermediates. The old-fashioned flowers that Director of Horticulture at Wave Hill, in are Participants should bring a bucket, N.Y. and the person responsible for the enhanced gardens earlier times straight-edged ruler, scissors or dippers, garden's development and ongoing hard to find today, having given way to improved" although not and one dozen spring-type clothespins; creative planting and care. Marco will "new and necessarily better varieties. In cases, all other materials will be provided. Bring show a selection of plants of distinction some vintage species are easier to grow, more lunch; coffee and tea will be available. and gardens of note photographed at fragrant, and beautiful than their Fee: $35 members; $39 guests home and while traveling over the past 20 more years. modern counterparts. Elsa Bakalar, Massachusetts garden The program begins promptly at FLOWER ARRANGING designer, lecturer, and writer, believes WORKSHOP: 5:45 pm, followed by wine and nibbles. we FOR BEGINNERS can enjoy the best of today and yesterday Fee: $8 members; $10 guests Tuesdays, January 9 and 1 6, 1 am-noon side by side in the garden to enrich the NOTE: The Library will be open until Audrey Nichols, floral designer and visual impact and to appeal to the other 5:45 pm this evening. frequent blue ribbon winner at the senses. Mrs. Bakalar will discuss old- Philadelphia Flower Show, will take in fashioned flowers that conjure up feelings hand members who have just started to of romance or nostalgia and will explore arrange or those who feel insecure about ways to bring them back and to use them the basics. This workshop in two sessions PROPAGATION WORKSHOP: in gardens today. will focus on arranging guidelines, condi- ORNAMENTAL EVERGREENS Program will begin promptly at tioning flowers, arranging tools, and Saturday, January 20, 9:30-noon 5:45 pm, followed by wine and nibbles. mechanics. Audrey will discuss design, Learn about varieties, culture, uses, Fee: $10 members; $12 guests form, color, balance, with and how to propagate smaller evergreens and proportion NOTE: Library will be open until the aim of including dwarf conifers from developing more confidence 5:45 pm this evening. and training the eye regarding elements of Alan P. Slack, experienced propagator flower arranging. and PHS Council member. Each session participants will create Discussion topics will include many uses BASKETRY WORKSHOP: HERB BASKET a mass arrangement to take home. Fee of of evergreens — in the garden to patio Monday, February 5, 10 am-2 pm $79 for members and $89 for guests containers. Participants will propagate Snowdate: Monday, February 1 2, 10 am- includes materials and flowers for both some rarer forms of evergreens. 2 pm sessions. All materials will be provided. Linda Tenaglia, experienced basket Program limited to 12. Fee: $24 members; $29 guests basket weaver, will teach techniques for weaving an herb basket, a shallow, round but also with foliage, form, and texture for 5:45 pm followed by wine and nibbles. basket of rib construction with preformed the garden to be interesting later on. Fee: $8 members; $10 guests oak handle. This versatile basket, roughly Ferns, hostas, and astilbe, familiar NOTE: The Library will be open until 0" 1 in diameter and Vh" deep, is woven standbys, can be combined with native 5:45 pm this evening. with natural and dyed reeds. woodland wildflowers, many little herbs, Participants should bring a bucket, primroses, helleborus, and moretocreate straight-edged ruler, scissors or clippers, a garden that is delightful in and out of HERBACEOUS BORDER DESIGN and one dozen spring-type clothespins; bloom. Thursday, February 8, 10 am-3 pm all other materials will be provided. Bring Judy Glattstein, landscape consultant Judy Glattstein's four-hour class on lunch; coffee and tea will be available. from Wilton, Connecticut, will discuss herbaceous border design will explore Fee: $34 members; $39 guests the special challenges of gardening in the color and plant combinations. Discus- shade with pointers on plant selection sions will include: combining plants in a and combinations. Ms. Glattstein teaches border for aesthetic effect, different plant LECTURE: MADE FOR THE SHADE at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the categories to be combined, seasons of Wednesday, February 7, 5:45-7:15 pm N.Y. Botanical Garden and has written bloom, value of seed head or fruit. We'll Flowers in shady gardens bloom mostly many articles for national gardening see the same plant in different situations in early spring. From then on, a gardener magazines as well as the N.Y. Times. and hone our perceptions of how color must be concerned not only with bloom Program will begin promptly at and texture behave in combination. Ms. Glattstein is a lecturer, author, and landscape consultant from Wilton, Connecticut. Reservations Participants should bring a brown bag lunch; coffee and tea will be provided. Clip and mail reservations to: PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 Fee: $20 members; $24 guests Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form below to speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. Confirmations lor events at PHS are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we will expect you. Field trip NOT TOO SMALL, NOR TOO BIG: trip prior the event. There confirmations with important information are mailed ten days to DESIGNING IN DEFINED SPACES is limited space for all activities (except spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two Friday, February 9, 10 am-1 pm consecutive issues of the PHS News. it right in the niches the Refunds and cancellations: Get just at If you wish to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative fee will be deducted Flower Show this year! Join us for a from your refund as follows: unique seminar/workshop dealing with for all field trips is received no $2 fee events other than one-day provided your request size relationships of forms and spaces, later than two days prior to the event. perfectly timed for the Flower Show but $5 fee for one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than four days prior to the event. applicable to arranging in any prescribed space. WORKSHOP: TWO-PIE BASKET LECTURE: GARDEN MEMORIES Priscilla Gene Shaffer offers a new Members $35 Guests $39 Members $10 Guests $12 approach to the study of scale, propor- WORKSHOP: BEGINNING WORKSHOP: HERB BASKET tion, and balance to be coupled with FLOWER ARRANGING Members $34 Guests $39_ intuition and imagination for a winning (2 sessions) LECTURE: MADE FOR SHADE combination. Participants will do Members $79 Guests $89 Members $8 1/^ Guests $10 exercises to sharpen spatial perceptions LECTURE: GARDENS OF MAINE and even dabble a little with illusion. HERBACEOUS BORDER DESIGN Members $6 Guests $8 Bring your own mechanics, Members $70 V Guests $24 LECTURE: RANDOM RAMBLINGS accessories, suitable container(s), pencil NOT BIG, NOR TOO SMALL OF A GARDENER TOO eraser, ruler, scissors, and clippers. Members $29 Guests $34 Members $8 Guests $10 Flowers and other supplies will be provided. WORKSHOP: EVERGREEN WORKSHOP: PROPAGATION PROPAGATION FROM SEED Priscilla Shaffer teaches at Temple 2 pm or 6 pm Univeristy, Ambler, and frequently ex- Members $24 Guests $29 Members $19 Guests $21 hibits at the Philadelphia Flower Show. WORKSHOP: ORCHIDS FOR Fee: $29 members; $34 guests THE HOME YOUR TURF, MY TURF Members $15 Guests $1 7 Members $25 Guests $35 (Continued on page four) ] Please send an itinerary for the PHS trip to England, June 25-|uly 10, 1990 Please send itinerary for PHS trip to Maine, August 6-9, 1990 PHS News (USPS 763-640) is published monthly except luly by the Pennsylvania I would like to volunteer to help at the PHS Membership/Information Booth, Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia Flower Show Philadelphia. Pa. 19106. Subscription — $9.75 per year—Single copies 80c Second NAME class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. and additional mailing office. Postmaster: send ADDRESS address changes to PHS News. 325 Walnut Street, Phila, Pa. 19106. Chair: Donald L. Felley ZIP -TELEPHONE: home President: laneG. Pepper Editor: Lisa Stephano work- Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth G. Gullar VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR FLOWER Pepperpot Stauffer, Mary Jo Strawbridge, John P. SHOW MEMBERS TENT Swan, Paul Tickle and Sandra Ward. Help us greet our special guests and They're both dynamos and we're very When you're throwing a party for fellow members by offering them refresh- happy — and lucky — to have Jane Ward 2,500 it's nice to have all the help vou can ments in the Members' Tent during the and Kathleen Putnam in two key volun- get. We depend on the Preview Dinner Committee to serve as our strictest Flower Show. teer roles for the 1 990 Philadelphia on everything from menus If you are interested in volunteering to Flower Show. commentators to floral arrangements, not to mention the be on our "hospitality crew" please call As Show chair, )ane is responsible for that arise seating ]anet Evans (21 5) 625-8261. leading the Flower Show Executive Com- complications when a dinner of this magnitude. The monies mittee, with Morris Cheston, Jr. as her raised through the dinner represent a vice-chair. Jane is no stranger to the • • • major portion of the funds the Society Show, having first exhibited in a small invests each year in Philadelphia Green niche in the early 70s. The next year she Activities (Continued) organized the Providence Garden Club's and Center City Green, our horticultural outreach programs. Many thanks to chair WORKSHOP: PROPAGATING room entry and then we made her vice- vice-chair Richard Billings chair and eventually chair of rooms and Kathleen, her FROM SEED and Preview DinnerCommittee members tables. For the 1 984 and 1 985 Shows Jane February 2 6 Tuesday, 13, pm and pm Carr, Morris Cheston, Ruth was our chair of competitive classes, and Lisa Jr., One important reason to propagate Colket, Robert C. Gore, Bobby Grace, now that she's finished her exhilerating plants from seed is to grow varieties that Jane Gray, Valerie and Don Innamorato, and exhausting two-year stint as president cannot be found readily in the trade Sallie Korman, Carolyn Langfitt, Linda of the Garden Club of America, we're Expert propagator Roxie Gevjian, who Madara, Martha Morris, Liddon delighted she's back in harness with the J. achieves a high rate of germination, will Frank E. Reed, Philadelphia Flower Show. Pennock, Jr., Barbara teach basic techniques for seed propaga- Rubenstein, Stewart H. Steffey, Jr., Ann The strengths of lane's committee lie in tion and will share tips on handling and and Henry J. Stewart and Clarence Z. its diversity, with representatives from the securing seed. Wurts. nursery and floral trades, from the trade After a lecture/demonstration, partici- exhibits and from the competitve classes. pants will plant three containers of seeds, In addition, we greatly appreciate the some of which are unusual and hard to enthusiastic support of committee mem- e__ find. All materials will be provided. bers who are bankers and lawvers, as well jane G. Pepper Limited registration for members and President as from experts in marketing and promo- guests. tion. 1990 Show committee members Fee: $19 members; $21 guests. are: Diane Allen, Robert J. Butera, Herb Evening guests may bring a sandwich; Clarke, Susan Chapin, G. Morris Philadelphia Flower coffee and cookies provided. Show Dorrance, Jr., Bernadette Dougherty, Walter Fisher, Jr., Charles H. Gale, Sr., March 11-18, 1990 Sally Graham, Mary Hopkins, Charles F. YOUR TURF, MY TURF: AN Philadelphia Civic Kremp, Roberts LeBoutillier, Charles N. APPROACH TO LAWN MAINTENANCE Center Marshall, Francis McKay, William Thursday, February 15, 6-8 pm J. Call (215) 625-8253 McNaughton, J. Liddon Pennock, Jr., Few things are as unforgiving as Audrey Pfeilsticker, Kathleen Putnam, for information neglected grass turf. Jim Snow, turf grass Robert S. Ryan, Alan P. Slack, Susan management consultant for the United States Golf Association in Far Hills, NJ, says that success with a lawn is not neces- sarily in direct proportion to the amount of attention it receives. Instead, judicious Second Class seed selection and wise mowing PHS NEWS Postage practices set the stage for success or prob- PAID The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society lems for years to come. • )im will talk about ways to develop 325 Walnut St. Philadelphia, PA 19106 lawns and procedures that bring results. Phone (215) 625-8250 Discussion topics will include seed selec- tion, reading seed labels, fertilizing, pest and disease control, mowing practices, irrigation, and the merits of professional lawn services. Snacks and beverages will be available from 6-6 : 30 pm for those coming directly from work. Program will begin promptlv at 6:30 pm. Fee: $15 members; $1 7 guests \ORT/ Visit PHS Exhibit — Drawing On The Garden r , February 1-16 PHS NEWS The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society jlume XXXI, No. 2 FEBRUARY, 1990 in Temple University's, the Senses of A PAT ON THE BACK FOR PHS Endangered Landscapes. Temple plans to The Public Relations Society of address the threatened environments of America presented its 1989 Drumbeater the rain forest and coastal dunes by Award to Jane Pepper, PHS President, at a AREA STUDENTS DIG IN TO PREPARE illustrating the beauty of these unique special ceremony held last month at the FOR FLOWER SHOW areas and realistic approaches to protect- Hershey Hotel. ing them. Drumbeater is presented each year Something is growing at Delaware The Forty-seven other nurseries, florists, to the person and/ororganization that has Valley College and it isn't of the horticultural bent. 'They're hanging in plant societies and organizations will done the most to enhance the image of floral such the Prohibi- the garage right now. We don't see much create fantasies as Philadelphia. movement but we know they're alive." tion Era speakeasy, a tropical island Upon accepting the award for her work This comment, from horticulture student, escape, waterfalls, a wetland and with PHS and the Philadelphia Flower Mark Ringenary, holds the secret to wildflower gardens in 1 990's spectacular Show, Jane lauded the efforts of Delaware Valley's Flower Show exhibit. Philadelphia Flower Show. exhibitors, volunteers and all those Delaware Valley students are forcing The Show will be held March 11-18 at "cheerleaders" involved in making PHS flowers and butterflies into bloom for this the Philadelphia Civic Center. For more and the Show worthy of this special year's display, using native species (of information call (215) 625-8253. recognition. butterflies that is). The brightly colored insects will be contained by a see-through MEMBERS' LOUNGE, PHILADELPHIA netting so they can fly freely throughout TRIPS ABROAD the display. FLOWER SHOW 1 We invite you to join us for two trips Sunday, March 1 -Sunday, March 18 The Flower Show educational planned for Summer 1 990. Twenty-five quiet oasis exist at the exhibitors offer mind-expanding exhibits A does PHS members and guests will travel to Philadelphia Flower Show. PHS members and this year the School District of southern England for 14 days to visit great are invited to the Members' Lounge in the Philadelphia plans to expand our sights private and public gardens and other Hospitality Tent to relax with a cup of into the future with their display entitled places of historic and cultural interest, coffee or tea. The Members' Lounge is Horticulture in the Classroom - Past, 25 - July 1 0. few weeks later, 25 open each day Sunday through Sunday June A Present and Future. Dave Kipphut, members and guests will journey to the from noon-4 pm. To gain entry, please exhibit chair and Coordinator of Lincoln's area around Bar Harbor, Maine, to visit bring your membership card, which was Horticulture Program, says a total of more outstanding private and public gardens, mailed with your Flower tickets in than 200 students from W.B. Saul and Show August 7-10. late January. Abraham Lincoln High Schools will Itineraries for both trips are ready now. collaborate to create classroom scenes To receive your copy, kindly check the that show the scope of horticultural A CALL FOR INFORMATION appropriate box on the reservation form, programs from days gone by as well as American Horticultural Society is The page three. new advances in horticultural classroom compiling a new, expanded edition of technology using growth chambers, North American Horticulture, A computers for landscape design and Reference Guide. To make this guide as hydroponics. POSTERS complete as possible, the AHS is asking FLOWER SHOW AND An exquisite backyard landscape sets readers to send them names and STUFFERS AVAILABLE the scene for the Penn State Cooperative addresses of local, state and regional Help us spread the word about the Extension's display, Through Your Mind's organizations and programs including upcoming Philadelphia Flower Show, Eye. In cooperation with the Associated plant societies, trade associations, profes- "Purely For Pleasure . . . Gardens For The Services for the Blind, Penn State will sional associtions, conservation organi- Senses". show visitors how to design a garden for zations, libraries, museums, botanical These colorful 8x10 posters and 3x5 the sight-impaired featuring scented and exhibits and plant collections to Tom stufferswill brighten upyour local library, textured plantings in containers. Barrett, American Horticultural Society, shop or employee bulletin board. To Endangered landscapes are of ever- 7931 East Boulevard Drive, Alexandria, receive yours, call 625-8266 or stop by increasing importance as demonstrated VA 22308, or call 1-800-777-7931. PHS and pick up a handful. Activities February-March "new and improved" although not N.Y. Botanical Garden and has written Lectures, Meetings necessarily better varieties. In some cases, many articles for national gardening (Open to all without charge) vintage species are easier to grow, more magazines as well as the N.Y. Times. fragrant, and more beautiful than their CENTER CITY ORCHID SOCIETY Program will begin promptly at modern counterparts. 5:45 pm followed by wine and nibbles. Monday, February 19, 7 pm Elsa Bakalar, Massachusetts garden Fee: members; Walter Off: Orchid Culture and Plant $8 $10 guests designer, lecturer, and writer, believes we Sale NOTE: The Library will be open until can enjoy the best of today and yesterday 5:45 pm this evening. side by side in the garden to enrich the SPECIAL EVENTS visual impact and to appeal to the other senses. Mrs. Bakalar will discuss old- fashioned flowers that conjure up feelings MEMBERS' PREVIEW, PHILADELPHIA NOT TOO SMALL, NOR TOO BIG: or nostalgia and will explore FLOWER SHOW of romance DESIGNING IN DEFINED SPACES ways to bring them back and to use them Saturday, March 10, 12:30-3:30 pm Friday, February 9, 10 am-1 pm in gardens today. Members may use their tickets for the Get it just right in the niches at the Program will begin promptly at Members' Preview on Saturday, March Flower Show this year! Join us for a 5:45 pm, followed by wine and nibbles. 10, 1 2:30-3:30 pm, or any other day, unique seminar/workshop dealing with March 11-18. Fee: $10 members; $12 guests size relationships of forms and spaces, If you wish to bring a guest for the NOTE: Library will be open until perfectly timed for the Flower Show but Preview, there is a charge of $30 for 5:45 pm this evening. applicable to arranging in any prescribed adults and $15 for children under 12. space. Preview tickets are available at PHS or at Priscilla Gene Shaffer offers a new the Civic Center on March 1 0. BASKETRY WORKSHOP: HERB BASKET approach to the study of scale, propor- Life members will receive a weekly Monday, February 5, 10 am-2 pm tion, and balance to be coupled with pass and one member's ticket. Individual Snowdate: Monday, February 12, 10 am- intuition and imagination for a winning members receive one ticket each; family 2 pm combination. Participants will do and contributing members, three tickets: Linda Tenaglia, experienced basket exercises to sharpen spatial perceptions sponsoring members, five tickets; sustain- basket weaver, will teach techniques for and even dabble a little with illusion. ing members, ten tickets. weaving an herb basket, a shallow, round Bring your own mechanics, Those families with more than three basket of rib construction with preformed accessories, suitable container(s), pencil members living under one roof whowant oak handle. This versatile basket, roughly eraser, ruler, scissors, and clippers. 0" additional tickets for children under the 1 in diameter and 2%" deep, is woven Flowers and other supplies will be age of 2 1 should apply in writing, enclos- with natural and dyed reeds. provided. ing a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Participants should bring a bucket, Priscilla Shaffer teaches at Temple President, Jane C. Pepper, PHS, 325 straight-edged ruler, scissors or clippers, Univeristy, Ambler, and frequently ex- Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106- and one dozen spring-type clothespins; hibits at the Philadelphia Flower Show. 2777. Please state the and of names ages all other materials will beprovided. Bring Fee: $29 members; $34 guests all family members and the number of lunch; coffee and tea will be available. additional tickets needed. No tickets will Fee: $34 members; $39 guests be mailed unless all of the above condi- tions are met. WORKSHOP: PROPAGATING Advance sale tickets are avai lable at the LECTURE: MADE FOR THE SHADE FROM SEED PHS reception desk and at many local Wednesday, February 7, 5:45-7:15 pm Tuesday, February 13,2 pm or 6 pm garden centers and nurseries and through Flowers in shady gardens bloom mostly One important reason to propagate Ticketmaster: $8.75 for adults ($9.50 at in early spring. From then on, a gardener plants from seed is to grow varieties that Show); $4.75 for children under 12 (same must be concerned not only with bloom cannot be found readily in the trade. price at Show). Ticketmaster prices will but also with foliage, form, and texture for Expert propagator Roxie Gevjan, who be slightly higher to accommodate handl- the garden to be interesting later on. achieves a high rate of germination, will ing charges. Ferns, hostas, and astilbe, familiar teach basic techniques for seed propaga- standbys, can be combined with native tion and will share tips on handling and securing seed. • • • woodland wildflowers, many little herbs, primroses, helleborus, and more to create After a lecture/demonstration, partici- a garden that is delightful in and out of pants will plant three containers of seeds, bloom. some of which are unusual and hard to LECTURE - GARDEN MEMORIES: Judy Glattstein, landscape consultant find. All materials will be provided. APPEAL TO THE SENSES from Wilton, Connecticut, will discuss Limited registration for members and Thursday, February 1, 5:45-7:15 pm the special challenges of gardening in the guests. The old-fashioned flowers that shade with pointers on plant selection Fee: $19 members; $21 guests. enhanced gardens in earlier times are and combinations. Ms. Glattstein teaches Evening guests may bring a sandwich; hard to find today, having given way to at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the coffee and cookies provided. 7 YOUR TURF, MY TURF: AN |im will talk about ways to develop LECTURE: A MOVEABLE FEAST APPROACH TO LAWN MAINTENANCE lawns and procedures that bring results. Thursday, March 22, 5:45-7:1 5 pm Thursday, February 15, 6-8 pm Discussion topics will include seed selec- Rosalind Creasy, author and landscape Few things are as unforgiving as tion, reading seed labels, fertilizing, pest designer, specializes in residential land- neglected grass turf. Jim Snow, turf grass and disease control, mowing practices, scapes combining edible, native, and management consultant for the United irrigation, and the merits of professional drought-tolerant plants. Her revolu- States Golf Association in Far Hills, NJ, lawn services. tionary ideas of combining herbs, says that success with a la wn is not neces- Snacks and beverages will be available vegetables, and flowers in the same sarily in direct proportion to the amount from 6-6: 30 pm for those coming directly border provide an effective marriage of of attention it receives. Instead, judicious from work. Program will begin promptly the utilitarian and the ornamental for a seed selection and wise mowing at 6:30 pm. whole new look for front-yard gardens. practices set the stage for success or prob- Fee: $15 members; $17 guests Ms. Creasy will discuss the advantages lems for years to come. of an edible landscape, the large harvests homeowners can produce, the beauty of edible plants, and ways to integrate a wide range of vegetables and flowers for an attractive, non-traditional, ever- changing landscape. Creasy is the author of the widely- acclaimed The Complete Book of Edible Reservations Landscaping. Her latest book, Cooking from the Garden, has recently won the Clip and mail reservations to: Award for Excellence of the Garden PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 Writers Association of America. Program will begin promptly at Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form below to 5:45 pm, followed by wine and nibles. speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. Confirmations lor events at PHS are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we will expect you. Field trip Fee; $8 members; $10 guests confirmations with important trip information are mailed ten days prior to the event. There Note: The Library will be open until is limited space for all activities (except spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two 5:45 pm this evening. consecutive issues of the PHS News. Refunds and cancellations: If you wish to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative fee will be deducted from your refund as follows: $2 fee for all events other than one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than two days prior to the event. PERENNIALS FOR SMALL GARDENS $5 fee for one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than four days Friday, March 23, 10 am-3 pm prior to the event. Effective use of available space is the real challenge of a tiny garden; this can be accomplished by careful planning and LECTURE: GARDEN MEMORIES LECTURE: A MOVEABLE FEAST planting for year-round pleasure. Members $10 Guests $12 Members $8 Guests $10 Horticulturist |ane Lennon will explore HERB BASKET PERENNIALS SMALL WORKSHOP: FOR unique considerations for gardening in a Members $34 Guests $39 GARDENS small space, selection of herbaceous Members $29 Guests $33 LECTURE: MADE FOR SHADE perennials for sun and shade, care, and Members $8 Guests $10 WORKSHOPS: INTERMEDIATE maintenance. The emphasis will be plant- CONTEMPORARY ARRANGING ing for pleasure throughout the year. NOT TOO BIG, NOR TOO SMALL (3 Sessions) Fee: $29 members; $33 guests Members $29 Guests $34 Members $45 Guests $50 Participants should bring a brown-bag WORKSHOP: PROPAGATION lunch; coffee and tea will be provided. FROM SEED GARDENING ANEW Members $29 Guests $33 Program limited to 20. 2 pm or 6 pm Members $19 Guests $21 YOUR TURF, MY TURF Members $ 1 5 Guests $ 1 I Activities continued on pg. 4) PHS News (USPS 763-640) is published Please send an itinerary for the PHS trip to England, June 25-July 10, 1990 monthly except luly by the Pennsylvania Please send itinerary for PHS trip to Maine, August 7-10, 1990 Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut Street. Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. Subscription — NAME $9.75 per year—Single copies 80c. Second class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. and ADDRESS additional mailing office. Postmaster: send address changes to PHS News, 325 Walnut ZIP -TELEPHONE: home Street. Phila, Pa. 19106. Chair: Donald L. Felley President: laneC. Pepper work- Editor: Lisa Stephano Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth C. Gullan Pepperpot new corporate sponsorship, which pro- GARDENING ANEW vides each organization with tickets for Friday, March 30, 10 am-3 pm some of their cl ients and customers plus Brand new gardens on recently Flower Shows happen in Philadelphia the opportunity to host these individuals developed land present a whole set of thanks to the generosity of so many. Take one even i ng of the Show. chal lenges even before the first plant is set anyone of the major exhibits and you'll in the ground. Site evaluation and overall hear stories of owners and employees planning are the first priorities. Soil toi I i ng day and n ight to make the very best improvement and preparation of future exhibits, the exhibits that attract visitors beds are the foundation for success and from across the country. In the competi- G. Pepper Jane pleasure in a new garden. tive section we're indebted to the more President Horticulturist Jane Lennon will discuss than 1 ,000 individuals who volunteer essential steps in creating a new garden their time to activities that range from from soil preparation to the use of ground screening plants for aphids or checking • • • covers and herbaceous perennials. the botanical name of each plant on ex- Participants should bring a brown-bag hibition, to serving coffee and cleaning lunch; coffee and tea will be provided. silver trophies. Program limited to 20. An integral part of the Flower Show Activities (Continued) Fee: $29 members; $33 guests. army is the 200 emloyees who watch out WORKSHOPS: INTERMEDIATE for us at the Civic Center, the police who CONTEMPORARY FLOWER do their best with the traffic under very ARRANGING tricky circumstances, and the troops of Mondays, March 26, April 2 and 9, carpenters, plumbers, painters, security New in the Library 6:30-8:30 pm and parking officials without whose This three-session course, using princi- extensive cooperation we'd never be able The apple book, Roseanne Sanders, ples of oriental flower arranging, encour- to open the Show. 1988. ages more freedom and fun in Other Flower Show enthusiasts open Botany for all ages, )orie Hunken, contemporary arranging, using fewer their wallets and once again we're 1989. flowers and emphasizing design. Su itable indebted the to Margaret Dorrance Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden, Gilbert for those with some arranging experi- Strawbridge Foundation for its generosity L.Wilson, 1987. ence, these classes stress a new approach in helping us provide subsidies to the four Cultivated pleasures, Elizabeth Saft, to design, using a new line or a combina- clubs in the Garden Class "For My Plea- 1989. tion of lines. Each arrangement will be sure." The following clubs will compete critiqued. Students are encouraged to br- Floral art, Wolfgang Hageney, 1988. in the 1990 exhibition: Four Counties ing twigs or branches they would like to Follies and pleasure pavilions, George Garden Club, Garden Workers, The Fee includes instruction, flowers, Mott, 1 989. Weeders and Wissahickon Garden Club. use. and foliage. Garden illusions, Alan Toogood, 1 989. For the third year in a row, we're Instructor Bernice Makin is a master How does your garden grow, Pamela pleased to welcome the Authorized of the Garden Club Federation and Jones, 1 989. Delaware Valley Mercedes-Benz judge teaching master of two schools of oriental the American dream: the Dealers as sponsors of the Florist Invita- Landscaping flower arranging. film sets of Florence Yoch: tional class, chaired by Sally Graham and gardens and 1890- 1 Yoch, 1988. Sandy Manthorpe. Sixteen local florists Fee: $45 members; $50 guests 972, James have signed up to produce beautiful bouquets at the foot of the escalator. Last year, First Pennsylvania Bank underwrote the floral decorations and table arrangements for the 2,300-person Second Class Preview Dinner in Convention Hall and, PHS NEWS Postage happily for us, they so enjoyed the experi- PAID The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society ence that they've signed up again for 325 Walnut St. • Philadelphia, PA 19106 1 990, making a very generous donation to the Society. Phone (215) 625-8250 Provident National Bank and Drinker Biddle & Reath will join us this year for a &ORT/c Visit PHS Exhibit: — Recycling Through March 30, 1990 PHS NEWS The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Volume XXXI, No. 3 MARCH, 1990 Pepperpot Be sure to stop at their booth (#1 08) and ON THE STREET OF DREAMS ask for a booklet of recipes incorporating Hate to shop? Love to shop? Either way honey. Grateful thanks to these two you'll love Class 152 "On The Street of When it comes to designing its Flower corporations for their generous Dreams." The Shop Front class, replacing Show exhibit, the Philadelphia Green sponsorships. the front porches of the past two years, team, composed of community volun- will be a window shopper's dream - as teers and staff members, always has well as a shopkeeper's dream with shop enough ideas to fill the Show hall. Work- fronts that invite customers to indulge and ing with an island area of just over 1 ,000 pamper themselves. sq. ft., Rena Ennis and Anne Vallery, ex- Jane G. Pepper Six garden clubs have spent months hibit chairs have opted for four gardens President dreaming up these shop fronts which will this year, woven together with a Ribbon MEMBERS' PREVIEW, PHILADELPHIA become reality on March 1 1 th-1 8th. See of Gold, a planting of yellow-blooming FLOWER SHOW what a small garden or decorative plants perennials and annuals. Saturday, March 10, 12:30-3:30 pm can do for a 9' by 12'shopfrontandentry Community Treasures — Garden Members may use their tickets for the area. Pleasures is their theme and in the design Members' Preview on Saturday, March you'll find treasures from the community 10, 12:30-3:30 pm, or any other day, — tires, a sink, old watering cans, even a March 11-18. bathtub — all filled with colorful annuals. 1 990 Philadelphia If you wish to bring a guest for the One garden is for kids, another a corner Preview, there is a charge of $30 for for sitting, the third will feature herbs and adults and $15 for children under 12. the fourth rock sculptures, a mini-version Preview tickets are available at PHS or at fLOWES of the community garden with rock the Civic Center on March 1 0. features in Francisville, North Philadelphia. In one of the gardens KOALA BEAR OWNERS TO GATHER there'll be a mural designed and painted SHOW AT THE FLOWER SHOW by the Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti 'Purely for Pleasure- Network, an organization renowned for What other reason could there be for visitors 1 Gardens for tlje Senses its murals around town and especially in to purchase more than 00,000 Philadelphia Green gardens. bunches of eucalyptus at EACH Flower Produced by Show? The Pennsylvania Two corporations have joined in Horticultural Society partially sponsoring this exhibit, By far the most popular purchase at the Meridian Bank and Golden Blossom Show, theeucalyptus branch is more than Honey. In announcing this donation, just food for those wonderful furry little Diana M. Kolodzinski, Community Rela- marsupials-it's great for the sinuses, holds MfiCH tions Representative for the Delaware up well in the neglected corner vase, and Valley Division, Meridian Bank, says her does wonders for the musty air of rooms corporation's commitment to the com- sealed up for winter. 1148 Adults - $9.50 munity is strong, as is that of the Society The Flower Show is a fantasyland of all with its community and beautification things that smell good and in the Market Children (under 12) - $4.75 than 1 programs, so the sponsorship seems Place, you can shop at more 00 MONDAY - SATURDAY especially appropriate to them. Since booths bulging with colorful spring 10:00 AM • 9:30 PM there will be a garden complete with a blooms, handwoven baskets and packets SUNDAYS 10:00 AM • 6:00 PM beehive in the exhibit, appropriate too is of beans, bulbs and books, bird houses the involvement of Golden Blossom and bonsai. Combine these with planters, Honey, a Doylestown corporation. As Jill pots, patio furniture and pressed flower Paton, president, Golden Blossom Honey jewelry and visitors to this year's Show says, "Our enthusiasm for the Show led are sure to come away with an abund- us to sponsor this exhibit and also to ance of horticultural treasures — and, I PltiloMphia participate in the Show's Market Place." perhaps, a little something for the bear. CIVICICENTER . Activities March-April WORKSHOPS: INTERMEDIATE MAKING SENSE OF AN OLD GARDEN CONTEMPORARY FLOWER Friday, April 6, 10 am-3 pm Lectures, Meetings ARRANGING An established garden, one you've (Open to all without charge) Mondays, March 26, April 2 and 9, made yourself or one you've bought, can CENTER CITY ORCHID SOCIETY 6:30-8:30 pm become overgrown and jumbled. Monday, April 16, 7 pm This three-session course, using princi- Horticulturist Jane Lennon will help you Howard Wood: Dendrobiums-Unusual ples of oriental flower arranging, encour- evaluate realistically what you have and Species ages more freedom and fun in then, step by step, help you deal with the contemporary arranging, using fewer green tide around your house. flowers and emphasizing design. Suitable Discussion topics will include pruning SPECIAL EVENTS for those with some arranging experi- and rejuvenating woody plants, dividing ence, these classes stress a new approach and replanting herbaceous perennials, PAUL JOSEPH STANKARD to design, using a new line or a combina- replenishing soil, and general PHS EXHIBIT OPENING AND tion of lines. Each arrangement will be maintenance. RECEPTION critiqued. Students are encouraged to Program limited to 20. Friday, April 6, 5:30-7:30 pm bri ng twigs or branches they wou Id like to Fee: $29 members; $33 guests flowers foliage. STANKARD EXHIBIT: April 6-May 31 use. Fee includes and Participants should bring a brown-bag PHS members and guests are invited to Instructor Bernice Makin is a master lunch; coffee and tea will be provided. an evening with Paul Joseph Stankard, judge of the Garden Club Federation and world-renowned glass botanical artist. teaching master of two schools of oriental illustrated talk and flower arranging. Program includes PRUNING SMALL TREES AND SHRUBS poetry readings by the artist at 6 pm with Fee: $45 members; $50 guests Saturday, April 7, 10 am-noon cocktails and horsd'oeuvres. GARDENING ANEW At Chanticleer in Wayne exhibited widely; his Stankard has Horticulturist Peter Brindle will Friday, March 30, 10 am-3 pm glass botanicals appear in many demonstrate basic pruning for trees, including the Philadelphia Brand new gardens on recently museums, shrubs, and roses. Discussions are aimed of Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, and the developed land present a whole set at the homeowner who needs i nforma- Victoria and Albert Museum, London. challenges even before the first plant is set tion about proper tools and their uses, in ground. Site evaluation and overall Admission is free, but reservations are the timing, and techniques. required. Kindly use the reservation form, planning are the first priorities. Soil Travel directions will be mailed in late page three. improvement and preparation of future March. Program limited to 20 beds are the foundation for success and participants. pleasure in a new garden. Fee: $15 members; $17 guests Horticulturist Lennon will discuss • • • Jane essential steps in creating a new garden from soil preparation to the use of ground perennials. BASKET LECTURE: A MOVEABLE FEAST covers and herbaceous WORKSHOP: GARDEN Monday, April 9, 10 am-2 pm Thursday, March 22, 5:45-7:15 pm Participants should bring a brown-bag lunch; coffee and tea will be provided. Experienced basket weaver Linda Rosalind Creasy, professional photo- limited Program to 20. Tenaglia will teach techniques for making grapher, author, and landscape designer, Fee: members; guests. a garden basket with a solid bottom specializes in residential landscapes $29 $33 modeled after a Shaker market basket. combining edible and native plants. Her WORKSHOP: TOPIARIES AND This basket, woven of natural splint reed revolutionary ideas of combining herbs, TRAINED PLANTS with a notched oak handle, is roughly vegetables, and flowers in the same Tuesday, April 3, 10 am-noon 1 8" x 1 " x 4" — practical for carrying border provide an effective marriage of At Meadowbrook Farm, Meadowbrook gardening tools, needlework, etc. the utilitarian and the ornamental for a Horticulturist Charles W. Rogers, Jr., Participants should bring a bucket, whole new look for front-yard gardens. will conduct a two-hour workshop on straight-edged ruler, scissors or clippers, This is not the usual lecture on topiaries and trained plants hardy for one dozen spring-type clothespins, and a vegetable gardening but an illustrated talk gardens in zones 6 and 7. The first part of brown-bag lunch. Coffee and tea will be bridging the two worlds of cooking and the program will feature Meadowbrook's provided. growing. topiaries to show different forms and Fee: $30 members; $33 guests Creasy is the author of the widely- techniques for creating them. acclaimed The Complete Book of Edible Each participant will start a small Landscaping. Her latest book Cooking evergreen trained plant to be used as a from the Garden, has recently won the garden accent. Discussions include WORKSHOP: NEW APPROACH TO Award for Excellence of the Garden cultural and training methods, pruning FLOWER ARRANGING (Intermediate) Writers Association of America. techniques, shaping, and suitable Wednesday, April 11,10 am-noon or Program will begin promptly at containers. 6-8 pm 5:45 pm, followed by wine and nibbles. Chuck Rogers is manager of Now that you're comfortable with a Fee: $8 members; $10 guests Meadowbrook Farm and former curator traditional mass arrangement, you're Note: The Library will be open until of horticulture, Philadelphia Zoo. ready to try a new approach to this style 5:45 pm this evening. Fee: $35 members; $39 guests by emphasizing balance and color. . Within the confines and rules of tradi- Audrey Nichols, experienced arranger Participants should bring clippers and a tional arranging, Audrey Nichols will andfrequentexhibitoratthe Philadelphia box to transport finished arrangement. show you how to create more excitement Flower Show, has a background in the Participants in the evening session may by grouping colors within a mass arrange- decorative arts. bri ng a brown-bag supper. Coffee and tea ment for greater clarity and impact. This class is not suitable for beginners. will be provided for both sessions. Fee of $39 for members and $43 for guests includes container, flowers, and all other materials. Reservations LECTURE: GARDEN ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD Clip and mail reservations to: Thursday, April 12, 5:45-7:15 pm PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 English plant explorer and botanist Chris Chadwell will talk about Kashmir in Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form below to the Himalayas, a "paradise on earth" speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. Confirmations for because of its horticultural treasures and events at PHS are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we will expect you. Field trip confirmations with important trip information are mailed ten days prior to the event. There natural beauty. Kashmir provides condi- is limited space for all activities (except spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two tions not unlike those of many English consecutive issues of the PHS News. gardens. Refunds and cancellations: Chadwell, who has traveled widely in If you wish to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative fee will be deducted the Himalayas to collect seed, designs his from your refund as follows: $2 fee for all events other than one-day field trips provided your request is received no expeditions to introduce ordinary later than two days prior to the event. gardeners to plants little known in cultiva- field trips provided your request is received no later than four days $5 fee for one-day tion. He has led several expeditions and prior to the event. tours and runs a small seed firm specializing in hardy Himalayan and Oriental species. LECTURE: A MOVEABLE FEAST LECTURE: GARDEN ON THE Program begins promptly at 5:45 pm, Members $8 Guests $10 ROOF OF THE WORLD followed by wine and nibbles. Members $8 Guests $10 WORKSHOPS: INTERMEDIATE Fee: $8 members; $10 guests CONTEMPORARY ARRANGING AT HOME SERIES: RARE Note: The library will be open until (3 Sessions) PLANT NURSERY 5:45 pm this evening. Members $45 Guests $50 Members $8 GARDENING ANEW AT HOME SERIES: SPRING AT-HOME SERIES: RARE PLANT Members $29 Guests $33 GARDENING PRACTICES NURSERY, DOYLESTOWN Members TOPIARIES/TRAINED PLANTS $12 Tuesday, April 1 7, 1 am-noon Members $35 Guests $39 DOWN-TO-EARTH GARDEN Marty Brooks will conduct a two-hour tour of his 20-acre Rare Plant Nursery MAKING SENSE OF OLD DESIGN his home in Doylestown, Penn- GARDENS Members $50 behind sylvania. Marty has the best selection of Members $29 Guests $33 FIELD TRIP: GEORGETOWN in Delaware Valley, GARDEN TOUR dwarf conifers the PRUNING SMALL TREES AND with a particular fondness for weeping Pick-up HC CC SHRUBS varieties. His arboretum contains at least Members $39 Guests $43 Members $15 Guests $17 85 cultivarsof Chamaecyparis obtusa, for AT SERIES: MORRIS BERD WORKSHOP: GARDEN BASKET HOME a start, plus thousands more dwarf and Members $12 members $30 Guests $33 unusual plants. For more information about his nursery, see Green 5cene, WORKSHOP: NEW APPROACH GARDEN VISITS: SOCIETY HILL January-February 1990. TO FLOWER ARRANGING Members $2 Guests $5 Travel directions will be mailed in early 1 am or 6 pm April. Program limited to 20. Members $39 Guests $43 Fee: $8 members (Activities continued on pg. 4) Please reserve . spaces for Stankard Exhibit Opening, April 6. PHS News (USPS 763-640) is published monthly except My by the Pennsylvania Society, 325 Walnut Street. Horticultural — NAME Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. Subscription $9.75 per year—Single copies 80c. Second ADDRESS class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. and additional mailing office. Postmaster: send address changes to PHS News, 325 Walnut ZIP -TELEPHONE: home . Street, Phila., Pa. 19106. Chair: Donald L. Felley work_ President: Jane C. Pepper Editor: Lisa Stephano Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth C. Gullari TO: MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FIELD TRIP 62ND ANNUAL GARDEN VISITS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY GEORGETOWN GARDEN Spring garden visits are among the most TOUR, Washington, popular activities because members If you are a member of RHS wondering DC PHS what to do with the tickets they send you Saturday, April 21, 7:15 am-7:45 pm can visit interesting and unusual gardens each year to the Chelsea Flower Show, One of our favorite spring tours is the of fellow members. Gardens will be open please consider sending them on to PHS. annual Georgetown Garden Tour to to members on Thursday, April 26, in Each year, several of our members call to benefit Children's House. This self- Society Hill, 4: 30-7 pm; Sunday, May 13, 1-5 in Hill; ask if the Society has tickets for Chelsea. guided tour permits you to visit the pm Chestnut and Sunday, We do — but just a couple and they're gardens in any order at your own pace. June 10, 1-5 pm, on the Main Line. snapped up early. If we get extra tickets, Fourteen gardens will be open for the After we receive your reservations by we place them on file in the Library and tour, including the world-renowned mail, we will send tags, maps, garden they are always called upon by other Dumbarton Oaks, Mrs. Peter Belin's descriptions, and travel instructions. members. If you have tickets to offer, "Evermay," and the late Averell Look for details and reservation forrjis please send them tojanet Evans, Librarian Harriman's garden. for May and lune garden visits in future at PHS. Fee includes round-trip transportation, issues of the PHS News. tour ticket, return-trip refreshments, and GARDEN VISITS: SOCIETY HILL tea at Children's House after the tour. Thursday, April 26, 4:30-7 pm Lunch not included. Small private gardens in historic Activities (Continued) Details of bus pick-up at Horticulture Society Hill are noted forespaliered trees, Center in Fairmount Park and Center City garden ornaments, and pristine ever- AT-HOME SERIES: SPRING will be mailed to participants. GARDENING PRACTICES greens which thrive in these sheltered Fee: $39 members; $43 guests. spaces. Several large gardens, including In Honey Brook, PA the garden, will be open. Refresh- Wednesday, April 18, 10 am-noon PHS ments will be served at PHS from 6-7 pm. Raindate: Friday, Ajpril 20, 10 am-noon AT-HOME SERIES: GARDENS Twenty-five PHS members are invited OF MORRIS BERD, MEDIA to visit Yvonne England Giunta's garden Tuesday, April 24, 1 am-noon Other Events for a hands-on program on spring garden- Dietta and Morris Berd have created ALLENTOWN FLOWER SHOW ing practices, procedures to help insure enchanting gardens on their hilly farm March 9-1 1,1990 attractiveness, efficiency, and abundant near Media, effectively using many For information call: (215) 262-6421 bloom for the rest of the growing season. different types of sites for gardens. By '90 - Yvonne will discuss fertilizing, several terracing and constructing dry stone EARTH WEEK Urban Neighbor- methods of staking, edging, revitalizing walls, Morris has created gardens for hoods and the Environment the plant border, division of hardy ferns, wild- March 24, 1990 perennials, and routine garden flowers, primulas, and alpines, plus out- Temple University - Registration, 8:30 am maintenance. standing collections of dwarf conifers and For more information call: Participants will need clippers and other rare trees and shrubs. The rock (215)238-1434 appropriate shoes and clothing. Travel garden and native plants, many of which DELAWARE VALLEY ORCHID directions will be sent in early April. have been grown from seed, are choice COUNCIL SPEAKER'S FORUM Fee: $12 members species from around the world. April 1,1990 Travel directions will be mailed in early To register write: Betty L. Schmidt, April. Registration limited to 20. 778 Old White Horse Pike, Fee: $12 members Waterford, Nj 08089 DOWN-TO-EARTH GARDEN DESIGN Thursdays, April 19, 10 am-noon April 26, 10 am-2 pm Second Class May 3, 10am-1 pm Postage Flower Show designer and horticultu- PHS NEWS PAID rist Ed Lindemann has planned this three- The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society session course for those who garden on a 325 Walnut St. • Philadelphia, PA 19106 smaller scale. This course will include a Phone (215) 625-8250 practical approach to developing the small property. Useof space and areas for various activities as well as incorporating structures and accessories will be included. The second session will include a field trip to several small gardens for on-site analysis of their design approaches. The last session will include a short studio project. Limited to 1 2 members who garden on less than half an acre. Fee: $50 members only. 3 v\ORr Paul Joseph Stankard /c PHS Exhibit opening and reception Friday, April 6, 5:30-7:30 pm Stankard Exhibit: April 6-May 31 WS NEWS The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 1 811' Volume XXXI, No. 4 APRIL, 1990 MAKING FOR A Other Events Activities CLEANER, LECTU RE/DEMONSTRATION WORKSHOP: TOPIARIES AND A Northern New Jersey Unit of Herb TRAINED PLANTS GREENER Society of America Tuesday, April 3, 10 am-noon April 25 At Meadowbrook Farm, Meadowbrook ENVIRONMENT Freylingheuysen Arboretum For information call: (215) 348-4058 Horticulturist Charles W. Rogers, Jr., will conduct a two-hour workshop on topiaries and trained plants hardy for ANNUAL HERB AND PLANT SALE gardens in zones 6 and 7. The first part of Haddonfield Garden Club the program will feature Meadowbrook's With the approaching national obser- April 26 topiaries to show different forms and vation of Earth Week and the Society's Haddonfield Historical Society techniques for creating them. activities in Fairmount Park on Arbor For information call: (609) 428-2652 Each participant will start a small Day, PHS is approaching the '90's with a evergreen trained plant to be used as a full agenda of environmental awareness garden accent. Discussions include campaigns not the least of which begins RARE PLANT AUCTION cultural and training methods, pruning here at home. As of April 1 , PHS's head- Wilmington Garden Center techniques, shaping, and suitable quarters on Walnut Street, will be a April 27 containers. smoke-free building. If you're planning to Longwood Gardens Chuck Rogers is manager of attend a special meeting or membership For information call: (302) 658-191 Meadowbrook Farm and former curator activity, feel free to bring your pruners but of horticulture, Philadelphia Zoo. leave your cigarettes at the door. Fee: $35 members; $39 guests This issue of the PHS News may look PLANT SALE and feel the same as past issues because it Hill-Physick-Keith House might very well be the same, paper that is. April 27-29 321 South 4th Street Starting with the April issue, the News is MAKING SENSE OF AN OLD GARDEN printed on recycled paper. We've been For information call: (215) 925-7866 Friday, April 6, 10 am- i pm waiting for just the right stock to come An established garden, one you've available and now that it has, we're made yourself or one you've bought, can happy to add the News to our growing HOUSE AND GARDEN TOUR become overgrown and jumbled. number of PHS publications printed on WILMINGTON GARDEN DAY Horticulturist Jane Lennon will help you recycled stock. May 5 evaluate realistically what you have and St. Andrew's Episcopal Church then, step by step, help you deal with the Perpetuating green life in the City is For information call: (302) 764-7426 green tide around your house. foremost on PHS's mission list and this year's Arbor Day lends itself to this goal Discussion topics will include pruning with a full day of horticultural activities ANNUAL PLANT SALE and rejuvenating woody plants, dividing planned by PHS at the Horticulture Providence Garden Club and replanting herbaceous perennials, Center in Fairmount Park. Come join us May 5 replenishing soil, and general April 28, 10am-3 pm, for a special tree Tyler Arboretum maintenance. planting ceremony, sapling giveaways, For information call: (21 5) 565-3828 Fee: $29 members; $33 guests children's activities and other tree aware- Participants should bring a brown-bag ness and how-to-do-it workshops. You'll lunch; coffee and tea will be provided. come away with a renewed interest in the ANNUAL HERBSALE AND LUNCHEON Program limited to 20. environment, and you will learn how you Prallsville Mill, Stockton, NJ can play a vital role in the nation's tree May 19 planting campaign. For information call: (215) 997-1549 (continued on page two) 1 Activities April-May Flower Show, has a background in the for a hands-on program on spring garden- decorative arts. LECTURES, MEETINGS ing practices, procedures to help insure This class is not suitable for beginners. attractiveness, efficiency, and abundant (Open to all without charge) Participants should bring clippers and a bloom for the rest of the growing season. box to transport finished arrangement. Yvonne will discuss fertilizing, several CENTER CITY ORCHID SOCIETY Participants in the evening session may methods of staking, edging, revitalizing Monday, April 16, 7pm bring a brown-bag supper. Coffee and tea the plant border, division of hardy Howard Wood: Dendrobiums - Unusual will be provided for both sessions. Fee of perennials, and routine garden Species $39 for members and $43 for guests maintenance. Monday, May 21,7 pm includes container, flowers, and all other Participants will need clippers and Robert Griesbach: Trends in materials. appropriate shoes and clothing. Travel Phalaenopsis Breeding directions will be sent in early April. • • • LECTURE: GARDEN ON THE ROOF Fee: $12 members OF THE WORLD Activities (Continued) Thursday, April 12,5:45-7:15 pm English plant explorer and botanist PRUNING SMALL TREES AND SHRUBS GARDEN DESIGN Chris Chadwell will talk about Kashmir in DOWN-TO-EARTH Saturday, April 7, 10 am-noon the Himalayas, a "paradise on earth" Thursdays, April 19, 10 am-noon At Chanticleer in Wayne April 26, 10 am-2 pm because of its horticultural treasures and Horticulturist Peter Brindle will natural beauty. May 3, 10am-1 pm demonstrate basic pruning for trees, Flower Show designer and horticultu- Chadwell, who has traveled widely in shrubs, roses. and Discussions are aimed rist Ed Lindemann has planned this three- the Himalayas to collect seed, designs his at the homeowner who needs informa- session course for those who garden on a expeditions to introduce ordinary tion about proper tools and their uses, smaller scale. This course will include a gardeners to plants little known in cultiva- timing, and techniques. practical approach to developing the tion. He has led several expeditions and Travel directions will be mailed in late small property. Use of space and areas for tours and runs a small seed farm March. Program limited to 20. various activities as well as incorporating specializing in hardy Himalayan and Fee: $15 members; $17 guests structures and accessories will be Oriental species. included. The second session will include Program begins promptly at 5:45 pm, a field trip to several small gardens for WORKSHOP: GARDEN BASKET followed by wine and nibbles. on-site analysis of their design Monday, April 9, 10 am-2 pm Fee: $8 members; $10 guests approaches. The last session will include Experienced basket weaver Linda Note: The library will be open until a short studio project. Tenaglia will teach techniques for making 5:45 pm this evening. Limited to 1 2 members who garden on a garden basket with a solid bottom less than half an acre. modeled after a Shaker market basket. Fee: $50 members This basket, woven of natural splint reed AT-HOME SERIES: RARE PLANT with a notched oak handle, is roughly NURSERY, DOYLESTOWN 1 Tuesday, April 1 1 am-noon 8" x 1 " x 4" — practical for carrying 7, gardening tools and needlework. Marty Brooks will conduct a two-hour FIELD TRIP 62ND ANNUAL tour of his 20-acre Rare Plant Nursery Participants should bring a bucket, GEORGETOWN GARDEN straight-edged behind his home in Doylestown, Penn- ruler, scissors or clippers, TOUR, Washington, DC one dozen spring-type clothespins, and a sylvania. Marty has the best selection of Saturday, April 21, 7:15 am-7:45 pm brown-bag lunch. Coffee and tea will be dwarf conifers in the Delaware Valley, One of our favorite spring tours is the provided. with a particular fondness for weeping annual Georgetown Garden Tour to varieties. His arboretum contains at least Fee: $30 members; $33 guests benefit Children's House. This self- 85 cultivars of Chamaecyparis obtusa, for guided tour permits you to visit the a start, plus thousands more dwarf and gardens in any order at your own pace. WORKSHOP: NEW APPROACH TO unusual plants. For more information FLOWER ARRANGING (Intermediate) about his nursery, see Green Scene, Fourteen gardens will be open for the Wednesday, April 11,10 am-noon or lanuary-February 1990. tour, including the world-renowned 6-8 pm Dumbarton Oaks, Mrs. Peter Belin's Travel directionswill be mailed in early "Evermay," and the late Averell Now that you're comfortable with a April. Program limited to 20. traditional mass arrangement, you're Harriman's garden. Fee: $8 members ready to try a new approach to this style Fee include? round-trip transportation, by emphasizing balance and color. tour ticket, return-trip refreshments, and Within the confines and rules of tradi- AT-HOME SERIES: SPRING tea at Children's House after the tour. tional arranging, Audrey Nichols will GARDENING PRACTICES Lunch not included. show you how to create more excitement In Honey Brook, PA Details of bus pick-up at the by grouping colors within a mass arrange- Wednesday, April 18, 10 am-noon Horticulture Center in Fairmount Park ment for greater clarity and impact. Raindate: Friday, April 20, 10 am-noon and Center City will be mailed to Audrey Nichols, experienced arranger Twenty-five PHS members are invited participants. and frequent exhibitor at the Philadelphia to visit Yvonne England Giunta's garden Fee: $39 members; $43 guests. 2 8 AT-HOME SERIES: GARDENS Reservations OF MORRIS BERD, MEDIA Tuesday, April 24, 10 am-noon Clip and mai reservations to: DeEtta and Morris Berd have created PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 enchanting gardens on their hilly farm near Media, effectively using Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form below to many speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. Confirmations for different types of sites for gardens. By events at PHS are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we will expect you. Field trip terracing and constructing dry stone confirmations with important trip informati on are mailed ten days prior to the event. There walls, Morris has created gardens for is limited space for all activities (except spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two ferns, wildflowers, primulas, and alpines, consecutive issues of the PHS News. plus outstanding collections of dwarf Refunds and cancellations: conifers and other rare trees and shrubs. If you wish to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative fee will be deducted from your refund as follows: The rock garden and native plants, many $2 fee for all events other than one-day field trips provided your request is received no of which have been grown from seed, are later than two days prior to the event. choice species from around the world. $5 fee for one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than four days prior to the event. Travel directions will be mailed in early April. Registration limited to 20. Fee: $12 members TOPIARIES/TRAINED PLANTS GARDEN VISITS: CHESTNUT Members $35 Guests $39 HILL Memher<;$? Ciipsfs MAKING SENSE OF OLD $5 GARDENS GARDENING IN THE WOODS AT-HOME SERIES: Members $29 Guests $33 9:30 am or 1 pm GARDENING IN THE WOODS Members $15 PRUNING SMALL TREES AND Newtown Square SHRUBS WORKSHOP: ARRANGING Wednesday, May 2, 9:30-1 1 :30 am Members $15 Guests $17 SPRING FLOWERS and 1 -3 pm Members $40 Guests $44 WORKSHOP: GARDEN BASKET Roxie Gevjan, PHS member and expert propagator, will tell how to plan and members $30 Guests $33 FIELD TRIP: BARNES ARBORETUM develop a controlled wildflower garden. WORKSHOP: NEW APPROACH Members $12 Guests $15 This will be an on-site study of soils, TO FLOWER ARRANGING exposures, and mini-climates with WORKSHOP: CHEROKEE COMB 10 am nrfipm suggestions on how to create these BASKET Members $39 Guests $43 special conditions to meet plant require- Members $28 Guests $32 ments. We will see various degrees of LECTURE: GARDEN ON THE FIELD TRIP: BROOKLYN ROOF OF THE WORLD light and shade and consider the BOTANIC GARDEN advantages and disadvantages of different Members $8 Guests $10 Pickup: CC Hort. Center mulches ... all in half an acre of wood- RARE PLANT NURSERY Members $49 Guests $54 land garden. Members $8 NATURAL GARDENING IN Travel instructions will be mailed in late April. to 1 5 members. SPRING GARDENING THE SHADE Limited PRACTICES Members $14 Fee: $1 5 members Members $12 ARRANGING WORKSHOP: MAY DOWN-TO-EARTH GARDEN BASKET DESIGN Members $35 Guests $40 Members $50 FIELD TRIP: MT. CUBA CENTER ARRANGING WORKSHOP: SPRING FLOWERS FROM THE GARDEN OR FIELD TRIP: GEORGETOWN Members $10 Guests $12 ROADSIDE (INTERMEDIATE) GARDEN TOUR PERENNIALS FOR SPRING Thursday, May 3, 10 am-noon Pirk-up HC rr Members $15 Guests $17 Audrey Nichols, expert arranger and Members $39 Guests $43 LONGVIEW FARM frequent Philadelphia Flower Show AT HOME SERIES: MORRIS BERD Members $ 1 5 Guests $ 1 exhibitor, will teach how to create Members $12 WORKSHOP: PROPAGATING arrangements usingflowers and branches GARDEN VISITS: SOCIETY HILL TREES AND SHRUBS Members $2 Guests $5 Members $20 Guests $25 PHS News (USPS 763-640) is published monthly except July by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut Street, NAMF Philadelphia, Pa. 19106 Subscription — $9.75 per year —Single copies 80c. Second ADDRFSS class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. and additional mailing office. Postmaster: send address changes to PHS News, 325 Walnut 7IP TFIFPHONF: home Street, Phila, Pa. 19106. Chair: Donald L. Felley work President: JaneC. Pepper Editor: Lisa Stephano Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth G. Cullan from the garden or roadside. Discussions BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN PERENNIALS FOR SPRING will focus on conditioning, selection, and Tuesday, May 8, 7:45 am-7:15 pm Saturday, May 19, lOam-noon creative combinations for unstudied, Join us fora day at the Brooklyn Botanic Senior horticulturist Christopher natural arrangements. Garden, a 50-acre oasis devoted to the Woods will conduct a two-hour program This workshop, suitable for collection, study, and interpretation of on spring-flowering perennials. Using the intermediate-level arrangers, emphasizes plants for enjoyment and education. gardens at Chanticleer as the backdrop, techniques and selection rather than Guides will lead us through the new Woods will discuss appropriate varieties, arranging principles. Steinhardt Conservatory and give us a individual culture, propagation, timing, Participants should bring clippers and general orientation of the BBG. interplanting perennials with bulbs, trees, a box to transport finished arrangement; After a box lunch from the Terrace and shrubs, designing with perennials, other materials including containers will Cafe, we'll have time to wander through and effectively combining them with be provided. the gardens on our own to view collec- other elements in the garden. Fee: $40 members; $44 guests tions of special interest. Program limited to 20. Travel Details of bus pickup in Center City and directions will be mailed in early May. at the Horticulture Center in Fairmount Fee: $15 members; $1 7 guests Park will be mailed in late April. Fee includes round-trip transportation, BARNES ARBORETUM entrance and guide fees, box lunch, and MT. CUBA CENTER Friday, May 4, 10 am-1 pm refreshments on the bus. Friday, May 1 8, 1 -3 pm PHS trips to the Barnes Arboretum are Fee: $49 members; $54 guests Thirty PHS members and guests will always among the most popular each tour Mt. Cuba Center, in Greenville, year. Barnes Arboretum, situated on 1 2 Delaware, on the private estate and home acres in merion, PA, has a notable col lec- of Mrs. LammotduPontCopeland. tion of the best woody ornamentals for Knowledgeable guides will lead us this zone. AT-HOME SERIES: NATURAL through the wildflower garden areas and Elizabeth Farley, assistant director of GARDENING IN THE SHADE naturalistic plantings as pictured in The the Barnes Arboretum, will lead 25 PHS West Chester American Women's Garden. Over 100 members and guests through the Wednesday, May 9 kinds of wildflowers bloom in the spring Arboretum, where the seasonal attrac- Toni and Ted Brinton reclaimed a along with native rhododendrons, moun- tions include spring flowers, trees and portion of deciduous woods for their tain laurel, and fothergillas. shrubs. house and garden, situated on a plateau Participants must provide own trans- Participants should bring a sandwich; in a south-facing ravine. Tucked in out of portation. Travel directions will be dessert and coffee will be provided. After reach of the wind and surrounded by mailed in early May. lunch, walk around to the entrance of the woods of oak, hickory, and beech, the Fee: $10 members; $12 guests Barnes Foundation's gallery and tour the Brinton gardens encourage but are not collection at leisure. limited to native plants. Visitors will see Travel instructions will be mailed to choice ericaceous plants plus spring participants in late April. bulbs, hostas, and lots of ground covers. FIELD TRIP: LONGVIEW FARM Fee: $12 members; $15 guests Program limited to 1 5. Travel Wednesday, May 23, 10 am-noon directions will be sent in late April. Twenty-five members and guests will Fee: $14 members visit Longview Farm, (oanna Reed's home and garden in Chester County. )oanna WORKSHOP: CHEROKEE WALL will lead us through her woodlands and OR COMB BASKET celebrated country gardens, bursting with perennials herbs. Moonday, May 7, 10 am-3 pm and Basketry instructor Linda Tenaglia will ARRANGING WORKSHOP: MAY Fee of $15 for members and $18 for teach techniques for weaving the BASKET (BEGINNER) guests includes entrance fees to house Cherokee comb/wall basket, a func- Friday, May 11, 10am-noon and gardens. Participants must provide tional, unique basket shape of the PHS staffers Peggy Grady and Flossie own transportation. Travel directions will Cherokee Indians, using traditional colors Narducci will teach novice arrangers to be mailed in early May. of alternating dark brown and natural create a May basket brimming with spring spokes and weavers. Participants may flowers while learning the basics of design their baskets using colors of their design principles, flower conditioning, choice. and selection. Ideas for arranging basket PROPAGATION WORKSHOP: gardens using plants and flowers from The basket of dyed and natural reed is DECIDUOUS ORNAMENTAL TREES home will also be discussed. 8" high, 7" wide, with a 3" deep pocket in AND SHRUBS front, perfect for combs, letters, or dried Horticulturist Peggy Grady is PHS Alan P. Slack, experienced propagator Flossie Narducci is flower arrangements. Suitable for begin- assistant librarian and and PHS Council member, devotes this ners or intermediate weavers. activities coordinator for Philadelphia popular session to propagating ornamen- Green. Participants should bring a bucket, tal shrubs, which add so much interest straight-edged ruler, scissors or clippers, Participants should bring clippers and and variety to our landscape. one dozen spring-type clothespins, and a box to transport finished arrangement. All brown-bag lunch. other materials will be supplied. Fee: $28 members; $32 guests Fee: $35 members; $40 guests (continued on page six) 4 Qj^rierufo 01 the QS^xa/ea- (^favaeti tteaueat fine h/ecum^e o* you*- co*mAaiiy< of Q£p Q7a& dffluiv&ctay, Q^tay, 47, 4990 5:00 t<> 7:30 /v. in. VCMI OK 6fwne at me W/e at Qjfawwnownt &&w coc/ctouti a#id fuyrt d'oeuweA mivmmwri natl andga/yden<,haa In 1952 the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society donated the Azalea Garden to the City of Philadelphia. The Society undertook a major restoration project in 1988 and initiated a Friends group to assist with the maintenance and plantings for this four acre site. Funds generated through this Garden Party will support these efforts. Contributions to the Azalea Garden Maintenance Fund are always welcome. "1 QQ&cadeo- (^/a&den, c7 awty cKe6e&wa/ianA< Name No. of reservations. Address. Amount enclosed $_ Patrons $75 per person Benefactors $1 25 per person Confirmations will be mailed. Telephone Please return this Reservation Form and your check made payable to The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society to: Azalea Garden, PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-2777 L _J — Activities (Continued) GARDEN VISITS: SOCIETY HILL New in the Library Participants will propagate some of Thursday, April 26, 4:30-7 pm those difficult-to-root Small private gardens in historic deciduous woody Bulbs (2 vol. set), John E. Bryan, 1 989. Society Hill are noted forespaliered trees, shrubs —deciduous azaleas, witch Campanulas, Peter Lewis, 1989. hazels, Japanese maples, to a few garden ornaments, and pristine ever- name Creative propagation, Peter and greens which thrive in these sheltered increase favorite hard-to-find and Thompson, 1989. unusual shrubs. Participants should bring spaces. Several large gardens, including From folly to follies, Michel Saudan, branches of deciduous shrubs, containing the PHS garden, will be open. Refresh- 1988. growth from last year and this year. ments will be served at PHS from 6-7 pm. Gardens of America, Diane Kostial Branches of unusual and rare plants will McGuire, 1989. also be provided. Gardens of Portugal, Patrick Bowe, All equipment and materials are GARDEN VISITS: CHESTNUT HILL 1989. included in the fee of $20 for members AREA ~J The gardens of Venice, Mary Jane and $25 for guests. Limited to 25. Sunday, May 1-5 13, pm Pool, 1989. This tour on Mother's Day will include The landscape of civilisation, Geoffrey eight properties from Chestnut Hill to Jellicoe, 1989. adjacent Northwoods and West Mount Members may borrow books by mail. If Airy featuring several woodland gardens, you would like one or more of the above a cottage-style garden, and a walled books sent to check off title, fill garden. We'll see well-tended small you, the out the form below and mail to: Library, gardens of recent origin and larger ones GARDEN VISITS PHS, 325 Walnut St., Phila., PA 19106. with long-established plantings. Spri ng garden visits are among the most Or, phone your request to (215) 625-8256. popular PHS activities because members When returning book(s) please enclose can visit interesting and unusual gardens $1.75 per book in the envelope provided. of fellow members. Gardens will be open Our new books are popular. If you don't to members on Thursday, April 26, in LANDSCAPE DESIGN receive your choice within 2 weeks, Society Hill, 4:30-7 pm; Sunday, May 13, CONSULTANT LIST AVAILABLE you'll know you are on a wait list. 1-5 pm in Chestnut Hill; and Sunday, A revised landscape design con- NAME June 10, 1-5 pm, on the Main Line. sultant list is now available in the After we receive your reservations by PHS Library. To receive a copy, ADDRESS. mail, we will send tags, maps, garden please call Janet Evans at (215) descriptions, and travel instructions. 625-8261. Look for details and reservation forms DAYTIME TELEPHONE for June garden visits in future issues of the PHS News. Second Class PHS NEWS Postage PAID The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 325 Walnut St.* Philadelphia, PA 19106 Phone (215) 625-8250 © M Visit PHS Exhibit: Class Botanical Art by c Paul Joseph Stankard 3S!£ * Through May 31, 1990 PHS NEWS The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Volume XXXI, No. 5 MAY, 1 990 ' i I l l l il f^nHBHOKI lllill W I IMHi—II— Wn l'l \i BAYARD TAYLOR LIBRARY, A FLASH OF FRANKLIN COMES TO Other Events KEN NET SQ., PA PHILADELPHIA LIBRARY BENEFIT GARDEN TOUR PHS joins with the City of ANNUAL PLANT SALE June 16 Philadelphia in a yearlong celebration of Providence Garden Club Tour four outstanding estate gardens in the achievements of Benjamin Franklin at May 5 the Kennet Square area this year's Junior Flower Show. "A Flash Tyler Arboretum For information call the Library: of Franklin" will focus on the rare genius For information call: (215)565-3828 (215)444-2702 and horticultural contributions of ANNUAL HERB SALE Franklin in special categories that Philadelphia Unit, Herb Society of include: Kites & Keys - a handmade kite America that includes natural materials; Franklin's Thursday, May 1 0, 1 am-2 pm Printing Press - a block print design using Signs posted from Kimberton to Sale. cut vegetables that depicts some aspect of WINNERS ANNOUNCED FOR 1990 life; STYER AWARD OF GARDEN MERIT Franklin's Colonial Critters made ANNUAL GARDEN BAZAAR from dried plant material and a Table AWARD Pennsylvania Hospital Arrangement for the Delegates to the Chair of the Styer Award Committee, May 10, 10am-3 pm Continental Congress. Judy Zuk, is pleased to announce the For information call: (215) 732-8684 Children from throughout the newest winners of PHS's Styer Award Delaware Valley are invited to enter the of Garden Merit. The six award winners ANNUAL HERB SALE AND LUNCHEON Show bv calling PHS for an exhibitor's for 1990 are little known or underused Prallsville Mill, Stockton, NJ schedule at (2 1 5) 625-8280. Entries will woody ornamentals that exhibit May 19 be accepted on May 1 5 from 1 1 am-5 pm. exceptional garden merit. For information call: (215) 997-1 549 The lunior Flower Show will be held Detailed information on these plants can be found in your lanuary/February 1 990 Thursday, May 1 7, 9 am-5 pm; ANNUAL HERB SALE issue of the Green Scene. Sources for both Fridav, May 1 8, 9 am-5 pm and Saturday, TAMANEND PARK HERB GARDENING retail and wholesale are available upon May 1 9, 1 am-2 pm at the First Bank of CLUB the United States, Third Street between request. To receive a source list, send a May 19-20 Chestnut and Walnut Streets, stamped self-addressed envelope to PHS, Philadelphia. No admission charge. Farmhouse Second Street Pike, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Southampton The 1 990 Award Winners are: Betula For information call: (215) 576-1436 or nigra 'Heritage', Cornus sericea 'Silver (215)335-3533 and Gold', Daphne caucasica, Fothergilla gardenii 'Blue Mist', SPRING FETE 1990 VOLUNTEERS WANTED Hydrangea macrophylla 'Blue Billow', THE FRIENDS OF LOUIS I. KAHN PARK JUDGES FOR THE CITY GARDENS Stewartia pseudocamellia var. koreana. AND ESTER I. KAHN CONTEST In addition, new entries are reviewed May 20 We're looking fora few good gardeners each year and several are chosen for Pennsylvania Hospital, Garden Entrance to judge in the 1 990 City Gardens Preliminary Commendation. Those cho- 8th & Pine Streets Contest. No experience necessary. We're sen are evaluated and considered for an Admission at the door, 5-8 pm happy to provide training. Duties include award in the future. The following plants visiting six to eight gardens on a day con- were chosen for preliminary commenda- SECRET GARDENS OF UNIVERSITY venient for you. Immediate openings for tion in 1990: Lonicera sempervirens CITY candidates available between )une 29th 'Cedar Lane', Magnolia grandiflora 'Edith Spruce Hill Garden Club Friends through )uly 20th. Love of horticulture, and Bogue', Cryptomeria japonica 'Yoshino', of Clark Park garden lore and travel —a plus. Benefits Hibiscus syriacus L. 'Diana', Abies June 3 include great scents, wonderful sights, nordmanniana, Viburnum dilatatum Clark Park, 43rd and Chestnut Streets and a wheelbarrow full of inspiration. To 'Erie' , Viburnum burkwoodii 'Mohawk', sign up, please call Flossie Narducci at or Spruce Hill Garden, 44th and Locust Viburn (215)625-8280. For information call: (215)222-4367 'Shasta 1 — Activities May-June spokes and weavers. Participants may PERENNIALS FOR SPRING LECTURES, MEETINGS design their baskets using colors of their Saturday, May 1 9, 1 am-noon choice. Senior horticulturist (Open to all without charge) Christopher The basket of dyed and natural reed is Woods will conduct a two-hour program 8" high, 7" wide, with a 3" deep pocket in onspring-floweringperennials. Using the AT-HOME SERIES: front, perfect for combs, letters, or dried gardens at Chanticleer as the backdrop, GARDENING IN THE WOODS flower arrangements. Suitable for begin- Woods will discuss appro^St? varieties, Newtown Square ners or intermediate weavers. individual culttfl^ pragajaSorr, timing, Wednesday, May 2, 9:30-1 1 :30 am Participants should bring a bucket, interptdWjr|^ttreVinialswith bulbs, trees, and 1-3 pm straight-edged ruler, scissors or clippers, and shrubs, designing with perennials, Roxie Gevjan, PHS member and expert one dozen spring-type clothespins, and a and effectively combining them with propagator, will tell how to plan and brown-bag lunch. other elements in the garden. develop a controlled wildflower garden. Fee: $28 members; $32 guests Program limited to 20. Travel This will be an on-site study of soils, directions will be mailed in early May. exposures, and mini-climates with Fee: $15 members; $17 guests suggestions on how to create these special conditions to meet plant require- ments. We will see various degrees of light and shade and consider the BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN advantages and disadvantages of different Tuesday, May 8, 7:45 am-7:15 pm mulches ... all in half an acre of wood- Join us for a day at the Brooklyn Botanic PROPAGATION WORKSHOP: land garden. Garden, a 50-acre oasis devoted to the DECIDUOUS ORNAMENTAL TREES SHRUBS Travel instructions will be mailed in collection, study, and interpretation of AND late April. Limited to 1 5 members. plants for enjoyment and education. Alan P. Slack, experienced propagator Fee: $15 members Guides will lead us through the new and PHS Council member, devotes this Steinhardt Conservatory and give us a popular session to propagating ornamen- general orientation of the BBG. tal shrubs, which add so much interest After a box lunch from the Terrace and variety to our landscape. ARRANGING WORKSHOP: SPRING Cafe, we'll have time to wander through Participants will propagate some of FLOWERS FROM THE GARDEN OR the gardens on our own to view collec- those difficult-to-root deciduous woody ROADSIDE (INTERMEDIATE) tions of special interest. shrubs —deciduous azaleas, witch Thursday, May 3, 10 am-noon Details of bus pickup in Center City and hazels, Japanese maples, to name a few Audrey Nichols, expert arranger and at the Horticulture Center in Fairmount and increase favorite hard-to-find and frequent Philadelphia Flower Show Park will be mailed in late April. unusual shrubs. Participants should bring exhibitor, will teach how to create Fee includes round-trip transportation, branches of deciduous shrubs, containing arrangements using flowers and branches entrance and guide fees, box lunch, and growth from last year and this year. from the garden or roadside. Discussions refreshments on the bus. Branches of unusual and rare plants will will focus on conditioning, selection, and Fee: $49 members; $54 guests also be provided. creative combinations for unstudied, All equipment and materials are natural arrangements. included in the tee ot $20 tor members This workshop, suitable for and $25 for guests. Limited to 25. intermediate-level arrangers, emphasizes techniques and selection rather than ARRANGING WORKSHOP: MAY arranging principles. BASKET (BEGINNER) Participants should bring clippers and Friday, May 11,10 am-noon a box to transport finished arrangement; PHS staffers Peggy Grady and Flossie other materials including containers will Narducci will teach novice arrangers to FIELD SEMINAR: HORTICULTURAL be provided. create a May basket brimmi ng with spri ng PHOTOGRAPHY flowers while learning the basics of (Intermediate Level) Fee: $40 members; $44 guests design principles, flower conditioning, Wednesday, June 6, 2:30-5 pm and selection. Ideas for arranging basket At Longview Farm, Malvern gardens using plants and flowers from Raindate: Monday, June 11, 2:30-5 pm WORKSHOP: CHEROKEE WALL home will also be discussed. Professional photographer Walter OR COMB BASKET Horticulturist Peggy Grady is PHS Chandoha, widely known for his remark- librarian Flossie is Monday, May 7, 10am-3 pm assistant and Narducci able photos in Green Scene and other activities coordinator for Philadelphia Basketry instructor Linda Tenaglia will national publications, will take fifteen Green. teach techniques for weaving the members in hand for a practical seminar Cherokee comb/wall basket, a func- Participants should bring clippers and on horticultural photography at Joanna tional, unique basket shape of the box to transport finished arrangement. All Reeds's Longview Farm. Cherokee Indians, using traditional colors other materials will be supplied. Walt, who maintains that successful of alternating dark brown and natural Fee: $35 members; $40 guests photographs are first created in the mind J and transferred via eye and the camera Reservations viewfinder onto film, will concentrate on the two most important aspects of picture Clip and mail reservations to: making, light and composition. Discus- PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 sions will include the mechanics of garden photography, how to make close- Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form below to speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. Confirmations for u ps, tri pods and other ways to su pport the events at PHS are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we will expect you. Field trip camera, reflectors versus flash fill, choice confirmations with important trip information are mailed ten days prior to the event. There of film and exposure, bracketing and why is limited space for all activities (except spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two it's done, how to control sun, and use of consecutive issues of the PHS News. various lenses. Refunds and cancellations: If you wish to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative fee will be deducted Participants should have a working from your refund as follows: knowledge of their own cameras. The $2 fee for all events other than one-day field trips provided your request is received no focus of this program is on creative photo- later than two days prior to the event. graphy, not basic camera functions. $5 fee for one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than four days prior to the event. Fee of $32 includes instruction, entrance fee, and refreshments. For mem- bers only. Participants must provide own transportation. Travel directions will be mailed in late May. GARDENING IN THE WOODS GARDEN VISITS: CHESTNUT 9:30 am or 1 pm HILL Members $15 Members $2 Guests $5 FLOWER ARRANGING WORKSHOP: WORKSHOP: ARRANGING GARDEN VISITS: MAIN LINE DESIGNING FOR CHURCHES SPRING FLOWERS Members $2 Guests $5 Friday, June 8, 10 am-1 pm Members $40 Guests $44 EARLY EVENING GARDEN TOUR Experienced arranger Priscilla Gene AT MEADOWBROOK FARM WORKSHOP: CHEROKEE COMB Shaffer will explore the special Members $15 Guests $20 BASKET challenges of designing for churches or Members $28 Guests $32 DAY IN UNIONVILLE synagogues because of the vastness of FIELD TRIP: BROOKLYN Pick-up: CC Hort. Center most sanctuaries. Through a slide presen- BOTANIC GARDEN Longwood tation and demonstration, students will Pickup: CC Hort. Center Members $33 Guests $36 learn how to alter design principles used Members $49 Guests $54 DUMBARTON OAKS AND for the usual living spaces where floral TUDOR PLACE designs are viewed at close range and will ARRANGING WORKSHOP: MAY see examples of floral compositions for Pick-up: CC Hort. Center BASKET sacred spaces in European and American Members $40 Guests $45 Members $35 Guests $40 cities. GARDENS OF NORTHERN Discussions will include creating PEREN Nl MS, FOR SPRING NEW JERSEY \U> visual impact through use of a one-flower Mei rsSl wests $17_ Pick-up: CC Hort. Center type versus a collection of flower types Members $43 Guests $47 WORKSHOP: PROPAGATING and colors, step-by-step construction and TREES AND SHRUBS EXTENDING PERENNIALS INTO mechanics, flower selection, and pricing Members $20 Guests $25 FALL church contracts for the beginning FIELD SEMINAR: Members $ 1 6 Guests $ 1 8 professional. HORTICULTURAL WAVE HILL AND Participants will complete one design PHOTOGRAPHY CONSERVATORY GARDENS and should bring clippers and a box to transport finished arrangement. Con- Members $32 Pick-up: CC Hort. Center tainer, oasis, and all flowers will be WORKSHOP: DESIGNING FOR Members $45 Guests $49 supplied. CHURCHES PERENNIALS FOR SUMMER Members $37 Guests $40 Members $15 Guests $1 7 PHS News (USPS 763-640) is published monthly except July by (he Pennsylvania Walnut Street, Horticultural Society, 325 — NAME Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. Subscription $9.75 per year —Single copies 80tf. Second ADDRESS class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. and additional mailing office. Postmaster: send address changes to PHS News, 325 Walnut ZIP .TELEPHONE: home Street, Phila., Pa. 19106. Chair: Donald L. Felley work_ President: )aneC. Pepper Editor: Lisa Stephano Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth G. Gullan Priscilla Shaffer, a frequent exhibitor at DUMBARTON OAKS AND EXTENDING PERENNIALS INTO FALL the Philadelphia Flower Show, teaches TUDOR PLACE, WASHINGTON, D.C. Malvern, PA flower arranging and flower shop Thursday, June 14, 7 am-7:30 pm Saturday, June 1 6, 1 am-noon management at Temple University, Our first stop will be the famous We'll spend two hours poking around Ambler Campus, and has her own floral gardens of Dumbarton Oaks, designed by in the perennial garden of the People's design business. the noted landscape gardener Beatrix Light and Theater Company in Malvern Fee: $37 members; $40 guests Farrand. The formal 1 0-acre gardens with Jane Lennon, perennial specialist feature a series of garden rooms with who runs her own perennial nursery in plants chosen for beauty and year-round Morgantown. interest. Our special guided tour will The focus of this program is extending include perennial borders, roses, perennial bloom throughout the summer peonies, fountains, pools, wrought iron through sound maintenance. Jane will and garden sculpture, specimen trees and share tips on how to ensure bloom into 6TH ANNUAL EARLY EVENING shrubs. fall by dead-heading, cutting back, GARDEN TOUR: After lunch on ourown in Georgetown, staking, and supplementing existing Meadowbrook Farm we'll tour the house and gardens at Tudor plants. Tuesday, June 1 2, 5-7 pm Place, an 1 805 estate with a southern Travel directionswill be mailed in early Distinguished horticulturist ). Liddon urban garden. The owners were the last June. Pennock, will host members of the descendants of Martha Washington's 1 Jr., Fee : $ 1 6 members ; $ 8 guests Society for a leisurely early evening visit family, and their house reflects the to Meadowbrook Farm near Jenkintown. personal interests of several generations. PHS members will tour the house and The house divides the garden with a gardens, famous for its garden rooms, sweeping lawn punctuated by shrubs and topiaries, terraces, statuary, espaliers, and trees to the south and formal Federalist gazebos. The commercial greenhouse gardens to the north. and nursery will be open, as well as the Fee includes round-trip transportation, WAVE HILL AND CENTRAL PARK'S display gardens of herbs, perennials, and refreshments on the bus, all entrance and CONSERVATORY GARDEN, New York ornamental grasses. guide fees. Lunch is not included. Tuesday, June 19, 7:15 am-7:15 pm We are grateful to the Members Information about bus pick-ups in Our first stop will be Wave Hill in the Committee who have helped organize Center City and Horticulture Center in Bronx neighborhood of Riverdale, a this event under the leadership of chair, Fairmount Park will be mailed in late public garden estate that is landscaped to D. J. Brosius. Wine and nibbles will be May. Limited to 40. perfection. In addition to the Wild served. Music will be provided by harpist Fee: $40 members; $45 guests Garden, greenhouses, herb gardens, Janet Biely. herbaceous borders, and a water lily dis- Travel instructions will be mailed to play, Wave Hill presents many temporary registrants in early June. horticultural exhibits on its 28 land- Fee: $15 members; $20 guests scaped acres overlooking the Hudson River. The manor houses contain galleries with changing exhibits relating to horticulture, garden design, or local history. FIELD TRIP: GARDENS IN After our guided tour and lunch at NORTHERN NEW JERSEY Wave Hill, we'll travel to the Conserva- PRIVATE GARDENS IN UNIONVILLE Friday, June 15,8 am-6 pm tory Garden in Central Park for a guided Wednesday, June 13, 8:00 am-5 pm Horticulturist Peggy Bowditch and tour of the three areas of this six-acre PHS members and guests will travel by Betsy Gullan, Membership/Activities oasis. This is Central Park's only formal bus to Unionville to visit Sir John Coordinator, will lead PHS members and garden, with a varied and wide collection Thouron's Doe Run. These large estate guests to northern New Jersey for a full of blooming plants —thousands of flower- gardens range from elegant double day of garden visits near Far Hills. ing trees and shrubs, annuals, and peren- herbaceous borders to island beds, After a guided tour of the Leonard |. nials from rare old roses to common an alpine garden, and a meadow garden. Buck Garden, we'll see five private wildflowers. There is even an idea flower garden for gardens, including one with fences, Fee: $45 for members and $49 for people who garden in limited space. finials, and roses; another with large guests includes round-trip transportation, After lunch we will visit two more fine terraces and attractive plantings, and entrance and guide fees, lunch, and private gardens nearby. Fee includes others with perennial borders, and orna- return-trip refreshments. Details of bus round-trip bus transportation, guide fee, mental vegetable gardens. Distant views pick-up in Center City and Horticulture and lunch. and well-chosen ornaments add special Center in Fairmount Park will be mailed Horticulturist Peggy Bowditch and appeal. in early June. Betsy Gullan, Membership Activities Fee of $43 members, $47 guests Coordinator, will lead the group, limited includes round-trip bus transportaton, to 40 participants. Details of bus pick-up refreshments on the bus, lunch, entrance in Center City, Horticulture Center in and guide fees. Fairmount Park, and Longwood parking Details of bus pick-up in Center City lot will be mailed in early June. and Horticulture Center in Fairmount Fee: $33 members; $36 guests Park will be mailed in May. (continued on page six) ($7he cy ewnfruvuatfua Q/to^ictiUu^a/ (3/oclet^u i QWrtenctA of the (£$xci/ea (Jfavdevt iteaue&t the h/ea&ivye of youfe coinhawu at Q£t- (^ycwaeM zy cwty avid ^edicattovi dF/uvKctay, orfLy 47, 4930 5:00 to 7:30 /t.m. ram ov Atowie at the Qsvetlu [iJoctve at (^aiwnount &&ve'nue coc/ctaaa ana Aon a'oeuwei mamvm&M nafo and aaiden havtu attire c7i< Q7 I' In 1952 the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society donated the Azalea Garden to the City of Philadelphia. The Society undertook a major restoration project in 1 988 and initiated a Friends group to assist with the maintenance and plantings for this four acre site. Funds generated through this Garden Party will support these efforts. Contributions to the Azalea Garden Maintenance Fund are always welcome. r 1 Q^f^a/ea- (3ycw Name No. of reservations. Address. Amount enclosed $_ Patrons $75 per person Benefactors $125 per person Telephone. Confirmations will be mailed. I /We cannot attend but wish to make the following contribution to assist with spring plantings for the Azalea Garden $. Please return this Reservation Form and your check made payable to The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society L to: Azalea Garden, PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-2777 Our new books are popular. If you don't to members on Sunday, May 13, 1-5 pm New in the Library receive your choice within 2 weeks, in Chestnut Hill; and Sunday, June 10, you'll know you are on a wait list. 1 -5 pm, on the Main Line. After we receive your reservations by Auriculas, their care and cultivation, NAME mail, we will send tags, maps, garden Brenda Hyatt, 1989. ADDRESS. descriptions, and travel instructions. The Classic garden, Graham Rose, 1989. The Complete book of the water GARDEN VISITS: CHESTNUT HILL DAYTIME TELEPHONE garden, Philip Swindells and David AREA Mason, 1990. Sunday, May 13, 1-5 pm Daylily encyclopedia, Steve Webber, • • • This tour on Mother's Day will include ed., 1988. eight properties from Chestnut Hill to Dried fresh flowers, Elizabeth adjacent Northwoods and West Mount Activities (Continued) Bullivant, 1989. Airy featuring several woodland gardens, The garden planner, Robin Williams, PERENNIALS FOR SUMMER a cottage-style garden, and a walled garden. We'll see well-tended small 1990. At Chanticleer in Wayne gardens of recent origin and larger ones 7J Crowing fragrant plants, Rayford Saturday, )une 23,10 am-noon with long-established plantings. Clayton Reddell, 1989. Summer perennials should not be Fee: Hemerocallis, the daylily, R. W. restricted to just a few flowers when so $2 members; $5 guests Munson, 1989. manv interesting foliage and flowering In search of lost roses, Thomas plants are available to enhance your Christopher, 1989. summer garden. Senior Horticulturist GARDEN VISITS: MAIN LINE Sunday, 1-5 The National trust book of wild flower Christopher Woods will give lots of ideas June 10, pm gardening, John Stevens, 1 988. for the summer garden as he leads a group PHS members and guests are invited to visit the Line Pictorial library of landscape plants, through the Chanticleer estate to point seven gardens on Main from out the wide range of perennials, pleasing Gladwyne to Berwyn. Visitors will see zones 6- 10, Ruth Fortune Woods, 1 986. (on reference) color combinations, special cultural tips many perennial borders, several and requirements, and effective ways to vegetable gardens, an herb garden, roses, A plantsman's guide to combine them with other elements in the garden ornaments, topiaries, and annuals rhododendrons, Kenneth Cox, 1989. garden. used in formal and informal settings. Also The practical Garden of Eden, Program limited to 20. Travel of interest are older gardens being re- Fred Hagey, 1 990. directions will be mailed in early lune. shaped along more formal lines. Fee: $15 members; $17 guests Fee: $2 members; $5 guests Members may borrow books by mail. If you would like one or more of the above books sent to you, check off the title, fill out the form below and mail to: Library, GARDEN VISITS PHS, 325 Walnut St., Phila., PA 19106. Spring garden visits are among the most Or, phone your request to (215) 625-8256. popular PHS activities because members When returning book(s) please enclose can visit interesting and unusual gardens $1.75 per book in the envelope provided. of fellow members. Gardens will be open Second Class PHS NEWS Postage PAID The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 325 Walnut St.* Philadelphia, PA 19106 Phone (215) 625-8250 ^3 Recycled Paper 6 i Visit PHS Exhibit: Bartram and Ben - A Partnership in Plants June 1 1 - September 7 ^viuz^H £2 r PHS NEWS The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Q ") 1 Volume XXXI, No. 6 JUNE, 1990 to share, come give us a hand with SOWING SEEDS OF CHANGE ON ^ Children's Activities where our young 26TH STREET visitors create seed masks, scarecrows, Armed with shovels, trowels, trees and painted pumpkins and all manner of seeds, local politicians and corporate VOLUNTEER AT THE 1990 games and fun. Volunteers are needed on leaders teamed up in April with the HARVEST SHOW Friday. September 2 1 from 4-6 pm Society at a groundbreaking ceremony to (Members' Preview), Saturday, kick-off the first phase of the 26th Street Old friends and new are invited to join September 22 and Sunday, September 23 Gateway Improvement Project. the team that puts the Harvest Show on - from 1 am 4 pm The 26th Street Project is part of PHS's the road. You'll have bushels of fun work- Center City Green Program and calls for ing with the people at the heart of the If you'd like to join us as a 1 990 Harvest the revitalization of the corner area of show — our volunteers and exhibitors. Show volunteer, check the appropriate Penrose Avenue at the base of the Piatt We're looking for helping hands in the space on the reservation form and a Memorial Bridge and the one-mile stretch following areas: committee person will contact you. of land that is known as the 26th Street SET UP - Wednesday, September 19 and corridor leadingtothe Schuylkill Express- Thursday, September 20 from 9 am - way over the next three years. 12 pm and 1-4 pm. Staff and committee AN ELM WITH A FUTURE the City's members cut and paste, hammer and Bartlett Tree Expert Company, the Working with PennDOT and land- glue, burlap and paint to stage the Harvest group that has provided PHS with exten- Department of Streets, PHS will Show. sive support in the Azalea Garden restora- scape the highly visible Penrose Avenue corner this spring with funds generated by ENTRY AIDES - Thursday, September 20 tion project by pruning, cabling and fertilizing several trees recently the Philadelphia Flower Show. Addi- from 5-8 pm and Friday, September 2 1 tional support for this initial planting has from 7:40-10 am. Assist exhibitors with announced that they've decided to be- been enthusiastic with PennDOT provid- their entries, help prepare classes before come official guardians of the Garden's ing the site clearingand grading as part of judging and help us get ready for the mighty American Elm. Bartlett has effort upgrade the roadway. Members' Preview. "adopted" the Elm and has taken re- an overall to sponsibility for its care. It is PHS's hope that the corner planting CLERKS - Friday, September 2 1 from will provide the impetus for area business 10:30 am-3 pm. Record judges decisions Many thanks go to Bartlett for this very leaders to join in with financial commit- and place awards on entries. special commitment. ment for the remainder of the project. INFORMATION AIDES - Saturday, Organizations who have already pledged September 22 and Sunday, September 23' their support include, CONRAIL, The from 10am- 12:30pm, 12:30-3 pm, and Philadelphia Water Department, Steen 3-5 pm. Provide information to visitors Outdoor Advertising and Sun Company. about exhibits, demonstrations, activities; Greening up the Gateway will require the safety of exhibits. complete soil rejuvenation and plants Special Helpers for Youth Section that are pollution and drought tolerant. FERN EXHIBITORS ALERT We're looking for a few good grownups The landscape design by Andropogon In Hanging Container classes for to lend a hand this year in the Harvest Associates, Inc. also utilizes the existing specimen ferns, the container size has Show's Youth Section. Volunteers are meadows and urban woodlands that exist been changed to 8" or under (Classes needed on Wednesday, September 19 to throughout the area. 8" set up tables, burlapand arrange the stag- 237, 337, 437) and to over (Classes So, if you're travelling by this spring on 238,338,438.) ing. On Thursday, September 20 your your way into the City from the south, help is needed as we open at a special look for the Heyser Landscaping crews, new entry time during the afternoon, from the project's contractors, who will be 2-8 Editors' Note pm. Help is needed with everything sowing the seeds of change in the new from sure the simplified The entry, Viburnum plicatum f. making new, "Penrose Meadows". It's an exciting time tomentosum 'Shasta', was omitted entry f i I stagi tags are led out properly to ng for Philadelphia and for all those who the from copy under Styer Award of exhibits these ambitious young care about the City's central landscapes. growers and arrangers bring to show. Or, Garden Merit in May issue of PHS if you have some weekend time you'd like News. Activities June 1990 able photos in Green Scene and other 6TH ANNUAL EARLY EVENING national publications, will take fifteen GARDEN TOUR: LECTURES, MEETINGS members in hand for a practical seminar Meadowbrook Farm (Open to all without charge) on horticultural photography at Joanna Tuesday, June 1 2, 5-7 pm Reeds's Longview Farm. Liddon CENTER CITY ORCHID SOCIETY Distinguished horticulturist J. Walt, who maintains that successful Pennock, will host members of the Monday, June 18, 7 pm Jr., photographs are first created in the mind Society for a leisurely early evening visit Merritt Hutchinson: Orchids in Europe and transferred via eye and the camera to Meadowbrook Farm near Jenkintown. viewfinder onto film, will concentrate on PHS members will tour the house and • • • the two most important aspects of picture gardens, famous for its garden rooms, making, light and composition. Discus- topiaries, terraces, statuary, espaliers, and sions will include the mechanics of gazebos. The commercial greenhouse Membership Notes garden photograpby,fiow to make close- and nursery will be open, as well as the extend a welcome to We wish to warm ups, tripods arid other ways to support the display gardens of herbs, perennials, and all PHS members and to thank our new camera, reflectors versus flash fill, choice ornamental grasses. faithful continuing members for their of film and exposure, bracketing and why We are grateful to the Members ongoing interest, support, and help. it's done, how to control sun, and use of Committee who have helped organize all of you to visit us at We encourage various lenses. this event under the leadership of Chair the Society's headquarters in Society Hill, Participants should have a working D. J. Brosius. Wine and nibbles will be all the privileges of the PHS to enjoy knowledge of their own cameras. The served. Music will be provided by harpist Library, and to participate in the Society's focus of this program is on creative photo- Janet Biely. many activities throughout the year. graphy, not basic camera functions. Travel instructions will be mailed to For and longtime members who new Fee of $32 includes instruction, registrants in early June. will visit us for the first time, we' re includ- entrance fee, and refreshments. For mem- Fee: $15 members; $20 guests ing a clip and save list of parking lots in bers only. Participants must provide own the vicinity. transportation. Travel directions will be mailed in late May. DUMBARTON OAKS AND FLOWER ARRANGING WORKSHOP: TUDOR PLACE, WASHINGTON, D.C. Parking Information DESIGNING FOR CHURCHES Thursday, June 14, 7 am-7:30 pm Friday, 8, 10 am-1 pm On-street and metered parking is June Our first stop will be the famous permitted on many streets throughout Experienced arranger Priscilla Gene gardens of Dumbarton Oaks, designed by the area. For your safety, please observe Shaffer will explore the special the noted landscape gardener Beatrix parking signs and posted hours. challenges of designing for churches or Farrand. Our special guided tour will In addition, we recommend three synagogues because of the vastness of include perennial borders, roses, parking lots near PHS: most sanctuaries. Through a slide presen- peonies, fountains, pools, wrought iron — Municipal parking: on the left on tation and demonstration, students will and garden sculpture, specimen trees and Second Street between Chestnut and learn how to alter design principles used shrubs. Walnut Streets for the usual living spaces where floral After lunch on our own in Georgetown, — In the garage of the Sheraton Society designs are viewed at close range and will we' 1 1 tour the houseand gardens at Tudor of floral compositions for Hill. The entrance to the hotel is across see examples Place, an 1 805 estate with a southern from Bookbinders at Second and sacred spaces in European and American urban garden. Walnut Streets, but the garage (valet cities. Fee includes round-trip transportation, on will include creating parking) is around the corner Dock Discussions refreshments on the bus, all entrance and Street, continuation of Second Street. visual impact through use of a one-flower a guide fees. Lunch is not included. — Public parking available now in the tvpe versus a collection of flower types Information about bus pick-ups in Hotel (still under con- and colors, step-by-step construction and new Omni Center City and Horticulture Center in struction) at 4th and Chestnut. mechanics, flower selection, and pricing Fairmount Park will be mailed in late Entrance is on 4th Street, on the right, church contracts for the beginning May. Limited to 40. between Market and Chestnut. professional. Fee: $40 members: $45 guests Participants will complete one design and should bring clippers and a box to • • • transport finished arrangement. Con- tainer, oasis, and all flowers will be FIELD SEMINAR: HORTICULTURAL supplied. FIELD TRIP: GARDENS IN PHOTOGRAPHY Priscilla Shaffer, a frequent exhibitor at NORTHERN NEW JERSEY (Intermediate Level) the Philadelphia Flower Show, teaches Friday, June 15, 8 am-6 pm Bowditch and Wednesday, June 6, 2:30-5 pm flower arranging and flower shop Horticulturist Peggy At Longview Farm, Malvern management at Temple University, Betsy Gullan, Membership/Activities Raindate: Monday, June 11, 2:30-5 pm Ambler Campus, and has her own floral Coordinator, will lead PHS members and )ersey for a full Professional photographer Walter design business. guests to northern New visits near Far Hills. Chandoha, widely known for his remark- Fee: $37 members: $40 guests day of garden After a guided tour of the Leonard |. EXTENDING PERENNIALS INTO FALL WAVE HILL AND CENTRAL PARK'S Buck Garden, we'll see five private Malvern, PA CONSERVATORY GARDEN, New York gardens, including one with fences, Saturday, |une 16, 10 am-noon Tuesday, June 19, 7:15 am-7:15 pm large finials, and roses; another with We'll spend two hours poking around Our first stop will be Wave Hill in the terraces and attractive plantings, and in the perennial garden of the People's Bronx neighborhood of Riverdale, a with perennial borders and orna- others Light and Theater Company in Malvern public garden estate that is landscaped to mental vegetable gardens. with Jane Lennon, perennial specialist perfection. In addition to the Wild Fee of $43 members, $47 guests who runs her own perennial nursery in Garden, greenhouses, herb gardens, includes round-trip bus transportaton, Morgantown. herbaceous borders, and a water lily dis- refreshments on the bus, lunch, entrance The focus of this program is extending play, Wave Hill presents many temporary and guide fees. perennial bloom throughout the summer horticultural exhibits on its 28 land- Details of bus pick-up in Center City through sound maintenance. scaped acres overlooking the Hudson and Horticulture Center in Fairmount Travel directions will be mailed inearly River. Park will be mailed in May. June. After our guided tour and lunch at Fee: $16 members; $18 guests Wave Hill, we'll travel to the Conserva- tory Garden in Central Park for a guided tour of the three areas of this six-acre Reservations oasis. Fee: $45 for members and $49 for Clip and mail reservations to: guests includes round-trip transportation, PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 entrance and guide fees, lunch, and return-trip refreshments. Details of bus Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form below to speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. Confirmations for pick-up in Center City and Horticulture events at PHS are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we will expect you. Field trip Center in Fairmount Park will be mailed confirmations with important trip information are mailed ten days prior to the event. There in early June. is limited space for all activities (except spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two consecutive issues of the PHS News. Refunds and cancellations: If you wish to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative fee will be deducted from your refund as follows: GARDEN VISITS $2 fee for all events other than one-day field trips provided your request is received no Spring garden visits are among the most later than two days prior to the event. popular PHS activities because members $5 fee for one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than four days prior to the event. can visit interesting and unusual gardens of fellow members. Gardens will be open Sunday, June 10, 1-5 pm, on the Main FIELD SEMINAR: GARDENS OF NORTHERN Line. After we receive your reservations by HORTICULTURAL NEW JERSEY mail, we will send tags, maps, garden PHOTOGRAPHY Pick-up: CC Hort. Center descriptions, and travel instructions. Members $32 Members $43 Guests $47 WORKSHOP: DESIGNING FOR EXTENDING PERENNIALS INTO CHURCHES FALL Members $37 Guests $40 Members $16 Guests $18 GARDEN VISITS: MAIN LINE EARLY EVENING GARDEN TOUR Sunday, June 10, 1-5 pm WAVE HILL AND AT MEADOWBROOK FARM PHS members and guests are invited to CONSERVATORY GARDENS Members $15 Guests $20 visit seven gardenson the Main Line from Pick-up: CC Hort. Center Gladwyne to Berwyn. Visitors will see DUMBARTON OAKS AND Members $45 Guests $49 TUDOR PLACE many perennial borders, several vegetable gardens, an herb garden, roses, Pick-up: CC Hort. Center GARDEN VISITS: MAIN LINE garden ornaments, topiaries, and annuals Members $40 Guests $45 Members $2 Guests $5 used in formal and informal settings. Fee: $2 members; $5 guests I would like to volunteer for The 1 990 Harvest Show Setting-up Information Aide Children's Activities Entry Aide Clerk PHS News (USPS 763-640) is published monthly except luly by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. Subscription— NAME $9.75 per year—Single copies 80c. Second class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. and ADDRESS additional mailing office. Postmaster: send address changes to PHS News, 325 Walnut Street, Phila., Pa. 19106. ZIP .TELEPHONE: home Chair: Donald L. Felley President: laneC. Pepper work_ Editor: Lisa Stephano Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth G. Cullan . — temperatures in the 40s with Pepperpot and 50s, overcast skies to discourage potential ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION visitors from heading outdoors to garden, J. Franklin Styer Nurseries, cele- There's hardly a visitor to the play frisbee or golf. brating its 100-year anniversary, Philadelphia Flower Show who doesn't has graciously invited the Penn- have a very firm opinion as to the merits sylvania Horticultural Society to — or lack thereof — of any particular share in its celebration. Thursday, Flower Show. Regulars tend to take a June21, will be PHS Day with 10% proprietary interest, often comparing it in Jane G. Pepper of all sales to be donated to the detai I to previous Shows. "This is the best President Society. in 1 2 or 1 5 years and there was so much On the grounds of the nursery on more aisle space," noted several of our PLAN NOW FOR AUTUMN BOOKSALE U.S. Route 1, Concordville, is a sternest commentators as they left the Are you weeding your garden library? small museum containing memor- 1 990 Show. For several years we've Don't throw out your books — recycle abilia from the earl ier stages of thei r aimed to create a wooded effect; this century-old is them by dropping them off at the PHS business. The public year, even though designer Ed invited to visit the Library is sponsoring the museum Monday Lindemann incorporated the same square Library. The annual BOOKSALE to be held September through Saturday from 8 am - 6 pm footage of exhibit space as in previous 7th and 8th, concurrent with the Plant and Sundays, 11 am - 6 pm. Shows, the lack of large trees and other Dividend. For more information, please greenery in the aisles made the Show call Janet Evans at 625-8261 seem much more spacious. First-time visitors always give us new NOMINATIONS SOUGHT FOR PHS insights and this year we were delighted New in the Library to welcome 32 enthusiastic gardeners MAJOR AWARDS from England who came on a weekend The PHS Awards Committee is now Earth right, H. Patricia Hynes, 1990. tour arranged by the Da;7y Mail and seeking nominations for the 1 991 Distin- The genus Lewisia, Brian Mathew, Arena Travel, London. Their time in guished Achievement Medal and the 1989. Philadelphia was brief, arriving on Friday Certificate of Merit. Crowing Gladioli, Eric W. Anderton, and leaving on Monday evening, but in The Distinguished Achievement Medal 1989. addition to extended visits to the Flower is awarded to an invididual from the Mid- A kid's first book of gardening, Derek Show they managed to visit Philadel- Atlantic states who has made outstanding Fell, 1989. phia's historic sites, as well as Longwood contributions to the field of horticulture in Gardens. P.E. Moyce, aged 80, who came an area of particular interest to the Penn- Landscaping with container plants, with her daughter, wrote to say how sylvania Horticultural Society. James W.Wilson, 1990. much she enjoyed her visit and that she's The Certificate of Merit is awarded to Maidenhair ferns in cultivation, "making plans for another trip before an individual, organization, institution or Christopher J. Goudey, 1985. long." business corporation for outstanding con- The National Arboretum book of out- Some 220,000 visitors attended Flower tributions to horticulture. standing garden plants, Jacqueline Show '90, a great improvement over '89, Please submit a portfolio with one Heriteau, 1990. when two days of snow and sleet brought nominating letter and two letters of Ornamental English gardens, Roddy us below 205,000 for the first time in endorsement to Martha Barron, chair, Llewellyn, 1990. several years. The balmy temperatures of Awards Committee, c/o PHS, by Private gardens of Paris, Madison Cox, winter '90 and especially several 80°F. September 15. 1989. days during Flower Show week were a bonus for homeowners and Show visitors, but these unusual temperatures were hard on exhibitors. Bulbs created Second Class the biggest problems. Competitive class PHS NEWS Postage exhibitors were simply not able to hold PAID back some of the earl iest varieties they The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society had hoped to display, while the less than 325 Walnut St.* Philadelphia, PA 19106 perfect quality of the daffodils and Phone (215) 625-8250 hyacinths the Society orders each year for general decoration meant they didn't hold up as well as in previous years. I've put in my weather order already for 1 991 0\ f J^ Recycled Paper . 1 Visit PHS Exhibit: Bartram and Ben - A Partnership in Plants Through September 7 PHS NEWS The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society '18 1V Volume XXXI, No. 7 AUGUST, 1990 ^ Pepperpot crrzaLza (fyaxdzn c^Tunancusk Some years our color scheme for the The PHS News will carry a new column plantings in the 1 8th century garden is from time to time highlighting activities MEMBERS' HARVEST SHOW PREVIEW restrained, with blues, soft pinks and 4-7 of the Friends of the Azalea Garden. Friday, September 21, pm whites. This year it's hot and vibrant, Members are encouraged to join Friends Plan to attend the 1 990 Harvest Show with reds and bright pinks and is a real for Garden activities. Members' Preview immediately follow- eye-catcher for Philadelphia's summer ing the judging of exhibits. Cider, wine, tourists. If you thought impatiens was a and light snacks will be served. plant that can't take hot sun, come see Members may bring guests to the how well it's doing on Walnut Street, Preview for a charge of $5 each, payable along with geraniums, blue salvias and at the entrance. Members' tickets to the edgings of 'Spicy Globe' basil and Show will be mailed in late August. parsley. Selecting an edging for a formal bed is tough because there's few plants that will either stay very low or take the HARVEST SHOW HELPERS NEEDED MEET ME IN THE GARDEN amount of pruning required to keep Sylvia Lin, PHS Members Committee 6 to 8". In the PHS garden Bring your pruners and don your them below Chair, invites volunteers to help with the we're blessed with enough plants of a planting attire for clean-up days in the Harvest Members' Preview on Show boxwood (Buxus microphylla garden. Interested members and dwarf September 21, from 4-7 pm. If you 'Kingsville') that serve as an edging for Friends of the Azalea Garden will would like to help, please check the four beds in the parterre. Thanks to its meet at the Pergola 9 am on August 1 appropriate box on the reservation form, naturally diminutive stature, this box- and September 8 for several hours page three. wood has never been pruned. A second of sprucing up in the Garden. We will be in touch with you in edging of Fuonymous japonica Refreshments will be provided. Free September with more details. 'Microphylla' finally bit the dust this year parking is available at the Garden. after struggling for years to combat scale. If you would like to become a The third edging is Crimson Pygmy member of the Friends of the Azalea PHS HONORED FOR Barberry (Berberis thunbergii var. Garden or to join us for a clean up CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE atropurpurea 'Crimson Pygmy'), a day, please call Kate Swartz at (215) COMMUNITY rugged plant and seems to handle hard 625-8280 ext. 30. Business Volunteers For The Arts, pruning without suffering any set backs. The Azalea Garden is located on a program formed by the Greater Grateful thanks to the volunteer Kelly Drive and Aquarium Drive Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce gardeners who take such good care of directly behind the Philadelphia presented PHS with its 1 990 Business/ this wonderful oasis in Philadlephia's Museum of Art. Arts Award at a luncheon in May historic section: Wilma Crane, Edward attended by more than 700 members of A. Doelp, Helen Evelen, Johanna Philadelphia's business and arts groups. Goedel, Charles S. Holman, Jr., Helen The award, presented to Jane Pepper by RENOWNED HORTICULTURIST Kaufman, Kitty Lapp, Matthew H. Beverly Williams, KYW News anchor, IS MEDAL WINNER McConnell, Ann McPhail, Jane M. was given for outstanding assistance to Polly Hill, was recently presented Newcomer, Harriett Richards, Kinnie the betterment of the Greater with the Gold Medal of the American Schmidt and Frances Vollmer. Philadelphia area and its people through Rhododendron Society for her generos- PHS's programs. Williams cited PHS's ity, horticultural excellence and her commitment to greening through introduction of the North Tisbury Philadelphia Green, Center City Green hybrid, the nakaharai azalea. Polly also U\A and the Philadelphia Flower Show as an walked away this spring with Scott Jane G. Pepper important contribution to the lives of all Arboretum's prestigious Scott Medal for President Philadelphians. her horticultural contributions. Activities SPECIAL EVENTS Hours: Friday, September 7, Friends Fabergeeggs, porcelains, icons, of Library Booksale Preview 1 am- Beauvais tapestries, and 1 8th-century noon. PHS members and public, noon- French furniture. PHS MEMBERS' ANNUAL PLANT 7 pm. Saturday, September 8, 9:30 am- Fee includes round-trip trans- DIVIDEND noon. portation, lunch, refreshments on the Friday, September 7, noon-7 pm The Library gladly accepts gardening bus, and all entrance and guide fees. Saturday, September 8, 9:30 am-noon books as donations to this sale. Limited to 25. Members are invited to visit PHS to Amnesty Days Information about bus pick-ups in select a complimentary plant for each During the Booksale, you can return Center City and at the Horticulture individual membership or three plants overdue books and pay no fines! Center in Fairmount Park will be mailed for a family or other PHS membership. Amnesty is restricted to Booksale hours in early September. Thisannual plant distribution, one of the only. Fee: $55 members; $59 guests many benefits of PHS membership, is a great opportunity to obtain plants you've always wanted but could not find. A • • • partial list of plants, all donated by PHS members, will be printed in the DEMONSTRATION: ARRANGING AT-HOME SERIES: BEGONIAS September News. FROM THE AUTUMN GARDEN Rydal, PA We are sorry we cannot set aside Longview Farm, Malvern Thursday, September 13, 10 am-noon plants or take telephone orders — it's Wednesday, September 12,10 am-noon Sylvia Lin, frequent Flower Show top first come, first served. We also invite PHS members who have visited prize winner in horticulture, has invited you to browse through the Library's Joanna Reed's Longview Farm have a small group of begonia fanciers to her Annual Book Sale and enjoy iced tea and admired her charming, informal home for an informal program on a leisurely stroll in our garden when you bouquets from her garden and will enjoy begonia culture. Sylvia will share her come for your plants. her relaxed approach to "fixing" experience on growing begonias for The Members Committee is very flowers, ratherthanarranging. Herintent pleasure and for show. grateful to PHS members who propagate is to bring her garden into her house by Topics for discussion will include plants for the Annual Plant Dividend. attractively arranging flowers and indoor and outdoor care, repotting, daily We appreciate the work, time, and foliage in vases by using what Joanna maintenance, growing begonias in a energy spent on this project on behalf of describes, with a twinkle in her eye, as contained environment using soil-less PHS. Many thanks to those who have her "stick and stuff" method. mix, and making moss baskets. already agreed to donate plants for Joanna will talk about informal Fee: $13 members; $16 guests. 1990: arranging and conditioning of flowers Registration limited to 1 5 persons. Morris Berd, Richard Bitner, Richard and will demonstrate ways to use fall- Travel directions will be sent to particip- Both, Michael Bowell, Toni Brinton, fruiting shrubs and foliage with flowers ants early in September. Lester Cundiff, Aldys Davis, Alice as accents. This program represents Doering, Elizabeth Farley, Walter basic flower arranging at its most enjoy- Fisher, Jr., Roxie Gevjan, Robert able and promotes a philosophy rather Gorelick, Janet and John Cyer, George than a discipline. Harding, Anita Kistler, David Lautt, Travel instructions will be mailed to FIELD SEMINAR: HORTICULTURAL Jane Lennon, John Leonard, Richard participants in late August. PHOTOGRAPHY Lighty, Cheryl and Thomas Monroe, Fee: $13 members; $15 guests (Intermediate Level) Robert Montgomery, Dot Plyler, Lee Limited to one guest per member. Monday, September 17, 2:30-5 pm Raden, Joanna Reed, Helen Roback, At Chanticleer, Wayne Herbert Schiffer, Charlotte and Alan Raindate: Thursday, September 20 Slack, Irene Slater, Rosemarie and Julio Professional photographer Walter Vassalluzzo, Robert Way, Mary Lou FIELD TRIP: NATIONAL ARBORETUM Chandoha, familiar to all PHS members Wolfe, Sally Yow. AND HILLWOOD, Washington, D.C. for his remarkable photos for Green Thursday, September 13, 7 am-7 pm Scene and other national publications, Our first stop will be the National will take fifteen members in hand for a in 1 hour Arboretum Washington for a V4 practical seminar on horticultural introductory tour of the grounds and the photography at Chanticleer in Wayne. collections. Walt, who maintains that successful After lunch at Hillwood, we'll have a photographs are first created in the mind LIBRARY BOOKSALE two-hour tour of the former home of and transferred via eye and the camera Join us at PHS on Friday, September 7 Marjorie Merriweather Post, whose viewfinder onto film, will concentrate and Saturday, September 8 when you'll Russian collection is the most rep- the important aspects of be able to purchase both new gardening resentative outside the Soviet Union. On on two most books and your old favorites. The display areextraordinary pieces by some picture making, light and composition. Booksale is held concurrently with the of Europe's foremost artists, cabinet- Discussion will include the mechanics Members' Plant Dividend. makers, silver and goldsmiths, plus of garden photography, how to make 5 close-ups, tripods and other ways to sup- FIELD TRIP: DAY IN ings make a memorable combination. port the camera, reflectors versus flash BUCKS COUNTY Horticulturist Peggy Bowditch and fill, choice of film and exposure, Tuesday, September 18, 8:30 am- Betsy Gullan, PHS Membership 5:30 pm bracketing and why it's done, how to Coordinator, will accompany the group. We'll start our visiting a large control sun, and lenses. day Details of bus pick-ups at the estate with deep perennial borders, an Participants should have a working Horticulture Center, Center City, and in herb garden, water features, and two knowledge of their own cameras. The Montgomery County will be mailed in greenhouses filled with exotic plants. early September. focus of this program is on creative photography, not basic camera After lunch on your own in New Fee of $27 for members and $30 for functions. Hope, where shops include a garden guests does not include lunch. ornament specialist, we'll visit more Fee: $32 members; $35 guests. private gardens to see walled gardens, Limited to one guest per member. terraces, views from an 1 8th-century Participants must provide own transpor- farmhouse and a charming new garden tation. Travel directions will be mailed MEADOWBROOK FARM: A CASE where buildings, ornaments, and plant- in early September. STUDY FOR EFFECTIVE LANDSCAPE DESIGN (3 sessions) 1 am -noon Reservations Friday, September 28; Monday, October 1 ; Wednesday, October 3 Clip and mail reservations to: Meadowbrook, PA PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia,, 19106 At Meadowbrook Farm, owner/ designer Liddon Pennock, Jr. and Reservations accepted by mail only: please include full payment. Use this form below to J. speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. Confirmations for horticulturist/manager Chuck Rogers events at PHS are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we will expect you. Field trip will conduct a six-hour program on confirmations with important trip information are mailed ten prior the event. There days to landscape design. Using the private is limited space for all activities (except spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two gardens as a laboratory, Pennock and consecutive issues of the PHS News. Rogers will focus on one aspect of effec- Refunds and cancellations: tive landscaping in each two-hour If you wish to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative fee will be deducted from your refund as follows: session: design/structure, plants, $2 fee for all events other than one-day field trips provided your request is received no ornaments/accessories. later than two days prior to the event. Fee: $70 members only. Travel direc- $5 fee for one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than four days tions will be mailed in mid-September. prior to the event. DEMONSTRATION: ARRANG- FIELD TRIP: DAY IN BUCKS PERENNIALS FOR FALL ING FROM THE AUTUMN COUNTY At Chanticleer, Wayne GARDEN Pick-up: CC Hort. Center. Saturday, September 29, 10 am-noon Members $ 1 3 Guests $ 1 Members $27 Guests $30_ Senior horticulturist Christopher Woods will give suggestions for the FIELD TRIP: NATIONAL GARDEN DESIGN: autumn garden as he leads us through ARBORETUM AND HILLWOOD, MEADOWBROOK FARM the Chanticleer estate to point out the WASHINGTON, DC (3 sessions) wide range of fall-blooming perennials, Members $55 Guests $59 Members $70 pleasing color combinations, special horticultural and maintenance tips and requirements, and effective ways to AT-HOME SERIES: BEGONIAS PERENNIALS FOR FALL combine them with other elements in the Members $13 Guests $1 6_ Members $15 Guests $17_ garden. Program limited to 25. Participants must provide own transportaion. Travel FIELD SEMINAR: directions will be mailed in mid- HORTICULTURAL PHOTOG- September. RAPHY (intermediate level) Fee: 1 5 members; $1 7 guests Members $32 Guests $35 (USPS 763-640) is published I would like to volunteer to help with the Members' Preview, September PHS News monthly except luly by the Pennsylvania 21, 1990. Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. Pa. 19106. Subscription — NAME $9.75 per year—Single copies 80c. Second class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. and ADDRESS additional mailing office. Postmaster: send address changes to PHS News. 325 Walnut Street, Phila., Pa. 19106. ZIP -TELEPHONE: home Chair: Donald L. Felley President: lane G. Pepper work_ Editor: Lisa Stephano Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth G Gullan New in the Library Creating a cottage garden, Sue —05 HYACINTHUS 'BLUE Phillips, 1990. JACKET' grown and shown Creating formal gardens, Roy Strong, in an 8" bulb pan or azalea 1989. pot. Coincide: the orton system of pest —06 TULIPA 'APRICOT BEAUTY' management, Donald Orton, 1989. grown and shown in an 8" Foolproof planting, Anne Halpin, bulb pan or azalea pot. 1990. CLASSES FOR NOVICES IN A gentle plea for chaos, Mirabel FLOWER SHOW BULB CLASSES '91 SHOW Osier, 1989. Sue Armstrong, Chair of 1991 NARCISSUS (Classes 200, 300, 400) Horticulture Classes announced the ~J Hummingbird garden, Mathew open to anyone who has never won Tekulsky, 1990. following selections for next year's a blue ribbon in the bulb classes of The Japanese iris. Currier McEwen, Show: the Flower Show. 1990. CLASS FLOWERING OR FRUITING AND Living with flowers,]. Barry Ferguson, —00 NOVICE NARCISSUS CLASS; FOLIAGE (Classes 255, 256, 366, 1990. any narcissus variety not 367, 448 and 449) open to anyone Outstanding American bonsai. Randy listed in Classes —01 - —04. who has never won a blue ribbon in Clark, 1989. —01 NARCISSUS, TETE-A-TETE' the Horticultural Classes of the The passionate gardener, Miranda (miniature) grown and Flower Show. Innes, 1990. shown in a 4" pot. ORCHID (Class 450) open to anyone Planning and planting the garden, —02 NARCISSUS 'DUTCH who has never won a blue ribbon Robert Smaus, 1989. MASTER' sagebrush in the orchid classes of the Flower The ocean, Barry Lopez, (trumpet) grown and shown 1989. Show. in an 8" bulb pan or azalea Members may borrow books by mail. If pot. you would like one or more of the above —03 NARCISSUS 'JACK SNIPE' books sent to you, check off the title, fill (cyclamineus) grown and out the form below and mail to: Library, shown in 6" bulb pan or a Mark Your Calendar PHS, 325 Walnut St., Phila., PA 19106. azalea pot. Or, phone your request to (215) 625-8256. —04 NARCISSUS 'ICE Flower Show Dates When returning book(s) please enclose FOLLIES' (large cupped) March 10-17,1991 $1.75 per book in the envelope provided. grown and shown in an 8" Our new books are popular. If you don't bulb pan or azalea pot. receive your choice within 2 weeks, you'll know you are on a wait list. NAME ADDRESS. DAYTIME TELEPHONE Second Class PHS NEWS Postage PAID The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 325 Walnut St. • Philadelphia. PA 19106 Phone (215) 625-8250 0% ^ 3 Recycled Paper &ORT/ Visit PHS Exhibit: Bartram and Ben - A h- c Partnership in Plants Through September 7 PHS NEWS The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society •7 8 27" Volume XXXI, No. 8 SEPTEMBER, 1990 COME TO LIFE AT THE recycling tag, leaf mask-making and PHS MEMBERS' PLANT DIVIDEND HARVEST SHOW mounds of hay for play. (Seed mask- Friday, September 7, noon-7 pm September 22 and 23, 10 am-5 pm making will take place during Members Saturday, September 8, 9:30-noon Whether you've just come in from Preview, September 21 from 4-6 pm) Members are invited to visit PHS to summer vacation or raking the leaves, 1-4pm select a complimentary plant for each in- take time out to visit this year's Harvest Strolling musicians will play Irish and dividual membership and three plants for Show. Scottish tunes and Dixie-style music. a family membership. This annual plant Held in Fairmount Park's Horticulture (Musicians will also perform during distribution, one of the benefits of PHS Center at Belmont Avenue and Members Preview) membership, is a great opportunity to Horticultural Drive, the Harvest Show is a obtain hard to find plants(s). All plants are colorful, thought-provoking affair that HARVEST SHOW DEMONSTRATIONS donated by PHS members. offers gardeners the opportunity to take Saturday, September 22 continued on page 6 stock of this year's garden bounty and 1:00 Creative Containers for Flower begin plans for the upcoming growing Arranging WATCH YOUR MAILBOX season. Bernice Makin, professional flower Please be on the lookout for two More than 300 categories of veget- arranger important PHS mailings that should arrive ables, fruit, flowers, plants, artistic 1 :30 Topiaries for Table top decoration at your homes around Labor Day. Your arrangements and a dozen educational Barbara Gallup, author of 1 990 Harvest Show announcement and exhibits are on display, so bring your pad The Complete Book of Topiary tickets will be closely followed by and pencil to jot down your favorite 2:00 An Introduction to Food Drying another mailing of membership renewal varieties. And, don't forget the kids. loan Johnson, Harvest Show information and the Philadelphia Flower The Harvest Show is a children's play- Committee Show Exhibitors Schedule. If you have not ground of outdoor activities that will received your mail by September 7, call 2:30 Liven up your recipes with Herb energize your child's mind and All body. Davis 625-8265. Vinegars Linda (21 5) activities are held on both days unless Sally McCabe, Philadelphia Green We are sensitive to your comments noted otherwise. Education Specialist about the large number of September mailings; hence we've combined infor- 3:00 Dishing up a Fall Dessert (Praline HARVEST SHOW SPECIAL EVENTS mation about membership and the 1 hr. Mousse Pie) 10 am-5 pm Flower Show Schedule. Let us know if this Richard Rolston, Executive Pastry Plant Clinic - Jack Eden, KYW News- change works better for you. Chef, Gordon Keith Wagner Caterer radio garden commentator, will answer As you study the membership informa- gardening questions. (Saturday only) Sunday, September 23 tion, please consider increasing your 11 am-4 pm 1 :00 Home Preserving doesn't have to membership to contributing, sponsoring, Beekeeping - Robert Harvey, educa- 1 hr. be unnerving: safety tips and or sustaining categories. Revenues from tional exhibitor from Harvey's Honey, techniques these memberships help support will perform beekeeping demonstrations Richard Bitner, Harvest Show Philadelphia Green and Center City and don his famous beard of bees. Preserved Products, Chair Green, our community outreach 12-1 pm 2:30 An Introduction to Ikebana, programs. Washtub Circus - Harley Newman, Japanese Flower Arranging America's biggest one-man show and The renewal return envelopes are Helen Flaig, teacher in the Ikenobo world's smallest sideshow, will perform addressed to a box number at Provident School of Ikebana out near Children's Tent. (Saturday only) Bank to increase ourspeed and efficiency 2:30 Forcing Spring Bulbs for Indoor 1:30-2 pm in processing your renewals. We are Bloom Mimery - Barbara Gregson of Show- always particularly grateful to members Walt Fisher, Philadelphia Flower case Associates will perform a humorous, who respond promptly to the first dues Show Blue Ribbon winner light-hearted skit out near Children's notice, thereby eliminating the expense Tent. 3:00 The Many Faces of Pumpkins of additional reminders and the confusion 1-4 pm 1 hr. Rosemarie Vassalluzzo, Food that results when responses and addi- Children's Activities Tent - columnist, The Advance of Bucks tional notices cross in the mail. features pumpkin painting, apple games, County Activities SPECIAL EVENTS FIELD TRIP: DAY IN vided. After lunch, you may walk around BUCKS COUNTY to the entrance of the Barnes Founda- MEMBERS' HARVEST SHOW PREVIEW Tuesday, September 1 8, tion's gallery and tour the art collection at Friday, September 21, 4-7 pm 8:30am-5:30 pm your leisure. start Plan to attend the 1 990 Harvest Show We'll our day visiting a large Travel instructions will be mailed to Members' Preview immediately follow- estate with deep perennial borders, an participants in September. ing the judging of exhibits. Cider, wine, herb garden, water features, and two Fee: $13 members; $16 guests and light snacks will be served. greenhouses filled with exotic plants. Members may bring guests to the After lunch on your own in New Preview for a charge of $5 each, payable Hope, where shops include a garden at the entrance. ornament specialist, we'll visit more FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY EVENING private gardens to see walled gardens, IN OUR BACKYARD: SWARTHMORE • • • terraces, views from an 18th-century GARDENS OF THE 1920s farmhouse and a charming new garden Thursday, October 11, 6-9 pm where buildings, ornaments, and plant- Spend a nostalgic evening with land- AT-HOME SERIES: BEGONIAS ings make a memorable combination. scape architect William Menke, who will Rydal, PA Horticulturist Peggy Bowditch and take us back to Swarthmore, seventy Thursday, September 13, 10am-noon Betsy Gullan, PHS Membership years ago. His lecture "In Our Backyard: Sylvia Lin, frequent Flower Show top Coordinator, will accompany the group. Swarthmore Gardens of the 1 920's and prize winner in horticulture, has invited Details of bus pick-ups at the How They Have Fared" will feature a small group of begonia fanciers to her Horticulture Center, Center City, and in charming 1 920's gardens; some have home for an informal program on Montgomery County will be mailed in vanished, others matured, and still others begonia culture. Sylvia will share her early September. are being restored. Menke will also dis- experience on growing begonias for Fee of $27 for members and $30 for cuss underlying tenets and regional pleasure and for show. guests does not include lunch. design influences that can be seen in the Topics for discussion will include gardens. indoor and outdoor care, repotting, daily Reservations from Friends of the maintenance, growing begonias in a Library will be given first preference until contained environment using soil-less MEADOWBROOK FARM: A CASE September 27, when the program will be mix, and making moss baskets. STUDY FOR EFFECTIVE open to all PHS members. Support from Fee: members; guests. $13 $16 LANDSCAPE DESIGN Friends of the Library assists in the reno- Registration limited to 15 persons. (3 sessions) 10 am-noon vation and development of PHS's histori- Travel directions will sent partici- be to Friday, September 28; Monday, cal collections. To become a Library pants early in September. October 1 ; Wednesday, October 3 Friend, please contact )anet Evans, Meadowbrook, PA (215)625-8261. At Meadowbrook Farm, owner/ Cocktails at 6:00 pm (donation bar); designer Liddon Pennock, and FIELD SEMINAR: HORTICULTURAL J. Jr. buffet 6:45 pm; program 7:45 pm horticulturist/manager Chuck Rogers PHOTOGRAPHY Fee: $20.00 members; $23.00 guests will conduct a six-hour program on (Intermediate Level) landscape design. Using the private Monday, September 1 7, 2:30-5 pm gardens as a laboratory, Pennock and At Chanticleer, Wayne Rogers will focus on one aspect of effec- Raindate: Thursday, September 20 LECTURE: THE R.H.S. GARDEN AT tive landscaping in each two-hour WISLEY Professional photographer Walter session: design/structure, plants, Tuesday, October 16, 5:45-7:30 pm Chandoha, will take fifteen members in ornaments/accessories. British horticulturist Watkins will hand for a practical seminar on John Fee: $70 members only. Travel direc- lead a "tour" through Wisley, the Royal horticultural photography at Chanticleer tions will be mailed in mid-September. Horticultural Society's garden in Surrey, in Wayne. Discussion will include the famous for its extensive dis- mechanics of garden photography, how greenhouses, play areas, and rock gardens. John's slides to make close-ups, tripods and other ways will show Wisley's wide diversity of to support the camera, reflectors versus BARNES ARBORETUM: FALL plants and garden features as well as the flash fill, choice of film and exposure, FOLIAGE AND FRUITS glasshouses. bracketing and why it's done, how to Friday, October 5, 10 am-1 pm Watkins, supervisor of the control sun, and lenses. Barnes Arboretum, situated on 1 2 acres John Glasshouse Department at Wisley, is Participants should have a working in Merion, Pa., has a notable col lection of responsible for the supervision of mainte- knowledge of their own cameras. The the best woody ornamentals for this zone, nance and has developed plans for a new focus of this program is on creative plus many rare specimen trees. orchid house to be built this fall. photography, not basic camera functions. Twenty-five PHS members and guests Program begins promptly at 5 :45 pm, Fee: $32 members; $35 guests. will be guided through the Arboretum followed wine and nibbles. Limited to one guest per member. with the emphasis on fall foliage and by Participants must provide own transpor- ornamentals with interesting fall fruit. Fee: $8 members; $10 guests tation. Travel directions will be mailed in Registrants should bring a brown-bag NOTE: The Library will be open until early September. lunch; dessert and coffee will be pro- 5:45 pm this evening 6 1 2 BASKETRY WORKSHOPS tional, and decorative wall basket with a CHANTICLEER STROLL IN WAYNE Friday, October 19, 1 am -2 pm handle for hanging. The basket measures Saturday, October 20, 10 am-noon Experienced basket weaver and in- 1 0"l_x6"Hx3"D and is woven of splint (flat Chris Woods, senior horticulturist will structor Linda Tenaglia has planned a reed) with two choices of weave design, lead PHS members and guests on an one suitable for beginners and the other series of six basketry workshops to autumn walk through Chanticleer, a pri- for intermediates. Natural and dyed reeds present a variety of techniques, materials, vate estate in Wayne. The tour will em- will be used to personalize the basket. phasize seasonal color and fall-fruiting or and designs for beginners and in- Participants should bring a bucket, blooming plants. termediates. All are appropriate for gifts straight-edged ruler, scissors or clippers, a Travel directionswill bemailed inearly and can be duplicated at home in plenty dozen spring-type clothespins, and a October. Participants must provide own of time for the holidays. brown-bag lunch. Coffee and tea will be transportation. In this first basketry workshop partici- provided. Fee: $ 1 5 members; $ 1 7 guests pants will complete an attractive, func- Fee: $27 members; $30 guests WORKSHOP: ORCHIDS FOR THE HOME Reservations Monday, October 22, 6:30-8 pm Orchid hobbyist John Leonard will dis- Clip and mail reservations to: cuss plants suitable for home culture and PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 potting techniques in this practical work- shop designed for beginning orchid Reservations accepted by mail only, please include full payment. Use this form below to growers. This program, a continuation of speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. Confirmations for last spring's session, will focus on events at PHS are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we will expect you. Field trip confirmations with important trip information are mailed ten days prior to the event. There phalaenopsis grown in New Zealand is limited space for all activities (except spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two spaghnum potting mix as an alternative to consecutive issues of the PHS News. the standard bark mix. Refunds and cancellations: Discussions will include plant selec- If you wish to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative fee will be deducted tion, potting mixes, pot selection, staking, from your refund as follows: $2 fee for all events other than one-day field trips provided your request is received no watering, fertilizing, and tips on initiating later than two days prior to the event. new growth. Each participant will repot $5 fee for one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than four days and take home an orchid which is six to prior to the event. twelve months from blooming. John Leonard, longtime member of PHS and the American Orchid Society, AT-HOME SERIES: BEGONIAS LECTURE: R.H.S. GARDEN AT WISLEY exhibits prize-winning orchids at the Members $ 1 3 Guests $1 6_ Members $8 Guests $10 Philadelphia Flower Show. FIELD SEMINAR: Bring a sandwich; coffee and tea will HORTICULTURAL PHOTOG- WORKSHOP: WALL BASKET be provided. Guests $30 RAPHY (intermediate level) Members $27 Fee of $25 for members and $35 for Members $32 Guests $35_ CHANTICLEER STROLL guests includes all workshop materials. Members $15 Guests $17 FIELD TRIP: DAY IN BUCKS Limit: 25 participants COUNTY WORKSHOP: FORCING BULBS Pick-up: CC Hort. Center_ Members $30 Guests $34 WORKSHOP: FORCING BULBS FOR WINTER ENJOYMENT Members $27 Guests $30_ WORKSHOP: STANDARDS Thursday, October 27, 10 am-noon GARDEN DESIGN: Members $34 MEADOWBROOK FARM Walter Fisher, Flower Show Executive LOIS PAUL MEMORIAL LECTURE: Committee member and perennial (3 sessions) CREATING SPACE AND OTHER winner in Flower Show bulb classes, will Members $70 CITY GARDEN ILLUSIONS teach all the essentials of forcing includ- PERENNIALS FOR FALL Members $9 Guests $1 ing methods of attaining full, robust pots Members $15 Guests $1 7_ WORKSHOP: ORCHIDS FOR of bloom, mechanics of planting, forcing FIELD TRIP: BARNES ARBORETUM THE HOME timetables, tips on grooming and exhibi- tion, cold storage techniques, and best Members $ 1 3 Guests $ 1 Members $25 Guests $35 varieties for forcing. FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY: AT-HOME SERIES: YARD SWARTHMORE GARDENS WASTE MANAGEMENT continued on page 4 Members $20 Guests $23 Mem bers $ 1 G uests $ 1 PHS News (USPS 763-640) is published monthly except My by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. Subscription — NAME $9.75 per year—Single copies 80e. Second class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. and ADDRESS additional mailing office. Postmaster: send address changes to PHS News, 325 Walnut 7IP TFIFPHONF- home Street, Phila. Pa. 19106. Chair: Donald L. Felley work President: laneG. Pepper Editor: Lisa Stephano Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth G. Cullan UNITED WAY CONTRIBUTIONS HELP shops and offering her knowledge, LOIS W. PAUL MEMORIAL LECTURE: GARDENS CROW enthusiasm and sage advice to master CREATING SPACE AND OTHER CITY Along with the Society's Philadelphia gardeners and novices alike. GARDEN ILLUSIONS Green Program, another great organiza- Dr. Herman Cold has had an interest in Thursday, November 1, 5:45-7:15 pm tion is eligible to receive funds through horticulture for almost as long as his Linda Yang, gardener and columnist for the United Way campaign. The Neigh- career in medicine - about 55 years. His The Home Section of Thursday's New borhood Gardens Association/A commitment to horticulture was most evi- York Times, will illustrate ideas for Philadelphia Land Trust is a non-profit dent in 1 974 when he offered his vast creating space and other city garden organization established several years plant collection to Crozer-Chester illusions using plants and architectural ago with a mission to preserve neighbor- Medical Center in Upland. The hospital elements. Ms. Yang's slides show what hood gardens and community-managed accepted his offer and that was the start of many gardeners from coast to coast have open spaces, to make them permanent the "Leona Gold Garden." The garden, accomplished with positive emphasis on parts of the neighborhood and to ensure which took three and a half years to move the challenges and joys that face city the continuity of these valuable activities. and replant in its new location, was gardeners. This topic will interest anyone We hope you will consider both featured in the May-June 1 989 issue of who gardens in a small space or Philadelphia Green and the Neighbor- Green Scene. It covers more than eight containers. hood Gardens Association for contribu- acres and continues to grow through the Linda Yang's new book, The City tions when you make your United Way support of Dr. Gold, who can still be Gardener's Handbook: From Balcony to Pledge on your Donor Option card. found in the garden weeding, pruning Backyard is the expanded successor to Philadelphia Green's reference number is and planting with the Friends of the Terrace Gardener's handbook, both 61 97 and Neighborhood Gardens Assoc - Garden. based on her practical experiences ition is referenced 08206. Major Awards presentations will be gardening in the city. Her articles and made at the Society's Annual Meeting, photographs have appeared in many Wednesday, November 14, 1990 at national magazines. 5:00 pm. Program will begin promptly at 1990 MAJOR AWARD NOMINATIONS 5:45 pm followed by wine and nibbles. ANNOUNCED Fee: $9 members; $11 guests Under the leadership of Awards Note: The Library will be open until Committee chair, Martha Barron, the 5:45 pm this evening. following nominees have been selected for the Society's Certificate of Merit. Aspen Farms, a half-acre community ACTIVITIES AT-HOME SERIES: YARD WASTE garden located at 49th and Aspen Streets continued from page 3 MANAGEMENT in West Philadelphia, sets a standard by Each participant will plant two 8" clay Saturday, October 27, 10 am-noon which all other community gardens can pots using Tulipa 'Apricot Beauty', Raindate: Sunday, October 28 be measured. Under the able leadership designated for 1 991 's competitive classes With recent critical local restrictions on of Hayward Ford, a Philadelphia Green and a narcissus suitable for entry in the disposable waste and an awareness of the Advisory Board member and driving novice narcissus classes. importance of recycling, gardeners view force behind Aspen Farms, some 44 All materials will be provided. Limited rich compost as the ultimate decision and gardeners have created a true oasis in the reward. Actually, composting is the final City combining innovative design techni- to 20 participants. step in the procedure for effective waste ques and interesting plants to create a Fee: $30 members; $34 guests management. central meeting place and profound Jeff Ball, avid gardener and garden source of community pride in the shape of writer, will show how to eliminate garden a garden. WORKSHOP: CROWING PLANTS AS waste by reducing the volume of waste It would be extremely difficult to STANDARDS produced, using mulch effectively, and determine the stronger attributes within Tuesday, October 30, 1 am-noon learning to compost. Jeff will discuss the Anita Kistler; her loyalty to gardening or Horticulturist Charles Rogers, W. Jr. ins and outs of mulch and compost and her generosity to gardeners. Anita's com- will introduce plants suitable for training will demonstrate the latest techniques mitment to both is best illustrated through as standards and will teach the basic and technology in his "smart yard", her work with the American Rock Garden principles for house or greenhouse where he researches and experiments for Society and her half-acre garden in West culture, planting, maintaining, fertilizing, articles in Practical Home Owner Chester which is home to choice conifers, pruning. and Magazine. Participants will see seven dif- bulbs and rare plants from all over the Students will starta 8-10" windowsill- ferent composting systems and five shred- globe. In addition to her tenure as size standard using a tropical plant suit- ding machines and will learn how to han- President, one of Anita's most important able for or greenhouse culture. house dle 1 00% of garden waste produced on contributions to the A.R.G.S. has been Participants should bring sharp clip- properties of one acre or less. compiling the indices to the A.R.G.S. pers or shears; all other materials will be Bulletin, a task that involved producing a )eff Ball has authored gardening books provided. video 35 volume index with the help of a team and articles, produced a gardening Chuck Rogers manages The of volunteers and recently producing an series, and appears on NBC's "Today Greenhouse at Meadowbrook Farm. Show". index for the next 1 3 volumes by herself. Anita has generously opened her garden Travel directions will be mailed in Travel directions will be mailed in early for special PHS membership tours and mid-October. October. lectures, all the while, conducting work- Fee: $34 members Fee: $10 members; $12 guests. . NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF MEMBERS November 14, 1990 Please join us for the Society's 163rd Annual Meeting on Wednesday, November 14 at 5:00 pm at the Society's offices, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA. We will elect new council members, take up any other business which may properly come before the meeting, and celebrate the recipients of the Society's awards. The Society's Nominating Committee, Henry H. Reichner, Jr., Chair; Morris Cheston, Jr., Ruth Colket, Donald L. Felley, Sally Graham, Barbara Heckert, Richard W. Lighty and Jane Ward propose the following Council members for re-election for additional three year terms: J. Howard Brosius, TinaColehower, Richard W. Lighty and Sylvia Lin. In addition, they will place in nomination for three-year terms the following persons who are not currently members of council: Diane Allen is a member of the Flower Show Executive Committee and has served as an Kathleen G. Putnam chaired the 1990 Flower Show honorary chair of the City Gardens Contest for Preview Dinner. In addition, she is a member of the several years. She is an enthusiastic home gardener Board of Managers, Women's Committee, and well-known as an anchor at WCAU-TV Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Craft Channel 10. Show 1 992 Chairman-Designate and Agnes Irwin School Trustee. She earned her M.B.A. at Wharton Robert C. Gore is a former member of the Preview Graduate Division. Kathleen is a member of the Dinner Committee. He has helped the Society on Garden Club of Philadelphia. many occasions with personnel-benefit issues as Vice President at Towers Perrin Forster & Crosby. Ann L. Reed is a member of the Flower Show Competitive Classes and Center City Green Charles N. Marshall is Senior Vice President, Committees and is a professional photographer and Development, CONRAIL. A graduate of the a partner in P&R Associates. She is a member of the University of Michigan Law School, he is a director Garden Club of Philadelphia. of Provident National Bank and a member of the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority. Under the new by-laws of the Society adopted at the 1988 Annual Meeting, members now can vote either in person or by proxy. We hope that you can attend the meeting, but if you cannot, please clip out and return the proxy form. WE NEED YOUR HELP ON THIS. We may not have a quorum at the meeting unless enough proxies are returned. Raul Betancourt, Secretary PROXY FORM THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING OF MEMBERS, NOVEMBER 14, 1990 The undersigned hereby appoints Donald L. Felley, Jane G. Pepper and Raul Betancourt and each of them the true and lawful attorneys or attorney of said member, with full power of substitution to vote at the annual meeting of the members of The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, called to be held at 5:00 pm on Wednesday, November 1 4, 1 990, and at any adjournments thereof, with all the powers the undersigned would possess if personally present: 1 For the election of Council Members 2. For the transaction of such other business as may come before said meeting. (Date) Please return to: If both husband and wife are members, The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society both should sign. 325 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA19106 PLEASE RETURN NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER 7, 1990 PLANT DIVIDEND Styer Award Winner); Chamaecyparis New in the Library continued from page I pisifera 'Boulevard'; Euonymus fortunei The following list is just a sampling of 'Kewensis'; Ilex x meserveae 'Golden Baskets, Richard Kollath, 1989. Girl' (TM); Itea virginica 'Henry's Garnet' plants for distribution; even more Borderland, John R. Stilgoe, 1990. varieties will be available on dividend (1 988 Styer Award Winner); The Control of nature, ]ohn McPhee, Rhododendron fortunei; R. 'Koromo days. Information about cultural require- 1989. ments and growth habits of all plants will Shikibu' R. vaseyi; Rosa 'Bonica' (TM); The Fruit, herbs & vegetables of Italy, be available. Salix metsudana tortuosa; S. GiacomoCastelvtro, 1989. Houseplants sachalinensis 'Sekko'; Styrax japonica; The Garden triumphant, David Stuart, Begonia 'Los Angeles'; Cyperus Thuja occidentalis 'Rheingold'; 1988. altemifolius (papyrus); Erodium Viburnum juddi; Zenobia pulverulenta. Gardening from the heart, Carol chamdryoides 'roseum'; Haworthia x Olwell, 1990. 'Little Warty'; Hedera helix (duckfoot FLOWER SHOW Gardening in Spanish and English, ivy); Hedera helix 'Needlepoint' (both ARRANGEMENT SYMPOSIUM J.M. Bury, 1989. good for topiary); Laurus nobilis; Thursday, October 25, 10 am Home orchid growing, 4th ed., Ledebouria socialis; orchids: several Rebecca Tyson Northen, 1990. varieties, species, and cultivars; Pelar- loin speakers, Penny Harris, Audrey Italian renaissance garden, Claudi qonium 'Bird Dancer'; Streptocarpus Nichols, Rosemarie Vassalluzzo and The for lively morning of Lazzaro, 1990. 'Blue Angel' (good for hanging basket); Phyllis Weeks a Trichosporum aeschynanthus. flower arranging topics that include con- Miss Rumphius, Barbara Cooney, Perennials ditioning, dried flowers and new designs. 1982. (children's book) Achillea ptarmica; Alchemilla 1991 Flower Show chairs and advisors will on hand to detail new classes and vulgaris; Asarum europeum (choice be VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR answer questions. evergreen groundcover); Brunnera NATIONAL ROSES, INC. CONVENTION macrophylla; Campanula posharskyana; Symposium will be held at The The national convention of Roses, Inc., Chrysanthemum morifolium; Chryso- Highlands, 7001 Sheaff Lane, Fort a trade association of professional rose qanum virginianum (native ground cover Washington, PA. growers, will be held in Philadelphia, with yellow flowers); Echinops ritro (blue October 9 - 1 4. As part of the activities, globe thistle); Helleborus orientate more than 5,000 roses will be distributed (lenten rose, blooms early, evergreen Other Events on Saturday, October 1 3 from 1 am to 3 foliage); Hemerocallis 'Stella D'Oro' pm to visitors at the Liberty Bell Pavilion (yellow blooms all season); Hosta sps.; POTTERY SALE on Independence Mall, Market Street Lunaria biennis (honesty-nice for dried Ikebana International, between 5th and 6th Sts. arrangements); Menta requienii (Corsi- Philadelphia Chapter If you would like to help Roses, Inc. on can mint); Monarda didyma (to attract Saturday, September 15,10 am-4 pm October 1 3 along with the likes of hummingbirds); Primula japonica; Merion Friends Meeting Bldg. Benjamin Franklin a.k.a. Ralph Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm'; 61 5 Montgomery Avenue Archibald, please write to Heather Kelly, Stylophorum diphyllum; Senecio Merion, PA Roses, Inc., 1 152 Haslett Road, P.O. Box cinerea. TYLER PLANT SALE 99, Haslett, Ml 48840. Perennials for the Rock Garden Saturday, September 22, 10am-3pm With grateful thanks, Roses, Inc. will Allium falcifolium; Aster linariifolius; Tyler Arboretum present each volunteer with a bouquet of Aquilegia canadensis 'Nana'; Lewisia 515 Painter Road, Lima, PA red and white roses. cotyledon; Lychnis viscara; Mitchella repens; Opuntia sps.; Orostachys iwarenge; Phlox stolonifera 'Daybreak'; Sedum ternatum; Spiraea nipponica 'Snowmound'; Viola Second Class lanceolata; V. triloba PHS NEWS Postage Ornamental grasses PAID Chasmanthium latifolium; Imperata The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society cylindrica 'Rubra' 325 Walnut St.* Philadelphia, PA 19106 Wildflowers Phone (215) 625-8250 Aquilegia canadensis; Lobelia cardinalis; Maianthemum canadense; Tiarella cordifolia. Vines Aristolochia mandshurica (good porch screen) Trees and Shrubs Acer palmatum; Aucuba japonica variegata; Callicarpa dichotoma (1 989 f- % Recycled Paper . Visit PHS Exhibit: Watercolors by Janet McShane Through November 14 PHS NEWS JP£ The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Volume XXXI, No. 9 OCTOBER, 1990 ANNUAL MEETING BASKETRY WORKSHOPS Wednesday, November 1 4, 5 pm Activities Friday, October 19, 10 am-2 pm The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Experienced basket weaver and in- FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY EVENING: Annual Meeting will be held to elect new structor Linda Tenaglia has planned a IN OUR BACKYARD: SWARTHMORE Council members and to present 1 990's series of six basketry workshops to GARDENS OF THE 1 920's awards. If are unable to distinguished you present a variety of techniques, materials, Thursday, October 11, 6-9 pm attend, please return completed Proxy and designs for beginners and in- Spend a nostalgic evening with land- Form below by November 7. scape architect William Menke, who will termediates. All are appropriate for gifts take us back to Swarthmore seventy years and can be duplicated at home in plenty PROXY FORM PLEASE RETURN ago. His lecture will feature charming of time for the holidays. 1 920's gardens. Menke will also In this first basketry workshop partici- DEADLINE discuss underlying tenets and regional pants will complete an attractive, func- NOVEMBER 7 design influences that can be seen in the tional, and decorative wall basket with a THE PENNSYLVANIA gardens. handle for hanging. The basket measures HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY Reservations from Friends of the 1 0"Lx6"Hx3"D and is woven of splint (flat ANNUAL MEETING OF MEMBERS, Library will be given first preference until reed) with two choices of weave design, NOVEMBER 14, 1990 September 27, when the program will be one suitable for beginners and the other open to all PHS members. Support from for intermediates. Natural and dyed reeds The undersigned hereby appoints Friends of the Library assists in the reno- will be used to personalize the basket. Donald L.Felley, Jane G. Pepper and Raul vation and development of PHS's histori- Participants should bring a bucket, Betancou rt and each of them the true and cal collections. To become a Library straight-edged ruler, scissors or clippers, a lawful attorneys or attorney of said Friend, please contact Janet Evans, dozen spring-type clothespins, and a member, with fu 1 1 power of substitution to (215)625-8261. brown-bag lunch. Coffee and tea will be at of vote the annual meeting the mem- Cocktails at 6:00 pm (donation bar); provided. bers of The Pennsylvania Horticultural buffet 6:45 pm; program 7:45 pm Fee: $27 members; $30 guests Society, called to be held at 5:00 on pm Fee: $20 members; $23 guests Wednesday, November 14, 1990, and at CHANTICLEER STROLL IN WAYNE any adjournments thereof, with all the Saturday, October 20, 10 am-noon LECTURE: R.H.S. powers the undersigned would possess if THE GARDEN AT Chris Woods, executive director, will personally present: WISLEY Tuesday, October 5:45-7:30 lead PHS members and guests on an 1. For the election of Council 16, pm autumn walk through Chanticleer, a pri- Members British horticulturist John Watkins will vate estate in Wayne. The tour will em- 2 For the transaction of such other lead a "tour" through Wisley, the Royal phasize seasonal color and fall-fruiting or Surrey, business as may come before said Horticultural Society's garden in blooming plants. meeting. famous for its greenhouses, extensive dis- directions will mailed in early play areas, and rock gardens. John's slides Travel be Participants must provide own will show Wisley's wide diversity of October. (Date) plants and garden features as well as the transportation. glasshouses. Fee: $15 members; $17 guests John Watkins, supervisor of the ORCHIDS FOR Glasshouse Department at Wisley, is WORKSHOP: responsible for the supervision of mainte- THE HOME If October 22, 6:30-8 pm both husband and wife are members, nance and has developed plans for a new Monday, both should sign. will dis- orchid house to be built this fall. Orchidjfobbyist Johrtleonard Please plaf&suitable fewKbrne culture and return to: Program begins promptly at 5:45 pm, cuss The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society potting^^iniquesQrtv^s practical work- followed by wine and nibbles. 325 Walnut Street shqMewgned forbewnning orchid Fee: $8 members; $10 guests Philadelphia, PA 19106 grSafcSrs. This program, a continuation of NOTE: The Library will be open until 5:45 pm this evening (Continued on next page) Activities (Continued from page one) John Leonard, longtime member of AT-HOME SERIES: YARD WASTE last spring's session, will focus on PHS and the American Orchid Society, MANAGEMENT phalaenopsis grown in New Zealand exhibits prize-winning orchids at the Springfield, PA spaghnum potting mix as an alternative to Philadelphia Flower Show. Saturday, October 27, 1 am-noon the standard bark mix. Bring a sandwich; coffee and tea will Raindate: Sunday, October 28 Discussions will include plant selec- be provided. With recent critical local restrictions on tion, potting mixes, pot selection, staking, Fee of $25 for members and $35 for disposable waste and an awareness of the watering, fertilizing, and tips on initiating guests includes all workshop materials. importance of recycling, gardeners view new growth. Each participant will repot Limit: 25 participants rich compost as the ultimate decision and and take home an orchid which is six to reward. Actually, composting is the final twelve months from blooming. step in the procedure for effective waste management. Jeff Ball, avid gardener and garden writer, will show how toeliminate garden Reservations waste by reducing the volume of waste produced, using mulch effectively, and Clip and mail reservations to: learning to compost. Jeff will discuss the PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 ins and outs of mulch and compost and Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form below to will demonstrate the latest techniques speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. Confirmations for and technology in his "smart yard", hear otherwise, will expect you. Field trip events at PHS are not mailed: unless you we where he researches and experiments for confirmations with important trip information are mailed ten days prior to the event. There articles in Practical Home Owner is limited space for all activities (except spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two consecutive issues of the PHS News. Magazine. Participants will see seven dif- ferent composting systems and five shred- Refunds and cancellations: If you wish to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative fee will be deducted ding machines and will learn how to han- from your refund as follows: dle 100% of garden waste produced on $2 fee for all events other than one-day field trips provided your request is received no properties of one acre or less. later than two days prior to the event. Jeff Ball has authored gardening books $5 fee for one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than four days prior to the event. and articles, produced a gardening video series, and appears on NBC's "Today Show". FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY: WORKSHOP: STANDARDS Travel directions will be mailed in early Members SWARTHMORE GARDENS $34 October. Members $20 Guests $23_ SPACE, LECTURE: CREATING Fee: $10 members; $12 guests. GARDEN ILLUSIONS LECTURE: R.H.S. GARDEN AT Members $9 Guests $1 1 WORKSHOP: FORCING BULBS FOR WISLEY PLANTING WINTER ENJOYMENT Members $8 Guests $1 BULB WORKSHOP Members $1 5 Guests $1 8 Thursday, October 25, 10 am-noon Fisher, Flower Show Executive WORKSHOP: WALL BASKET LECTURE: LANDSCAPES WITH Walter Members $27 Guests $30_ BULBS Committee member and perennial winner in Flower Show bulb classes, will Members $8 Guests $10 CHANTICLEER STROLL teach all the essentials of forcing includ- AT-HOME SERIES: DRY STONE Members $1 5 Guests $1 7_ ing methods of attaining full, robust pots WALLS of bloom, mechanics of planting, forcing WORKSHOP: ORCHIDS FOR Members $18 ^ timetables, tips on grooming and exhibi- THE HOME M WORKSHOP: GATHERED tion, cold storage techniques, and best Member«f25_ Guests $35 WREATHS varieties for forcing. Members $28 Guests $32 Each participant will plant two 8" clay AT-HOME SERIES: YARD WORKSHOP: JEREMIAH BASKET pots using Tulipa 'Apricot Beauty', WASTE MANAGEMENT Members $35 Guests $40 designated for 1 991 's competitive classes Members $10 Guests $12 and a narcissus suitable for entry in the GETTING STARTED WITH novice narcissus classes. WORKSHOP: FORCING BULBS FLOWERS All materials will be provided. Limited Members $30 Guests $34 Members $30 Guests $35 to 20 participants. Fee: $30 members; $34 guests NAME WORKSHOP: GROWING PLANTS AS ADDRESS STANDARDS ZIP .TELEPHONE: home Tuesday, October 30, 10 am-noon Horticulturist Charles W. Rogers, Jr. work^ will introduce plants suitable for training as standards and will teach the basic principles for house or greenhouse LECTURE: COLORFUL, CAREFREE WORKSHOP: JEREMIAH BASKET culture, planting, maintaining, fertilizing, LANDSCAPES WITH BULBS Friday, November 15, 10 am- 2 pm and pruning. Co-sponsored by Scott Arboretum Linda Tenaglia's choice for the second Participants will start a 8-10" Tuesday, November 6, 5:45-7:15 pm basketry project is the Jeremiah basket, a windowsill-size standard using a tropical Brent Heath, third generation bulb large, colorful and useful market basket plant suitable for house or greenhouse grower and owner of The Daffodil Mart, for beginner and/or intermediate culture. will discuss bulbs and theirmost efficient, weavers. This basket has a pre-formed Participants should bring sharp clip- effective uses in the landscape. Geared oak handle and is woven with natural and pers or shears; all other materials will be for the keen gardener or professional, this dyed reeds using traditional splint-work provided. talk will include bulbs as companion technique. Your choices of color make Chuck Rogers manages The plants, outstanding bulb combinations, each basket unique. Greenhouse at Meadowbrook Farm. interplanting, best cultivars for mass for- Participants should r : ig a bucket, mal naturalized plantings, techni- Travel directions will be mailed in or new straight-edged ruler, scissors or clippers, a tools, fertilizers for power- mid-October. ques and and dozen spring-type clothespins, and a ful bloom. Fee: $34 members brown-bag lunch. Coffee and tea will be Heath's wholesale/retail mail order provided. bulb business is in rural Gloucester LOIS W. PAUL MEMORIAL LECTURE: Fee: $35 members; $38 guests County, Virginia. CREATING SPACE AND OTHER CITY GARDEN ILLUSIONS Program begins promptly at 5:45 pm, followed by wine and nibbles. Thursday, November 1, 5:45-7:15 pm Fee: $8 Scott and PUS members; $10 Linda Yang, gardener and columnist for guests WORKSHOP: GETTING STARTED The Home Section of Thursday's New NOTE: The Library will be open until WITH FLOWERS York Times, will illustrate ideas for Tuesday, November 20, 10 am-noon creating space and other city garden 5:45 pm this evening. illusions using plants and architectural Novice arrangers shouldn't miss this elements. Ms. Yang's slides show what opportunity to create a lovely autumn many gardeners from coast to coast have AT-HOME SERIES: CONSTRUCTING arrangement with PHS staffer, Peggy accomplished with positive emphasis on DRY STONE WALLS Grady. Introductory discussions of flower the challenges and joys that face city Wednesday, November 7, 1 am-noon arranging principles and flower selection gardeners. This topic will interest anyone Raindate: Friday, November 9, will serve as guidelines to bolster your who gardens in a small space or 1 am-noon confidence and enhance your creativity. containers. Constructing dry stone walls is the An artful array of blossoms and other materials will supplied. Linda Yang's new book, The City perfect outdoor project for cool autumn be Gardener's Handbook: From Balcony to days, and Morris Berd is the perfect in- Participants should bring a knife, clip- structor to stimulate the builder in all of transport Backyard is the expanded success to pers and a box to completed Terrace Gardener's Handbook, both us. Morris will tear down a portion of arrangement. based on her practical experiences existing wall to demonstrate how to build Fee: $30 members; $35 guests wall and/or repair existing gardening in the city. Her articles and a dry stone an Discussions will include practical photographs have appeared in many one. tips walls from site national magazines. on building modest • • • preparation to planting suitable varieties Program will begin promptly at into the wall itself. 5:45 pm followed by wine and nibbles. SCOTTISH GARDEN TOUR Morris Berd is an artist and gardener Fee: $9 members; $1 1 guests June, 1991 extraordinaire, known for his collections Note: The Library will be open until Next summer Jane Pepper, PHS Presi- of plants, propagating successes, and his 5:45 pm this evening. dent, will lead a 14-day tour of Scottish dry stonewalls. gardens in and around Inverness, Perth Travel directions will be mailed in late and Edinburgh. Brochures will be avail- BULB PLANTING WORKSHOP October. able in November. Ifyou'd like to receive Tuesday, November lOam-noon 6, Fee: $18 members one, please send a self-addressed, Scott Arboretum, Swarthmore business-size envelope to Scottish Tour, Bulb specialist Brent Heath of Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Gloucester County, Virginia, will con- 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA WORKSHOP: GATHERED WREATHS duct a practical hands-on workshop on 19106-2777. bulb planting. Discussion topics include Monday, November 12, 10am-12:30pm the mechanics of bulb planting, nutrition, Wild herbs, grasses, and flowers are when to fertilize, techniques of mass gathered together to create lush wreaths PHS News (USPS 763-640) is published monthly except luly by the Pennsylvania planting, bedding, naturalizing, profes- reflecting participants own creativity. Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut Street, will sional tools, interplanting, and ways to Ruth Flounders and Frank Keiser give Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. Subscription — Single copies Second create dramatic rivers of bulbs. step-by-step instructions, herblore, and $9.75 per year— 80c class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. and tips on gathering and drying. Participants will help plant a prepared additional mailing office. Postmaster: send bed and a naturalized area at Scott Participants should bring clippers and a address changes to PHS News, 325 Walnut Street, Phila., Pa. 19106. Arboretum in Swarthmore, co-sponsor of box to transport finished 14" wreaths. All Chair: Donald L. Felley this workshop. Travel directions will be other materials will be provided. Limited President: )aneG. Pepper Stephano mailed in October. to 12. Editor: Lisa Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth C Cullan Fee: $15 members; $18 guests. Fee: $28 members; $32 guests — . cTTzaLza. tfJaxaEJi crflmariaek Buy a Tree program in box). Children's donation. For more information call Kate bulb planting projects, a barbershop Swartz at (2 1 5) 625-8280 ext. 30. Bring your folding chair, blanket and quartet, storytelling under the great old PHS has made lots of new friends this lots of friends as we ring in the fall season elm, hot cider, popcorn, ice cream and year in addition to the Garden's dedi- on October 21 with — Gay N i neties, An activities geared to family members of all cated team of pruners and weeders. Our Autumn Afternoon in the Park. ages set the stage for a great afternoon in friendly neighbor on Logan Square, The Friends of the Azalea Garden have the Park. Friends' are invited free of Four Seasons Hotel, has generously been mighty busy throughout the summer charge, guests are encouraged to make a supplied the Friends Committee with sprucing up the garden during Saturday several Tea For Two afternoons to be clean-up days. Thanks to the Friends raffled off each clean-up day. Another group, to Heyser landscaping, and to raffle, sponsored by local merchants, will our friends from the Fairmount Park BUY A TREE provide winning guests at the Gay the is in Nineties event with choice local fare. Commission, Garden great shape Replanting the ring of trees around the and we are ready to tackle a new project, If Friends perimeter of the Azalea Garden is an am- you would like to join the one the tree fund. On Sunday, October 21 bitious task and we need your help to do Saturday each month to prune, weed, or from 2-4:30 pm, a Gay Nineties celebra- plant, or, if you would like to participate it. Your donation of $500 will purchase tion in the Azalea Garden, will kick-off a in one of the Friends' committees, please one tree. If you would like to help us with new year of fundraising and membership the tree fund, please send your check to give Kate a call at the number above. If promotion so we can start re-planting PHS c/o Jane Pepper, President. you'd preferto participate from afar, we'd trees to replace the aging sycamores be delighted with your donation toward along the perimeter of the Garden (see the Garden's maintenance fund. I am interested in contributing: October 13, November 10 and December 8 from 9-12 Enclosed is my donation for $ (payable to PHS/F.OA.O). • join a Friends committee Time to: Return to: Jane G. Pepper, President • help plant additional perennial and Money to: The Pennsylvania bulb beds • buy a tree Horticultural Society • weed and prune on Garden Days • contribute to the Garden's ongoing 325 Walnut Street upcoming Garden Days are maintenance fund Philadelphia, PA 19106-2777 Name- Address . City . State Zip_ Phone Day Evening Second Class PHS NEWS Postage PAID The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 325 Walnut St. • Philadelphia, PA 19106 Phone (215) 625-8250 0% f 3 Recycled Paper ftORT/ Visit PHS Exhibit: Watercolors by K c Janet McShane Through November 14 PHS NEWS The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society J 8 27 • Volume XXXI, No. 10 NOVEMBER, 1990 Pepperpot THE HARVEST SHOW A Time to Reap As a dirt gardener, the Harvest Show As the summer's sowings came to bear gives me a big charge each year. Beautiful fruit, the Harvest Show blossomed with as it is, it's not just the produce, but also more than just the standard fare of fruit, the pride and joy with which the garden- flowers and vegetables. Nearly 700 ers make their presentations. In some AIDES NEEDED FOR 1991 children with an average age of five, cases if s three peppers carefully selected PHILADELPHIA FLOWER SHOW came tumbling out to the Show, parents from a huge basket to represent the very Arrangement Aides are needed daily in tow, to view a splendid array of entries best of the crop. Bounty by the Basket March 9-16 (except Sunday) from and take part in a multitude of children's brings out the best of gardeners like Sue 6:30to9:15AM. activities. Armstrong, Sue Leary and Dorothy Barrier Aides are needed daily Weaving their way through a maze of Noble, whose baskets were filled with tents and hay, youngsters made paper March 1 1-16 to facilitate judging of peppers and tomatoes, gourds, eggplants beads, got a bird's eye view of a compost design classes from 8 AM until judging and potatoes in a range of varieties. And pet tank and painted a total of 650 pump- is completed around 1 pm. in the floral bounty classes, everyone in kins and butternut squash. Hospitality Aides are needed daily the area caught their breath when Todd March 9-16 (except Sunday) from The Harvest Show's adult visitors, and Patricia Phiiiippi brought in a large 6:30to9:15AM. when not scrambling after their young basket filled with Japanese anemones, charges, filled hourly lectures and Horticulture Barrier Aides are needed salvias, dahlias, cosmos and the late demonstrations to capacity, collected on Tuesday, March 1 2 and Friday, gourmet blossoms from their garden in seed of heritage tomato plants at Craig 15 from until judging is Northeast Philadelphia. After their four March 8 AM display and completed. LeHoullier's educational children had gone to bed, they had sat up enjoyed the harvest of more than 400 half the night preparing the basket and We welcome PHS members as exhibitors from city and suburb. The best entry information. volunteers; please check the appropriate of the best of this year's winners are listed box on the Reservations coupon on page on page four. (Continued on page four) three. Gifts to Grow On What better way to celebrate the holidays than by giving a friend a year's membership in PHS. This year round pleasure provides a free plant, subscriptions to the award-winning Green Scene magazine and PHS News, a free ticket to the Philadelphia Flower Show and the Harvest Show, as well as advance notice on workshops, trips and many other activities. Individual price — $35 Family price $45 (entitles you to three Show Tickets) Send gift membership to: Sent from: Name Name Address. Address. City City State -Z'P- State -Zip- Return form to GIFTS, PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA Amount of check enclosed: 1 91 06 no later than December 1 0. Activities LECTURES, MEETINGS LECTURE: COLORFUL, CAREFREE DEMONSTRATION: ARRANGING (Open to all without charge) LANDSCAPES WITH BULBS FROM THE WINTER GARDEN Co-sponsored Monday, December 3, 1 am-noon CENTER CITY ORCHID SOCIETY by Scott Arboretum Tuesday, November 6, 5:45-7:15 pm Longview Farm, Malvern, PA Monday, November 19, 7 pm Brent third Joanna Reed's informal arranging Robert Coia: Paphiopedilum Heath, generation bulb grower and owner of The Daffodil Mart, stems from her desire to bring her garden Monday, December 10, 7 pm will discuss bu lbs and their indoors regardless of the season. In this Stephen Shifflett: Holistic Orchid Care most efficient, effective uses in the landscape. Geared second program on seasonal arranging, for the keen gardener or professional, this Joanna will talk about her "stick and • • • talk will include bulbs as companion stuff" technique and conditioning of plants, outstanding bulb combinations, plants as she demonstrates ways to use interplanting, best cultivars for mass for- treasures from the winter garden: berries, LOIS W. PAUL MEMORIAL LECTURE: mal or naturalized plantings, new techni- evergreens, interesting fruits, foliage, and CREATING SPACE AND OTHER CITY ques and tools, and fertilizers for power- twigs. GARDEN ILLUSIONS ful bloom. Travel instructions will be mailed in Thursday, November 1, 5:45-7:15 pm Heath's wholesale/retail mail order mid-November. Linda Yang, gardener and columnist for bulb business is in rural Gloucester Fee: $13 members; $15 guests The Home Section of Thursday's New County, Virginia. Limited to one guest per member. York Times, will illustrate ideas for Program begins promptly at 5:45 pm, creating space and other city garden followed by wine and nibbles. illusions using plants architectural and Fee: $8 Scott and PHS members; $10 elements. Ms. Yang's slides show what guests FIELD TRIP: HOLIDAY SAMPLER many gardeners from coast to coast have IN GERMANTOWN NOTE: The Library will be open until accomplished with positive emphasis on Wednesday, December 5, 9 am-4 pm 5:45 pm this evening. the challenges and joys that face city Join us for a leisurely tour of four gardeners. This topic will interest anyone historic Germantown houses decorated who gardens in a small space or for the holidays. First we'll visit Cliveden, WORKSHOP: JEREMIAH BASKET containers. residence of the Chew family for nearly Thursday, November 15, 10am-2 pm Linda Yang's new book, The City 200 years. Cliveden houses fineexamples Linda Tenaglia's choice for the second Gardener's Handbook: From Balcony to of 18th and 19th-century Philadelphia basketry project is the Jeremiah basket, a Backyard is the expanded successor to craftsmanship. Our next stop is large, colorful and useful market basket Terrace Gardener's Handbook, both Grumblethorpe, restored and furnished for beginner and/or intermediate based on her practical experiences as it might have been when built bv John weavers. This basket has a pre-formed gardening in the city. Her articles and Wisterin 1744. oak handle and is woven with natural and photographs have appeared in many We'll have lunch at Loudon and a tour dyed reeds using traditional splint-work national magazines. of the Greek Revival house built in 1801. technique. Your choices of color make Program will begin promptly at Loudon has original 1 8th and 1 9th each basket unique. 5:45 pm followed by wine and nibbles. century furnishings and paintings. Participants should bring a bucket, Fee: $9 members; $1 1 guests Our last visit will be Stenton Mansion, straight-edged ruler, scissors or clippers, a Note: The Library will be open until an early Georgian country manor house dozen spring-type clothespins, and a 5:45 pm this evening. built 1 723-30 by James Logan, secretary brown-bag lunch. Coffee and tea will be to William Penn. Stenton contains high- provided. style period furnishings reflective of the BULB PLANTING WORKSHOP Fee: $35 members; $38 guests first three generations of the Logan family. Tuesday, November 6, 10am-noon Fee of $42 for members and $45 for Scott Arboretum, Swarthmore guests includes round-trip transportation, Bulb specialist Brent Heath of WORKSHOP: GETTING STARTED all entrance and guide fees, and lunch. Gloucester County, Virginia, will con- WITH FLOWERS Details of bus pick-up in Center City and duct a practical hands-on workshop on Tuesday, November 20, 10 am-noon Horticulture Center in Fairmount Park bulb planting. Discussion topics include Novice arrangers shouldn't miss this will be mailed to participants. the mechanics of bulb planting, nutrition, opportunity to create a lovely autumn when to fertilize, techniques of mass arrangement with PHS staffer, Peggy planting, bedding, naturalizing, profes- Grady. Introductory discussions of flower sional tools, interplanting, and ways to arranging principles and flower selection create dramatic rivers of bulbs. WORKSHOP: DOUBLE-BASED will serve as guidelines to bolster your Participants will help plant a prepared ROUND BASKET confidence and enhance your creativity. bed and a naturalized area at Scott Thursday, December 6, 10 am-2 pm An artful array of blossoms and other Arboretum in Swarthmore, co-sponsor of This round-based spoked basket is one materials will be supplied. this workshop. Travel directions will be of the most basic and useful baskets in the Participants should bring a knife, clip- mailed when your reservation is received series, a "must" forany basketry collec- pers and a box to transport completed 0" at PHS. tion. Approximately 1 in diameter and arrangement. 7" Fee: $15 members; $18 guests. high with a handle, the basket is woven Fee: $30 members; $35 guests of natural and dyed reeds. 1 8 Instructor Linda Tenaglia has chosen WORKSHOP: TABLETOP TOPIARIES create your own tabletop topiary for the this one as a comfortable basket for begin- FOR THE HOLIDAYS holidays. Participants should bring hand ners and intermediate weavers to Tuesday, December 11,10 am-noon pruners/clippers, scissors, and a small complete in class and duplicate on their Interesting foliage combinations make box to transport a 5" clay pot. All fresh own. these I ittle trees stand out as tabletop dec- greens and berries and other materials Participants should bring a bucket, orations or holiday gifts. Individuality is will be provided. straight-edged ruler, scissors or clippers, achieved through your selection of fresh Peggy Grady is assistant librarian/ one dozen spring-type clothespins, and a greens and berries, and the frame can be horticulturist and Carol Lindemann is brown-bag lunch. Coffee and tea will be re-used for many years. PHS administrative assistant. provided. PHS staffers Peggy Grady and Carol Fee: $33 members; $37 guests Fee: $35 members; $38 guests Lindemann will lead you through steps to Reservations Clip and mail reservations to: FIELD TRIP: PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 HILLWOOD AND THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL, Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form below lo speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. Confirmations for WASHINGTON, D.C. events at PHS are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we will expect you. Field trip Thursday, December 13, 7 am-7 pm confirmations with important trip information are mailed ten days prior to the event. There I wenty-five PHS members and guests is limited space for all activities (except spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two will have a two-hour tour of Hillwood, consecutive issues of the PHS News. former home of Marjorie Merri weather Refunds and cancellations: Post, whose Russian collection is the most If you wish to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative fee will be deducted from your refund as follows: representative outside the Soviet Union. $2 fee for all events other than one-day field trips provided your request is received no On display are extraordinary pieces by later than two days prior to the event. some of Europe's foremost artists, $5 fee for one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than four days cabinetmakers, silver and goldsmiths, prior to the event. plus Fabergeeggs, porcelains, icons, Beauvais tapestries, and 1 8th-century french furniture. LECTURE: CREATING SPACE, FIELD TRIP: HOLIDAY SAMPLER In Georgetown, you'll shopor lunch on GARDEN ILLUSIONS INGERMANTOWN your own before a 3 pm guided tour of Members $9 Guests $1 Members $42 Guests $45 Washington's National Cathedral, dedi- Pick-up: HC CC BULB PLANTING WORKSHOP cated this September after 83 years under Members $ 1 5 Guests $ 1 WORKSHOP: DOUBLE-BASED construction. This Gothic masterpiece, BASKET also known as the Cathedral of Sts. Peter LECTURE: LANDSCAPES WITH ROUND BULBS Members $35 Guests $38 and Paul, was chartered by Congress in 1893. Members $8 Guests $10 WORKSHOP: TABLETOP TOPIARIES Fee includes round-trip transportation, WORKSHOP: JEREMIAH BASKET refreshments on the bus, and all entrance Members $33 Guests $37 Members $35 Guests $40 and guide fees. FIELD TRIP: HILLWOODAND GETTING STARTED WITH Information about bus pick-ups in THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL FLOWERS Center City and at the Horticu Itu re Center Members $46 Guests $50 Members $30 Guests $35 in Fairmount Park will be mailed in late Pick-up: HC CC ARRANGING FROM THE November. WINTER GARDEN Fee: $46 members; $50 guests Members $13 Guests $15 I would like to volunteer as a Flower Show Aide. Please check only one and return form to Marge Meer at PHS before December 1, 1990. Arrangements [~J Barriers-Horticulture PHS News (USPS 763-6401 is published monthly except July by the Pennsylvania Barriers-Arrangements ] Hospitality Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. Subscription — $9.75 per year—Single copies 80c. Second NAME class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. and additional mailing office. Postmaster: send ADDRESS address changes to PHS News, 325 Walnut Street, Phila., Pa. 19106 Chair: Donald L. Felley ZIP .TELEPHONE: home President: laneC. Pepper Editor: Lisa Stephano work_ Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth G. Gullan HARVEST SHOW (Continued) Grateful thanks to Walt and Ann, to Bill New in the Library and Mary and to all the other Harvest PHS AWARDS Azaleas, Christopher Fairweather, Show exhibitors and to the committee led The Certificate of Excellence was 1988. by Ann Benzel, chair and Sandy awarded to Scott Arboretum of vice chair. Climbing roses, Christopher Warner, Manthorpe, My gardening Swarthmore College, Penn State Uni- 1988. batteries were fully charged by the end of versity, Walt Fisher and Ann Schaferand the weekend by the beautifu I exhibits and Dahlias, Philip 1 William and Mary Coppens, for their edu- Damp, 988. also by the enthusiasm of all who cational displays. The PHS Gardener's The floral designer, Joanna Sheen, participated. Sweepstakes to the individual winning 1990. the greatest number of blue ribbons in Fuchsias, Jill R.Clark, 1988. two or more sections of the Show was Herbs, Simon Hopkinson, 1989. awarded to Sue Leary of Collingswood, Magnolias, James M. Gardiner, 1989. Jane G. Pepper N) with 1 7 blue ribbons. The Community Modern garden roses, Peter Harkness, President Garden Sweepstakes Certificate went to 1988. Brickyard Farm, 4245-49 Sansom Street Plants or ground cover, Graham Stuart Statement of Ownership Management and Circulation and the PHS Club Sweepstakes was won lAct of October 23. 1 962; Section 4369. Title 39. United Thomas, 1990. Stales Codel. I. Date of Filing October 4. 1990 2 Title of by Four Counties Garden Club. Publication: PHS News. 3- Frequency of Issue: Monthly, Reading the French garden, Denise except lulv 4-5- Location of Known Office of Publication and Headquarters: Walnut Street, Philadelphia. NATIONAL COUNCIL OF STATE LeDantec, 1990. 325 Pa 19106. 6, Names and Addresses of Publisher, Editor and GARDEN CLUB AWARDS Managing Editor: Publisher — Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Philadelphia. Pa. 19106: Editor —Lisa Stephano. Mabel Engle of Columbus, NJ won the Pepperpot S2S Walnut Street. Philadelphia. Pa. 19106 7 Owner — (Cunlinued hum page one) the Pennivlijnij Horticultural Society, Philadelphia, Pa, Creativity Award and the Tricolor Award 1 9 1 06 8 Known bondholders, mortgages and other security holders holding one percent or more of total amount of bonds, was captured by James and Amanda I also get a charge out of selfless mortgages or other securities; None. 9 Extent and Nature of Hayden. The Award of Horticultural gardeners like Bill and Mary Coppens Circulation: Average Actual No. Excellence presented to the Horticultural who spend all summer tending vege- No. Copies Copies of Each Issue Single Issue exhibit scoring 95 points or and tables and fruits in containers in their city more Extent and Nature During Published judged as the finest in the National backyard so we can enjoy them at the of Circulation Preceding Nearest to 12Mos. Filing Date Council Sections of the Horticultural Harvest Show. Neither the Coppens, nor A Total No. Copies Division went to Sue Armstrong of West Walt Fisher, a new exhibitor in the educa- 1 Vet Press Run) 8133 8400 B Paid Circulation tional category this year, Chester. Walt Fisher of Bryn Mawr could think 1 Sales through dealers and carriers, street ver dors walked away again this year with the about leaving their charges to take a counter sales Award of Merit for his Celosia "Fir summer vacation. 2. Mail Subscription 8073 8340 C Total Paid Circulation Dragon". The Arboreal Award was won A giant of a man, Walt is known for his sumoi 10B1 and WB2) -8073 8340 D Free Distribution by Mail by Eleanor Lloyd of Chestnut Hill and the precision in gardening, the kind of Carrier or other means Educational award was presented to Walt precision that has won him endless blue Samples, Complimentary, and other free copies 60 60 Fisher and Ann Schafer for their display ribbons in the spring Show's bulb classes E Total Distribution 'Sum of C I Office use. left over un- Junior Achievement Awards were given beautifully grown celosias. This year he accounted, spoiled after to Libby Diament and Kimberton not only had to grow the best celosias, but printing 2 Return from News Agents Waldorf, of Kimtosna Epps the Children he also had to design the exhibit, make C Total (Sum of E. Ft and 2- ^houid equal net press run of Gethsemane commu n ity ga rden, Ruth, the signs and staging and go into partner- •.hown in -V' 8133 8400 David and Justin Phillippi, and the ship with Ann Schafer, who took charge H 1 certify that the statements made bv me above are Editor Delaware Valley Mental Health Facility of the all-celosia flower arrangements. c orrect and complete Lisa Stephano Youth Group. GARDEN CLUB FEDERATION OF PENNSYLVANIA The Educational and Conservation Second Class Award was presented to William and PHS NEWS Postage Mary Coppens for their educational dis- PAID play "Exploration with Concrete The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Gardening". 325 Walnut St.* Philadelphia, PA 19106 DISTRICT I AWARD Phone (215) 625-8250 Lazaro C. Fontanilla, Jr. won the District I Trophy in the Design Section Table Class. PHILADELPHIA AREA JUDGES COUNCIL AWARD Mabel Engle won the Katherine Lirtlewood Reiger Memorial Trophy for her outstanding blue ribbon entry in the Design Section. 0% W J^ Recycled Paper 1 .OK 77, Visit PHS Exhibit: Possum Huts in the Cow Barn display by Helga Tacreiter December 3-28 PHS NEWSReception: December 7, 5-7 pm The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society PHS CLOSED FOR THE HOLIDAYS — December 14 (from noon-5 pm) 24, 25, 31 and January 1 Volume XXXI, No. 1 DECEMBER, 1990 ^sumgammmmmmmmm GRANTING A GREENER beautiful blooming gateway next MEMBERSHIP/INFORMATION TOMORROW — PHS RECEIVES summer. BOOTH SEEKS VOLUNTEERS FOR BONUS FROM PEW Azalea Garden FLOWER SHOW Members Committee chair Sylvia PHS will ring in the new year with Even with the azaleas deep in their Lin invites members to help staff the some very generous support from The autumn slumber, a great time was had Membership/Information Booth at the Pew Charitable Trusts, William Penn by all who attended the first annual Gay 1991 Philadelphia Flower Show, Foundation and Sun Company, Inc. for Nineties —a Sunday Afternoon in the March 10-17. Information volunteers thefurtherment of the Society's out- Park hosted by PHS in October as a reach programs, Philadelphia Green special thanks to all those wonderful will direct visitors to exhibits; member- ship volunteers will questions and Center City Green. volunteers who work to keep the answer in great shape. about the Society and sell memberships The three-year Pew grant, will enable Garden A barbershop quartet, the Sweet Adeline's singing and assorted Flower Show souvenirs. PHS to continue its successful greening group, children's activities and tasty To volunteer, check the appropriate efforts in the city's low and moderate box on the Reservation Form, page income neighborhoods, while en- treats donated by Breyers Ice Cream of Kraft, Inc., three. couraging us to expand our horizons as Herb Gustow, Judy Foley for Confirmations will be mailed in to how PHS can contributeto neighbor- and Tasty Baking Co. made a suc- January. hood greening. The grant will also cessful party and as a bonus, enough funds were raised to buy and plant the enable the Society to support new FLOWER SHOW WINTER first replacement tree for the perimeter endeavors to improve the City's public WORKSHOPS face through the landscaping of area of the Garden. If you would like to It's never too early to be thinking important public spaces through the know more about the Friends of the about spring and with this year's winter Center City Green Program and through Azalea Garden or would like to partici- workshops at The Highlands, spring a special William Penn Center City trees pate in the next weekend Garden clean- arrives in the form of several morning project. up day, December 8, please call Kate sessions geared to Artistic Class ex- Schwartz at (2 1 5) 625-8280 ext. 30. The second phase of the William hibitors both new and old. Beginning Penn Foundation grant has begun with January 23 and continuing each the hiring of Mindy Maslin as tree Wednesday through February 27 from education coordinator. Mindy will be 10 am to 12, exhibitors will enjoy short taking trees "on the road" with a new presentations on "Fitting Your Back- education program geared to students ground", "Tips for Travel to the Show", and teachers in the Philadelphia school "Problem Solvers: Emergency Kits", system. School tree projects will ACCOLADES FOR GREENING EFFORTS "Lighting Techniques", "Prepare to be include workshops, assembly presenta- Foundation for Architecture has The Passed", and "Here Comes the judge". tions and hands-on planting programs presented its Award of Excellence to The Highlands is located at 7001 with students. Teachers who are in- "All Philadelphians who devote such Schaeff Lane in Fort Washington. For terested in finding out more about this loving energy to the greening of more information, call Marge Meers at program should call Mindy at Philadelphia" citing PHS's (215)625-8292. (215)625-8280. Philadelphia Green program as the organizing body behind the greening MEMBERSHIP TRAVEL NOTES- Sun Beautifies 26th Street movement. The Award, given annually VIRGINIA AND COLORADO PHS's 26th Street Gateway as part of the FFA's Awards for Urban PHS will sponsor two short Improvement Project entered its second Design Excellence, was voted on by horticultural tours during the spring phase this fall with additional clearing FFA members and Philadelphia leaders and summer of 1 991 . In late April, 25 and grading. If you drove by in and was presented for the place that is members and guests will visit gardens November, you may have noticed de- most characteristic of our City — and in Virginia around Richmond, the bris — old cars, tires and radiators — most accessible to — all Philadel- Northern Neck, and Fredericksburg. being removed and the ground being phians. Thanks to everyone for recog- Although this is Virginia Garden Week, prepared in readiness for planting next nizing the important role gardens and we're fortunate to have invitations to spring. Look for the beginnings of a greening play in our lives. (Continued on page four) Activities LECTURES, MEETINGS guests includes round-trip transportation, morechallengingthan earlier baskets in (Open to all without charge) all entrance and guide fees, and lunch. the series, is suitable for beginners with CENTER CITY ORCHID SOCIETY Details of bus pick-up in Center City and patience and good manual dexterity Horticulture Center in Fairmount Park and/or intermediate weavers. Monday, December 10, 7 pm will be mailed to participants. Stephen Shifflet: Holistic Orchid Care Experienced basketry instructor, Linda Tenaglia, will guide the partici- Monday, January 21, 7 pm WORKSHOP: DOUBLE-BASED pants through steps to complete the egg Azhar Mustafa: (program to be ROUND BASKET or melon basket. Participants should announced) Thursday, December 6, 10 am-2 pm bring a bucket, a straight-edged ruler, scissors or clippers, one dozen spring- SPECIAL EVENTS This round-based spoked basket is one of the most basic and useful baskets in the type clothespins, and a brown bag series, a "must" for any basketry collec- lunch. Coffee and tea will be provided. EXHIBIT: 0" HOLIDAY POSSUM HUTS tion. Approximately 1 in diameter and Fee of $31 for members and $35 for IN THE COW BARN 7" high with a handle, the basket is woven guests includes all other materials. December 3-28, 1990 of natural and dyed reeds. GROUND COVERS Monday - Friday, 9am-5 pm Instructor Linda Tenaglia has chosen Saturday, January 12, 10-1 1:30 am EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION: this one as a comfortable basket for begin- Winter, the most productive garden Friday, December 7, 5-7 pm ners and intermediate weavers to planning season, is the time to investi- in class and duplicate their The 1 990 Holiday exhibit features an complete on gate ground covers appropriate for your exhibition of handcrafted miniature own. garden. Roxie Gevjan, successful houses called "Possum Huts", com- Participants should bring a bucket, gardener and propagator, will devote plete with furniture, utensils, plants, straight-edged ruler, scissors or clippers, this session to effective ground covers, and holiday decorations, in a one dozen spring-type clothespins, and a barn-like focusing mostly on lower-growing setting including a herd of life-size soft brown-bag lunch. Coffee and tea will be blooming and foliage evergreen plants. sculpture angus cattle. provided. Through slides and discussions, Roxie Friday, Fee: $35 members; $38 guests loin us on December 7, to will explore options from common to artist/craftsperson meet Helga unusual plants, their culture, site selec- Tacreiter and learn the techniques she LECTURE: GERTRUDE JEKYLL tion, availability and sources. She will uses to create Possum Huts in the Cow Thursday, January 10, 5;45-7:15 pm also give tips on ways to encourage Barn. Holiday libations and refresh- Garden historian Judith Tankard will ground covers to spread and how to ments provided. Reception is free to all talk about Gertrude Jekyll, legendary increase your supplv through members, but reservations are required. artist and gardener. Ms. Tankard will propagation. To reserve, kindly check the discuss lekyll's background, how she Fee: $10 members; $12 guests appropriate box on the reservation translated her artistic training into form, page three. DEMONSTRATION: garden art with emphasis on Munstead FUN WITH PRESSED FLOWERS Wood and other Jekyll gardens. Discus- • • • Monday, January 14, 10-11:30 am sion topics will include planting combi- Barbara Keenan and Rosemarie nations, favorite plants, and how FIELD TRIP: HOLIDAY SAMPLER Vassalluzzo want to get you started on a Gertrude Jekyll put them all together. IN GERMANTOWN lifelong hobby of pressing plants to Judith Tankard, freelance writer, Wednesday, December 5, 9 am-4 pm create simple or sophisticated pictures, lecturer, editor, and photographer, isan loin us for a leisurely tour of four gifts, or stationery. Through a slide pre- instructor in the certificate programs of historic Germantown houses decorated sentation and demonstration, Barbara landscape design and gardening arts at for the holidays. First we'll visit Cliveden, and Rosemarie will teach how to select, Radcliffe College and the Arnold residence of the family collect, handle, press and store plants Chew for nearly Arboretum of Harvard University. 200 years. Cliveden houses fine examples with tips on designing, gluing, framing, Program begins promptly at 5:45 pm, of 18th and 19th-century Philadelphia and preserving your treasures for followed by wine and nibbles. craftsmanship. Our next stop is Flower Show exhibits or personal en- Fee: $10 members; $12 guests Grumblethorpe, restored and furnished joyment at home. Note: The Library will be open until as it might have been when built by )ohn Beginners and experienced flower 5:45 this evening. Wistenn 1744. pressers will glean important tips about We'll have lunch at Loudon and a tour the pressing process — all in prepara- of the Greek Revival house built in 1801. WORKSHOP: EGG OR MELON tion for a pressed flower design work- Loudon has original 18th and 19th BASKET shop scheduled for late spring. ( cntury furnishings and paintings. Friday, January 11,10 am-2 pm Rosemarie Vassalluzzo is a food and Our last visit will be Stenton Mansion, The egg or melon basket, a "must" gardencolumnistand 1991 Chairofthe art early Georgian country manor house for any basket collection, is a traditional Pressed Plant Class at the Flower Show. built 1 723-30 by James Logan, secretary Appalachian basket in the "rib" style Barbara Keenan, Chair of the Pressed to William Penn. Stenton contains high- construction. With 8" hoops forming Plant Class from 1988-1990, lectures stvle period furnishings reflective of the the basic struc ture, this basket features and conducts workshops on pressed first three generations of the Logan family. \\ eavers of natural and dyed splint with plants. Fee of $42 for members and $45 for round reed spokes. This project, a little Fee: $5 members; $7 guests 2 LECTURE: LANDSCAPE IN THE design or current ideas about estate art and garden history. She has taught at NOVELS OF JANE AUSTEN management. the Shipley School and most recently at Thursday, January 17, 5:45-7:15 pm Using slides of representative the Brearley School in New York and lane Austen's novels contain much gardens and estates, garden historian has lectured to a variety of groups along information about the development of Barbara O'Brien will examine some of the east coast. English landscape gardening in the 18th the important uses of garden and land- Program begins promptly at 5:45 pm, andearly 19th centuries. The landscape scape in Austen's novels and will dis- followed by wine and nibbles. setting, whether garden or parkland, is cuss various garden theories prevalent Fee: $8 members; $10 guests crucial to the plot; characters reveal in lane Austen's England. Note: The Library will be open until themselves as they talk about garden Mrs. O'Brien teaches and lectures on 5:45 pm this evening. PROPAGATION WORKSHOP: Reservations ORNAMENTAL EVERGREENS Clip and mail reservations to: Saturday, January 19, 9:30-noon PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 Learn about varieties, culture, uses Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form below to and propagation of smaller evergreens speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. Confirmations for including dwarf conifers from Alan P. events at PHS are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we will expect you. Field trip Slack experienced propagator and PHS confirmations with important trip information are mailed ten days prior to the event. There is limited space for all activities (except spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two Council member. Discussions will in- consecutive issues of the PHS News. clude the many uses of evergreens from Refunds and cancellations: accents in the landscape to container- If you wish to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative fee will be deducted grown patio decorations. Participants from your refund as follows: will propagate some rarer forms of $2 fee for all events other than one-day field trips provided your request is received no evergreens. later than two days prior to the event. $5 fee for one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than four days All materials will be provided. prior to the event. Fee: $27 members; $30 guests FIELD TRIP: HOLIDAY SAMPLER PRESSED PLANTS WRITING FOR GREEN SCENE INGERMANTOWN Members $5 Guests $7 AND OTHER GARDENING Members PUBLICATIONS $42 Guests $45 LECTURE: LANDSCAPE IN THE and February Pick-up: HC CC NOVELS OF JANE AUSTEN Saturdays, January 26 2, 10 am to 3 pm Members Guests $10 DOUBLE-BASED $8 WORKSHOP: Now that you've put away your ROUND BASKET WORKSHOP: PROPAGATING spades and shovels, it's time to sharpen Members $35 Guests $38 ORNAMENTAL EVERGREENS your pencils or go to your computers to Members $27 Guests $30 share your tall gardening tales, paint a LECTURE: GERTRUDE JEKYLL GREEN SCENE WRITING portrait of a gardening hero, or just Members $10 Guests $12 COURSE plain tell how it is in the plant world. Members $65 Guests $75 This is a course for those who have WORKSHOP: EGG/MELON LECTURE: THE WINTER GARDEN never written, who have trouble getting BASKET started, or who have trouble revising. Members $8 Guests $10 Members $31 Guests $35 We'll be looking attechniques forget- LECTURE: USING FOLIAGE ting the right brain (creative side) and LECTURE: GROUND COVERS FOR COLOR left brain (organizer and critic) to dance Members $ 1 Guests 1 Guests $ Members $10 $13 together when we write. Maximum enrollment: 15 persons. Instructor: Jean Byrne, Green Scene editor. We will attend Holiday Exhibit Reception, Participants should bring a brown- December 7, 5-7 pm Number bag lunch PHS will supply beverages and dessert. Please send itinerary for the following: Fee: $65 members; $75 guests PHS trip to Virginia, April 1 991 (Continued on page four) PHS trip to Colorado, July 1 991 PHS News (USPS 763-640) is published ] I volunteer to work in the Membership/Information Booth at the 1991 monthly except luly by the Pennsylvania Philadelphia Flower Show Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. Subscription — $9.75 per year —Single copies 80c. Second NAME class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. and additional mailing office. Postmaster: send ADDRESS address changes to PHS News, 325 Walnut Street. Phila., Pa. 19106 ZIP TELEPHONE: home Chair: Donald L. Felley President: laneG. Pepper Stephano work_ Editor: Lisa Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth C. Gullan ACTIVITIES (Continued) PHS LIBRARY GOES HOTLINE HIATUS INTERNATIONAL WITH OCLC will for LECTURE: THE WINTER GARDEN The Hotline be closed the MEMBERSHIP month of December. On January 7, Thursday, January 31, 5:45-7:30 pm Armed with funding from the State 1 991 the Hotliners will resume normal Complete the gardening cycle with Library of Pennsylvania Department of hours, Monday - Friday from 9:30 to plants that will provide interest and Education, PHS's Library will shortly 1 2:00 noon. The Hotline number is beauty in your garden in winter as well become part of the Online Computer (215)922-8043. as other seasons of the year. Library Center, an international library Grateful thanks to our dedicated Horticulturist ). C. Raulston will dis- network that links PHS to more than volunteers for handling 2,453 garden- cuss plants for winter gardens 10,000 libraries worldwide. ing questions this past year. Richard and will focus on perennials, shrubs, With increased interest in gardening Both, Jane Carter, George Clark, Alice and trees with interesting textures, at- books during the past decade, the Doering, Joyce Fingerut, Harriett tractive barks, dramatic shapes, color- demand on PHS's holdings from other Green, Nancy Greenwood, Tarn ful berries or winter blooms. libraries has greatly increased. Now, Hartell, Louis Hood, Erich Meitzner, ). C. Raulston is a professor at North PHS will have the ability to satisfy this Natalie Nelson, Dot Plyler, Jen Porter, Carolina State University in Raleigh and demand by entering its holdings on Elizabeth Schumacher, Alan Slack, director of the NCSU Arboretum. OCLC and begin the interlibrary loan Irene Slater, John Swan, Susan Program will begin promptly at process. Likewise, PHS will also use the Wilmerding, Mary Lou Wolfe, and 5:45pm, followed by wineand nibbles. network as a source fortifies not avail- Wilbur Zimmerman. able in our collections. Currently, our Fee: $8 members; $10 guests card catalog is being incorporated into Note: The Library will be open until TRAVEL NOTES (Continued) the OCLC database: we'll let you know 5:45 pm this evening. visit private and public gardens when when we're online. they are not open as part of the Virginia Garden Week celebration. Itineraries will be ready in December 1990. LECTURE: USING FOLIAGE FOR New in the Library You'll have lots of time to re-load COLOR your camera and re-pack your suitcase Friday, February 1, 5:45-7:30 pm before leaving for a six-day Colorado PHS invites enthusiastic gardeners Artistically cultivated herbs, Elise adventure )uly 10. Participants will Felton, 1990. and professionals to our first Friday explore the wild and the tame, visiting evening lecture, featuring C. J. The Cattleyas and their relatives, Carl private and public gardens in Denver Raulston, professor of horticulture at L.Withner, 1990. and Vail areas interspersed with walks North Carolina State University. Complete manual of perennial through wildflower meadows in the Dr. Raulston will explore the of use ground covers, David S. MacKenzie, Rockies. Itineraries will be ready in late foliage to achieve color in the garden, a 1989. January. sophisticated concept popular in The complete old wive's lore for Jean Lenehan of Tours a la Carte European gardens. He will discuss gardeners, Maureen Boland, 1989. and Betsy Gullan, PHS membership plants notable for their shades or hues Diseases of shade trees, Terry A. coordinator, will accompany both that can be combined for a dramatic Tatter, 1989. groups. effect in the landscape and variegated Gardens on paper, Virginia Tuttle To receive your copy of trip and golden tones that can create pure Clayton, 1990. itineraries, kindly check the drama. The hummingbird book, Donald appropriate box on the reservation I. C. Raulston is a director of NCSU's Stokes, 1989. form, page three. Arboretum, devoted to promoting public awareness of valuable plants. Program begins promptly at 5:45 pm, followed by wine and nibbles. Second Class Fee: $10 members: $1 3 guests PHS NEWS Postage Note: The Library will be open until PAID Pennsylvania 5:45 pm this evening. The Horticultural Society 325 Walnut St. • Philadelphia, PA 19106 Phone (215) 625-8250 ^ Jf Recycled Paper 1 5 *ORT/ VISIT PHS EXHIBITS: Floral Oil Paintings K c Jessica Joern January 7 — February 1 PHS NEWSOpening reception January 4, 5-7 pm The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society PHS GOES ON TOUR SEE details on page four JANUARY, 1991 1991 Philadelphia Flower Show Philadelphia Civic Center March 10-17 ENDLESS SPRING Monday through Saturday 10 am to 9:30 pm Sundays 1 am to 6 pm Tickets on sale now at PHS, Ticketmaster, local garden centers and florists For more information call (2 15) 625-8253 (24 hrs.) SPECIAL FLOWER SHOW There is no charge for this event. Pepperpot DEMONSTRATIONS Please check reservation coupon on Cut flowers take center stage this year page three and return to PHS. We will The Flower Show could never at the Show and with all those beautiful mail seminar ticket to you in late open its doors if we had to depend bouquets, we're pleased to announce February. Show tickets can be completely on the few PHS staff mem- two special events by floral designers purchased at the Show or from PHS, bers with Show responsibilities. Our from Holland and Italy. Both events by local garden centers and florists. extended arms, legs and minds are reservation only. those 1 ,000 or so volunteers that rally Monday, March 11, 4:00 to 9:00 pm behind the Society and make it possible This is an evening of Dutch flower Monday, March 1 , 11 :00 am to for us to put on the best indoor flower bulb seminars and design events for 12:30 pm and show in the world. professionals in the floral industry. To European-style arranging by Mimma Chief among these resourceful and receive an invitation from the Dutch and Aldo Alberti and representatives of committed volunteers are the chair and Ambassador, please check reservation the Flower Council of Holland. vice-chair of the Competitive Classes. coupon on page three. Open to profes- The Albertis live in the San Remo Take Audrey Pfeilsticker for example, sional florists only. region of Liguria, on the Italian Riviera, who first caught Flower Show fever headquarters of the Italian flower- more than a decade ago when she growing industry. In addition to run- MEMBERSHIP/INFORMATION chaired the Four Lanes End Garden ning a flower business and store in the BOOTH SEEKS VOLUNTEERS FOR Clubexhibit in the room and table center of San Remo, the Albertis exhibit FLOWER SHOW classes. Such was her enthusiasm that in flower shows all over Europe. Members Committee chair Sylvia we signed her on as class vice-chair and Johan Weisz, chief designer for the Lin invites members to help staff the since then she's barely had time to Flower Council of Holland, will lead Membership/Information Booth at the breathe. the Dutch team of arrangers, known 1991 Philadelphia Flower Show, Audrey's time commitment to her worldwide for their large-scale dis- March 10-17. Information volunteers current job as chair of Competitive plays. Johan has staged exhibits across will direct visitors to exhibits; member- Classes is "almost full time" and there's Europe, winning commendations in the ship volunteers will answer questions many a week in January and February Europe Cup floral art competitions. In about the Society and sell memberships when you'll find her at PHS head- 1 988 he was chosen to design the and assorted Flower Show souvenirs. quarters all day almost every day. flower decorations for the coronation of To volunteer, check the box on the Initially, it was the people that drew Queen Beatrix. Reservation Form, page three. (Continued on page four) Activities LECTURES, MEETINGS DEMONSTRATION: and will focus on perennials, shrubs, (Open to all without charge) FUN WITH PRESSED FLOWERS and trees with interesting textures, at- Monday, January 14, 10-11 :30 am CENTER CITY ORCHID SOCIETY tractive barks, dramatic shapes, color- Through a slide presentation and Monday, January 21, 7 pm ful berries or winter blooms. demonstration, Barbara Keenan and Monday, February 18, 7 pm J. C. Raulston is a professor at North Rosemarie Vassalluzzo will teach how Carolina State University in Raleigh and • • • select, collect, handle, press and to director of the NCSU Arboretum. store plants with tips on designing, LECTURE: GERTRUDE JEKYLL Program will begin promptly at gluing, framing, and preserving your Thursday, January 10, 5:45-7:15 pm 5:45pm, followed by wineand nibbles. treasures for Flower Showexhibitsor Garden historian Judith Tankard will Fee: $8 members; $10 guests personal enjoyment at home. talk about Gertrude jekyll, legendary Note: The Library will be open until Rosemarie is a food and garden artist and gardener. Discussion topics 5:45 pm this evening. Chair the will include planting combinations, columnist and of 1991 Pressed Plant Classes. Barbara, Chair, favorite plants, and how Gertrude Jekyll 1 988-1 990 Pressed Plant Classes put them all together. lectures and conducts workshops on Judith Tankard, freelance writer, LECTURE: USING FOLIAGE FOR pressing plants. lecturer, editor, and photographer, is an COLOR Fee: members; guests instructor in the certificate programs of $5 $7 Friday, February 1, 5:45-7:30 pm landscape design and gardening arts at PHS invites enthusiastic gardeners LECTURE: LANDSCAPE IN THE Radcliffe College and the Arnold and professionals to our first Friday NOVELS OF JANE AUSTEN Arboretum of Harvard University. evening lecture, featuring J. C. Thursday, January 17, 5:45-7:15 pm Program begins promptly at 5:45 pm, Raulston, professor of horticulture at novels contain followed by wine and nibbles. Jane Austen's much North Carolina State University. information about the development of Fee: $10 members; $12 guests Dr. Raulston will explore the use of English landscape gardening in the 1 8th Note: The Library will be open until foliage to achieve color in the garden, a and early 1 9th centuries. 5:45 pm this evening. sophisticated concept popular in Using slides of representative European gardens. He will discuss WORKSHOP: EGG OR MELON gardens and estates, garden historian plants notable for their shades or hues BASKET Barbara O'Brien will examine some of that can be combined for a dramatic Friday, am-2 January 11,10 pm the important uses of garden and land- effect in the landscape and variegated The egg or melon basket, a "must" scape in Austen's novels and will dis- and golden tones that can create pure for any basket col lection, is a traditional cuss various garden theories prevalent drama. Appalachian basket in the "rib" style in lane Austen's England. J. C. Raulston is a director of NCSU's construction. This project is suitable for Mrs. O'Brien teaches and lectures on Arboretum, devoted to promoting beginners with patience man- and good art and garden history. She has taught at public awareness of valuable plants. ual dexterity and/or intermediate the Shipley School and most recently at Program begins promptly at 5:45 pm, weavers. the Brearley School in York. New followed by wine and nibbles. Experienced basketry instructor, Program begins promptly at 5:45 pm, Fee: $10 members; $13 guests Linda Tenaglia, will guide the partici- followed by wine and nibbles. Note: The Library will be open until pants through steps to complete the egg Fee: $8 members; $10 guests 5:45 pm this evening. or melon basket. Participants should Note: The Library will be open until bring a bucket, a straight-edged ruler, 5:45 pm this evening. scissors or clippers, one dozen spring- type clothespins, and a brown bag PROPAGATION WORKSHOP: WORKSHOP: OHARA SCHOOL, lunch. Coffee and tea will be provided. ORNAMENTAL EVERGREENS ORIENTAL FLOWER ARRANGING Fee of $31 for members and $35 for Saturday, January 19, 9:30-noon (Intermediate Level) guests includes all other materials. Learn about varieties, culture, uses Mondays, February 4, 1 1, 25, GROUND COVERS and propagation of smaller evergreens 6:45-8:45 pm including dwarf conifers from Alan P. Saturday, January 12, 10-1 1:30 am Bemice Makin, master teacher in two Slack, experienced propagator a. id PHS Roxie Gevjan, successful gardener schools of Ikebana, will reinforce the Council member. Discussions will in- basic rules learn before bend- and propagator, will devote this session you must clude the many uses of evergreens from to effective ground covers, focusing ing, breaking, or varying patterns for accents in the landscape to container- mostly on lower-growing blooming and free-style arranging. grown patio decorations. Participants foliage evergreen plants. Through slides Participants working toward certifi- will propagate some rarer forms of and discussions, Roxie will explore cates may count these classes toward evergreens. options from common to unusual master teaching certification in Ohara. All materials will be provided. plants, their culture, site selection, Registrants should bring clippers, Fee: $27 members; availability and sources. She will also $30 guests low container, and a box to transport give tips on ways to encourage ground LECTURE: THE WINTER GARDEN finished arrangement. All other covers to spread and how to increase Thursday, January 31, 5:45-7:30 pm materials will be provided. your supply through propagation. Horticulturist J. C. Raulston will dis- Fee: $50 members; $55 guests for Fee: $10 members; $12 guests cuss stellar plants for winter gardens three sessions. 2 5 LECTURE: THE GARDENER'S WORLD for the revision of the BBG handbook erent situations and hone our percep- OF BULBS on bulbs to be available in summer tions of how color and texture behave Wednesday, February 6, 5:45 pm 1991. in combination. Garden designer/writer Judy Fee: $8 members; $10 guests Ms. Glattstein is a lecturer, author, Glattsteirt will take us beyond the Note: The Library will be open until and landscape consultant from Wilton, familiar to a wide range of underused 5:45 pm this evening. Connecticut. bulbs with creative possibilities for Participants should bring a brown garden use. Glossing over daffodils and WORKSHOP: PERENNIAL PLEASURES - bag lunch; coffee and tea will be tulips, Ms. Glattstein will present an THE SUMMER FLOWER GARDEN provided. overview of hardy and tender bulbs for Thursday, February 7, 10 am- 2 pm Fee: $22 members; $26 guests spring and summer gardens, and Judy Glattstein's four-hour class on WORKSHOP: RECTANGULAR TWILL autumn-blooming treasures. The herbaceous border design will explore BASKET emphasis will be on how they enhance color and plant combinations. Discus- Wednesday, February 13, 10 am-2 pm the garden; interplanting, culture, sions will include: combining plants in Snowdate: February 15, 10 am-2 pm maintenance, and sources for bulbs will a border for aesthetic effect, different Your basketry collection will not also be discussed. plant categories to be combined, be complete without a twill basket, ludy Glattstein, who has her own seasons of bloom, value of seed head or a sturdy, durable weave of natural and garden design business in Wilton, fruit. We'll see the same plant in diff- dyed splint reed. Instructor Linda Tenaglia, experienced basket weaver, Reservations has chosen this rectangular basket Clip and mail reservations to: because of its versatility and attractive PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 design. Finished baskets will beapprox- Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form below to imately 1 2"L, 7"W, and 5" high - suit- speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. Confirmations for able for patient beginners and/or in- events at PHS are not mailed: unless hear otherwise, we will expect you. Field trip you termediate weavers. confirmations with important trip information are mailed ten days prior to the event. There Participants should bring a bucket, is limited space for all activities (except spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two consecutive issues of the PHS News. straight-edged ruler, scissors or clip- LECTURE: GERTRUDE JEKYLL ORIENTAL FLOWER pers, one dozen spring-type Members $ 1 Guests $ 1 ARRANGING clothespins, and a brown bag lunch. WORKSHOP: EGG/MELON Members $50 Guests $55 Coffee and tea will be available. Fee: members; $38 guests BASKET LECTURE: GARDENER'S $35 Members $31 Guests $35 WORLD OF BULBS AT-HOME SERIES: WINTER Members $8 Guests $10 LECTURE: GROUND COVERS GARDENING Members $ 1 Guests $ 1 PERENNIAL PLEASURES - THE Thursday, February 14, 10 am-noon SUMMER FLOWER GARDEN Hill, PA PRESSED PLANTS Chestnut Members $22 Guests $26 Snowdate: Friday February 15 Members $5 Guests $7 will WORKSHOP - RECTANGULAR Peggy Bowditch show us how to LECTURE: LANDSCAPE IN THE TWILL BASKET brighten up a plant collection with NOVELS OF JANE AUSTEN Members $35 Guests $38 winter flowers. Bulbs forced for winter Members $8 Guests $10 bloom can join begonias and orchids to AT-HOME SERIES - WORKSHOP: PROPAGATING enhance garden room or window sill. WINTER GARDENING ORNAMENTAL EVERGREENS Participants will see two different Members $ 1 Members $27 Guests $30 growing environments, a fluorescent LECTURE: SEQUENCE LECTURE: THE WINTER GARDEN light garden and a garden room. Dis- OF BLOOM Members $8 Guests $10 cussions will include management of Members $8 Guests $10 light gardens and garden rooms, pest LECTURE: USING FOLIAGE control, suggestions for winter- FOR COLOR flowering plants, and tips on bulb Members $ 1 Guests $13 forcing. I volunteer to work in the Membership/Information Booth at the 1991 Horticulturist Peggy Bowditch, Philadelphia Flower Show frequent blue-ribbon winner in the n Please add me to Dutch Ambassador's invitation list Please register me for European-style arranging event (Continued on page four) Please send me itinerary for: Scotland PHS News (USPS 763-640) is published monthly except July by the Pennsylvania Virginia Horticultural Society, 325 Walnu! Street, Colorado Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. Subscription— $9.75 per year—Single copies 80c. Second NAME class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. and additional mailing office. Postmaster: send address changes to PHS News, 325 Walnut ADDRESS Street, Phila, Pa. 19106. Chair: Donald L. Felley ZIP TELEPHONE: home. President: laneG. Pepper Editor: Lisa Stephano work_ Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth G. Gullan , ACTIVITIES (Continued) then stay in Perth and Edinburgh. In Grateful thanks to Audrey and Mary competitive classes at the Philadelphia each garden the owner or head Jo and to the legions of other members, Flower Show, serves on the PHS Mem- gardener will be your horticultural each one of whom plays a vital role in bers Committee and has chaired vari- guide. getting the Show on the road. ous Flower Show classes. Fee: $15 members only Travel USA PHS will also offer two shorter Travel directions will be mailed in G*.< domestic trips early February. during Spring and $ Pepper laneG. Summer 1991. In late April, 25 mem- President bers and will LECTURE: SEQUENCE OF BLOOM guests travel by bus to Virginia for four days to sample out- Thursday, February 21, 5:45-7:15 pm standing private and public gardens in Using her own garden as a backdrop, Richmond, Northern Neck, and landscape designer Kath Duckett will Fredericksburg areas. show how to achieve a continuous FAREWELL TO A FRIEND In July members will experience the sequence of bloom with a backbone of Elisabeth Woodburn of Hopewell, wild and tame during a six-day visit to perennials interspersed with self- N.J. died suddenly at her home, Denver and Vail, Colorado. We'll visit seeding annuals. Kath will discuss ways Booknoll Farm, on November 18, private and public gardens in the city to create a bountiful effect with tips on 1 990. For 40 of her 78 years she was and mountains plus wildflower careful planning, plant selection, soil actively involved in collecting, selling, meadows in the Rockies. preparation, and how to encourage writing and lecturing about To receive you r copy of the short-lived perennials to seed. horticultural books. With her husband, itineraries, please check the Horticulturist Kath Duckett, designer author Keith Robertson, Elisabeth appropriate box on the reservation and owner of Perennial Designs, has a Woodburn lived, gardened and form, page three. collected in in beautiful garden in Doylestown, Bucks books a renovated barn County. Hopewell, N.J. She had served on the PHS Library Committee since 1 965 and Program begins promptly at 5:45 pm, (Continued) PEPPERPOT was the inspiration and guide for the followed by light refreshments. her into the Show, then she became library's unique Pennsylvania Collection. Fee: $8 members; $10 guests addicted to watching the year-long Betty Woodburn was one of the Note: The Library will be open until picture puzzle come together. originators of the Council on Botanical 5:45 pm this evening. Mary Jo Strawbridge, Audrey's vice- and Horticultural Libraries and a found- • • • chair, signed on 1 6 years ago to help ing member and past president of the members of her club, The Garden Antiquarian Booksellers of America. MEMBERSHIP MAILINGS Workers, create an ambitious entry in In 1989 PHS awarded Elisabeth PHS will send two first-class mailings the garden section. Woodburn its Distinguished Achieve- in January. The first mailing, the final Since then Mary Jo has exhibited with ment award. Of this honor she wrote to renewal notice, should arrive about club members in rooms and tables and a friend afterwards, "How can you, in If January 2. you have not renewed your the window box class and was presi- all conscience, accept it when you membership yet, please do so as soon as dent of her club when they competed know all you have been doing all these possible so your name can be included again in the garden class. She too gets a years is having a wonderful time?" PHS in the late January ticket mailing. real thrill out of seeing the Show come and the national horticultural commun- The last week in January all paid-up together and describes the whole ex- ity will miss her unique talents, her zest members will receive 1991 member- perience as "sheer pleasure for a and enthusiastic involvement with shipcards, Flower Show ticket(s), Show wonderful cause." people and books. information and spring activities list. If you've paid your dues but have not received your tickets by February 1 1 Second Class please call Linda Davis, Memberhip PHS NEWS Postage Secretary, at (215) 625-8265. PAID The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society PHS GOES ON TOUR 325 Walnut St.* Philadelphia, PA 19106 Gardens of Scotland, June 10-24 Phone (215) 625-8250 There's just a few spaces left on this very special trip to Scotland led by PHS president Jane Pepper and Michael D. Blacklock, Director of Marketing Services, National Trust for Scotland. Jane and Mickey have planned visits to private gardens as well as to several managed by The National Trust for Scotland. You'll fly direct to Inverness, 0% I>% Recycled Pap« 5 K VISIT PHS EXHIBITS: Floral Oil Paintings Jessica Joern Through February 1 Stained Glass Lara Lou Bates February 18-April 5 Opening reception: PHS NEWS February 22, 5-7 pm ^V The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Volume XXXII, No. 2 FEBRUARY, 1991 THEY COME BEARING FLOWERS Trade Center, New York, will delight From the splendors of Kenya, the visitors with this colorful piazza setting. breathtaking fields of Holland and the Rounding out this 6,000 square foot lush piazzas of Italy, come new friends display is David Lautt Florist of bearing hundreds of thousands of cut Philadelphia with their rendition of an TRIBUTE TO A GRAND LADY blossoms for an eight-day performance at American flower market. Working with Katharine Hurlburt King, known for the Philadelphia Flower Show, an exquisite variety of roses and exotic her humor, wit, courage, generosity and March 10-17. flowers donated by Roses, Inc. and the sharing, especially at the Philadelphia Plans to have these countries come Hawaiian Anthurium Production Flower Show, died in December 1 990, together as exhibitors in the Show's Promotion Committee, Lautt will pro- at her home in Blue Bell, PA. Central Feature began nearly five years duce bulging buckets and barrels of fresh Always gracious and more often with a ago when Jane Pepper and a group of PHS cut blooms, a testimony to the enormous delightful sense of humor, Katie King set members visited the gardens of Kenya variety that exists in today's retail flower high standards for exhibitors, especially and struck up a relationship with the market. the neophyte. When Katie took you under Kenya Horticultural Society. The Kenya We are particularly grateful to AT&T for her wing, you knew you were expected to delegation will impress even the most their role in sponsoring the Italian exhibit produce. At weekly workshops and seasoned Flower Show visitors with their and to Byers' Choice, Ltd. for the Show's seminars that she helped conduct since display of exotic flowers and foliage that entrance water feature. 1 969, it was not uncommon for a Flower will spring forth from the foot of "Mt. Show exhibitor to hear from Katie, "I Keyna" in a spray of color and fragrance. READY, AIM, SNAP expect better from you." Ever ready to From the auction houses of The The Camera Shop, Inc. will offer groom aspiring young participants, Netherlands comes the beauty and hands-on guidance to camera buffs at this Katie's influences will live on in the hearts variety you might expect from the largest year's Flower Show. of many of the Show's exhibitors she coached over the past years, including exporter of cut flowers in the world. The As you may know, photographing large 35 her daughter, Kathie, a consistent winner Dutch team, made up of the Flower displays or even a single flower in the in the pressed plant division of the Show. Council of Holland, The Netherlands Civic Center can be a challenging experi- FlowerBulb Information Center and ence. The folks from the Camera Shop A long time member of the Weeders talented floral designers, will create a will help you get just the right shot by Garden Club, Katie exhibited in the winding canal lined with mounds of offering special demonstrations through- Philadelphia Flower Show for 32 con- freshly cropped cymbidiums and out Show week. The demonstrations, secutive years, winning a host of blue snapdragons, poppies and primulas, conducted by experts from Minolta and ribbons and awards such as the Nancy tulips daffodils Reid Clausen four occasions; and trumpet and Kodak, will be listed in the Flower Show Award on hyacinths the Helen Dechert twice and heathers that are certain to Program and announced at the Show. Hope Award do justice to those wonderful images and the Barbara Spaulding Cramer we The Camera Shop, Inc. will also offer have of this country's blooming fields. Medal. Katie's good will was not exclu- for sale photographic supplies and free an sive to the Flower Show. As a volunteer As added feature, several members rental cameras in the Show's trade area for over 40 years at Chestnut Hill of the Dutch design team will demon- and food court. strate their talents by creating flower Hospital, her many talents and generosity arrangements in the Holland display FLOWER SHOW POSTERS AND touched patients and auxiliary members throughout Show week. STUFFERS alike. And, on April 9, 1991, the Garden With a flourish of style and brilliance, Help us spread the word about the Club of America will recognize her Mimma and Aldo Alberti, renowned upcoming Philadelphia Flower Show, outstanding achievement in the field of floral flower arrangment education by designers from the Liguria Region of Endless Spring . . . New Days Dawning her the Italy, will create massive arrangements Around the World". posthumously awarding Katherine Thomas Cary Medal. using pastel-colored calla lilies, birds of These colorful 8x10 posters and 4x6 paradise and cascades of carnations and stuffers will brighten up your local library, Rosemarie P. Vassalluzzo chrysanthemums. The Albertis made their shop or employee bulletin board. To debut at last year's Show and this year, receive yours, call 625-8266 or stop by with support from the International PHS and pick up a handful. Activities LECTURES, MEETINGS Participants working toward certifi- Ms. Glattstein is a lecturer, author, (Open to all without charge) cates may count these classes toward and landscape consultant from Wilton, master teaching certification in Ohara. Connecticut. CENTER CITY ORCHID SOCIETY Registrants should bring clippers, Participants should bring a brown Monday, February 18, 7 pm low container, and a box to transport bag lunch; coffee and tea will be Monday, March 1 8, 7 pm finished arrangement. All other provided. materials will be provided. Fee: $22 members; $26 guests SPECIAL EVENTS Fee: $50 members; $55 guests for three sessions. MEMBERS' PREVIEW, PHILADELPHIA FLOWER SHOW Saturday, March 9, 12:30-3:30 pm Members may use their tickets for the Members' Preview on Saturday, March 9, WORKSHOP: RECTANGULAR TWILL 12:30-3:30 pm, or any other day, March BASKET 10-17. Wednesday, February 13, 10 am-2 pm If you wish to bring a guest for the LECTURE: THE GARDENER'S WORLD Snowdate: February 15, 10 am-2 pm Preview, there is a charge of $30 for OF BULBS Your basketry collection will not be adults and $1 5 for children under 1 2. Wednesday, February 6, 5:45 pm complete without a twill basket, a Preview tickets are available now at PHS Garden designer/writer Judy sturdy, durable weave of natural and or the Civic Center on March 9. at Glattstein will take us beyond the dyed splint reed. Instructor Linda Individual members receive one ticket familiar to a wide range of underused Tenaglia, experienced basket weaver, each; family, contributing, and life bulbs with creative possibilities for has chosen this rectangular basket members, three tickets; sponsoring garden use. Glossing over daffodils and because of its versatility and attractive members, five tickets; sustaining tulips, Ms. Glattstein will present an design. Finished baskets will be approx- members, ten tickets. overview of hardy and tender bulbs for imately 1 2"L, 7"W, and 5" high - suit- Those families with more than three spring and summer gardens, and able for patient beginners and/or in- members living under one roof who want autumn-blooming treasures. The termediate weavers. additional tickets for children under the emphasis will be on how they enhance Participants should bring a bucket, age of 2 1 should apply in writing, the garden; interplanting, culture, straight-edged ruler, scissors or clip- enclosing a self-addressed, stamped maintenance, and sources for bulbs will pers, one dozen spring-type envelope to Jane G. Pepper, President, also be discussed. clothespins, and a brown bag lunch. PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Judy Glattstein, who has her own Coffee and tea will be available. PA 19106-2777. Please state the names garden design business in Wilton, Fee: $35 members; $38 guests and ages of all family members and the Connecticut, is currently guest editor number of additional tickets needed. No for the revision of the BBG handbook tickets will be mailed unless all of the on bulbs to be available in spring 1991. above conditions are met. Fee: $8 members; $10 guests Advance sale tickets are available now Note: The Library will be open until at the PHS reception desk and through 5:45 pm this evening. Ticketmaster: $9.75 for adults ($10.50 at LECTURE: SEQUENCE OF BLOOM Show); $5.25 for children under 1 2 (same Thursday, February 21, 5:45-7:15 pm price at Show). Ticketmaster prices will Using her own garden as a backdrop, be slightly higher to accommodate hand- landscape designer Kath Duckett will ling charges. show how to achieve a continuous sequence of bloom with a backbone of perennials interspersed with self- seedingannuals. Kath will discuss ways WORKSHOP: PERENNIAL PLEASURES - • • • THE SUMMER FLOWER GARDEN to create a bountiful effect with tips on careful planning, plant selection, soil Thursday, February 7, 1 am-2 pm preparation, and how to encourage Judy Glattstein's four-hour class on short-lived perennials to seed. WORKSHOP: OHARA SCHOOL, herbaceous border design will explore Horticulturist Kath Duckett, designer ORIENTAL FLOWER ARRANGING color and plant combinations. Discus- and owner of Perennial Designs, has a (Intermediate Level) sions will include: combining plants in beautiful garden in Doylestown, Bucks Mondays, February 4, 1 1, 25, a border for aesthetic effect, different County. 6:45-8:45 pm plant categories to be combined, Program begins promptly at 5:45 pm, Bernice Makin, master teacher in two seasons of bloom, value of seed head or followed by light refreshments. schools of Ikebana, will reinforce the fruit. We'll see the same plant in diff- guests basic rules you must learn before bend- erent situations and hone our percep- Fee: $8 members; $10 ing, breaking, or varying patterns for tions of how color and texture behave Note: The Library will be open until free-style arranging. in combination. 5:45 pm this evening. PLANNING A PERENNIAL GARDEN create an effective perennial garden. in the Library Thursdays, March 21 and 28, Discussion topics will include: selection New 10am-noon of compatible plants for sunny and shady European gardens, Virgilio Vercelloni, Two sessions on planning and locations, soil and feeding, propagation, 1990. planting a perennial garden will be con- site selection, soil preparation, low The garden in Autumn, Allen Lacy, ducted by Jane Reed Lennon, who owns maintenance plants, and tips for ongoing 1990. and operates a perennial nursery near maintenance. The gardens of Tuscany, Ethne Clarke, Morgantown. Her horticultural back- Course limited to 1 5 participants. 1990. ground includes training at Hillier's All materials will be provided includ- Making vegetables grow, Thalassa Nursery in England. ing a garden catalog and a perennial Cruso, 1990. Each participant will learn about the handbook. Outdoor structures, Nick Engler, tools, techniques, and plants necessary to Fee: $43 members; $49 guests 1990. A paradise out of a common field, Joan Morgan, 1 990. Perennial garden plants, 3rd ed., Graham Stuart Thomas, 1 990. The rainforests, Living Earth Founda- tion, 1990. Reservations Sissinghurst, Jane Brown, 1990. Things I can make out of leaves, Clip and mail reservations to: Sabine Lohf, 1989. PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 Flower arranging, Malcolm Hillier, Reservations accepted by mail only: please include full payment. Use this form below to speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. Confirmations for 1990. events at PHS are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we will expect you. Field trip Flowering shrubs and small trees, confirmations with important trip information are mailed ten days prior to the event. There Isabel Zucker, 1990. is limited space for all activities (except spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two consecutive issues of the PHS News. Hydroponic home food gardens, Refunds and cancellations: Howard M. Resh, 1990. If you wish to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative fee will be deducted Manual of woody landscape plants, from your refund as follows: 4th ed., Michael Dirr, 1990. $2 fee for all events other than one-day field trips provided your request is received no Our soils, Roy L. Donahue, 1990. later than two days prior to the event. $5 fee for one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than four days Private gardens, David Stevens, prior to the event. 1990. Private gardens of London, Arabella Lennox-Boyd, 1990. ORIENTAL FLOWER WORKSHOP - RECTANGULAR ARRANGING TWILL BASKET Members may borrow books by mail. If Members $50 Guests $55_ Members $35 Guests $38 you would like one or more of the above books sent to you, check off the title, fill out the form below and mail to: Library, PHS, 325 Walnut St., Phila., PA 19106. LECTURE: GARDENER'S LECTURE: SEQUENCE Or, phone your request to (215) 625-8256. WORLD OF BULBS OF BLOOM When returning book(s) please enclose Members $8 Guests $1CL Members $8 Guests $1 (L $1.75 per book in the envelope provided. Our new books are popular. If you don't receive your choice within 2 weeks, you'll know you are on a wait list. PERENNIAL PLEASURE - THE PLANNING A PERENNIAL SUMMER FLOWER GARDEN GARDEN NAME Members $22 Guests $26_ Members $43 Guests $49_ ADDRESS Please send itinerary for the following: DAYTIME TELEPHONE PHS trip to Virginia, April 1 991 PHS News (USPS 763-640) is published PHS trip to Colorado, July 1 991 monthly except July by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. Subscription — $9.75 per year—Single copies 80c. Second NAME class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. and additional mailing office. Postmaster: send address changes to PHS News, 325 Walnut ADDRESS Street, Phila.. Pa. 19106. Chair: Donald L. Felley ZIP TELEPHONE: home. President: laneC. Pepper Editor: Lisa Stephano work_ Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth C. Cullan Pepperpot TRIPS PHS offers two short domestic trips dur- ing Spring and Summer 1 991 . In late THANKS TO GERTRUDE I. COATES April, twenty-five members and guests Gertrude I. Coates died before I had a will travel by bus to Virginia for four days chance to know that she had named the to sample outstanding private and public Society as the "residuary legatee" under gardens in Richmond, Northern Neck, her will, so this column is dedicated to and Fredericksburg areas. current her, with grateful thanks from and In July, members will experience the future PHS members. wild and tame during a six-day visit to Gertrude's parents, John and Susan Denver and Vail in Colorado. We'll visit Coates, emigrated from England after the private and public gardens in the city and turn of the century and established Coates mountains plus wildflower meadows in Greenhouses, a wholesale and retail the Rockies. VOLNTEERS NEEDED FOR FLOWER SHOW MEMBERS TENT floral operation in Upper Moreland To receive your copy of the itineraries, Township. Their only daughter, Gertrude please check the appropriate box on the Help us greet our special guests and worked in the greenhouses until they reservation form, page three. fellow members by offering them were torn down to make way for an apart- refreshments in the Members' Tent ment complex where Gertrude later during the Flower Show. lived, simply and without Social Security, If you are intrested in volunteering to until she died at 92 in November, 1990. be on our "hospitality crew" please call Just two weeks before she had a fatal Janet Evans (21 5) 625-8261. stroke, Miss Coates decided it was time to create a will. With no close rejatives to MEMBERS' LOUNGE, PHILADELPHIA follow her, she wanted to have her FLOWER SHOW savings go to an organization that would, Sunday, March 10-17 as her lawyer, Gilbert High, said, A quiet oasis does exist at the "through its work perpetuate the memory Philadelphia Flower Show. PHS members of her father". Other Events are invited to the Members' Lounge in the Thank you, Gertrude Coates, for your Hospitality Tent to relax with a cup of decision. We look forward to living up to ANNUAL ORCHID SHOW AND SALE coffee or tea. The Members' Lounge is your expectations. February 7-10 open each day, Sunday through Sunday, The Court, King of Prussia from noon-4 pm. To gain entry, please Sponsored by Southeastern Pennsylvania bring your membership card, which was Jo(k< Orchid Society mailed with your Flower Show tickets in laneG. Pepper Information: (215) 635-3836 late January. President Second Class PHS NEWS Postage PAID The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 325 Walnut St. 'Philadelphia, PA 19106 Phone (215) 625-8250 0% f J^ Recycled Paper K Visit PHS Exhibit: "Naturel" Works in glass and fiber lauralou courtney bates Through April 15 Opening: Friday, February 22, 5-7 pm PHS NEWS The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Volume XXXII, No. 3 MARCH, 1991 BLOOM IS ON THE ROSE Preview Dinner. Many thanks to public gardens and nurseries from THANKS TO AREA SPONSORS Corestates Trust and Investment Group Denver to Vail. We'll explore examples of The Flower Show blooms a little for its generous contribution which funds Rocky Mountain style private landscap- brighter this year thanks to several local the Dinner decorations. ing with grasses and native plants as well traditional borders. sponsors. TO: MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL as The Authorized Delaware Valley HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY Betsy Gullan, membership Mercedes-Benz Dealers have, for several coordinator, and Jean Lenehan of Tours a If you are a member of RHS wondering years, provided funds for staging the la Carte will accompany both groups. what to do with the tickets they send you magnificent floral arrangments that greet To receive an itinerary, please check each year to the Chelsea Flower Show, visitors at the Show's entryway. Thanks to the appropriate box on the reservation please consider sending them on to PHS. Mercedes' participation again this year, form, page three. Each year, several of our members call to The Florist Invitational exhibits, created ask if the Society has tickets for Chelsea. by sixteen local arrangers, will dazzle vis- We do—but just a couple and they're itors, two at a ti me, each day of the Show. snapped up early. If we get extra tickets Teaming up this year with Meridian TELL US WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT we place them on file in the Library and Bank, as a partial sponsor of the PHS—MEMBERSHIP SURVEY INSIDE they are always called upon by other Philadelphia Green display, is Fleming Each year PHS brings you a Flower members. If you have tickets to offer, Inc. Philadelphia Show and a Harvest Show, lectures and Companies, The please send them to )anet Evans, Librarian Division of this corporation, whose stores workshops, trips and tours, and access to at PHS. include Shop N Bag, Thriftway, Shop & the Society's horticultural library. Save, Clemens and American Family TRAVEL NOTES You hear from us through Green Scene Supermarkets, is aptly paired with this )oin us for trips sponsored by PHS this and the PHS News, and now we want to special exhibit that illustrates the import- spring and summer featuring visits to hear from YOU — to hear your reactions ance of passing on one's horticultural private and public gardens. Virginia isour to PHS programs and publications, and to heritage to the next generation. destination April 21-24 as we move from get your thoughts on future plans for PHS. The Philadelphia Green Program, Fredericksburg to Richmond and the Please help us help you make the most through which the Society helps residents Northern Neck for four days of visits to of your PHS membership by completing in low-income neighborhood groups outstanding houses and gardens. the attached survey, fold and post as bring greenery into their lives, is partially Our trip to Colorado, July 10-16, will indicated and return to PHS no later than funded by revenues generated by the include mountain meadows, private and April 15. \[—y±- ^ 1991 Jfyj Philadelphia Flower Show Philadelphia Civic Center -— J\ March 10-17 ENDLESS SPRING J -^-J-p Monday through Saturday (^S 10 am to 9:30 pm 7 1 A-~': ; \\a Sundays am to 6 pm i z-- ?*?^ Tickets on sale now at PHS, Ticketmaster, 8 —J V" =5 local garden centers and florists For more information call (2 15) 625-8253 (24 hrs.) -y Activities LECTURES, MEETINGS SPRING DELIGHTS: DAFFODILS, Chuck Rogers is manager of Farm (Open to all without charge.) TULIPS, ETC. Meadowbrook and former curator Friday, April 5, 10 am-1 pm of horticulture, Philadelphia Zoo. CENTER CITY ORCHID SOCIETY Instructor Priscilla Gene Shaffer will Fee: $36 members; $39 guests Monday, March 18, 7 pm explore the unique qualities of spring- Monday, April 15, 7 pm BASKETRY WORKSHOP: POTATO blooming plants and those nuances in the BASKET landscape indicative of spring. Through • • • Friday, April 12, 10 am-2 pm slides, participants will become aware of The potato basket, suitable for the possibilities and deeper subtleties of SPECIAL EVENTS intermediate weavers, is also called a arranging floral compositions of the 0" gathering or field basket. A 1 hoop pro- MEMBERS' PREVIEW, PHILADELPHIA season. Demonstrations, discussions, and vides structure for the frame and handles; FLOWER SHOW hand-outs for conditioning, forcing, and weavers will be natural and dyed reed Saturday, March 9, 12:30-3:30 pm approaches to mechanics wil be included and sea grass. Members may use their tickets for the to combine artistic and practical aspects Instructor Linda Tenaglia is an Members' Preview on Saturday, March 9, of floral designing. experienced weaver who teaches 12:30-3:30 pm, or any other day, March Participants will complete one arrange- basketry throughout the Philadelphia 10-17. ment; container, mechanics, and flowers area. If you wish to bring a guest for the will be supplied. Please bring pruning Participants should bring a bucket, Preview, there is a charge of $30 for shears, knife, and box (at least 18"L x straight-edged ruler, scissors or clippers, adults and $15 for children under 12. 1 2"W x 7"D) to transport complete one dozen spring-type clothespins, and a Preview tickets are available now at PHS project. brown bag lunch. or at the Civic Center on March 9. Priscilla Gene Shaffer teaches flower Fee: $32 members; $35 guests arranging at Temple University, Ambler, MEMBERS' LOUNGE, PHILADELPHIA and runs Arts and Flowers, her floral AT-HOME SERIES: YARD WASTE FLOWER SHOW design business. MANAGEMENT Sunday, March 10-17 Fee: $39 members; $42 guests Saturday, April 13, 10 am-noon A quiet oasis does exist at the Jeff Ball, avid gardener and garden Philadelphia Flower Show. PHS members writer, wil I show how to eliminate garden are invited to the Members' Lounge in the waste by reducing the volume of waste THE ARRANGER'S GARDEN Hospitality Tent to relax with a cup of FLOWER produced, using mulch effectively, and Monday, April 8, 10 am-noon coffee or tea. The Members' Lounge is learning to compost. Jeff will discuss and open each day, Sunday through Sunday, Perennial specialist Jane Lennon will will demonstrate the latest techniques from noon-4 pm. To gain entry, please talk about a variety of plants important for and technology in his "smart yard", bring your membership card, which was their dual roles — as fine additions in the where he researches and experiments for mailed with your Flower Show tickets in border and as good material for arrang- articles in Practical Home Owner late January. ing. Special emphasis is on choosing magazine. Participants will see seven interesting textures and colors • • • plants with composting systems and five shreading for arranging and borders. machines and will learn how to handle Jane Lennon's horticultural back- PLANNING A PERENNIAL GARDEN 1 00% of garden waste produced on prop- ground includes experience working at erties of one acre or less. Thursdays, March 21 and 28, Hillier's in England. She currently owns Ball authored gardening books 1 am-noon Jeff has and operates her own perennial nursery articles, produced a gardening video Two 2-hour sessions on planning and and in Morgantown. series, and appears on NBC's "Today planting a perennial garden will be con- Fee: members $27; guests $30 ducted by Jane Reed Lennon, who owns Show". and operates a perennial nursery near Travel directions wil be mailed in late Morgantown. Her horticultural back- March. members; $14 guests ground includes training at Hillier's WORKSHOP: TOPIARIES AND Fee: $12 Nursery in England. TRAINED PLANTS AT-HOME SERIES: ADVANCED Each participant will learn about the Tuesday, April 9, 10 am-noon VEGETABLE GARDENING, tools, techniques: and plants necessary to Meadowbrook Farm, Meadowbrook SPRINGFIELD create an effective perennial garden. Horticulturist Charles W. Rogers, Jr., Saturday, April 13, 1:30-3:30 pm Discussion topics will include: selection will conduct a workshop on topiaries and To encourage gardeners to get the most of compatible plants for sunny and shady trained plants hardy for gardens in zones from their garden, Jeff Ball will talk about locations, soil and feeding, propagation, 6 and 7. The first part of the program will advanced vegetable gardening practices site selection, soil preparation, low feature Meadowbrook's topiaries to show — intensive planting for maximum pro- maintenance plants, and tips for ongoing different forms and techniques for creat- duction, and succession planting to maintenance. ing them. extend the season from early spring Course limited to 1 5 participants. Each participant will start a small ever- through late fall. Discussion topics will All materials will be provided includ- green trained plant to be used as a garden also include vertical gardening, installing ing a garden catalog and a perennial accent. Discussions include cultural and irrigation, pest control products and tech- handbook. training methods, pruning techniques, niques, new tools, latest technology, and Fee: $43 members; $49 guests shaping, and suitable containers. basic soil preparation. 9 Jeff Ball is a gardener, author, and pro- After a slide presentation and demon- PRACTICAL GARDENING ducer of a video series on gardening. stration, participants will create an Saturday, April 20, 10 am-noon Penitentiary, Travel directions will be mailed in late arrangement that captures the pro- Eastern States Fairmount March. fusion of a garden in bloom or construct a Lucky PHS members will learn practi- exhibiting cal tips and tricks on maintaining a Fee: $12 members; $14 guests composition the stark drama of restraint. garden from consummate gardener Instructor Prist ilia Gene Shaffer Sibylle Kreutzberger, recently retired ARRANGING WORKSHOP: teaches flower arranging and flower shop co-head gardener at world-famous PARALLELISM management at Temple University, Sissinghurst. The program will be held at Philadelphia's Intermediate Level Ambler, and has her own floral design historic Eastern State Penitentiary, where eager neighbors Friday, April 19, 10 ami pm business. and staff members of PHS' Center City Green An old concept recently resurrected, All materials, container, and mechan- Program have joined forces to create parallelism is a structured linear design of ics are provided. Participants should gardens to beautify the prison site. vertical groups. This workshop on bring pruning shears, knife, and box (at Discussions will include ideas for parallelism investigates this order as it least 1 8"L x 1 2"W x 7"D) to transport maintaining gardens that slope, practical applies to flower arranging and includes completed arrangement. Program limited dos and don'ts of planting, staking, techniques of banding, grouping, to 12. deadheading, tools, interplanting, and shadowing, pillowing, and paving. Fee: $39 members; $42 guests other thoughts on extending bloom and practical design. At noon members can Reservations takea brief tour of the empty prison. Clipand mail reservations to: Fee: $17 members; $19 guests PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form below to speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. Confirmations for PRUNING SMALL TREES AND SHRUBS hear otherwise, will expect you. Field trip events at PHS are not mailed: unless you we Saturday, April 20, 10 am-noon confirmations with important trip information are mailed ten days prior to the event. There Chanticleer in Wayne is limited space for all activities (except spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two consecutive issues of the PHS News. Horticulturist Peter Brindle will Refunds and cancellations: demonstrate basic pruning for trees, If you wish to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative fee will be deducted shrubs, and roses. Discussions are aimed from your refund as follows: at the homeowner who needs informa- $2 fee for all events other than one-day field trips provided your request is received no tion about proper tools and their uses, later than two days prior to the event. timing, and techniques. $5 fee for one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than four days prior to the event. Travel directions will be mailed inearly April. Program limited to 25 participants. AT-HOME SERIES: ADVANCED Fee: $15 members; $1 7 guests VEGETABLE GARDENING PLANNING A PERENNIAL GARDEN Members $12 Guests $14 WORKSHOP: BEGINNING Members $43 Guests $49 FLOWER ARRANGING: ARRANGING FLOWER ARRANGING: SPRING PARALLELISM Thursdays, April 25 and May 2, Members $39 Guests $42 DELIGHTS 10 am-1 2:30 pm Members $39 Guests $42 PRACTICAL GARDENING Join us for two flower arranging Members $ 1 7 Guests $ 1 FLOWER ARRANGER'S GARDEN sessions devoted to beginners only. Peggy Members $27 Guests $30 PRUNING TREES AND SHRUBS Grady will guide you through steps to Members 5 Guests 7 WORKSHOP: TOPIARIES $1 $1 create arrangements from choosing con- tainers, mechanics, and flowers to hints Members $36 Guests $39 BEGINNING ARRANGING on design, color, form and conditioning WORKSHOP: BASKET Members $68 Guests $72 POTATO flowers. Members $32 Guests $35 GARDEN VISITS: MAIN LINE Participants will complete one arrange- Members $4 Guests $5 AT-HOME SERIES: YARD ment per session and should bring clip- Children $2 WASTE MANAGEMENT pers and box to transport completed Members $12 Guests $14 FIELD TRIP: CHESTERTOWN, MD project. Members $38 Guests $42 (Continued on page four) Pick-up: HC CC Please send itinerary for the following: PHS News (USPS 763-640) is published Virginia monthly except My by the Pennsylvania Colorado Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. Subscription — $9.75 per year—Single copies 80c. Second NAME class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. and additional mailing office. Postmaster: send address changes to PHS News, 325 Walnut ADDRESS Street, Phila, Pa. 19106. Chair: Donald L. Felley ZIP TELEPHONE: home. President: lane C. Pepper Editor: Lisa Stephano work_ Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth C. Cullan ACTIVITIES (Continued) FIELD TRIP: DAY IN Other Events Horticulturist Peggy Grady is assistant CHESTERTOWN,MD librarian at PHS and has experience Tuesday, April 30, 7:15 am-7 pm LECTURE AND SLIDE PRESENTATION managing her own floral design business. PHS members and guests will visit two Thursday, March 21, 5:30 pm historic houses and private gardens in Fee: members $68; guests $72 Visitors Center Chestertown, MD, a gracious town on the Speaker: Russell E. Train banks of the Chester River. Topic: United Nations World Heritage In the morning we'll visit an historic Program house built in 1 735-71 . This house con- For information: Parks International, tains an impressive antler-style staircase (215)527-0184 and original paneling. Our second stop will be a 17th Century dwelling that over- looks Langford Creek and stands on part LECTURE SERIES of a 1674 land grant from Lord Baltimore. Thursday, March 20, 7:00 pm Henry Schmeider Arboretum of Dela- After lunch at a private residence, we'll ware Valley College GARDEN VISITS tour two private gardens still being Speaker: Charles Rogers Spring garden visits are among the most developed on East Langford Creek. The Topic: Zoological Horticulture popular PHS activities because members first contains a series of gardens including can visit interesting and unusual gardens small rock garden plants and shrubs, Monday, March 25, 7:00 pm of fellow members. Gardens will be open wildflowers and other native plants, and a Speaker: David Brenner garden surrounded to members on Sunday, April 28,1-5 pm, small vegetable by Topic: Deciduous Small Trees for Home on the Main Line; Sunday, May 19, shrubs, perennials and annuals. The sec- Landscape garden features a large mixed shrub 1-5 pm in Princeton; and Sunday, June 9, ond For information: (215) 345-1500 and perennial border and woods planted 1 -5 pm from Chestnut Hill to Gwynedd. with azaleas and other shrubs. SYMPOSIUM We'll also visit the churchyard and Thursday, March 28, 8:30 am-4:00 pm GARDEN VISITS: MAIN LINE cemetery of St. Paul's, where we'll see Roberts Hall, Marshall Auditorium, Sunday, April 28, 1 -5 pm interesting old trees and boxwood before Haverford College 4 PHS members wi 1 1 enjoy a wide variety departing for home around pm. Topic: American Residential Garden of gardens on the Main Line from Penn Guides, Marnie Flook and Nancy Design Valley to Villanova. We'll see a rock Hewes, are longtime PHS members and For information: (215) 896-1 101 garden, woodland and wildflower residents of Chestertown. gardens, sculpture, a large elegant estate, Fee of $38 for members and $42 for and several gardeners' gardens with guests includes round-trip transportation LECTURE, LUNCHEON, AND TOUR different areas for various growing and refreshments on the bus, lunch, Thursday, May 16, 10:30 am-3:30 pm interests. entrance fees and driver's tip. Speaker: Martha Stewart Travel directions and tags will be Travel directions will be mailed in Topic: "Historic Houses in Flower" mailed in mid-April. mid-April with information on bus pick- Organized by Park House Guides, Fee: members $4; guests $5; children ups at the Horticulture Center in Phila. Museum of Art under 16: $2 Fairmount Park and in Center City. For information: 787-5449 Second Class PHS NEWS Postage PAID The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 325 Walnut St.* Philadelphia, PA 19106 Phone (215) 625-8250 ^ ^ Recycled Paper v\0Rr/r : H^fie Pennsylvania Jiorticultural Society s> isiv 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2777 (215) 625-8250 March, 1991 Dear PHS Member: We invite you to join with other Pennsylvania Horticultural Society members in helping the Long Range Planning Committee establish goals for the Society's development during the 1990s. The past few years have been exciting ones as we've endeavored to live up to the expecta- tions of members of the last Planning Committee, whose plan was approved by Council in 1985. Among these goals were the continued development of our neighborhood community greening projects, under the Philadelphia Green banner, and the development of a new program, Center City Green, aimed at encouraging the development of attractive green spaces in downtown Philadelphia and at City gateways. The restoration of Fairmount Park's four-acre Azalea Garden, the plantings at the Eastern State Penitentiary and on the 26th Street Gateway are three examples of our Center City Green projects. Other important goals included in the 1985 plan were to keep the Philadelphia Flower Show as the preeminent Flower Show in the country and to expand its horizons to include exhibitors from abroad. For our 8,000 members, the Planning Committee suggested that in addition to offering tickets to our Shows and mailing privileges with our library, we should also continue to offer as diversified a program as possible, including lectures, workshops and travel oppor- tunities, geared to not only the expert horticulturist, but also to the new gardener. Recognizing that our headquarters limits the number of members we can comfortably accommodate for activities, Planning Committee members also suggested we seek to reach additional audiences by expanding the readership of our bi-monthly magazine Green Scene and by making our library accessible to as wide an audience as possible. Only you can judge how successful we've been in meeting these goals and we hope you'll let us know on the attached survey. Your answers to other questions will help the Planning Committee determine an ambitious course for the next decade. Yours sincerely, Jane G. Pepper President Producer, The Philadelphia Flower Show Sponsor, the Philadelphia Green community outreach program PHS MEMBERSHIP SURVEY 4. How long have you been a member of PHS? .1-3 years The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) .3-5 years wants to know how you, as a member, view the .5-10 years services it provides. Please take a few minutes to JO years or longer answer these questions so that we may continue to serve you to our best ability. 5. Describe your PHS membership activity over Please check as many items as are appropriate the past year on a scale of 1 - 5; 1 being not active except where otherwise indicated. (not participating in any PHS activities), 5 being very active (participating in many PHS activities). 1 . Why did you become a PHS member? Circle one. .Flower and Harvest Show ticket 1 JJreen Scene magazine .activities for members .library privileges 6. How do you, currently use your PHS member- .horticultural knowledge ship? .association with other gardeners .to support outreach/community programs Activity Other .Philadelphia Flower Show 2. How old are you? .attending classes/lectures .Harvest Show .under 20 .visiting gardens .20-29 ..volunteer activity .30-39 _fundraising event(s) .40-49 .library use .50-59 _read Green Scene .60-69 .participate in Philadelphia Green over 69 activities such as judging City Gardens Contest _participate in Center City Green activities 3. What best describes your neighborhood other location? .Philadelphia 7. What would make you more active in PHS .Northwest suburbs activities? .Northeast suburbs .Southwest suburbs .more horticultural education programs Other .programs that took place closer to home .more/better communications about up- coming events .more garden tours 8. When is it most convenient for you to attend PHSNews members' programs? extremely satisfied very satisfied .weekdays (10 am) somewhat satisfied _in the evening (5:45 pm) not satisfied .weekends lunchtime Please add any other comments: 9. Are you familiar with Philadelphia Green's community gardening activities in the City? .Yes 13. What do you believe PHS's priorities should be No over the next ten years? Please rate in order of importance to you, with one (1) being the most important, and (10) being least important to you. 10. Have you ever visited a community garden in the City? .Horticultural workshops/lectures .Garden Visits and tours Yes .Philadelphia Flower Show No .Center City horticultural projects _Green Scene .Philadelphia Green community gardening 11. Are you aware of Center City Green's: /neighborhood improvement projects .Environmental awareness through a) restoration of the Azalea Garden horticulture Yes No .Harvest Show _PHS News b) plantings on 26th Street between the Penrose other Avenue Bridge and the Schuylkill Express- way Thank you for your assistance and continued sup- Yes No port of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. If you have any additional comments concerning the c) plantings at Eastern State Penitentiary Society or its programs, please include these with Yes No your completed survey. Additional comments: 12. Are you pleased with the following publications? Green Scene extremely satisfied very satisfied somewhat satisfied not satisfied Please add any other comments: Name (optional) Thank you (fold) PLACE STAMP HERE THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 325 WALNUT STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106-2777 &ORT/ K c PHS NEWS The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society K -7 8 27' Volume XXXII, No. 4 APRIL, 1991 ANNUAL HERB SALE Events Other Sponsored by the Herb Society of America - Philadelphia Unit MEDIA FLOWER SHOW 10 am-2 pm, Rain or Shine NURTURING May 9, April 17, 12:30-9:30 pm Bryce Douglas Farm OUR OWN April 18, 9am-3 pm For information: (215) 664-2734 First United Methodist Church GREEN ARBOR For information: (215) 565-6795 FAIRMOUNT PARK GARDEN FESTIVAL Sponsored by Junior League of HERBICIDES AND FORUM ON Philadelphia, Inc. PESTICIDES May 17-19, Rain or Shine April 18,8 pm Horticulture Center, Fairmount Park PHS'sPhiladelphiaCreen Program will Lower Merion High School Auditorium To Pre-ordercall: (215) 879-4062 for environmental provide a forum Speaker: Nancy S. Bechtol, Maryland For information: (215) 923-6777 discussions, enlightenment, and action Capital Park and Planning Commission this month at several events to be held For information: (215) 649-4000 throughout the City. NATIONAL WINDOWSILL April 26 from 1 1 :30 am - GARDENING CONTEST On Friday ANNUAL HERB AND PERENNIAL SALE pm, Philadelphia Green, along with Deadline for entries: May 31, 1 991 3:00 Sponsored by the Haddonfield Garden groups, For information: (312)661-1700 nine other environmental action Club will share information with visitors in April 25, 10am-4pm Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square, Haddonfield Historical Society 1 9th Street between Walnut and Locust For information: (609) 428-2652 Sts. The event will feature ceremonial tree planting, informational booths, speakers, WESTWARD, HO! entertainment and an apple seed Twenty-five PHS members and guests PLANT AUCTION giveaway. ROSE will travel to Colorado to visit the best of April 26 both worlds — wildflowers in mountain To nurture the greening spirit in Wilmington Garden Center meadows and interesting private and children, Mindy Maslin, PHS's tree Reservations: (302) 658-1913 public gardens. We'll spend three nights education coordinator, will conduct a in Denver and an equal number in Vail citywide assembly program with more with opportunities to see breathtaking than ten Philadelphia schools. The PLANT SALE mountain scenery interspersed with tradi- assembly will be followed by an Arbor April 26-28, Rain or Shine tional and western mountain garden Day card-marking contest, tree plantings Hill-Physick-Keith House landscapes. and awards ceremonies to be held on For information: (215) 925-7866 We hope you will join us July 10-16. April 26th. Betsy Gullan, PHS Membership Lenehan of Tours a And, the Philadelphia Zoo, a veritable coordinator, and Jean ANNUAL PLANT SALE the group. oasis of horticultural treasures, will be the la Carte will accompany Sponsored by Providence Garden Club stage for a day long series of activities on To receive your copy of the intinerary, May 4, 9 am-2 pm Sunday, April 28, such as seedling give- please check the box on the reservation Tyler Arboretum aways, and planting demonstrations at form, page three. For i nformation : (2 1 5) 566-9360 the Zoo's Penn's Woods Park. All Zoo events will be led by members of the Fairmount Park Ranger's Corps. PENNSBURY MANOR HERB SALE For more information on these May 4, 1 am-5 pm activities please call Mindy Maslin at Pennsbury Manor (215)625-8280. For information: (215)946-0400 1 Activities LECTURES, MEETINGS trained plants hardy for gardens in zones AT-HOME SERIES: ADVANCED (Open to all without charge) 6 and 7. The first part of the program will VEGETABLE GARDENING, CENTER CITY ORCHID SOCIETY feature Meadowbrook's topiaries to show SPRINGFIELD Monday, April 15, 7 pm different forms and techniques for creat- Saturday, April 13, :30-3:30 pm Monday, May 20, 7 pm ing them. To encourage gardeners to get the most Each participant will start a small ever- from their garden, Jeff Ball will talk about green trained plant to be used as a garden advanced vegetable gardening practices • • • accent. Discussions include cultural and — intensive planting for maximum pro- training methods, pruning techniques, duction, and succession planting to shaping, and suitable containers. extend the season from early spring SPRING DELIGHTS: DAFFODILS, Chuck Rogers is manager of through late fall. Discussion topics will TULIPS, ETC. Meadowbrook Farm and former curator also include vertical gardening, installing Friday, April 5, 1 am-1 pm of horticulture, Philadelphia Zoo. irrigation, pest control products and tech- Instructor Priscilla Gene Shaffer will Fee: $36 members; $39 guests niques, new tools, latest technology, and explore the unique qualities of spring- basic soil preparation. blooming plants and those nuances in the Jeff Ball is a gardener, author, and pro- landscape indicative of spring. Through ducer of a video series on gardening. slides, participants will become aware of BASKETRY WORKSHOP: POTATO Travel directions will be mailed in late the possibilities and deeper subtleties of BASKET March. arranging floral compositions of the Friday, April 12, 10 am-2 pm Fee: $12 members; $14 guests season. Demonstrations, discussions, and The potato basket, suitable for hand-outs for conditioning, forcing, and intermediate weavers, is also called a approaches to mechanics wil be included 0" gathering or field basket. A 1 hoop pro- to combine artistic and practical aspects vides structure for the frame and handles; ARRANGING WORKSHOP: of floral designing. weavers will be natural and dyed reed PARALLELISM Participants will complete one arrange- and sea grass. Intermediate Level ment; container, mechanics, and flowers Instructor Linda Tenaglia is an Friday, April 19, 10 am-1 pm will be supplied. Please bring pruning teaches experienced weaver who An old concept recently resurrected, shears, knife, and box (at least 1 8"L x the Philadelphia basketry throughout parallelism isastructured linear design of 1 2"W x 7"D) to transport completed area. vertical groups. This workshop on project. Participants should bring a bucket, parallelism investigates this order as it Priscilla Gene Shaffer teaches flower straight-edged ruler, scissors or clippers, applies to flower arranging and includes arranging at Temple University, Ambler, one dozen spring-type clothespins, and a techniques of banding, grouping, and runs Arts and Flowers, her floral brown bag lunch. shadowing, pillowing, and paving. design business. Fee: $32 members; $35 guests After a slide presentation and demon- Fee: $39 members; $42 guests stration, participants will create an arrangement that captures the pro- fusion of a garden in bloom or construct a AT-HOME SERIES: YARD WASTE THE FLOWER ARRANGER'S GARDEN MANAGEMENT composition exhibiting the stark drama of Monday, April 8, 10 am-noon restraint. Saturday, April 13, 10 am-noon Perennial specialist Jane Lennon will Instructor Priscilla Gene Shaffer Jeff Ball, avid gardener and garden talk about a variety of plants important for teaches flower arranging and flower shop writer, will show how to eliminate garden their dual roles — as fine additions in the management at Temple University, waste by reducing the volume of waste border and as good material for arrang- Ambler, and has her own floral design produced, using mulch effectively, and ing. Special emphasis is on choosing business. learning to compost. )eff will discuss and plants with interesting textures and colors All materials, container, and mechan- will demonstrate the latest techniques for arranging and borders. ics are provided. Participants should and technology in his "smart yard", Jane Lennon's horticultural back- bring pruning shears, knife, and box (at where he researches and experiments for ground includes experience working at least 1 8"L x 1 2"W x 7"D) to transport articles in Practical Home Owner Hillier's in England. She currently owns completed arrangement. Program limited magazine. Participants will see seven and operates her own perennial nursery to 12. composting systems and five shreading in Morgantown. guests machines and will learn how to handle Fee: $39 members; $42 Fee: members $27; guests $30 1 00% of garden waste produced on prop- erties of one acre or less. Jeff Ball has authored gardening books WORKSHOP: TOPIARIES AND and articles, produced a gardening video PRACTICAL GARDENING TRAINED PLANTS series, and appears on NBC's "Today Saturday, April 20, 10 am-noon Tuesday, April 9, 10 am-noon Show". Eastern States Penitentiary, Fairmount Meadowbrook Farm, Meadowbrook Travel directions wil be mailed in late Lucky PHS members will learn practi- maintaining Horticulturist Charles W. Rogers, Jr., March. cal tips and tricks on a will conduct a workshop on topiaries and Fee: $12 members; $14 guests garden from consummate gardener 479 7 Sibylle Kreutzberger, recently retired Reservations co-head gardener at world-famous Sissinghurst. The program will be held at Clip and mai reservations to: PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 Philadelphia's historic Eastern State Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form below to Penitentiary, where eager neighbors and speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. Confirmations lor staff members of PHS' Center City Green events at PHS are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we will expect you. Field trip Program have joined forces to create confirmations with important trip informal on are mai led ten days prior to the event. There gardens to beautify the prison site. is limited space for all activities (except spring garden visitsl. Each activity is listed in two consecutive issues of the PHS News. Discussions will include ideas for maintaining gardens that slope, practical Refunds and cancellations: If you wish to withdraw from a registratior event, an administrative fee will be deducted dos and don'ts of planting, staking, from your refund as follows: deadheading, tools, interplanting, and $2 fee for all events other than one-day field trips provided your request is received no other thoughts on extending bloom and later than two days prior to the event. practical design. At noon members can $5 fee for one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than four days prior to the event. take a brief tour of the empty prison. Fee: $ 1 7 members; $ 1 9 guests SPRING DELIGHTS: FIELD TRIP: BARNES DAFFODILS, TULIPS ARBORETUM Members $39 Guests $42 Members $13 Guests $16 PRUNING SMALL TREES AND SHRUBS THE FLOWER ARRANGER'S FIELD TRIP: MT. CUBA AND GARDEN WINTERTHUR Saturday, April 20, 10 am-noon Chanticleer in Wayne Members $27 Guests $30 Members $37 Guests $40 Pickup- Hnrt Center CC Horticulturist Peter Brindle will WORKSHOP: TOPIARIES demonstrate basic pruning for trees, AND TRAINED PLANTS AT-HOME SERIES: ARRANGING shrubs, and roses. Discussions are aimed Members $36 Guests $39 FROM YOUR SPRING GARDEN at the homeowner who needs informa- Members $ 1 5 Guests $ 1 BASKETRY WORKSHOP: tion about proper tools and their uses, POTATO BASKET AT-HOME SERIES: GARDENING timing, and techniques. Members $32 Guests $35 IN THE SHADE Travel directions will be mailed in early Members $8 April. Program limited to 25 participants. AT-HOME SERIES: YARD WASTE MANAGEMENT Fri, 5/10 at 10 am Fee: $15 members; $1 7 guests Sat, 5/11 at 10 am 11am Members $12 Guests $14 HORTICULTURAL AT-HOME SERIES: ADVANCED VEGETABLE GARDENING, PHOTOGRAPHY: COMPOSITION WORKSHOP: BEGINNING SPRINGFIELD AND LIGHTING ARRANGING Members $48 Thursdays, April 25 and May 2, Members $ 1 2 Guests $ 1 10 am-1 2:30 pm ARRANGING WORKSHOP: FIELD TRIP: HILLWOOD, WASHINGTON, DC Join us for two flower arranging PARALLELISM sessions devoted to beginners only. Peggy Members $50 Guests $54 Members Guests $39 $42 Grady will guide through steps to Pickup- Hnrt Center CC you PRACTICAL GARDENING create arrangements from choosing con- PERENNIALS FOR SPRING Members $ 1 7 Guests $ 1 tainers, mechanics, and flowers to hints Members $16 Guests $18 on design, color, form and conditioning PRUNING SMALL TREES AND SHRUBS GARDEN VISITS: PRINCETON flowers. Members $4 Guests $5 Participants will complete one arrange- Members $ 1 5 Guests $ 1 Children $2 ment per session and should bring clip- WORKSHOP: BEGINNING pers and box to transport completed ARRANGING LECTURE: GARDENS OF PHILADELPHIA project. Members $68 Guests $72 Members $7.50 Guests $9 Horticulturist Peggy Grady is assistant GARDEN VISITS: MAIN LINE librarian at PHS and has experience FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS Members $4 Guests $5 managing her own floral design business. Members $16 Guests $18 Children $2 Fee: $68members; $72 guests FIELD TRIP: DAY IN CHESTERTOWN, MD Members $38 Guests $42 Pirk-np- Hnrt Center CC PHS News (USPS 763-640) is published monthly except July by the Pennsylvania "2 Please send itinerary for the Colora do trip. Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut Street. Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. Subscription — $9.75 per year —Single copies 80C- Second NAMF class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. and additional mailing office. Postmaster: send ADDRFSS address changes to PHS News, 325 Walnut Street, Phila., Pa. 19106. Chair: Donald L. Felley 7IP TFI FPHONF: home President: JaneC. Pepper Editor: Lisa Stephano work Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth C. Gullan 2 year. Arboretum, GARDEN VISITS: MAIN LINE The situated on 1 2 acres AT-HOME SERIES: GARDENING in PA, Sunday, April 28, 1-5 pm Merion, has a notable collection of IN THE SHADE the best woody ornamentals for this zone. Friday, May 10, 10 am PHS members wi 1 1 en joy a wide variety of gardens on the Main Line from Penn A guide will lead twenty-five PHS Saturday, May 11 , 1 am or 1 1 am Valley to Villanova. We'll see a rock members and guests through the garden New Hope, PA garden, woodland and wildflower where the seasonal attractions include David Benner's two acre garden in gardens, sculpture, a large elegant estate, spring flowers, trees and shrubs. New Hope features mosses that are used and several gardeners' gardens with Participants should bring a sandwich; as an alternative to grass in this shady different areas for various growing dessert and coffee will be provided. After garden and a wildflower woodland that interests. lunch, walk around to the entrance of the becomes a sea of color in early May. Travel directions and tags will be Barnes Foundation's gallery and tour the David Benner has recently retired as mailed in mid-April. collection at leisure. assistant professor in ornamental horticulture at Delaware Valley College. Fee: members $4; guests $5; children Travel instructions will be mailed to participants in late April. His garden has been featured in under 16: $2 Fee: $13 members; $16 guests magazines, Architectural Digest's 1984 Gardens and Ogden Tanner's Gardening America. Because of restricted walking space, FIELD TRIP: DAY IN MT. CUBA CENTER AND WINTERTHUR eight members can tour the garden at one Wednesday, May 8, 8 am-6 pm CHESTERTOWN,MD time. Please indicate which tour you Tuesday, April 7:15 am-7 Thirty PHS members and guests will 30, pm prefer on the reservation form. PHS members and guests will visit two tour Mt. Cuba Center, Greenville, Travel directions will be mailed in late historic houses and private gardens in Delaware, the private estate and home of April. Participants must provide own Chestertown, MD, a gracious town on the Mrs. Lammot duPont Copeland. transportation; car pooling is Knowledgeable guides will lead us banks of the Chester River. recommended. In the morning we'll visit an historic through the wildflower garden areas and Fee: $8 members naturalistic plantings as pictured in The house built in 1 735-71 . This house con- tains an impressive antler-style staircase American Women's Garden. Over 1 00 and original paneling. Our second stop kinds of wildflowers bloom in the spring along with native rhododendrons, HORTICULTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY: wi 1 1 be a 1 7th Centu ry dwel I i ng that over- COMPOSITION AND LIGHTING looks Langford Creek and stands on part mountain laurel, and fothergillas. (2 sessions) of a 1674 land grant from Lord Baltimore. After lunch on our own at Winterthur, Tuesday, 2:30-5:30 Deputy Director of Gardens Tom Buchter May 14, pm After lunch at a private residence, we'll Tuesday, 1 1 :30 and John Feliciani, Director of Gardens May 28, am-1 pm tour two private gardens still being Meadowbrook Operations, will lead us through developed on East Langford Creek. The an exquisite display of thousands of azaleas, Enthusiastic experienced photo- first contains a series of gardens including rhododendrons, wildflowers. graphers are invited to join professional small rock garden plants and shrubs, and photographer Walter Chandoha for two wildflowers and other native plants, and a Fee of $37 for members and $40 for sessions devoted to composition and small vegetable garden surrounded by guests includes round-trip transportation, lighting, the difference between outstand- shrubs, perennials and annuals. The sec- guide fees and return-trip refreshments. ing and ordinary horticultural ond garden features a large mixed shrub Lunch is not included. Directions for photography. and perennial border and woods planted meeting the busatthe Horticulture Center The emphasis will be on using light with azaleas and other shrubs. in Fairmount Park or in CenterCity will be effectively altering mailed in late April. and composition with We'll also visit the churchyard and various lenses. Demonstration and dis- cemetery of St. Paul's, where we'll see cussion topics will include sunlight vs. interesting old trees and boxwood before shade, back light vs. front light, back- departing for home around 4 pm. AT-HOME SERIES: ground selection, depth of field, and Guides, Marnie Flook and Nancy ARRANGING FROM YOUR SPRING selective focus. Hewes, are longtime PHS members and GARDEN The first will be a hands-on seminar at residents of Chestertown. Thursday, May 9, 10 am-noon Meadowbrook Farm; the second class Fee of $38 for members and $42 for Lafayette Hill will be a discussion/critique session at guests includes round-trip transportation Audrey Nichols, accomplished PHS. Participants will be asked to shoot and refreshments on the bus, lunch, arranger and frequent winner at the pictures during the two weeks between entrance fees and driver's tip. Philadelphia Flower Show, encourages sessions. Travel directions will be mailed in arrangers to make the most of what they Basic camera functions will not be mid-April with information on bus pick- have in their own gardens by arranging taught. The aim will be to refine techni- ups at the Horticulture Center in spring flowers, foliage, and flowering que and selection. Limited to 1 Fairmount Park and in Center City. branches. Demonstrations and discus- members. sion topics will include appropriate Travel directions wil be mailed in late containers, conditioning, and color with April. Participants must provide own suggestions for creating dramatic transportation. BARNES ARBORETUM arrangements with fewer blooms. Fee: $48 members Friday, May 3, 10 am-1 pm Travel directions will be mailed in late PHS trips to the Barnes Foundation April. Limited to 20 participants. are always among the most popular each Fee: $15 members; $17 guests (continued on page six) 4 Q&'pi&ndir of t&e &$xa/ea ($Ja*de7i /yeaue6t the Meaati&e of yoa&- covnAawu at t, Q^tay. vain, ov intne at me C£$xa/ea> (^fava&n, Q/velly, zDi^ue at Qpaimnoivnt (~£$veitue Qs'viencL of the &&uuea rr^jaitdeit, tyo-ipnav*& f-^jeatt and ,-^ifcw cXjodvne; fy-utUtua and 1^4to^)UA Tpne&tovi; ^afoicia '2/ttc^LjuuinlvM, cock£ciU& oynanovA a'oeutn^A Wedt>nwn6te>* zxjraM Aafo andga&a&n- ha&tu a/fo*e zyt Q7 V iy ' Spring, summer and fall, the Azalea Garden is a favorite spot for Philadelphians and city visitors. Last year the Society completed an ambitious renovation program for this 4-acre Garden and now we need your help to keep it looking beautiful. Don your party hat and come celebrate with us on May 8th. Alternatively, we welcome contributions to the Azalea Garden Maintenance Fund at any time of year. If you 're interested in donating a tree to honor a friend or family member for a special occasion, please call Kate Swartz at 625-8280. ~l Q^xo^eo- (jyowie Name No. of reservations- Address. Amount enclosed $ Donation to Azalea Garden Maintenance Fund $ Patrons $75 per person Jr. Patrons (under 35 yrs. of age) $35 per person Telephone. Benefactors $125 per person Confirmations will be mailed. Please return this Reservation Form and your check made payable to The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society to: Azalea Garden, PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-2777 ACTIVITIES (Continued) LECTURE: PHILADELPHIA - AMERICA'S in the Library GARDEN CAPITOL New FIELD TRIP: HILLWOOD Thursday, 7-8:30 May 23, pm Beds and borders, Wendy B. Murphy, WASHINGTON, D.C. Horticulturist Margaret Bowditch, PHS 1990. Thursday, May 16, 7 am-7 pm Garden Visits Coordinator, will take you Twenty-five PHS members and guests Bold romantic gardens, Oehme and on an armchair tour of gardens in will spend the day at Hillwood, former van Sweden with Susan Rademacher Philadelphia, where climate and history home of Marjorie Merriweather Post, Frey, 1990. have created a prime spot for beautiful whose Russian collection is the most rep- gardens. You'll explore many kinds of Chinese gardens, Isao Yoshikawa, resentative outside the Soviet Union. On gardens from formal to woodland, 1990. display are extraordinary pieces by some historic to recent, gardens private and French garden style, Georges of Europe's foremost artists, cabinet- public from Wilmington to Princeton, Leveque, 1990. makers, silver and goldsmiths, plus including a look at the annual Fabergeeggs, porcelains, icons, Beuvais The gardens of Europe, Penelope Philadelphia Flower Show. tapestries, and 18th-century French Hobhouse, 1990. This lecture, which will begin promptly furniture. at 7 pm, is sponsored by The Penn- The gardens of Southern California, At 1 1 am Horticulturist Bill Johnson sylvania Horticultural Society and the Helaine Kaplan Prentice, 1990. will show us the grounds and plantings Philadelphia Botanical Club, celebrating Inspired flower arrangements, Toshiro before lunch at the Hillwood Cafe. At its 100th Anniversary. Wine and nibbles Kawase, 1990. 1 :30 we'll have a tour of the house/ will be served following the program. museum with departure for Philadelphia Labyrinth, Adrain Fisher, 1990. Fee: $7.50 members; $9 guests at 4 pm. Making a white garden, Joan Clifton, Fee includes round-trip transportation, 1990. refreshments on the bus, entrance and FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS A Reunion of trees, Stephen guide fees, and lunch. Saturday, May 25, 10 am-noon Spongberg, 1 990. Information in about bus pick-ups Chanticleer, Wayne Center City and at the Horticulture Center Members may borrow books by mail. If Peter Brindle, horticulturist at in Fairmount Park will be mailed in late you would like one or more of the above Chanticleer, will talk about flowering April. books sent to you, check off the title, fill trees and shrubs as he guides PHS mem- Fee: $50 members; $54 guests out the form below and mail to: Library, bers and guests through the estate at PHS, 325 Walnut St., Phila., PA 19106. Chanticleer. Using the plants at PERENNIALS FOR SPRING Or, phone your request to (215) 625-8256. Chanticleer as a backdrop, Peter will dis- Chanticleer, When returning book(s) please enclose Wayne cuss ornamentals that are useful for the Saturday, 10am-noon $1.75 per book in the envelope provided. May 18, home gardener, proper selection and Horticulturist Lisa Roper will Our new books are popular. If you don't placement, and unusual plants that add program on spring-flower- receive your choice within 2 weeks, conduct a interest to the landscape. ing perennials. Using the gardens at you'll know you are on a wait list. Fee : $ 1 6 members; $ 1 8 guests. Travel Chanticleer as backdrop, Roper will dis- directions will be mailed in early May. NAME individual cuss appropriate varieties, Participants must provide own timing, interplant- culture, propagation, transportation. ADDRESS. ing perennials with bulbs, trees, and shrubs, designing with perennials, and effectively combining them with other DAYTIME TELEPHONE elements in the garden. Program limited to 25. Travel direc- tions will be mailed in mid-May. Fee: $16 members; $18 guests Second Class PHS NEWS Postage GARDEN VISITS: PRINCETON PAID Pennsylvania Horticultural Sunday, May 1 9, 1 -5 pm The Society Seven private gardens include a gem of 325 Walnut St.* Philadelphia, PA 19106 a town garden, an elegant green garden, a Phone (215) 625-8250 garden in which ingenuity and careful record keeping have enabled the owners to succeed with seeds and plants from unusual sources, and an estate with a formal garden, lawns, trees and perennial borders. Also on our tour is a lovely school landscape where Olmsted designed part of the campus. Travel directions and tags will be mailed in early May. 0% Fee: $4 members; $5 guests; $2 f J Recycled Paper children under 16. 3 P//S A/EM/S 77ie Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 1 8 ?. Volume XXXII, No. 5 MAY, 1991 mmmt Other Events UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PHILADELPHIA GARDEN TOUR OF BLOOMING BEYOND TOMORROW GARDEN BAZAAR PRIVATE GARDENS IN THE CHESTNUT HILL &MT. AIRY AREA Explore today's pressing environ- Sponsored by the Auxiliary of Sponsored by the University of mental issues and some possible solu- Pennsylvania Hospital Pennsylvania Arthritis Research Program tions through the eyes of children at the May 9, 1 am-3 pm, Rain or shine & Morris Arboretum 1991 Junior Flower Show. Elm Garden Courtyard, 8th St. between Spruce June 2, 12:30-5 pm Scarecrows and garden ornaments & Pine For information: (215) 247-5777, For information: (215) 732-8684 from recycled materials share the made (215)662-2792 stage with contrived flowers and veget- ANNUAL HERB SALE able prints. Sponsored by the Swarthmore Garden SECRET GARDENS OF UNIVERSITY Any child pre-school through 12th Club CITY TOUR OF THE VICTORIAN grade is eligible to enter the Show which MANSION DISTRICT OF POWELTON May 1 1, 10am-2 pm will be held Thursday, May 16 and VILLAGE Swarthmore Boro Hall, Swarthmore, PA Friday, May 1 7 from 9:30 am-5 pm and Sponsored by the Friends of Clark Park, For information: (215) 543-3932 Saturday, May 1 8 from 10am-12:30pm: Powelton Playground, & The Spruce Hill please call Anne Vallery, Show manager, ANNUAL GARDEN DAY Garden Club at 625-8280 for a schedule. Entries will 2-4 Sponsored by the Associates of the Scott June 1 6, 1 pm, Rain date, June 23, be accepted on Tuesday, May 14 from Arboretum 12-4pm 1 1 am-5 pm. For information: (215) 387-3057 May 12, 1 pm-5 pm Visitors to the Show will view more Self-guided tour of six gardens in the entries in artistic HERBAL DELIGHTS than 1 ,000 and Swarthmore-Media area ANNUAL horticultural categories as well as dozens SYMPOSIUM For tickets and information: local groups. Sponsored the Pennsylvania of special exhibits by school (215)328-8025 by And, youngsters will participate in a take Heartland Unit of the Herb Society of home plant-a-plug activity. SPRING PLANT SALE America The Junior Flower Show will be held at Sponsored by the Wilmington Garden June 24 & 25 the First Bank of the United States, Third Center Albright College, Reading, PA For information: (2 15) 92 1-75 14 Street between Chestnut and Walnut May 17, 10 am-5 pm Streets, Philadelphia. Wilmington Trust Center on Rodney No admission charge. Square North COLORADO ADVENTURE For information: (302) 658-191 Twenty-five PHS members and guests VOLUNTEERS WANTED — ANNUAL HERB SALE will travel to Colorado to visit the best of both worlds — wildflowers in mountain JUDGES FOR THE CITY GARDENS Sponsored by The Tamanend Park Herb and interesting private and CONTEST Gardening Club meadows public gardens. We'll spend three nights We're looki ng for a few good gardeners May 18, 1 9, 9 am-5 pm, Rain or shine in Denver and an equal number in Vail to judge in the 1 991 City Gardens Park Farmhouse, 1255 Second St. Pike, opportunities see breathtaking Contest. No experience necessary. We're Southampton, PA with to mountain scenery interspersed with tradi- happy to provide training. Duties include For information: (215) 355-9781 tional and western mountain garden visiting six to eight gardens on a day con- landscapes. venient for you. Immediate openings for KAHN PARK JAZZ BRUNCH hope you will join us July 10-16. candidates available June 29th through Sponsored by the Friends of Louis I. Kahn We Gullan, PHS Membership July 20th. Love of horticulture, garden Park & Esther I. Kahn Betsy coordinator, and Jean Lenehan of Tours a lore and travel —a plus. Benefits include May 19, 1 1:30am-2:30 pm great scents, wonderful sights, and a The Great Court of Pennsylvania la Carte will accompany the group. wheelbarrow full of inspiration. To sign Hospital, Garden Entrance, 8th & Pine To receive your copy of the intinerary, up, please call Flossie Narducci at (21 5) Streets please check the box on the reservation 625-8280. For information: (215) 546-6460 form, page three. 2 Activities LECTURES, MEETINGS Travel directions wil be mailed in late historic to recent, gardens private and (Open to all without charge) April. Participants must provide own public from Wilmington to Princeton, transportation. including a look at the annual CENTER CITY ORCHID SOCIETY Fee: $48 members Philadelphia Flower Show. Monday, May 20, 7 pm This lecture, which will begin promptly Monday, 1 7 June 7, pm FIELD TRIP: HILLWOOD at 7 pm, is sponsored by The Penn- WASHINGTON, D.C. sylvania Horticultural Society and the • • • Thursday, May 16, 7 am-7 pm Philadelphia Botanical Club, celebrating Twenty-five PHS members and guests its 100th Anniversary. Wine and nibbles will spend the day at Hillwood, former will be served following the program. AT-HOME SERIES: home of Marjorie Merriweather Post, Fee: $7.50 members; $9 guests ARRANGING FROM YOUR SPRING whose Russian collection is the most rep- GARDEN resentative outside the Soviet Union. On Thursday, May 9, 10 am-noon display are extraordinary pieces by some FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS Lafayette Hill of Europe's foremost artists, cabinet- Saturday, May 25, 10 am-noon makers, silver and goldsmiths, plus Audrey Nichols, frequent winner at the Chanticleer, Wayne Fabergeeggs, porcelains, icons, Philadelphia Flower Show, encourages Beuvais Peter Brindle, horticulturist at tapestries, and 18th-century French flower lovers to make the most of what Chanticleer, will talk about flowering furniture. they have i n thei r own gardens by arrang- trees and shrubs as he guides PHS mem- ing spring flowers, foliage, and flowering At 1 1 am Horticulturist Bill Johnson bers and guests through the estate at branches. Demonstrations and discus- will show us the grounds and plantings Chanticleer. Using the plants at sion topics will include appropriate before lunch at the Hillwood Cafe. At Chanticleer as a backdrop, Peter will dis- containers, conditioning, and color with 1 :30 we'll have a tour of the house/ cuss ornamentals that are useful for the suggestions for creating dramatic museum with departure for Philadelphia home gardener, proper selection and arrangements with fewer blooms. at 4 pm. placement, and unusual plants that add Travel directions will be mailed in late Fee includes round-trip transportation, interest to the landscape. April. Limited to 20 participants. refreshments on the bus, entrance and Fee: $16 members; $18 guests. Travel guide fees, and lunch. Fee: $15 members; $17 guests directions will be mailed in early May. Information about bus pick-ups in Participants must provide own Center City and at the Horticulture Center transportation. in Fairmount Park will be mailed in late April. HORTICULTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY: Fee: $50 members; $54 guests COMPOSITION AND LIGHTING GARDEN VISITS (2 sessions) Spring garden visits are among the most PERENNIALS FOR SPRING Tuesday, May 14, 2:30-5:30 pm popular PHS activities because members Chanticleer, Wayne visit interesting gardens Tuesday, May 28, 1 1 am- 1 :30 pm can and unusual Saturday, May 18, 10 am-noon Meadowbrook and PHS of fellow members. Gardens will be open Horticulturist Lisa Roper will Enthusiastic experienced photo- to members on Sunday, May 19, 1-5 pm conduct a program on spring-flower- in area; graphers are invited to join professional Princeton and Sunday, June 9, ing perennials. Using the gardens at 0-5 photographer Walter Chandoha for two 1 pm, from Chestnut Hill toGwynedd. Chanticleer as backdrop, Roper will dis- sessions devoted to composition and After we receive your reservations by cuss appropriate varieties, individual lighting, the difference between outstand- mail, we will send tags, maps, garden culture, propagation, timing, interplant- ing and ordinary horticultural descriptions, and travel instructions. ing perennials with bulbs, trees, and photography. shrubs, designing with perennials, and The emphasis will be on using light effectively combining them with other effectively and altering composition with GARDEN VISITS: PRINCETON elements in the garden. various lenses. Demonstration and dis- Sunday, May 1 9, 1 -5 pm Program limited to 25. Travel direc- cussion topics will include sunlight vs. Seven private gardens include a gem of tions will be mailed in mid-May. shade, back light vs. front light, back- a town garden, an elegant green garden, a Fee : $ 1 6 members; $ 1 8 guests ground selection, depth of field, and garden in which ingenuity and careful selective focus. record keeping have enabled the owners The first will be a hands-on seminar at LECTURE: PHILADELPHIA -AMERICA'S to succeed with seeds and plants from Meadowbrook Farm; the second class GARDEN CAPITOL unusual sources, and an estate with a will be a discussion/critique session at Thursday, May 23, 7-8:30 pm formal garden, lawns, trees and perennial PHS. Participants will be asked to shoot Horticulturist Margaret Bowditch, PHS borders. Also on our tour is a lovely pictures during the two weeks between Garden Visits Coordinator, will take you school landscape where Olmsted sessions. on an armchair tourof gardens in designed part of the campus. Basic camera functions will not be Philadelphia, where climate and history Travel directions and tags will be taught. The aim will be to refine techni- have created a prime spot for beautiful mailed in early May. que and selection. Limited to 1 gardens. You'll explore many kinds of Fee: $4 members; $5 guests; $2 members. gardens from formal to woodland, children under 16. 8 8 GARDEN VISITS: CHESTNUT HILL Reservations TO GWYNEDD Sunday, June 9, 1-5 pm Clip and mail reservations to: PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 Seven gardens open to PHS members Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form below to include a little gem of a city backyard, one speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. Confirmations for with old boxwood and elegant events at PHS are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we will expect you. Field trip architectural features, a walled garden confirmations with important trip information are mailed ten days prior to the event. There with colorful English-style flower borders, is limited space for all activities (except spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two consecutive issues of the PHS News. climbing roses, and clematis. Lovely Refunds and cancellations: country properties offer perennials, roses, If you wish to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative fee will be deducted plantings around picturesque old barns from your refund as follows: and outbuildings, terraces, pools, a $2 fee for all events other than one-day field trips provided your request is received no stream, and waterfall. later than two days prior to the event. travel directions, $5 fee for one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than four days Garden descriptions, prior to the event. and tags will be mailed in late May. Fee: $4 members; $5 guests; $2 children under 16 ARRANGING FROM YOUR LONGVIEW FARM SPRING GARDEN Members $ 1 6 Guests $ 1 SHADE GARDENING Members $16 Guests $18 ARRANGING FROM SUMMER Saturday, June 1, lOam-noon HORTICULTURAL GARDEN At Chanticlees in Wayne Join horticulturist Lisa Roper in a dis- PHOTOGRAPHY: COMPOSITION Members $ 1 6 Guests $1 8_ Members $48 cussion on gardening in the shade. Lisa FIELD TRIP: UNIONVILLE will explore growing woody and FIELD TRIP: HILLWOOD, Members Guests $33 $36_ herbaceous plants in varying degrees of WASHINGTON, DC Pickup: HC CC light and will discuss care, maintenance, Members $50 Guests $54 Longwood and propagation with suggestions for Pickup: Hort. Center CC HEDGLEIGH SPRING plant selection and dynamic planting PERENNIALS FOR SPRING Members $12 combinations. Members $16 Guests $18 Travel directions will be mailed in mid- FIELD TRIP: HILLWOOD AND LECTURE: GARDENS OF DUMBARTON OAKS May. Program limited to 25. PHILADELPHIA Members $59 Guests $63 Fee: $15 members; $18 guests Members $7.50 Guests $9 Pickup: CC HC ROSES FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS FIELD TRIP: PINE BARRENS Saturday, June 1, 10 am-noon Members $16 Guests $18 Members $39 Guests $42 At Chanticleer in Wayne, PA GARDEN VISITS: PRINCETON FIELD TRIP: YORK COUNTY Horticulturist Ann Lighty will demon- Members $4 Guests $5 Members $36 Guests $40 strate and discuss the care and culture of Children $2 roses. Discussion topics will include FIELD TRIP: WAVE HILL feeding, pests and diseases, pruning, and GARDEN VISITS: CHESTNUT Members $45 Guests $49 winter protection. HILL-GWYNEDD Pickup: CC HC Members $4 Guests $5 Travel instructions to Chanticleer, a GARDEN TOUR: Children $2 private estate in Wayne, PA, will be MEADOWBROOK FARM SHADE GARDENING mailed to participants in mid-May. Members $15 Guests$20 Limited to 25. Members $1 5 Guests $ 1 PERENNIALS FOR SUMMER Fee: $15 members; $18 guests ROSES Members $1 5 Guests $18 Members $15 Guests 18 KATH DUCKETT'S GARDEN EXTENDING BLOOM INTO FALL EXTENDING BLOOM INTO FALL Malvern, PA Members $1 5 Members $16 Guests $18 Monday, June 3, 10 am-noon PEST AND DISEASES PRESSED FLOWER WORKSHOP Join us as we poke around in the Members $15 Guests $18 Members $1 8 Guests $20 perennial garden of the People's Light and Theater Company in Malvern with PHS News (USPS 763-640) is published monthly except July by the Pennsylvania Please send itinerary for the Colorado trip. Horticultural Society. 325 Walnut Street. Philadelphia. Pa. 19106. Subscription — $9.75 per year —Single copies 80c. Second NAME class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. and additional mailing office. Postmaster: send ADDRESS address changes to PHS News, 325 Walnut Street, Phila., Pa. 19106. ZIP TELEPHONE: home Chair: Donald L. Felley President: lane G. Pepper Editor: Lisa Stephano work_ Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth C. Gullan )ane Lennon, perennial specialist who abundance in the garden and your garden rooms with plants chosen for runs her own nursery in Morgantown. arrangements, cutting, proper timing and beauty and year-round interest. Our This program will focus on extending conditioning. guided tour will include perennial borders, roses, peonies, perennial bloom throughout the summer Travel directions will be mailed in early fountains, pools, through sound maintenance. ]ane will )une. Limited to 20 participants. wrought iron and garden sculpture, specimen trees and shrubs. share tips on how to ensure bloom into Fee: $15 members; $1 7 guests fall by dead-heading, cutting back, After lunch at Hillwood, we'll have a staking, and supplementing existing two-hour tour of the former home of FIELD TRIP: PRIVATE GARDENS Marjorie Merriweather Post, whose plants. NEAR UNIONVILLE Travel directions will be mailed in late Russian collection is the most representa- Monday, June 10, 8:00 am-5:30 pm May. tive outside the Soviet Union. On display PHS members and guests will travel by are extraordinary pieces Fee: $16 members; $18 guests by some of bus to Unionville to visit Sir John Europe's foremost artists, cabinetmakers, Thouron's Doe Run. These large estate and silver and goldsmiths, plus Faberge gardens range from elegant double eggs, porcelains, icons, Beauvais WORKSHOP: PRESSED PLANTS herbaceous borders to island beds, an tapestries, and 18th century French Tuesday, June 4, 1 am-noon alpine garden, and a meadow garden. furniture. This frequently requested workshop on There is even an idea flower garden for Fee includes round-trip transportation, using pressed plants for decorative items people who garden in limited space. refreshments on the bus, lunch, all and gifts will be a hands-on session After lunch we will visit two more fine entrance and guide fees. directed by Barbara Keenan and private gardens nearby. We'll explore a Information about bus pickups in Rosemarie Vassalluzzo, Philadelphia country estate with lovely terraces, Center City and Horticulture Center in Flower Show pressed plant design class greenhouses with unusual specimen Fairmount Park will be mailed in late advisor and chair. They will teach plants, and extraordinary container plant- May. Limited to 25. techniques for pressing plants, glueing, ings, and another garden near the Fee: $59 members; $63 guests arranging, and finishing. serpentine barrens in West Chester that Each participant will complete a features raised perennial beds above low decorative door push plate. All materials walls of serpentine stone and a highly will be supplied, including pressed productive vegetable garden. FIELD TRIP: NEW JERSEY PINE flowers from the gardens of Barbara and Fee includes round-trip bus transporta- BARRENS Rosemarie. tion, guide fee, and lunch. Thursday, June 13,8 am-5 pm Program limited to 1 5. Horticulturist Peggy Bowditch and Rick Darke will lead 20 PHS members Fee: $18 members; $20 guests Betsy Gullan, Membership Activities and guests on a journey through the New Coordinator, will lead the group, limited jersey pine barrens to view different At-HOME SERIES: LONCVIEW FARM to 40 participants. Details of bus pickup habitats and to search for rarer things. Friday, June 7, 1 am-noon in Center City, Horticulture Center in We'll see acres of pitch pine, dry and bog Joanna Reed has lived and gardened at Fairmount Park, and Longwood parking areas, pygmy forest, and recently burned Longview Farm in Malvern for fifty years, lot will be mailed in late May. areas with new growth emerging. We creating and maintaining lovely country Fee: $33 members; $36 guests hope to find early summer orchids, gardens bursting with perennials and waterlilies, and many other highlights. herbs. Joanna will lead us through her AT-HOME SERIES: HEDGLEIGH Rick Darke, curator of plants at Long- woodlands and celebrated gardens as SPRING wood Gardens, has written and lectured described in The American Woman's extensively on the pine barrens. Tuesday, June 1 1 , 1 am-noon Garden. Swarthmore All participants must travel in vans Participants may bring a brown bag PHS members are invited to visit chartered by PHS; no private cars will be lunch; beverages will be provided. Hedgleigh Spring, a family garden started permitted because of poor road condi- Participants must provide own trans- three generations ago. Horticulturist tions. Participants should bring a brown- portation; travel directions will be mailed Andrew Bunting will guide us through bag lunch; beverages will be provided. in late May. Limited to 25. will the garden, noted for its choice plants, Pickup points be determined by Fee: $16 members; $19 guests perennial borders in sun and shade, registration; travel directions will be artistic mixture of colors and textures, and mailed in early June. skillful interplanting for four-season Fee: $39 members; $42 guests AT-HOME SERIES: ARRANGING FROM YOUR SUMMER GARDEN interest. Participants must trans- Monday, June 10, 10 am-noon provide own portation. Travel directions will Lafayette Hill be FIELD TRIP: DAY IN YORK COUNTY mailed in early June. 7:30 Don't even think about purchasing Saturday, June 15, am-7 pm Fee: members flowers for a summer arrangement for $12 PHS members will have a special your home until you've explored the treat —a full day visiting four private York offerings from your own garden and DUMBARTON OAKS AND County gardens. Ourfirst stop will be the nearby roadsides. Audrey Nichols HILLWOOD, WASHINGTON, DC unique home and gardens of Morris West accomplished arranger and gardener, Wednesday, June 12, 7 am-7:30 pm and Nicholas Klise, who carved their are will emphasize how to make the most of Our first stop will be the gardens of gardens out of wilderness. Visitors what you have. Through demonstration Dumbarton Oaks, designed by the noted struck by the variety of gardens and plants and discussion, Audrey will explore landscape gardener Beatrix Farrand. 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If you 're interested in donating a tree to honor a friend or family member for a special occasion, please call Kate Swartz at 625-8280. ~l G&uccuea Qjatfaeri cs a^u c!H^6emxx/um6 Name No. of reservations. Address. Amount enclosed $ Donation to Azalea Garden Maintenance Fund $ Patrons $75 per person Jr. Patrons (under 30 yrs. of age) $35 per person Telephone. Benefactors $1 25 per person Confirmations will be mailed. Please return this Reservation Form and your check made payable to The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society to: Azalea Garden, PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-2777 5 ACTIVITIES (Continued) PHS members will tour the house and AT-HOME SERIES: KATH DUCKET gardens, famous for its garden rooms, Monday, June 24, 10 am-noon that are grown from very choice alpines in topiaries, terraces, statuary, espaliers, and Doylestown the rock garden to perennials, vegetables, gazebos. The commercial greenhouse Kath Duckett's gardens are a visual woodland and trough gardens. Klise and and nursery will be open, as well as the treat as well as a sucessful example of West created the house as an integrated display gardens of herbs, perennials, and skillful planning and planting to achieve a part of the site. ornamental grasses. succession of bloom. Landscape designer After lunch we'll travel from the We are grateful to the Members Duckettwill lead us through her garden country to three private gardens near Committee who have helped organize as she describes the plants and their the city of York. One is an estate garden this event under the leadership of culture and her own personal hints and with thickly planted annuals and D.J. Brosius. Wine and nibbles will be tricks for a pleasing result. Kath will perennials and attractive vistas. served. Music will be provided by harpist describe her method of seeding in, mixing We'll also see an 18th century house Janet Biely. perennials and self-seeding annuals for a surrounded by a wide variety of interest- Travel instructions will be mailed in bountiful effect. ing trees and shrubs and another with early June. Participants must provide own trans- garden rooms as the solution for a Fee: $15 members; $20 guests portation. Travel directions will be challenging site. mailed in early June. Details of bus pick-up in Center City Fee: $12 members only. and Horticulture Center in Fairmount Park will be mailed in early June. Fee PERENNIALS FOR SUMMER includes lunch. At Chanticleer in Wayne PESTS AND DISEASES Fee: $36 members; $40 guests Saturday, June 22, 10 am-noon Saturday, June 29, 10 am-noon Summer perennials should not be Chanticleer, Wayne restricted to just a few flowers when so Horticulturist Ann Lighty will conduct FIELD TRIP: WAVE HILL AND PRIVATE many interesting foliage and flowering a practical program for home gardeners NEW YORK GARDEN plants are available to enhance your on preventing and controlling pests and Wednesday, June 19,7:15 am-7:15 pm summer garden. Horticulturist Lisa Roper diseases throughout the garden including Our first stop will be Wave Hill in the will give lots of ideas for the summer roses, vegetables, and ornamentals. Ann Bronx neighborhood of Riverdale, a garden as she leads a group through the will discuss practical methods of hand- public estate garden that is landscaped to Chanticleer estate to point out the wide ling problems with emphasis on perfection. In addition to the Wild range of perennials, pleasing color com- integrated pest management and organic Garden, greenhouses, herb gardens, binations, special cultural tips and gardening methods. Discussions will also herbaceous borders, and a water lily dis- requirements, and effective ways to com- include safety procedures for using toxic play, Wave Hill presents many temporary bine them with other elements in the chemicals, proper timing, and best horticultural exhibits on its 28 land- garden. methods of application. scaped acres overlooking the Hudson Program limited to 25. Travel direc- Travel directions will be mailed in mid- River. tions will be mailed in early June. June. Program limited to 25. After ourguidedtourand catered lunch Fee: $15 members; $18 guests Fee: $15 members; $18 guests at Wave Hill, we'll finish our tour at a private garden a short distance away. Fee: $45 for members and $49 for guests includes round-trip transportation, entrance and guide fees, lunch, and return-trip refreshments. Details of bus pick-up in Center City and Horticulture Center in Fairmount Park will be mailed in early June. Second Class PHS NEWS Postage PAID The Pennsylvania Horticultural Soch 7TH ANNUAL EARLY EVENING GARDEN TOUR 325 Walnut St. • Philadelphia. PA 19 Meadowbrook Farm Phone (215) 625-8250 Thursday, June 20, 5-7 pm Distinguished horticulturist Liddon J. *or Pennock, Jr., will host members of the *H*C»*$|f Society for a leisurely early evening visit to Meadowbrook Farm near Jenkintown. <9* 4*S 0% t J^ Recycled Paper ttOKr /(? Visit PHS Exhibits: Miniature Settings )une7 - September 6 Reminder - NEXT ISSUE OF PHS NEWS, AUGUST 1991 PHS NEWS The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 18 11- ^ Volume XXXII, No. 6 JUNE, 1991 MBRBHHBHM MEMBERS ANNUAL PLANT PHILADELPHIANS WEAVE RIBBON DIVIDEND czrfzaLza (^axa£.Yz OF GOLD THROUGHOUT THEIR Mark your calendar now for Friday, NEIGHBORHOODS September 6, 12-7 pm and Saturday, cyrLmanaa The City will be awash with a lovely sea September 7, 9:30 am-12, for the 1991 of green and gold this summer thanks to Plant Dividend. Each year PHS members If you're looking for a gardening the gardening efforts of many area resi- may choose, as a benefit of their member- challenge, come on out and work in the dents and associations involved in Center ship, one plant to take home; family Azalea Garden, on several Saturdays this City Green's Ribbon of Gold project. members may choose three. summer and fall. Garden Days are a great A carpet of yellow flowering perennials Dot Plyler, Chair of the Plant way to hone your pruning skills, get a will unfold in Queen's Village this Dividend Committee and Richard Bitner good work-out and share and gather summer after neighbors, who cleared a and Phyllis Weisman, Vice-chairs, are gardening tips with fellow green thumbs. narrow strip of land on League Street last busy compiling a list of this year's plant To sign up for any of the days listed spring, constructed and planted six raised donations, which will be listed in the below, please call Kate Swartz at beds. The golden trail will also set aglow August issue of the PHS News. (215)625-8280. the 1 900 block of Spring Garden Street as The Azalea Garden is located directly a result of the efforts put forth by members Every year, PHS members generously behind the Philadelphia Museum of Art. of the Spring Garden Civic Association donate plants for the Dividend. This year, Parking is plentiful and free. who planted four beds with perennials more than 40 members are propagating, and ornamental grasses. "We see the growing and grooming some choice GARDEN DAYS Ribbon of Gold as very important to our selections. Last year'sdonations included Held each Saturday from 9 am-noon, community. It has helped convert Spring more than 2,000 varieties of shrubs, trees, except where noted. Garden Street from a barrier, to a bridge wildflowers, perennials, rock garden June 29 between Center City and our neighbor- plants, orchids, ground covers and July 27 - special guest speaker, Richard hood," says Civic Association Chair, houseplants. Novice gardeners will find Lighty, Native Plants Charlie Thompson. The Ribbon of Gold some reliable selections and have a project has also found its way to chance to chat with experts from the August 24 Philadelphia's waterfront thanks to efforts Committee; experienced gardeners will September 28 put forth by the Penn's Landing Corpora- find some of the more challenging tion. The half-acre site along Delaware varieties to grow. Several of the PHS Gold October 19-10 am-1 pm Avenue between Market and Chestnut Medal Plant Award winners will be November 23 Streets will become a field of wildflowers donated as well. If you would like to December 14 this summer as California poppies, cone- become a plant donor, or help with this flowers, black-eyed Susans and coreopsis project, please contact Betsy Gullan, make their showy appearance. membership coordinator at 625-8257. Ribbon of Gold is a hands-on program that depends on the work of volunteer TREE SYMPOSIUM AT groups for garden maintenance and SWARTHMORE COLLEGE clean-up. If you would like to lend your Alex Shigo, internationally famous golden touch to the Project, call authority on tree care, will be guest DONATIONS WANTED FOR Katherine Newland at (2 1 5) 625-8280. LIBRARY BOOKSALE lecturer for a full-day program promoting Recycle your used gardening books by tree health, Saturday, October 26, at donating them to the PHS Library's Swarthmore College. Designed for pro- annual Booksale to be held Friday, fessionals and home gardeners, the Foundation, International Society of Arboriculture, Pennsylvania September 6, 1 2-7 pm and Saturday, symposium will focus on careful site September 9, 9:30 am-1 2. Proceeds selection, planting and pruning techni- Horticultural Society and Scott from the Booksale help buy new books ques, routine maintenance, pest Arboretum of Swarthmore College. for the Library. For more information on management and diseases. To receive a brochure for more infor- the Booksale, call the Library at (215) The symposium is jointly sponsored mation, check the appropriate box on the 625-8256. by Bryn Mawr College, Chanticleer reservation form, page three. Activities DUMBARTON OAKS AND County gardens. Our first stop wil I be the LECTURES, MEETINGS HILLWOOD, WASHINGTON, DC unique home and gardens of Morris West (Open to all without charge) Wednesday, June 1 2, 7 am-7:30 pm and Nicholas Klise, who carved their Our first stop will be the gardens of gardens out of wilderness. Visitors are CENTER CITY ORCHID SOCIETY Dumbarton Oaks, designed by the noted struck by the variety of gardens and plants Monday, June 17, 7 pm landscape gardener Beatrix Farrand. The that are grown, from very choice alpines in formal 1 0-acre gardens feature a series of the rock garden to perennials, veget- ables, woodland and trough gardens. • • • garden rooms with plants chosen for beauty and year-round interest. Our Klise and West created the house as an WORKSHOP: PRESSED PLANTS special guided tour will include perennial integral part of the site. Tuesday, June 4, 10 am-noon borders, roses, fountains, pools, wrought After lunch we'll travel from the This frequently requested workshop on iron and garden sculpture, specimen trees country to three private gardens near using pressed plants for decorative items and shrubs. the city of York. One is an estate garden and gifts will be a hands-on session After lunch at Hillwood, we'll have a with thickly planted annuals and directed by Barbara Keenan and two-hour tour of the former home of perennials and attractive vistas. Rosemarie Vassalluzzo, Philadelphia Marjorie Merriweather Post, whose We'll also see an 18th century house Flower Show pressed plant design class Russian collection is the most representa- surrounded by a wide variety of interest- advisor and chair. They will teach tive outside the Soviet Union. On display ing trees and shrubs and another with a techniques for pressing plants, glueing, are extraordinary pieces by some of garden room as the solution for a arranging, and finishing. Europe's foremost artists, cabinetmakers, challenging site. Each participant will complete a and silver and goldsmiths, plus Faberge Details of bus pick-up in Center City decorative door push plate. All materials eggs, porcelains, icons, Beauvais and Horticulture Center in Fairmount will be supplied, including pressed tapestries, and 18th century French Park will be mailed in early June. Fee flowers from the gardens of Barbara and furniture. includes lunch. Rosemarie. Fee includes round-trip transportation, Fee: $36 members; $40 guests Program limited to 1 5. refreshments on the bus, lunch, all Fee: $18 members; $20 guests entrance and guide fees. AT-HOME SERIES: ARRANGING FROM Information about bus pickups in YOUR SUMMER GARDEN GARDEN VISITS: CHESTNUT HILL Center City and Horticulture Center in Tuesday, June 18, 10 am-noon TO GWYNEDD Fairmount Park will be mailed in late Lafayette Hill Sunday, June 9, 1-5 pm May. Limited to 25. Don't even think about purchasing Seven gardens open to PHS members Fee: $59 members; $63 guests flowers for a summer arrangement for i nclude a little gem of a city backyard, one your home until you've explored the with old boxwood and elegant FIELD TRIP: NEW JERSEY PINE offerings from your own garden and architectural features, a walled garden BARRENS nearby roadsides. Audrey Nichols with colorful English-style flower borders, Thursday, June 13, 8am-5 pm accomplished arranger and gardener, climbing roses, and clematis. Lovely Rick Darke will lead 20 PHS members will emphasize how to make the most of country properties offer perennials, roses, and guests on a journey through the New what you have. Through demonstration plantings around picturesque old barns Jersey pine barrens to view different and discussion, Audrey will explore and outbuildings, terraces, pools, a habitats and to search for rarer things. mixing annuals with perennials for stream, and waterfall. We'll see acres of pitch pine, dry and bog abundance in the garden and your Garden descriptions, travel directions, areas, pygmy forest, and recently burned arrangements, cutting, proper timing and and tags will be mailed in late May. areas with new growth emerging. We conditioning. Fee: $4 members; $5 guests; $2 hope to find early summer orchids, Travel directions will be mailed inearly children under 16 waterlilies, and many other highlights. June. Limited to 20 participants. AT-HOME SERIES: HEDGLEIGH Rick Darke, curator of plants at Long- Fee: $15 members; $1 7 guests SPRING wood Gardens, has written and lectured extensively on the pine barrens. Tuesday, June 11,10 am-noon FIELD TRIP: WAVE HILL AND PRIVATE Swarthmore All participants must travel in vans NEW YORK GARDEN chartered by PHS; no private cars will be PHS members are invited to visit Wednesday, June 19, 7:15 am-7:15 pm permitted because of poor road condi- Hedgleigh Spring, a family garden started Our first stop will be Wave Hill in the tions. Participants should bring a brown- three generations ago. Hprc©$fturist Bronx neighborhood of Riverdale, a bag lunch; beverages will be provided. Andrew Bunting will%uiae<3wough public estate garden that is landscaped to Pickup points will be determined by the garder^ 'Ttfte'd for it^choice plants, perfection. In addition to the Wild registration; and travel directions wil be perenrtilaJpisraers in sun and shade, Garden, greenhouses, herb gardens, mailed in early June. artisNwpiWture of colors and textures, and herbaceous borders, and a water lily dis- Fee: guests skillful interplanting for four-season $39 members; $42 play, Wave Hill presents many temporary interest. horticultural exhibits on its 28 land- Participants must provide own trans- FIELD TRIP: DAY IN YORK COUNTY scaped acres overlooking the Hudson portation. Travel directions will be Saturday, June 15, 7:30 am-7 pm River. mailed in early June. PHS members will have a special After our guided tour and catered lunch Fee: $12 members treat —a full day visiting four private York at Wave Hill, we'll finish our tour at the 5 . private garden of Esta and Harold Epstein, Society for a leisurely early evening visit PERENNIALS FOR SUMMER featured in Rosemary Verey's The Ameri- to Meadowbrook Farm near Jenkintown. At Chanticleer in Wayne can Man's Garden. This mature shaded PHS members will tour the house and Saturday, June 22, TO am-noon garden contains specimen plants in a gardens, famous for its garden rooms, Summer perennials should not be woodland setting. topiaries, terraces, statuary, espaliers, and restricted to just a few flowers when so Fee: $45 for members and $49 for gazebos. The commercial greenhouse many interesting foliage and flowering guests includes round-trip transportation, and nursery will be open, as well as the plants are available to enhance your entrance and guide fees, lunch, and display gardens of herbs, perennials, and summer garden. Horticulturist Lisa Roper return-trip refreshments. Details of bus ornamental grasses. will give lots of ideas for the summer pick-up in Center City and Horticulture We are grateful to the Members garden as she leads a group through the Center in Fairmount Park will be mailed Committee who have helped organize Chanticleer estate to point out the wide in early June. this event under the leadership of range of perennials, pleasing color com- D.J. Brosius. Wine and nibbles will be binations, special cultural tips and 7TH ANNUAL EARLY EVENING served. Music will be provided by harpist requirements, and effective ways to com- GARDEN TOUR Janet Biely. bine them with other elements in the Meadowbrook Farm Travel instructions will be mailed in garden. Thursday, June 20, 5-7 pm early June. Program limited to 25. Travel direc- Distinguished horticulturist!. Liddon Fee: $15 members; $20 guests tions will be mailed in early June. Fee: 1 members; guests Pennock, Jr., wi 1 host members of the $15 $18 Reservations PESTS AND DISEASES Clip and mail reservations to: Saturday, June 29, 10 am-noon PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 Chanticleer, Wayne Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form below to speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. Confirmations for Horticulturist Ann Lighty will conduct events at PHS are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we will expect you. Field trip a practical program for home gardeners confirmations with important trip information are mailed ten days prior to the event. There on preventing and controlling pests and is limited space for all activities (except spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two diseases throughout the garden including consecutive issues of the PHS News. roses, vegetables, and ornamentals. Ann Refunds and cancellations: will discuss practical methods of hand- If you wish to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative fee will be deducted from your refund as follows: ling problems with emphasis on $2 fee for all events other than one-day field trips provided your request is received no integrated pest management and organic later than two days prior to the event. gardening methods. Discussions will also $5 fee for one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than four days include safety procedures for using toxic prior to the event. chemicals, proper timing, and best methods of application. PRESSED FLOWER WORKSHOP ARRANGING FROM SUMMER Travel directions will be mailed in mid- Members $18 Guests $20 GARDEN June. Program limited to 25. Mem bers $ 1 Guests $ 1 7_ GARDEN VISITS: CHESTNUT Fee: $15 members; $18 guests HILL-GWYNEDD FIELD TRIP: WAVE HILL Members $4 Guests $5 Members $45 Guests $49_ Children $2 Pickup: CC HC FtEOGLElGH SPRING GARDEN TOUR: Memibe'rs^l 2/Lffi^V MEADOWBROOK FARM FIELD TRIP: HILLWOOD AND Members $15 Guests$20_ DUMBARTON OAKS PERENNIALS FOR SUMMER Members $59 Guests $63 Members $ 1 5 Guests $ 1 8_ Pickup: CC HC PEST AND DISEASES FIELD TRIP: PINE BARRENS Members $1 5 Guests $1 8_ Members $39 Guests $42 FIELD TRIP: YORK COUNTY Members $36 Guests $40 Pickup: CC HC PHS News (USPS 763-640) is published Please send information on Tree Symposium. monthly except July by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut Street, Adventure. Please send information on Colorado Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. Subscription— $9.75 per year —Single copies 80c. Second NAME class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. and additional mailing office. Postmaster: send ADDRESS address changes to PHS News, 325 Walnut Street, Phila., Pa. 19106. Chair: Donald L. Felley ZIP TELEPHONE: home President: laneC. Pepper Editor: Lisa Stephano work_ Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth G. Gullan . . Pepperpot OUTSTANDING HORTICULTURISTS SOUGHT FOR PHS MAJOR AWARDS It's midsummer in the garden; for PHS Each year, the PHS Awards Committee it's the end of another fiscal year and my sets about the task of nominating those thanks go to all members who have sup- outstanding individuals and/or groups ported us so generously with your who have made significant contributions thoughts, suggestions, time and con- to the field of horticulture. 1 992 PHILADELPHIA FLOWER tributions. With all this enthusiasm and This year, Sally Graham, Awards SHOW NAMED BULB CLASSES knowledge to back us up, those of us Committee chair, invites nominations Classes 202, 302, 402 NARCISSUS who are lucky enough to work at the for PHS's most prestigious horticultural 'LITTLE GEM' (miniature) grown and Society find it an invigorating and excit- awards in 1 992. The Distinguished shown in a 4" pot. ing experience. Achievement Medal is presented to an Classes 203, 303, 403 NARCISSUS individual from the Mid-Atlantic states To all new members who joined 'BEERSHEBA' (trumpet) grown and during the past fiscal year, a who has made outstanding contributions warm shown in an 8" bulb pan or azalea pot. welcome. We hope you will accept our to the field of horticulture in an area of Classes 204, 304, 404 NARCISSUS invitation to the New Members Evening particular interest to The Pennsylvania 'FEBRUARY GOLD' (cyclamineus) on Wednesday, )une 5th from 5 to 7 pm. Horticultural Society. The Certificate of grown and shown in an 8" bulb pan or Merit is an individual, This is a great opportunity to meet our awarded to azalea pot. talented staff and also to get a broader organization, institution or business Classes 205, 305, 405 HYACINTHUS perspective on the Society's programs. corporation for outstanding contributions 'BLUE JACKET' grown and shown in an 8" We always enjoy the opportunity to to horticulture. bulb pan or azalea pot. meet members and if you can't come on Please submit a portfolio with one Classes 206, 306, 406TULIPA 'PEACH letter letters of June 5th, I encourage you to visit our nominating and two BLOSSOM' grown and shown in an 8" headquarters some other day. Also, endorsement to Sally Graham, Chair, bulb pan or azalea pot. we're always on the hunt for new Awards Committee, c/o PHS, by helpers, volunteer's, all September 1 5. new but most of MORE BULB NEWS. . for people who share a common interest Classes 200, 300, 400 NOVICE in things horticultural. Give me a call if NARCISSUS CLASS; any Narcissus vari- you'd like to be more involved in PHS. New in the Library ety not listed in Classes _02 -_04; open to Returning Staff Member We're happy to anyone who has never won a blue ribbon in the Classes of the Philadelphia announce that Kathy Mills, who was The art of gardening with roses, Bulb Flower Show prior to 1 992. Assistant PHS Horticulturist a couple of Graham Stuart Thomas, 1 991 years ago, returned to the Society as Eminent gardeners, Jane Brown, 1990. Classes 201, 301,401 NOVICE Horticulturist in mid-May. If you'd like TULIPA CLASS; any named Tulipa variety Foliage plants for decorating indoors, to join Kathy's band of volunteers who other than that in Class _06; grown and Virginia Elbert, 1989. tend the 1 8th Century Garden, please shown in a 6" bulb pan or azalea pot. Garden views III: Water and stream give her a call at 625-8262. Open to anyone who has never won a gardens, Tatsui Kenkyujo, 1991. blue ribbon in the Bulb Classes of the Historic gardens, Jane Fearnley- Philadelphia Flower Show prior to 1992. Oo Whittingstall, 1990. $ Landscaping with nature, Jeff Cox, MARK YOUR CALENDAR Jane G. Pepper 1991. FLOWER SHOW DATES President Wreaths 'round the year, Dawn Cusick, MARCH 8-15, 1992 1990. Second Class PHS NEWS Postage COLORADO ADVENTURE The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society PAID If you haven't finalized your summer travel plans, consider a refreshingly 325 Walnut St.- Philadelphia, PA 19106 different seven-day trip to Colorado, Phone (215) 625-8250 July 10-16. Just a few spaces remain for the Society's trip to Denver and Vail to visit the Denver Botanic garden, mountain and city private gardens, and Rocky Mountain meadows of wild flowers. To receive a copy of the itinerary, please check the box on the reservation form, page three, or call Betsy Gullan, (215)625-8257. 0% f % Recycled Paper WORT/ Visit PHS Exhibits: Miniature Settings Through September 6 PHS NEWS The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Volume XXXII, No. 7 AUGUST, 1991 wmmmmm hawthornes, honey locusts, flowering MEMBERS' HARVEST SHOW PREVIEW 4-7 pears and filberts. Philadelphia is getting Friday, September 20, pm greener every day thanks to your support Plan to attend the 1 991 Harvest Show Members' Preview immediately follow- as a member of the Pennsylvania ing the judging of exhibits. Cider, wine, Horticultural Society. and light snacks will be served. And don't PLANTING TREES IN PHILADELPHIA forget to bring the kids! Children's mask NEIGHBORHOODS making activity will take place in the Thanks to a generous four-year grant Children's Tent from 4-6 pm. from the William Penn Foundation, the Members may bring guests to the BARGAIN PRICES TO BE FOUND AT Society has for the past two years been Preview for a charge of $5 each, payable ANNUAL LIBRARY BOOKSALE pursuing an ambitious tree program at the entrance. Members' tickets to the This is your chance to catch some of the including street trees and open space Show will be mailed in late August. plantings. Multiple lot plantings, sitting best bargains in town at the Library The Harvest Show will be held at the Booksale, Friday and Saturday, and shade parks, schoolside nurseries Horticulture Center, Belmont Avenue and fruit orchards are just a few of the September 6 and 7. and Horticultural Drive in West novel plantings Booksale, an annual event that Jonathan Frank, The Fairmount Park. The Show opens to the with the Plant Manager, Tree Program and staff mem- coincides Members' public on Saturday and Sunday, Dividend, will offer choice selec- bers Mindy Maslin and Susan Phillips many September 21 and 22. Look for details in catalogs, botanical prints, have been pursuing in their efforts to tions of garden the next issue of the PHS News. bring more greenery to North as well as NEW and used gardening Philadelphia. books. As an added feature, during the Booksale you can take advantage of The Tree Program has also set out roots Amnesty Days. Return any overdue books in City elementary schools this year with to the Library during the Booksale hours its own version of the popular television without paying a late charge. game show "Jeopardy". More than a The Library Booksale will take place on dozen schools participated in the high HARVEST SHOW HELPERS NEEDED September 6 from noon to 7 pm and energy "Environmental Jeopardy" game Sylvia Lin, PHS Members Committee September 7 from 9:30 am to noon. by guessing the value of trees in our Chair, invites volunteers to help dispense Friends of the Library are invited to pre- environment, different varieties of trees cider and cookies, wine and nibbles at the view the sale on September 6 between and the harmfu I effects of pol lution on the Harvest Show Members' Preview on environment. The students had a great 10 am and noon. September 20, from 4-7 pm. If you would If you would like to donate books to time and learned quite a bit about their like to help, please check the appropriate the Booksale, please call Janet Evans at role as caretakers of the earth. If you and box on the reservation form page and we (215)625-8261. your children would like to participate in will be in touch with you in early a rousing round of "Environmental September with more details. Jeopardy", there's still an opportunity to play at this year's Harvest Show on September 21 and 22. Look for details in next month's issue of the PHS News. A QUESTION FOR EVERY ANSWER ON The Tree Program is one part of the THE PHS HOTLINE Society's Philadelphia Green Program, How do you keep those blasted squir- which works throughout the City to bring rels out of the rose bed? Can I grow plantings and horticultural eduction to artichokes here? My Epiphyllum has Whether it is finding a cure for black neighborhood gardeners. This spring 1 ,000 buds. Does anyone care? spot or f i ndi ng a good sou rce for pu rchas- alone, more than 1 ,252 tons of soil were These are the daily dilemmas of the ing lady bugs, the Hotliners are there to delivered to hundreds of garden sites more than 445 gardeners who called the rescue each day, Monday through across Philadelphia along with 317 tons PHS's hardy corps of hotline volunteers Friday from 9:30 am to noon. Give them a of mulch and 350 trees, including during May and June. call at (21 5) 922-8043. Activities Special Events shrubs and foliage with flowers as MEADOWBROOK FARM: A CASE accents. This program represents basic STUDY FOR EFFECTIVE LANDSCAPE flower arranging at its most enjoyable and DESIGN PHS MEMBERS' ANNUAL PLANT promotes a philosophy rather than a (3 sessions) 10 am-noon DIVIDEND discipline. Tuesday, October 8; Friday, September 6, noon-7 pm Travel instructions will be mailed to Thursday, October 10; Saturday, September 7, 9:30 am-noon participants in early September. Tuesday, October 15 Plan to visit PHS to receive one of the Fee: $1 3 members; $1 5 guests At Meadowbrook Farm, owner/ benefits of membership: your com- Limited to one guest per member. designer J. Liddon Pennock, Jr. and plimentary plant (one plant per individual horticulturist/manager Chuck Rogers will memership, three per family or other conduct a six-hour program on landscape membership). Avail yourself of special design. Using the private gardens as a treasures, including PHS Gold Medal laboratory, Pennock and Rogers will Award winners. Some of the Dividend focus on one aspect of effective landscap- plants are seldom available commer- ing in each two-hour session: design/ cially. To speed admission, please bring structure, plants, ornaments/accessories. your membership card. Program limited to 20. PERENNIALS FOR FALL Thanks to these propagators who Fee: $70 members only. Travel direc- At Chanticleer, Wayne generously share time, talents and plants: tions will be mailed in mid-September Saturday, September 29, 1 am-noon Richard Bitner, Richard Both, Michael Horticulturist Lisa Roper will give sug- Bowell, Lester Cundiff, Aldys C. Davis, gestions for the autumn garden at the Alice Doering, Elizabeth Farley, Walt Chanticleer estate to point out the wide Fisher, Joyce Fingerut, Roxie Gevjan, range of fall-blooming perennials, pleas- Janet and John Gyer, George Harding, ing color combinations, special Tarn Hartell, Steve Hutton, Betty Kassab, horticultural and maintenance tips and Anita Kistler, David Lautt, Jane Lennon, requirements, and effective ways to com- John Leonard, Richard Lighty, Sylvia Lin, bine them with other elements in the Cheryl and Thomas Monroe, Robert garden. Montgomery, Dee Peck, Dot Plyler, Sally Program limited to 25. Participants MEMBERSHIP NOTES Reath, Helen Roback, Herbert Schiffer, must provide own transportation. Travel We're starting a new year of activities Charlotte and Alan Slack, Irene Slater, directions will be mailed in mid- with a bang, featuring two special Art Tucker, Rosemarie Vassalluzzo, September. lectures. Early in October, Helen Dillon, Robert Phyllis Susie Way, Weisman, Fee: $1 5 members; $17 guests celebrated Irish gardener and plant Wilmerding, Mary Lou Wolfe, Chris collector, will talk about Irish gardeners Woods and Sally Yow. and their plants. The following week, famous horticulturist and plant explorer Roy Lancaster from the Royal Horticultural Society will talk about plants from around the world and their uses in the garden. LECTURE: IRISH GARDENS AND The whole season of interesting work- PLANTS shops, field trips, lectures, and tours await Thursday, October 3, 5:45 pm you as we move from programs on flower DEMONSTRATION: ARRANGING Helen Dillon, one of Ireland's great arranging, and garden design, to a tree FROM THE AUTUMN GARDEN gardeners, will talk about Irish gardeners symposium withAlex Shigo in late Longview Farm, Malvern and their plants, emphasizing the import- October. ance of growing plants well and placing Wednesday, September 25, 1 am-noon Three tours are being planned for them to their advantage. PHS members who have visited Joanna members starting with a quick trip to Reed's Longview Farm have admired her Helen Dillon's own garden on Sanford Europe in May to visit the Chelsea Flower charming, informal bouquets from her Road in Dublin has become a must-see Show and the Dutch Floriade. In late spr- garden and will enjoy her relaxed for visiting horticulturists. Gardener, ing PHS members will travel up the approach to "fixing" flowers, rather than speaker, and writer, Mrs. Dillon co-edited Hudson River to enjoy fine New York arranging. Her intent is to bring her In an Irish Garden with Sybil Connolly, gardens, and we'll cap off the year with a garden into her house by attractively who writes a weekly newspaper column, trip to Australia and New Zealand in arranging flowers and foliage in vases by and has written for House and Garden November 1992. other horticultural magazines. using what Joanna describes, with a and We have a program for everyone, so twinkle in her eye, as her "stick and stuff" Lecture will begin promptly at 5:45 pm we hope to see you often throughout the method. followed by wine and nibbles. year. Joanna will talk about informal arrang- Fee: $7 members; $9 guests Betsy Gullan ing and conditioning of flowers and will The Library will be open until 5:45 pm Membership Activities demonstrate ways to use fall-fruiting this evening. Coordinator Grandma's garden, Laura Martin, [J Bio-dynamic gardening; a how-to New in the Library 1990. guide. Bokajo Enterprises. Wildomar, Outdoor building projects, Byron W. CA; 1988. 58 minutes. Maguire, 1991. Bonsai; the art of training dwarf potted The book of primroses, Barbara Shaw, Secrets of the great gardeners, Peter trees. Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 1991. Loewer, 1991. Brooklyn, NY. 22 minutes; Designing with perennials, Pamela ISBN: 0-945352-60-3. The weekend garden guide, Susan A. Harper, 1990. Roth, 1991. The glory of the garden. Nicholas de Flower pressing, Joanna Sheen, 1988. Rothschild: Jan Kaplan; 1982. The gardener's home companion, NEW VIDEOS Grow Lab; a growing experience. Betty Mackey, 1991. The library has over 100 gardening National Gardening Assoc. Burlington, Gardening with native wild flowers, videos. To request a list, please call VT; 1991. Samuel B.Jones, 1990. 625-8256 Helping to reduce populations of deer Gardens of the world, Laura Martin, Basic orchid growing. Carvid Produc- ticks. Rhone-Poulenc Ag Co. 4 minutes, 1990. tions. Portland, OR; 1991. 1 3 sec. f_J Herbal preparations and natural therapies; creating and using a home Reservations herbal medicine chest. Sunfire Produc- tions. Glenwood Springs, Co; 1989. 2 Clip and mail reservations to: tapes and accompanying book; Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 PHS, 325 ISBN: 0-9623812-0-9. Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form Techniques in plant identification. below to speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. Vocational Education Productions. San Confirmations for events at PHS are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we Luis Obispo, CA; 1989. will expect you. Field trip confirmations with important trip information are mailed ten days prior to the event. There is limited space for all activities (except spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two consecutive issues of the PHS News. Members may borrow books or videos by Refunds and cancellations: mail. If you would like one or more of the If you with to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative fee will be above books or videos sent to you, check deducted from your refund as follows: off the title, fill out the form below and $2 fee for all events other than one-day field trips provided your request is mail to: Library, PHS, 325 Walnut St., received no later than two days prior to the event. Phila., PA 19106. Or, phone your request $5 fee for one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than to (215) 625-8256. When returning four days prior to the event. book(s) or videos please enclose $1.75 per item in the envelope provided. Our new books are popular. If you don't receive your choice within 2 weeks, you'll know you are on a wait list. ARRANGING FROM THE LECTURE: IRISH GARDENS NAME AUTUMN GARDEN AND PLANTS Members $1 3 Guests $ 1 5^ Members $7 Guests $9_ ADDRESS. PERENNIALS FOR FALL GARDEN DESIGN: Members $15 Guests $1 7_ MEADOWBROOK FARM Members only $70 DAYTIME TELEPHONE, I would like to volunteer to help at Harvest Show Members' Preview, September 20, 1991 ] Please send information on Tree Symposium. PHS News (USPS 763-640) is published monthly except luly by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. Subscription — $9.75 per year —Single copies 80c. Second NAME class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. and additional mailing office. Postmaster: send ADDRESS address changes to PHS News, 325 Walnut Street, Phila, Pa. 19106. ZIP TELEPHONE: home Chair: Donald L. Felley President: lane C. Pepper work_ Editor: Lisa Stephano Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth C. Cullan 6 Society and Scott Arboretum of Other Events Swarthmore College. ANNUAL CONVENTION To receive a brochure for more infor- mation, check the appropriate box on the INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ARBORICULTURE reservation form. August 10-14, Open registration Adam's Mark Hotel, City Line Avenue SPECIAL MAILINGS HEADED Feature event: Field Day/Tree Climber's YOUR WAY Jamboree Be on the lookout for two important ENTER THE BEST AND ODDEST Sunday, August 1 1, PHS mailings that should arrive at your FROM YOUR GARDEN AT THE Horticulture Center homes around Labor Day. Your 1991 HARVEST SHOW Information: 1-800-ISA-TREE Harvest Show announcement and tickets Bring youramazingand amusingmuta- will be closely followed by membership tion vegetables and fruits to the Harvest renewal information and the Philadelphia SCOTT ARBORETUM PLANT SALE Show and enter them in this year's special Flower Show Exhibitor's Schedule. If you Saturday, September 14, 10 am-3 pm category "Good Sports From The Funny do not receive these mailings within a Farm". This is purely a spectator sport and Features: trees, shrubs, vines and reasonable amount of time, please call will not be judged. You can display as perennials Linda Davis at (2 1 5) 625-8265. many oddly shaped speciments as you I nformation : (2 1 5) 687-39 1 The renewal return envelopes are like but should follow all other general addressed to a box number at Provident and horticultural rules on pages 3 and 4 of TREE SYMPOSIUM AT Bank to increase our speed and efficiency the Exhibitor's Schedule. COLLEGE SWARTHMORE in processing your renewals. We are Another new category, eligible for internationally always particularly grateful to Alex Shigo, famous members judging, is the Herb Wreath. Your 8" authority on tree care, will be guest who respond promptly to the first dues wreath made with a minimum of five lecturer for a full-day program promoting notice, thereby eliminating the expense varieties of dried herbs, must be equipped tree health, Saturday, October 26, at of additional reminders and the confusion with a wire for hanging. Swarthmore College. Designed for pro- that results when responses and fessionals and home gardeners, the additional notices cross in the mail. symposium will focus on careful site When you receive your Flower Show selection, planting and pruning techni- Exhibitors Schedule, be sure and read HARVEST SHOW POSTERS AVAILABLE ques, routine maintenance, pest each section of the Schedule carefully Stop by PHS and pick-up a handful of management and diseases. and register your entries on the form pro- this year's colorful 8x10 posters to display The symposium is jointly sponsored vided at the back of each booklet. If you in your local, store, library or church. by Bryn Mawr College, Chanticleer would like to receive an extra Schedule If you would like a poster mailed to Foundation, International Society of for a friend, please call Marge Meer at you, please call Ellen Gittleman at Arboriculture, Pensylvania Horticultural (215-625-8292. 625-8266. Second Class PHS NEWS Postage PAID The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 325 Walnut St.* Philadelphia, PA 19106 Phone (215) 625-8250 0\ Paper f' 3 Recycled VISIT PHS EXHIBITS: Miniature Settings through September 6 The Art of Botanicals by Linda Funk September 1 3-November 8 Opening Reception: Friday, September 1 3, 5-7 pm PHS NEWS The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Volume XXXII, No. 8 SEPTEMBER, 1991 1991 HARVEST SHOW EXPLORES 2:30 All about Heirloom Tomatoes MEMBERS' HARVEST SHOW PREVIEW GARDENING THROUGH THE YEARS Craig LeHoullier, Harvest Show Friday, September 20, 4-7 pm From an heirloom garden of rainbow Educational Exhibitor Members who visit this year's Harvest colored vegetables and fruits to the heal- 3:00 Cooking up the Harvest Show Preview will get a double treat in ing effects of gardening on the body and Rick Rogers, cook book author the form of a special discount voucher to soul, this year's Harvest Show educa- Sunday, September 22 the American Institute of Wine and tional exhibitors will provide Show goers 1:00 Safety tips and techniques for Food's "Taste The Harvest" event to be with interesting, useful information Satur- Home preserving held Saturday, September 21, day and Sunday, September 21 and 22 at Richard Bitner, Harvest Show 1 am-5 pm at the First Philadelphia the Horticulture Center, Belmont Av- Preserved Products Chair Troop Armory 22 S. 23rd St. Visit the enue and Horticultural Drive in 2:00 Cider making Taste The Harvest booth at the Show and Fairmount Park. Clarissa Dillon, food historian learn more about this special event that Ann Benzel, Harvest Show Chair, says 3:00 Cooking with Herbs features the bounty and abundant variety this year's Show theme, Harvesting The Rosemarie Vassalluzzo, Food of produce grown and processed by Years, will take visitors on a nostalgic Columnist, The Advance of Bucks Delaware Valley farmers, growers, vint- processors. "journey" back to the 1 8th century and County ners and food continue through to modern times. Exp- Members may bring guests to the lore early garden designs and techniques; Harvest Show Preview for a charge of $5 learn how to create a new garden for an each, payable at the entrance. Members' old home and taste freshly pressed apple tickets to the Show were mailed in late cider made on an antique press at the August. If you have not received your Show. HARVEST SHOW SPECIAL EVENT tickets, please call Linda Davis at The Harvest Show will also feature the 10am-4 pm 625-8265. bounty of this region's growing season Jack Eden, KYW Newsradio garden The Harvest Show will be held at the when more than 700 exhibitors display commentator, will answer gardening Horticulture Center, Belmont Avenue their homegrown vegetables, fruits, questions (Saturday only) and Horticultural Drive, West Fairmount flowers and plants in the annual CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES Park. competition. 10 am-4 pm The Harvest Show is open 1 am to Scarecrow Making 5 pm each day. Admission is $3.00 for PHS MEMBERS' PLANT DIVIDEND 1 1 am, 1 pm and 3 pm adults; $1.50 for children under 12. Re- Friday, September 6, noon-7 pm Environmental Jeopardy - children can staurant and picnic facilities are on the Saturday, September 7, 9:30-noon test their knowledge of plants and the en- premises. Parking is plentiful and free at PHS members will have an opportunity vironment with this adapted version of the Horticulture Center. to obtain some unusual plants at this the popular TV game show year's annual distribution. Among the un- 1 1 am-1 pm common plants grown by PHS members - Hand Weavers learn more about this for the Dividend are a rare Texas endemic old world craft from members of the HARVEST SHOW DEMONSTRATIONS sage, a tropical Bird of Paradise, and our Philadelphia of Guild Hand Weavers much loved native Trillium grandiflorum, Saturday, September 21 Decorating Baskets - hands-on activity which was grown, not collected, by 1:00 Homemade wines and vinegars using dried seeds, pods and flowers members. There will be trees, shrubs, Sally McCabe, Philadelphia Green 1-2 pm ferns, grasses, perennials and houseplants Education Specialist and Lorraine including orchids. Plants which have McGill, Harvest Show Vice Chair Cider Making - youngsters try their hand at presses won the PHS Gold Medal (formerly the of Preserved Products and cider making on antique Styer Award) will also be available. Community Gardens from The John Bartram Association Individual members are entitled to one 2:00 Flower Arranging: Creative ideas 1-4 pm plant; other members may choose three using budget containers Children's Activity Tent - Pumpkin plants. Bernice Makin, professional flower Painting, Leaf Mask Making and Apple arranger Bobbing (continued on page six) A Activities PERENNIALS FOR FALL MEADOWBROOK FARM: A CASE WORKSHOP: DRIED FLOWERS — At Chanticleer, Wayne STUDY FOR EFFECTIVE LANDSCAPE HARVEST OF FLORAL DESIGN Saturday, September 28, 10 am-noon DESIGN POSSIBILITIES Horticulturist Lisa Roper will give sug- (3 sessions) 10 am-noon Friday, October 18, 10 am-1 pm gestions for the autumn garden at the Tuesday, October 8; This flower arranging workshop offers Chanticleer estate to point out the wide Thursday, October 10; fresh ideas on "drieds" for gardeners or range of fall-blooming perennials, pleas- Tuesday, October 1 5 gleaners. Priscilla-Gene Shaffer will dis- ing color combinations, special At Meadowbrook Farm, owner/ cuss methods of drying and preserving horticultural and maintenance tips and designer J. Liddon Pennock, Jr. and homegrown and gathered materials, the requirements, and effective ways to com- horticulturist/manager Chuck Rogers will purchase of commercially prepared bine them with other elements in the conduct a six-hour program on landscape "drieds" and their availability for year- garden. design. Using the private gardens as a round designing enjoyment, storage, Program limited to 25. Participants laboratory, Pennock and Rogers will arranging mechanics, design possibilities must provide own transportation. Travel focus on one aspect of effective landscap- and display. Hand-outs, slide presenta- directions will be mailed in mid- ing in each two-hour session: design/ tion, demonstration, and individual atten- September. structure, plants, ornaments/accessories. tion will assist participants in creating an Fee: $15 members; $17 guests Program limited to 20. arrangement. Fee: $70 members only. Travel direc- Fee of $39 for members and $42 for tions will be mailed in mid-September guests includes container, mechanics, and dried plants. Registrants should bring clippers, scissors, wire cutters, and a box LECTURE: IRISH GARDENS AND to transport finished project. PLANTS Priscilla-Gene Shaffer teaches flower LECTURE: THE WORLD IS MY GARDEN Thursday, October 3, 5:45-7:15 pm shop management at Temple University, Tuesday, October 8, 5:45-7:15 pm Ireland's Helen Dillon, one of great Ambler, and runs her own floral design Famous British horticulturist Roy gardeners, will talk about Irish gardens business. Lancaster will take us on a "journey" and their plants, emphasizing the import- Program limited to 1 5. around the world to examine garden ance of growing plants well and placing plants, where they come from, and how them to their advantage. we use them in our gardens today. He'll Helen Dillon's own garden on Sanford consider plants that are familiar and Road in Dublin has become a must-see others less so, and tell the fascinating story for visiting horticulturists. Gardener, behind each one. speaker, and writer, Mrs. Dillon co-edited Roy Lancaster is a freelance writer, In an Irish Garden with Sybil Connolly; WORKSHOP: PLANTING BULBS plant explorer, and British television she writes column a weekly newspaper Saturday, October 1 9, 1 am-1 pm personality. He has authored seven has written for and House and Garden Bulb specialist Brent Heath will con- books, has been involved in horticultural and other horticultural magazines. vince you that planting bulbs is an easy, programs for the BBC for over 1 years, Lecture will begin promptly at 5:45 pm creative, pleasurable experience when and has led tours and treks to botanize in followed by wine and nibbles. you have the right tools used in the cor- areas from North America to the wilds of Fee: $7 members; $9 guests rect manner. Heath will conduct an infor- Spain, Turkey, Iran, Tasmania, China, The Library will be open until 5 :45 pm mal, practical hands-on workshop at the and )apan. this evening. Azalea Garden, where he'll demonstrate The program will begin promptly at techniques for bulb planting. Discussion 5:45 pm, followed by wine and nibbles. topics will include nutrition, bedding, Fee: $8 members; $10 guests naturalizing, tools, interplanting, and Note: The Library will be open until ways to create dramatic rivers of bulbs. 5:45 pm FALL IS FOR PLANTING Using Heath's team method, partici- Friday, October 4, 10 am-noon pants will plant bulbs at the Azalea Peoples Light and Theater, Malvern Garden on Kelly Drive next to the Art. Fall is for planting, and it's also the best Philadelphia Museum of The Azalea time to give flower beds a hard, critical CHANTICLEER STROLL IN WAYNE Garden, originally given to the City by look and to make decisions for next year. Wednesday, October 16, 10 am-noon PHS in the 1950's, has been restored and Now plants can be moved, divided, dis- Chris Woods, executive director, will rehabilitated through PHS's Center City carded, as well as planted. Go through lead PHS members and guests on an Green Program during the past three this process with Jane Lennon, perennial autumn walk through Chanticleer, a pri- years. specialist from Cherrymont Nursery, as vate foundation in Wayne. The tour will Brent Heath, a third-generation bulb she demonstrates and discusses what can focus on seasonal color and fall-fruiting grower, owns The Daffodil Mart, a be accomplished this fall in anticipation or blooming plants. wholesale/retail mail order business in of an improved garden next year. Travel directions will be mailed in early Gloucester, Virginia. Travel directions will be mailed in late October. Participants must provide own Travel directions will be mailed in early September. transportation. October. Fee: $12 members; $14 guests Fee: $5 members; $7 guests Fee: $12 members; $14 guests 5 GROUND COVERS FOR Reservations CONNOISSEURS Monday, October 21,10 am-noon Clip and mail reservations to: Cherrymont Nursery, Morgantown PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 Forget the hackneyed five and look at a Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form broad range of ground cover plants to below to speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. blanket your garden with colors, textures, Confirmations for events at PHS are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we flowers, and perfume, loin Jane Lennon at will expect you. Field trip confirmations with important trip information are her nursery in Morgantown to see es- mailed ten days prior to the event. There is limited space for all activities (except tablished plantings and to discuss use, spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two consecutive issues of the PHS News. planting, and maintenance techniques of Refunds and cancellations: ground covers for sun, shade, wet, dry, If you with to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative fee will be large, and small areas at Cherrymont deducted from your refund as follows: Nursery. $2 fee for all events other than one-day field trips provided your request is Travel directions will be mailed in early received no later than two days prior to the event. October. Participants must provide own $5 fee for one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than transportation. four days prior to the event. Fee: $12 members; $14 guests PERENNIALS FOR FALL WORKSHOP: DRIED FLOWERS Members $15 Guests $1 7_ Members $39 Guests $42 LECTURE: IRISH GARDENS WORKSHOP: PLANTING BULBS AT-HOME-SERIES: ARRANGING WITH AND PLANTS Members $12 Guests $14 FOLIAGE Members $7 Guests $9_ GROUND COVERS FOR Friday, October 25, 1 am-noon FALL IS FOR PLANTING CONNOISSEURS Malvern Members $12 Guests $14_ members $12 Guests $14 Joanna Reed of Longview Farm will GARDEN DESIGN: DEMONSTRATION: create informal arrangements for the MEADOWBROOK FARM ARRANGING WITH FOLIAGE home using foliage from her garden. (3 sessions) Members $13 Guests $ 1 Joanna will show interesting and appeal- Members only $70 TREE SYMPOSIUM ing effects that can be achieved without flowers by combining colors, textures, LECTURE: THE WORLD IS MY $40 GARDEN forms and berries/fruits available in FORCING BULBS Members $8 Guests $10 autumn gardens. The focus of this pro- Members $30 Guests $34 gram is making the most of nature's CHANTICLEER STROLL bounty; formal principles of arranging Members $5 Guests $7 will not be taught. Travel directions will be mailed in mid- October. Participants must provide own transportation. Fee: members $13; guests $15 Limited to one guest per member. '92 I would like to volunteer as an aide for Flower Show Barrier Hospitality Arrangement fj Horticulture I would like to volunteer to help at Harvest Show Members' Preview, September 20, 1991 Please send information on Tree Symposium. PHS News (USPS 763-640) is published monthly except July by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. Subscription — NAME $9.75 per year —Single copies 80c Second class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. and ADDRESS additional mailing office. Postmaster: send address changes to PHS News, 325 Walnut Street, Phila, Pa. 19106. ZIP TELEPHONE: home. Chair: Donald L. Felley President: laneC. Pepper work_ Editor: Lisa Stephano Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth C. Cullan .. TREE SYMPOSIUM G Period Gardens, Patrick Taylor, 1 991 1991 MAJOR AWARD NOMINATIONS Saturday, October 26, 8:30 am-3 pm Rosy's garden, Satomi Ichikawa, ANNOUNCED Lang Music Center, Swarthmore 1990. Under the leadership of Awards Alex Shigo, internationally famous Second nature, Michael Pollan, 1 991 Committee chair, Sally Graham, the fol- authority on tree care, will be guest lowing nominees have been selected for borrow mail. If lecturer for a full-day program promoting Members may books by the Society's major awards. you would like one or more of the above tree health. Designed for professionals The Distinguished Achievement Medal books sent to you, check off the title, fill and home gardeners, the symposium will will be presented to Mrs. Lammot out the form below and mail to: Library, focus on careful site selection, planting du Pont Copeland. Mrs. Copeland is PHS, 325 Walnut St., Phila., PA 19106. and pruning techniques, routine mainte- perhaps best known to gardeners and the Or, phone your request to (2 1 5) 625-8256. nance, pest management and diseases. gardening public for the gardens she is When returning book(s) please enclose The symposium is jointly sponsored by creating at Mt. Cuba in Greenville, Dela- $1.75 per book in the envelope provided. Bryn Mawr College, Chanticleer Founda- ware. These gardens, devoted primarily Our new books are popular. If you don't tion, International Society of to eastern North American natives, now receive your choice within 2 weeks, Arboriculture, Pennsylvania occupy about 20 acres and attract several you'll know you are on a wait list. Horticultural Society, and Scott Ar- thousand people annually, although Mt. boretum of Swarthmore College. NAME Cuba is still private. She is a staunch sup- Fee of $40 includes program, lunch, porter of the Philadelphia Flower Show and tour. ADDRESS. through her entries in the horticultural classes and as a benefactor. Mrs. Cope- land has served on the boards of DAYTIME TELEPHONE Winterthur Museum and Gardens, Gunston Hall Plantation in Virginia and the Delaware Nature Society. WORKSHOP: FORCING BULBS FOR Certificates of Merit will be presented WINTER ENJOYMENT to Josephine McQuail Bachman for her Wednesday, October 30, 10 am-noon work at the People's Light and Theatre Walter Fisher, Flower Show Executive Company gardens; to William Bender for Committee member and perennial win- his outstanding contributions to the ner in Flower Show bulb classes, will hybridization of daffodils from around the teach all the essentials of forcing includ- world, and to The Four Seasons Hotel for ing methods of attaining full, robust pots its impressive interior plantings and floral of bloom, mechanics of planting, forcing displays, and for support of the planting timetables, tips on grooming and exhibi- and restoration work at Logan Square. tion, cold storage techniques, and best WATCH YOUR MAILBOX All awards will be presented at the varieties for forcing. Please be on the lookout for two Annual Meeting of the Society, 8" Each participant will plant two clay important PHS mailings that should arrive Wednesday, November 20 at 5:00 pm. using tulip narcissus suitable pots a and a at your homes around Labor Day. Your for entry in the 1 992 Philadelphia Flower 1991 Harvest Show announcement and Show novice classes. tickets will be closely followed by All materials will be provided. Limited another mailing of membership renewal to 20 participants. information and the Philadelphia Flower Fee: $30 members; $34 guests Show Exhibitors' Schedule. If you have not received these mailings by September 5, call Linda Davis at (215) 625-8265. AIDES NEEDED FOR 1992 As you study the membership informa- PHILADELPHIA FLOWER SHOW tion, please consider increasing your Arrangement Aides are needed daily membership to contributing, sponsoring, March 7-14 (except Sunday, March 8) or sustaining categories. Revenues from New in the Library from 6:30 to 9: 15 AM. these memberships help support Barrier Aides are needed daily Philadelphia Green and Center City March 9-14 to facilitate judging of Green, our community outreach design classes from 8 AM until judging programs. Bonsai for all seasons, Kyuzo Murata, is completed around 1 PM. The renewal return envelopes are 1990. Hospitality Aides are needed daily addressed to a box number at Provident Common-sense pest control, William March 7-14 (except Sunday, March 8) Bank to increase our speed and efficiency Olkowski, 1991. from 6:30 to 9: 15 AM. in processing your renewals. If you have The Complete book of bonsai, Harry Horticulture Barrier Aides are needed other items you wish to mail us, please Tomlinson, 1990. on Tuesday, March 10 and Friday, send these separately to PHS. We are March 1 3 from 8 AM until judging is The Experience of place, Tony Hiss, always particularly grateful to members 1990. completed. who respond promptly to the first dues members as volun- Making a white garden, Joan Clifton, notice, thereby eliminating the expense We welcome PHS 1990. of additional reminders and the confusion teers; please check the appropriate box Oriental vegetables, Joy Larkom, that results when responses and addi- on the Reservations coupon on page 1991. tional notices cross in the mail. three. NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF MEMBERS November 20, 1991 Please join us for the Society's 164th Annual Meeting on Wednesday, November 20 at 5:00 pm at the Society's offices, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA. We will elect new Council members, take up any other business which may properly come before the meeting, and celebrate the recipients of the Society's awards. The Society's Nominating Committee, Henry H. Reichner, Jr., Chair; Morris Cheston, Jr., Donald L. Felley, Sally Graham, Barbara Heckert, Richard W. Lighty and Kathleen G. Putnam propose the following Council members for re-election for additional three year terms: Alice Doering, Betsy Gray, W. Bruce McConnel, 3rd and J. Liddon Pennock, Jr. In addition they will place in nomination for three year terms the following persons who are not currently members of Council: Susan Armstrong has been vice-chair, co-chair and of the Horticulture Passing Committee for the 1 992 chair of the Flower Show Horticultural Classes and Philadelphia Flower Show. She has co-authored co-chair of the Harvest Show Herb Section. She's a "Philadelphia With Children" and has served on member of the National Horticulture Committee of the Women's Committee of Children's Hospital of the Garden Club of America and a member and past Philadelphia. president of West Chester Garden Club. Sue is a Walter Fisher, Jr. began a 30 year career with The board officer and past treasurer of the National Bell Telephone Co. of Pennsylvania following his Society of Colonial Dames of America and a board service as an Infantry First Lieutenant with the U.S. member of the Upland Country Day School, and a Army in Korea. With the divestiture of the Bell member of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts System in 1 984, he transferred to AT&T where he Women's Committee, the PhiladelphiaOrchestra remained as operations vice president until retire- Committee and Admissions Committee of the ment in 1 988. Walt began exhibiting in the Harvest Acorn Club. Show in 1 974 and in the Flower Show in 1 980. He W. Thacher Brown is President and Chief Executive is currently a member of the Flower Show Executive Officer of 1838 Investment Advisors. Before attend- Committee and a member of the Executive Volun- ing the Wharton School of the University of Penn- teer Committee of the Retired Senior Volunteer sylvania, he was associated with the Capital Program, the Cynwyd Tennis Club, The Athletic Management Department of Smith Barney. While Congress and The Philadelphia Masters Track at Wharton, he was employed part-time by Drexel Association. Burnham Lambert Investment Advisors and began James C. Tabb joined the Rohm and Haas Company with the firm on a full-time basis in 1972. Thacher in 1957 and is now Director of Corporate Human has served as chair of the Flower Show Preview Resources. Jim is on the Personnel Committees of Dinner and currently is a member of the Board of PHS, Pennsylvania Hospital and the Philadelphia Trustees and Treasurer of the Agnes Irwin School. Presbytery. He is an elder of the Bryn Mawr Anne S. Cunningham, a freelance garden writer and Presbyterian Church and board member of the photographer, is vice-chair of the PHS Publications Metropolitan Christian Council of Philadelphia. He Committee and has served as circulation consultant is a Board Chairman of Eighteenth Street Develop- for Creen Scene. She has also served on the Publi- ment Corporation, a not-for-profit agency, which cations and Library Committees of the Garden Club organizes volunteer home rehabs and repair in of America and is Program Chai r of the Garden South Philadelphia. Club of Philadelphia. Anne will serve as vice-chair Under the new by-laws of the Society adopted at the 1 988 Annual Meeting, members now can vote either in person or by proxy. We hope that you can attend the meeting, but if you cannot, please clip out and return the proxy form. WE NEED YOUR HELP ON THIS. We may not have a quorum at the meeting unless enough proxies are returned. Raul Betancourt, Secretary PROXY FORM THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING OF MEMBERS, NOVEMBER 20, 1991 The undersigned hereby appoints Donald L. Felley, Jane C. Pepper and Raul Betancourt and each of them the true and lawful attorneys or attorney of said member, with full power of substitution to vote at the annual meeting of the 1 members of The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, called to be held at 5 :00 pm on Wednesday, November 20, 991 , and at any adjournments thereof, with all the powers the undersigned would possess if personally present: 1. For the election of Council Members 2. For the transaction of such other business Al1 adult members of household should sign. as may come before said meeting. (Date) PLEASE RETURN TO PHS NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER 8, 1 991 5 . SPEAKERS LIST 'Chameleon'; Iris graminea: small Shrubs fragrant blue iris; Iris setosa 'nana': 10", Camellia japonica: pink blooms on PHS maintains a list of individuals who lecture to garden clubs and plant society compact, rock garden possibility: Lilium borderline hardy camellia; Caryopteris 'Jane Pepper'; Monarda didyma sp.: unique for blue color in August; groups. We are updating our list for 1 992. 'Cambridge Scarlet'; Ophiopogon Cornus sericea 'Silver and Gold': If you would like to receive the speaker's planiscapus 'Nigrescens': dark, grass-like variegated leaves, recent introduction questionnaire we use to compile our list- foliage; Orostachys furusei: rock local ing, contact Peggy Grady, PHS Library good from a garden; Deutzia gracilis garden plant; Phlox douglasii 'Daniel's 'Nikko': low growing, white flowers; (625-8256) before October 1 5, 1 991 Cushion': good spring phlox with ever- Euonymus japonica microphyllus: minia- green foliage; Polygonatum humile: tiny ture edging shrub; Euonymus kiautschov- Solomon's Seal from the Orient; icus 'Manhattan': informal hedge shrub PLANT DIVIDEND (continued) Potentilla tridentata 'Minima': hand- to 6'; Ilex x meserveae 'Mesgolg': only Please be sure to have your member- some, compact white-flowered ground yellow-berried blue holly available to- ship card ready when you arrive at the cover; Salvia penstemoides: rare Texas day; Itea virginica 'Henry's Garnet': door so that you may select plants without native with red flower; Spigelia known for fall color, spreading habit; delay. marilandica: June blooming red/yellow Rhododendron satsuki hybrid: Gumpo The following is a partial list of what flower for border; Trillium grandiflorum: azalea, compact plant with large flowers; you may find: grown in donor's garden, not collected Rosa 'Meiflopan': white Meidiland, long Perennials: from the wild: Viola pedata: dainty non- blooming and disease resistant; Salix Alstroemeria psittacina: red parrot lily invasive violet. gracilistyla sp.: early pussy willow. hardy in our area; astilbes: dependable Ferns Trees plants for shade; Baptisia australis: large, Arachniodes standishii: handsome Cornus kousa: oriental dogwood, less undemanding perennial with blue Asian upside-down fern; Athryium vulnerable to anthracnose problems; Ilex flowers; Belamcanda chinensis: black- goeringianum 'Pictum': colorful Japanese 'Doctor Kassab': to 35', use as specimen berry lily; Campanula carpatica 'Blue painted fern; Polystichum braunii: tree; Styrax japonica. Chips: good edging or wall plant; Braun's holly fern native to northern Vines Chrysoganum virginiana: long blooming regions of the US. Clematic orientalis 'Bill McKenzie': ground cover, yellow flowers; Corydalis Houseplants orange sepals on unusual clematis; cheilanthifolia: ferny leaf, yellow flower; Begonias of several varieties: Echeveria Clematis tangutica: yellow sepals: Geranium dalmaticum: small pink hardy runyonii x affinis: long blooming red- Hedera helix 'Buttercup': striking green geranium for rock garden or front of bor- flowered succulent; orchids of several and gold leaves. der; Hedyotis caerulea: dainty "Quaker genera for greenhouse and windowsill; ladies" of early spring; hemerocallis Oxalis oregana: popular 'clover leaf" hybrids, also H. 'Hyperion' and H. 'Stella type houseplant; Strelitzia reginae: Bird d'Oro'; Heuchera americana 'Garnet': of Paradise; Trichosporum aeschynant- new introduction; Hieracium wald- hus pulcher: good winter-flowering steinii: for hot, dry sunny spot; hostas: plant. shady garden; Houttuynia cordata Other Events PLANT SALE Members: Friday, October 4, 9am-4:30pm Second Class Non-Members: Saturday, October 5, PHS NEWS Postage 9am-4:30pm PAID Horticultural Society Henry Foundation for Botanical Research The Pennsylvania 801 Stony Lane 325 Walnut St. • Philadelphia, PA 19106 Gladwyne, PA 19035 Phone (215) 625-8250 For information: (215) 525-2037 TASTE THE HARVEST Sponsored by Delaware Valley Chapter of the American Institute of Wine and Food Saturday, September 21 Ml am- pm First Philadelphia Troop Armory 22 S. 23rd Street For information: (215)625-4463 4+ f y Recycled Paper . *OR T K . 'c Visit PHS Exhibits: The Art of Botanicals By Linda Funk Through November 8 PHS NEWS £ The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Volume XXXII, No. 9 OCTOBER, 1991 PHS OFFERS NEW EXTENDED LIBRARY ANNUAL MEETING HOURS AND EVENING PLANT CLINIC Activities Wednesday, November 20, 5 pm Beginning in October, members will The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society have two excel lent reasons to visit PHS on Annual Meeting will be held to elect new Monday evenings. The Library will stay LECTURE: IRISH GARDENS AND Council members and to present 1 991 's open until 7 pm and horticulturist, Kathy PLANTS distinguished awards. If you are unable to Mills will conduct a Plant Clinic between Thursday, October 3, 5:45-7:15 pm attend, please return completed Proxy 5 and 7 pm. So, Monday evenings are Helen Dillon, one of Ireland's great Form below by November 8. your chance to catch up on your gardeners, will talk about Irish gardens horticultural reading and bring your ail- and their plants, emphasizing the import- ing plant in for a check-up. ance of growing plants well and placing Library hours Tuesday through Friday PROXY FORM PLEASE RETURN them to their advantage. will remain 9 am to 5 pm. Helen Dillon's own garden on Sanford Deadline Road in Dublin has become a must-see November 8 for visiting horticulturists. Gardener, THE PENNSYLVANIA speaker, and writer, Mrs. Dillon co-edited HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY In an Irish Garden with Sybil Connolly; ANNUAL MEETING OF MEMBERS, she writes a weekly newspaper column NOVEMBER 20, 1991 and has written for House and Garden and other horticultural magazines. The undersigned hereby appoints Lecture will begin promptly at 5:45 pm Donald L. Felley, JaneG. Pepper and Raul followed by wine and nibbles. Betancourt and each of them the true and Fee: $7 members; $9 guests lawful attorneys or attorney of said The Library will be open until 5 :45 pm member, with full power of substitution to SPECIAL SPACES: FLOWER this evening. ARRANGING SYMPOSIUM FOR THE vote at the annual meeting of the mem- PHILADELPHIA FLOWER SHOW bers of The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, called to be held at 5:00 pm on Wednesday, October 30, 10 am Wednesday, November 20, 1 991 , and at The Highlands, Ft. Washington any adjournments thereof, with all the for special Join us a symposium on FALL IS FOR PLANTING powers the undersigned would possess if arranging for Philadelphia Flower the Friday, October 4, 10 am-noon personally present: Show and learn the secrets of filling those Peoples Light and Theater, Malvern 1. For the election of Council special spaces. Chairs and advisors for all Members Fall is for planting, and it's also the best arrangement classes will be available for time to give flower beds a hard, critical other consultation. Speakers, who will show 2 For the transaction of such look and to make decisions for next year. creative approaches and share methods, business as may come before said Now plants can be moved, divided, dis- tricks, and helpful hints, are Nancy meeting. carded, as well as planted. Go through Mundth and Jay Byrne for rooms and this process with Jane Lennon, perennial tables; Anne Hayes and Jim Hayden for (Date) specialist from Cherrymont Nursery, as defined and Sally open and spaces; she demonstrates and discusses what can Humphries and Carolyn Waite for minia- be accomplished this fall in anticipation ture niches. of an improved garden next year. This symposium offers a good Travel directions will be mailed in late opportunity to get your creative juices All adult PHS members in household September. flowing, to solve problems with troubling should sign. Fee: $12 members; $14 guests mechanics, to clarify rules or guidelines, Please return to: and to benefit from the experience of The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society other arrangers. 325 Walnut Street For travel directions, call Marge Meer Philadelphia, PA 19106 at PHS (21 5-625-8292). (Continued on next page) A Activities LECTURE: THE WORLD IS MY GARDEN mal, practical hands-on workshop at the TREE SYMPOSIUM Tuesday, October 8, 5:45-7:15 pm Azalea Garden, where he'll demonstrate Saturday, October 26, 8:30 am-3 pm Famous British horticulturist Roy techniques for bulb planting. Discussion Lang Music Center, Swarthmore Lancaster will take us on a "journey" topics will include nutrition, bedding, Alex Shigo, internationally famous around the world to examine garden naturalizing, tools, interplanting, and authority on tree care, will be guest plants, where they come from, and how ways to create dramatic rivers of bulbs. lecturer for a full-day program promoting we use them in our gardens today. He'll Using Heath's team method, partici- tree health. Designed for professionals consider plants that are familiar and pants will plant bulbs at the Azalea and home gardeners, the symposium will others less so, and tell the fascinating story Garden on Kelly Drive next to the focus on careful site selection, planting behind each one. Philadelphia Museum of Art. and pruning techniques, routine mainte- nance, pest management and diseases. The program will begin promptly at Brent Heath, a third-generation bulb The is jointly sponsored by 5:45 pm, followed by wine and nibbles. grower, owns The Daffodil Mart, a symposium Bryn College, Chanticleer Founda- Fee: $8 members; $10 guests wholesale/retail mail order business in Mawr tion, International Society of Note: The Library will be open until Gloucester, Virginia. Arboriculture, Pennsylvania 5:45 pm Travel directionswill be mailed in early Society, and Ar- October. Horticultural Scott boretum of Swarthmore College. CHANTICLEER STROLL IN WAYNE Fee: $12 members; $14 guests Fee of $40 includes program, lunch, Wednesday, October 1 6, 1 am-noon and tour. Chris Woods, executive director, will lead PHS members and guests on an autumn walk through Chanticleer, a pri- GROUND COVERS FOR WORKSHOP: FORCING BULBS FOR vate foundation in Wayne. The tour will CONNOISSEURS WINTER ENJOYMENT focus on seasonal color and fall-fruiting Monday, October 21, 10 am-noon Wednesday, October 30, 1 am-noon or blooming plants. Cherrymont Nursery, Morgantown Walter Fisher, Flower Show Executive Travel directionswill be mailed inearly and perennial win- Forget the hackneyed five and look at a Committee member October. Participants must provide own broad range of ground cover plants to ner in Flower Show bulb classes, will transportation. blanket your garden with colors, textures, teach all the essentials of forcing includ- Fee: $5 members; $7 guests flowers, and perfume. Join Jane Lennon at ing methods of attaining full, robust pots her nursery in Morgantown to see es- of bloom, mechanics of planting, forcing timetables, tips on grooming and exhibi- WORKSHOP: DRIED FLOWERS — tablished plantings and to discuss use, tion, cold storage techniques, and best HARVEST OF FLORAL DESIGN planting, and maintenance techniques of ground covers for sun, shade, wet, dry, varieties for forcing. POSSIBILITIES large, and small areas at Cherrymont Each participant will plant two 8" clay Friday, October 18, 10 am-1 pm Nursery. pots using a tulip and a narcissus suitable This flower arranging workshop offers Travel directionswill be mailed inearly for entry in the 1 992 Philadelphia Flower fresh ideas on "drieds" for gardeners or October. Participants must provide own Show novice classes. gleaners. Priscilla-Gene Shaffer will dis- transportation. All materials will be provided. Limited cuss methods of drying and preserving Fee: members; guests to 20 participants. homegrown and gathered materials, the $12 $14 Fee: $30 members; $34 guests purchase of commercially prepared "drieds" and their availability for year- round designing enjoyment, storage, AT-HOME SERIES: YARD WASTE arranging mechanics, design possibilities AT-HOME-SERIES: ARRANGING WITH MANAGEMENT and display. FOLIAGE Springfield, PA Fee of $39 for members and for $42 Friday, October 25, 10 am-noon Saturday, November 2, 10 am-noon guests includes container, mechanics, Malvern Jeff Ball, avid gardener and garden and dried plants. Registrants should bring Joanna Reed of Longview Farm will writer, will show how to eliminate garden clippers, scissors, wire cutters, and a box create informal arrangements for the waste by reducing the volume of waste to transport finished project. home using foliage from her garden. produced, using mulch effectively, and Priscilla-Gene Shaffer teaches flower Joanna will show interesting and appeal- learning to compost. Jeff wi 1 1 demonstrate shop at University, management Temple ing effects that can be achieved without the latest techniques and technology in Ambler, runs her and own floral design flowers by combining colors, textures, his "smart yard", where he researches business. forms and berries/fruits available in and experiments for Practical Home Program limited to 15. autumn gardens. The focus of this pro- Owner Magazine. Participants will see gram is making the most of nature's seven different composting systems and WORKSHOP: PLANTING BULBS bounty; formal principles of arranging five shredding machines and will learn Saturday, October 19, 10 am-1 pm will not be taught. how to handle 100% of garden waste acre or Bulb specialist Brent Heath will con- Travel directionswill be mailed in mid- produced on properties of one less. vince you that planting bulbs is an easy, October. Participants must provide own creative, pleasurable experience when transportation. Travel directions will be mailed you have the right tools used in the cor- Fee: members $13; guests $15 mid-October. rect manner. Heath will conduct an infor- Limited to one guest per member. Fee: $12 members; $14 guests ARRANGING DEMONSTRATION: will show floral creations for many moods FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY EVENING CENTERPIECES and occasions from casual to elegant and AMERICAN GARDENS TODAY AND Tuesday, November 19, 10 am-1 pm informal to formal with ideas for the up- TOMORROW Lafayette Hill coming holidays. Tuesday, November 5, 6-9 pm Audrey Nichols, accomplished Discussions will include preparation, This year's Friends of the Library event arranger and frequent Philadelphia conditioning of flowers, appropriate con- will feature Frank Cabot, who will speak Flower Show blue ribbon winner in the tainers, and mechanics. Registration on gardening trends in the U.S. after arrangement classes, brings enthusiasm limited. World War II. and expertise to this demonstration on Travel directions will be mailed in early Mr. Cabot, a self-described centerpieces for the dining table. Audrey November. horticultural enthusiast, gardens in Cold Free: $18 members; $20 guests Spring Harbor, NY and La Malbaie, Quebec. His gardens were featured in two recent books, The American Man's Reservations Garden and In a Canadian Garden. In 1 989 he founded the Garden Con- servancy, an organization dedicated to Clip and mail reservations to: preserving exceptional gardens. PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 Reservations from Friends of the Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form Library will be given first preference until below to speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. October 9, when the program will be Confirmations for events at PHS are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we open to PHS membrs. Support from will expect you. Field trip confirmations with important trip information are Friends of the Library assists in the mailed ten days prior to the event. There is limited space for al I activities (except renovation and development of PHS's spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two consecutive issues of the PHS News. historical collections. To become a Refunds and cancellations: Library Friend, please contact Janet If you with to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative fee will be Evans, (215)625-8261. deducted from your refund as follows: Cocktails at 6:00 pm (donation $2 fee for all events other than one-day field trips provided your request is bar); buffetat6:45 program 7:45 received no later than two days prior to the event. pm; pm. Fee: $22.00 members; $25.00 guests. $5 fee for one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than four days prior to the event. WORKSHOP: FRAGRANT HERB WREATHS LECTURE: IRISH GARDENS DEMONSTRATION: Thursday, November 21 AND PLANTS ARRANGING WITH FOLIAGE 10 am-1 2:30 pm or 6-8:30 pm Members $7 Guests $9 Members $ 1 3 Guests $15 Ruth Flounders of Sculps Hill Herbs FALL IS FOR PLANTING TREE SYMPOSIUM and Specialties will teach methods for Members $12 Guests $14 $40 constructing a long-lasting herb wreath, using sweet-smelling dried herbs like LECTURE: THE WORLD IS MY FORCING BULBS GARDEN Members $30 Guests $34 artemisia, mints, and sweet marjoram on a straw or wire frame. Each participant Members $8 Guests $ 1 YARD WASTE MANAGEMENT will create a one-of-a-kind wreath CHANTICLEER STROLL Members $1 2 Guests $14 decorated with herbs and everlasting Members $5 Guests $7 LIBRARY EVENING: flowers. WORKSHOP: DRIED FLOWERS FRANK CABOT Ruth and her farm partner Jack Members $39 Guests $42 Members $22 Guests $25 Flounders will lead the group in the WORKSHOP: PLANTING BULBS WORKSHOP: FRAGRANT HERB morning, and herb expert Frank Keiser will join Ruth in the evening session. Members $ 1 2 Guests $14 WREATH Members $29 Guests $33 Fee includes instruction and all dried GROUND COVERS FOR materials. Participants should bring clip- 1 pm or 6 pm CONNOISSEURS pers and/or scissors and a box to transport members DEMONSTRATION: ARRANG- $12 Guests $14 a finished 12-14" wreath. ING CENTERPIECES Enrollment limited to 1 2 per session. Members $18 Guests $20 Fee: $29 members; $33 guests PHS News (USPS 763-640) is published ] Please send information on Tree Symposium. monthly except luly bv the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut Street. Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. Subscription — NAME $9.75 per year —Single copies 80c. Second class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. and additional mailing office. Postmaster: send ADDRESS address changes to PHS News. 325 Walnut Street, Phila, Pa. 19106. ZIP TELEPHONE: home Chair: Donald L. Felley President: laneC. Pepper work_ Editor: Lisa Stephano Activities Section Editor: Elizabeth G. Cullan . — . promotion so we can continue noon in the Park. Friends are invited free crtzaLe-a garden c/rbnanaaK. replanting trees to replace the aging of charge, guests are encouraged to make sycamores along the perimeter of the a donation. For more information call blanket Bring your folding chair, and Garden (see Buy a Tree program in box). Kate Swartz at (2 1 5) 625-8280 ext. 30. lots of friends as we ring in the fall season Children's bulb planting projects, a Our continued thanks to The Four Nineties, on October 27 with — Cay An barbershop quartet, hot cider, popcorn Seasons Hotel for its generosity and sup- Autumn Afternoon in the Park. and activities geared to family members port. The Four Seasons supplies the Friends of the Azalea Garden have of all ages set the stage for a great after- Friends Committee with several Tea For been mighty busy throughout the summer Two afternoons, which are raffled off sprucing up the garden during Saturday each clean-up day. BUYATREE to the Friends clean-up days. Thanks If you wou Id I ike to joi n the Friends one Replanting the ring of trees around the group, to Heyser Landscaping, and to day each month to prune, weed, or plant, perimeter of the Azalea Garden is an am- our friends from the Fairmount Park or, if you would like to participate in one bitious task and we need your help to do Commission, the Garden is in great shape. of the Friends' committees, please check it. Your donation of $500 will purchase 1-3 On Sunday, October 27 from pm, one tree. If you would like to help us with the appropriate box below. If you'd prefer a Gay Nineties celebration in the Azalea the tree fund, please send your check to to partici pate from afar, we'd be del ighted Garden will kick-off a new year PHS c/o Jane Pepper, President. with your donation toward the Garden's of fundraising and membership maintenance fund. I am interested in contributing: Time to: Money to: help plant additional perennial and bulb beds buy a tree weed and prune on Garden Days contribute to the Garden's ongoing maintenance fund upcoming Garden Days are October 19(10-1), November 23 and December 14 from 9-12 Enclosed is my donation for join a Friends committee (payable to PHS/F.OA.C). Name _Phone: Day .Evening. Address City . State Zip. Return to: JaneG. Pepper, President, The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 1 9106-2777 UNITED WAY CONTRIBUTIONS HELP GARDENS GROW We invite you to make a contribution to the Society's greening program, Philadelphia Green, through the United Way Donor Option Program. United Way funds help us continue to provide technical assistance, educational programs and gardeningsupplies to more than 700 community groups throughout Philadelphia. Second Class Postage If you would like to make a contribu- PHS NEWS PAID tion, please include our reference The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society number 061 97 on your Donor Option 325 Walnut St.* Philadelphia, PA 19106 Card. Phone (215) 625-8250 Other Events TEMPLE UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE OPEN SPACE - Planning & Management For the 21st Century Saturday, October 26, 1991 Ambler Campus For Information Call: (215) 283-1304 ^L Jf Recycled paper ; " Visit PHS Exhibit: Holiday Circus PHS NEWS December 2- 30 The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Volume XXXII, No. 10 NOVEMBER, 1991 PHS PRESIDENT NAMED HARVEST SHOW GLOW CITIZEN OF THE YEAR LINGERS ON For more than ten years, Jane Pepper The 1991 Harvest Show had all the has provided the Society with a strong snap of freshly pressed cider and a HOLIDA Y SHOPPING ALERT vision and determined leadership. The flavor to match. FLOWER SHOW TICKETS ON PENNJERDEL Council will recognize From the broom -maker to the hand SALE NOW Jane's contributions and those of the weavers, the cabbage heads to the From gift-giving to gift-getting, Society to the economic health of the radishes, the Horticulture Center and Philadelphia Flower Show tickets are Delaware Valley region when it surrounding grounds bulged with a sure bet for that hard to buy for client, presents Jane with its Citizen of the freshly picked vegetables, flowers and employee, relative or friend. And, Year Award in a ceremony to be held at fruits, exquisite floral arrangements, they're on sale now at PHS for the the Council's Annual Meeting and mouth-watering preserved products and reduced group rate of $9.75 for adults Awards Luncheon, Tuesday, November baked goods and an entirely entertain- ing, $5.25 for children under 12. To make 26 at the Wyndham Franklin Plaza. educational line-up of activities, your shopping easier, you can order In announcing the Award, demonstrations and exhibits. Ann Benzel, any number of tickets through the mail PENNJERDEL Council chairman, chair of the 1991 Show, by sending a self-addressed, stamped Thomas M. Collins, cited Ms. Pepper summed the weekend up by saying, envelope with your check or money for her direction of the annual Philadel- "We had a great time, didn't we! great than 5,500 order and number of tickets to PHS, c/o phia Flower Show and for the Society's A time indeed. More Advance Sale. important role in improving neighbor- visitors attended this year's event and The 1992 Philadelphia Flower Show hoods and downtown areas through enjoyed entries made by more than exhibitors. very best of this will be held March 8-15. The theme, Philadelphia Green and Center City 450 The listed below: Horizons for Discovery, will celebrate Green. year's winning entries are gardening styles across America. For invitations to the luncheon or PHS AWARDS Watch for additional Show details in more information, please call Gretchen The Certificate of Excellence was upcoming issues of the News. Toner at 215-972-3949. awarded to Scott Arboretum of (Continued on page four) Gifts to Grow On What better way to celebrate the holidays than by giving a friend a year's membership in PHS. This year round pleasure provides a free plant, subscriptions to the award-winning Green Scene magazine and PHS News, a free ticket to the Philadelphia Flower Show and the Harvest Show, as well as advance notice on workshops, trips and many other activities. Individual Price - $40 Family price - $55 ( entitles you to three Show Tickets) Send gift membership to: Sent from: Name Name Address Address, City City State _Zip_ State _Zip. Return form to GIFTS, PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Amount of check enclosed: Philadelphia, PA 19106, no later than December 10. Activities AT-HOME SERIES: YARD His gardens were featured in two recent tables, and dining tables. The door WASTE MANAGEMENT books, The American Man's Garden prize, a dining table centerpiece, may be Springfield, PA and In a Canadian Garden. In 1989 he yours! Saturday, November 2, 10 am-noon founded the Garden Conservancy, an Fee: $16 members; $19 guests Jeff Ball, avid gardener and garden organization dedicated to preserving writer, will show how to eliminate exceptional gardens. garden waste by reducing the volume Support from Friends of the Library of waste produced, using mulch assists in the renovation and develop- WORKSHOP: TABLETOP TOPI- effectively, and learning to compost. ment of PHS's historical collections. To ARIES FOR THE HOLIDAYS Jeff will demonstrate the latest tech- become a Library Friend, please contact Tuesday, December 10, lOam-noon niques and technology in his "smart Janet Evans, (215) 625-8261. Interesting foliage combinations make yard", where he researches and Cocktails at 6:00 pm (donation bar); these litde trees stand out as tabletop experiments for Practical Home Owner buffet at 6:45 pm; program 7:45 pm. decorations or holiday gifts. Individu- Magazine. Participants will see seven Fee: $22.00 members; ality is achieved through your selection different composting systems and five $25.00 guests. of fresh greens and berries, and the shredding machines and will learn how frame can be re-used for many years. to handle 100% of garden waste PHS staffers Peggy Grady and Carol produced on properties of one acre or Lindemann will lead you through less. WORKSHOP: FRAGRANT HERB steps to create your own tabletop Travel directions will be mailed mid- WREATHS topiary for the holidays. Participants October. 6-8:30 Thursday, November 21, pm should bring hand pruners/clippers, Fee: $12 members; $14 guests of Sculps Hill Ruth Flounders Herbs scissors, and a small box to transport a Specialties will teach for and methods 5" clay pot. All fresh greens, berries, wreath, constructing a long-lasting herb and other materials will be provided. ARRANGING DEMONSTRATION: using sweet-smelling dried herbs like Peggy Grady is assistant librarian/ CENTERPIECES artemisia, mints, sweet on and marjoram horticulturist and Carol Lindemann is Lafayette Hill a straw or wire frame. Each participant PHS administrative assistant. Tuesday, November 19, 10 am-1 pm will create a one-of-a-kind wreath Fee: $33 members; $37 guests Nichols, accomplished Audrey decorated with herbs and everlasting arranger and frequent Philadelphia flowers. Flower Show blue ribbon winner in the Ruth and her farm partner Jack arrangement classes, brings enthusiasm Flounders will lead the group in the and expertise to this demonstration on morning, and herb expert Frank Keiser FIELD TRD?: centerpieces for the dining table. will join Ruth in the evening session. NATIONAL CATHEDRAL Audrey will show floral creations for Fee includes instruction and all dried AND HDLLWOOD many moods and occasions from casual materials. Participants should bring Washington, D.C to elegant with ideas for the upcoming clippers scissors and a box to and/or Wednesday, December 11, 7am-7pm holidays. 12-14" transport a finished wreath. Twenty-five PHS members and guests will include preparation, Discussions session. Enrollment limited to 12 per will have a guided tour of Washington's conditioning of flowers, appropriate Fee: $29 members; $33 guests National Cathedral, dedicated last containers, and mechanics. Registra- September after 83 years under tion limited. construction. This Gothic masterpiece, Travel directions will be mailed in also known as the Cathedral of Sts. early November. DEMONSTRATION: DECORAT- Peter and Paul, was chartered by Fee: $18 members; $20 guests ING DDEAS FOR THE HOLIDAYS Congress in 1893. Wednesday, December 4 In Georgetown, you'll have time to 10 am- 12:30 FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY pm shop or lunch on your own before a EVENING: AMERICAN GARDENS Get an early start on holiday spirit and 1:30 p.m. tour of Hillwood, former TODAY AND TOMORROW preparations with Audrey Nichols, who home of Marjorie Merriweather Post, Tuesday, November 5, 6-9 pm will inspire you to do something whose Russian collection is the most This year's Friends of the Library creative and different as you decorate representative outside the Soviet event will feature Frank Cabot, who your home this season. Audrey will Union. On display are extraordinary will speak on gardening trends in the discuss unusual containers, selecting pieces by some of Europe's foremost silver and U.S. after World War II. flowers and other materials and how to artists, cabinetmakers, Mr. Cabot, a self-described horticul- put them together for a unique and goldsmiths, plus Faberge eggs, porce- tural enthusiast, gardens in Cold Spring beautifiul holiday effect. Audrey will lains, icons, Beauvais tapestries, and Harbor, NY and La Malbaie, Quebec. create arrangements for mantles, side 18th-century French furniture. Fee includes round-trip transportation, Center City and at the Horticulture New in the Library refreshments on the bus, tea, and all Center in Fairmount Park will be entrance and guide fees. mailed in late November. A celebration of roses, Information about bus pick-ups in Fee: $55 members; $60 guests Trevor Griffiths, 1990. The gardens of Russell Page, Gabrielle Van Zuylen. 1991. Gentians, Fritz Kohlein, 1991. Hosta: the flowering foliage plant, Diana Grenfell, 1990. Reservations Modern arboriculture, AlexL. Shigo, 1991. Narcissus, Michael Jefferson Brown, 1991. Clip and mail reservations to: Perennials: toward continuous PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 bloom, Ann Lovejoy, 1991. Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this The slipper orchids, form below to speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise Catherine Cash, 1991. stated. Confirmations for events at PHS are not mailed: unless you hear Terence Conran's garden style, otherwise, we will expect you. Field trip confirmations with important trip Terence Conran, 1991. information are mailed ten days prior to the event. There is limited space for all activities (except spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two consecutive issues of the PHS News. Refunds and cancellations: If you wish to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative fee will be AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND 1992 deducted from your refund as follows: Circle your calendar and save your $2 fee for all events other than one-day field trips provided your request is pennies for a fascinating PHS three- received no later than two days prior to the event. week trip to Australia and New Zealand $5 fee for one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than in early November 1992. We'll spend four days prior to the event about a week in Australia from Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef to Sidney YARD WASTE MANAGEMENT ARRANGING FOR THE and Melbourne, sampling private and Members $12 Guests $14 HOLIDAYS public gardens and dultural and scenic Members $16 Guests $19 sights typical of Australia. In New LIBRARY EVENING: Zealand we'll visit the North and South FRANK CABOT TABLETOP TOPIARJES Islands, including Queenstown, Members $22 Guests $25 Members $33 Guests $37 Dunedin, Christ Church, Auckland and Roto Rua. WORKSHOP: FRAGRANT FIELD TRIP: NATIONAL Itineraries will be ready in early HERB WREATH CATHEDRAL AND fflLLWOOD, January. To receive your copy, kindly Members $29 Guests $33 WASHINGTON, D.C. check the appropriate box on the 6 pm Members $55 Guests $60 reservation form. Pickup: Hort Center CC DEMONSTRATION: ARRANGING CENTERPIECES Members $18 Guests $20 Please send itinerary for Australia/New Zealand Trip. NAME PHS News (USPS 763-640) is published monthly except July by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, ADDRESS. 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 Subscription - $9 75 per year Single copies S 80 Second class postage paid at Philadelphia, PA and addiuonal mailing office Postmaster send address changes to PHS News. 325 Walnut Street, ZIP TELEPHONE: home_ PWa.Pa 19106 Chair Donald L Felley President Jane G Pepper work Editor Lisa Slephano Acuviues Secbon Editor Elizabeth G Gullan HARVEST SHOW AWARDS Cooperative Extension for their Pepperpot (Continued from page one) educational display "Managing Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania Household Waste". Many of us lost a good friend in late Bonsai Society, and William and September when Jim McCarvill died. Mary Coppens, for their educational PHILADELPHIA AREA JUDGES After a long career at RCA, Ernesta displays. The PHS Gardener's Sweep- COUNCIL AWARD Ballard hired Jim as manager of the stakes was awarded to Sue Leary of James and Amanda Hayden won Philadelphia Flower Show in 1966, Collingswood, NJ with 17 blue ribbons. the Katherine Littlewood Reiger shortly after the Society assumed The Community Garden Sweepstakes Memorial Trophy for their outstanding management of the Show from Phila- Certificate went to Southwark-Queen blue ribbon entry in the Design Section. delphia Flower Show, Inc. Village, 3rd & Christian Streets and When I came to PHS, Jim was near to Statement of Ownership Management and Circulation (Act of Aspen Farm, West Philadelphia. The retirement and both Ed Lindemann and October 23. 1962. Section 4369. Tide 39, United States Code) 1 PHS Club Sweepstakes was won by Dateof Rling October 8. 1991 2. Title of Publication PHS I had the pleasure of working closely News. 3. Frequency of issue Monthly except July. 5. Location Berwyn Garden Club and the of Known Office of Publication and Headquarters: 325 Walnut with him on his last Show in 1980. Tamanend Park Herb Gardening Street, Philadelphia. Pa 19106.6 Names and Addresses of Working with Jim was fun and a good Publisher. Editor and Managing Editor: Publisher - Pennsylvania Club. Horticultural Society, Philadelphia, Pa 19106; Editor Lisa learning experience for the younger Stephano, 325 Walnut Street. Philadelphia, Pa 19106 7 Ownerthe Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Philadelphia. Pa. of the team. a NATIONAL COUNCIL OF members He always had STATE 19106 8. Known bondholders, mortgages and other security laugh to cheer us up in tight moments, GARDEN CLUB AWARDS holders holding one percent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages or other secunties; None. 9. Extent and Nature of and the list of thoughts Ernesta asked Robin and Mabel Engle of Colum- Circulation. Average Actual No him to develop before he left is still in bus, NJ won the Creativity Award and No. Copies Copies of our files. the Tricolor Award was captured by Each Issue Single Issue Extent and Nature During Published of Circulation One of the pleasures of working with James and Amanda Hayden. Preceding Nearest to 12Mos Fding Date Jim on the Flower Show was the The Award of Horticultural Excel- A Total No. Copies opportunity also to work with other lence went to Joan B. Johnson of (Net Press Run) 8246 8450 B Paid Circulation members of his family. His wife Peg West Chester. Joan was also the 1 Sales through dealers and vendors started to handle our advance ticket recipient of the Award of Merit for her carriers, street counter sales sales in the early 70's and when she Celosia. The Arboreal Award was won 2 Mail Subscription 8186 8390 C Total Paid Circulauon retired in the mid-80's she was sorely by Bancroft #73 of Haddonfield, NJ (Sum of 10B1 and 10B2) D Free Distribution by Mail. missed by all her "regulars" - represen- and the Educational Award was Carrier or other means tatives from bus and tour companies presented to Jane S. Henley for her Samples. Complimentary.. and other free copies 60 who looked forward to her January call display "Story of One Drop of Water". E Total Distribubon (Sum o/C andD) to remind them to place their order for Junior Achievement Awards were 8450 F Copies Not Distributed a fabulous spring preview. given to William Kortney Brown, 1 Office use. left over, un- accounted spoiled after Later, we ran into Jim, Jr. when he ran Edward Geiger and Stephen DiBona. printing 2. Return from News Agents our contract with United Exposition for G Total (Sum o/E, Ft and 2 the installation of draping, signs and GARDEN CLUB FEDERATION OF should equal rut press run shonn in A) other PENNSYLVANIA backgroud items at the Civic H I certify that the statements made by me above are Editor Center. In the late 80's we were so The Educational and Conservation correct and complete Lisa Stephano to pleased when Jim, Jr. joined the Award was presented Penn State Spectacor team that manages the Civic Center, and just delighted when they Second Class named him General Manager of the PHS NEWS Postage facility in time for the '91 Show. PAID The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society There's many wonderful things about 325 Walnut St.* Philadelphia, PA 19106 the Philadelphia Flower Show, but one of the most special is the volunteers Phone (215) 625-8250 and staff who work on it. Jim, we'll miss that Irish smile and the stories from the old days, but thanks for leaving us with so many good thoughts. Jane G . Pepper President £ % Recycle J Paper . Visit PHS Exhibits: Holiday Circus- through December 30 Ink Garden -January 10-March 20, 1992 Opening Reception: January 10, 5-7pm, RSVP PHS NEWS The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Volume XXXD, No. 11 DECEMBER, 1991 EDUCATION IS KEY TO THE preparations for their 50th Anniversary FUTURE OF GREENING IN Celebration. PHS CLOSED FOR THE PHILADELPHIA Everywhere in Philadelphia, the HOLIDAYS With more than 400 gardening interest and enthusiasm for trees has December 24, 25, 31 projects completed during the past year grown. The Tree Program staff worked January 1 and nearly 700 more on our waiting with hundreds of neighbors this year lists, PHS's Philadelphia Green throughout the City to plant 450 street Program is bursting with enthusiasm trees on carefully selected sites. By PLANT CLINIC CLOSED FOR and interest from the participating linking up the street tree blocks with DECEMBER communities other greening projects in the neighbor- VISIT THE CLINIC ON MONDAY In addition to our many development hood, the greening impact throughout EVENINGS IN JANUARY activities, we've expanded the Philadel- the community is significant. 5 -7PM phia Green Education Department A team of seven staff members have In 25 public housing sites organized a comprehensive program to priorities and street characteristics. An conduct neighborhood resource- across the City, residents analysis of this data provided the plan training in an effort to encourage self- pilot earned out are planting the seeds of for planting projects reliance in the community. As part of this fall and to be continued next this effort, successful plant sales were tomorrow by rallying spring. conducted in Francisville and Point around greening improve- Cooperative ventures such as the one Breeze this spring and helped generate with CCRA and community groups are ments and maintenance. funds for neighborhood greening; vitally important to the continued fencing, brickwork and paving work- success of PHS's community outreach. shops were held and neighborhood Tree education efforts focused also The Society works with thousands of leaders made presentations to other on children and the general public with volunteers on an exciting range of communities interested in becoming visits to 23 City schools to conduct tree projects from the City Gardens Contest involved in greening. In Norris awareness assemblies and planting to planting ribbons of gold in City Square and Strawberry Mansion, two workshops and a successful Arbor Day neighborhoods and gateways. If you new Greene Countrie Townes under celebration in Rittenhouse Square. would like to get involved please call construction, education is integrated The Center City Green Program, or write to us at the Society, c/o with site development in the form of widely known for its restoration of the Philadelphia Green. garden planning and management Azalea Garden and 26th Street Gate- The final sharing among all of those workshops. In 25 public housing sites way Project, embarked on a door-to- involved in our programs, comes from across the City, residents are planting door campaign among Center City our generous sponsors, benefactors and the seeds of tomorrow by rallying residents to survey the condition and contributors. Grateful thanks to The around greening improvements and scope of the City's tree population. City of Philadelphia's Office of maintenance. Morton Homes in Working with the Center City Housing and Community Develop- Germantown, under development for Resident's Association (CCRA) ment and its Department of Licenses one year, was recently presented an volunteers, which included students, and Inspection, Flower Show, Inc., award by the federal government for landscape architects and residents, the Phoebe W. Haas Charitable Trust, their initiatives with self-help. Wilson staff conducted a pilot tree inventory, a The William Penn Foundation, The Park and Emlen Arms residents, with a series of tree maintenance workshops Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia their large population of senior citizens, and a tree survey, which is forming the Housing Authority, Sun Company, tailored their gardening projects to the groundwork for a comprehensive Inc .,to you, our members, and to all of creation of raised beds and in North computer database. More than 2200 those who contribute to the goal of Philadelphia's Johnson Homes, a large tree locations and as many as 55,000 greening the City through the education vegetable garden and extensive entries were typed into the computer to and involvement of its citizens in maintenance work helped round out document tree conditions, maintenance horticulture. Activities DEMONSTRATION: DECORAT- home of Marjorie Merriweather Post, FLOWERS IN STITCHES ING IDEAS FOR THE HOLIDAYS whose Russian collection is the most Longview Farm, Malvern Wednesday, December 4 representative outside the Soviet Wednesdays, January 15 & 29 10am-12:30pm Union. On display are extraordinary 10 am - 1 pm Get an early start on holiday spirit and pieces by some of Europe's foremost Snowdates: January 21 & 30 preparations with artists, Audrey Nichols, cabinetmakers, silver and Joanna Reed, noted gardener and who will inspire you to do something goldsmiths, plus Faberge eggs, porce- arrranger, has designed a two-session creative and different as you decorate lains, icons, Beauvais tapestries, and course on horticultural embroidery for your home this season. Audrey will 18th-century French furniture. those who want to bring their real or discuss unusual containers, selecting Fee includes round-trip transportation, fanciful gardens and plants into the flowers and other materials refreshments on the bus, and how to tea, entrance home. In the first session, Joanna will put them together for a and guide fees. unique and show how to design and transfer beautifiul holiday effect Audrey will Information about bus pick-ups in patterns to fabric and discuss the create arrangements for mantles, side Center City and at the Horticulture intricacies of horticultural design for tables, and dining tables. The door Center in Fairmount Park will be embroidery. Discussions will also in- prize, a dining table centerpiece, may mailed in late November. clude selection of wool/threads and be yours! Fee: $55 members; $60 guests fabric, needles, supply sources and Fee: $16 members; $19 guests reference books. DESIGN WORKSHOP: During the second session, Joanna WORKSHOP: TABLETOP TOPI- SEQUENCE OF BLOOM (SUN) will help participants get started with a ARIES FOR THE HOLIDAYS Fridays, January 10 &17, 10am- 1pm small portable project of their own Tuesday, December 10, lOam-noon Snowdate: Friday, January 24 design and will discuss techniques and Interesting foliage combinations make Landscape designer Kath Duckett, stitches that are not commonly used. these little trees stand out as tabletop known for her bountiful perennial Joanna Reed's embroidery has decorations or holiday gifts. Individu- borders, will show PHS members how appeared in many stitchery magazines ality is achieved through your selection to achieve variety, color, and change in and was the cover story for Green of fresh greens and berries, and the a sunny location. Appropriate for Scene, January 1987. frame can be re-used for many years. owners of established or new gardens, Fee of $42 for members and $46 for PHS staffers Peggy Grady and Carol these sessions will focus on using long- guests includes program and a tight Lindemann will lead you through season mainstay perennials as the lunch each session. Travel directions steps to create your own tabletop backbone of the garden and supple- and "homework" will be mailed in late topiary for the holidays. Participants mented with self-seeding annuals, December. should bring hand pruners/clippers, bulbs, and other bountiful plants. scissors, and a small box to transport a Participants will work on their own LECTURE: JEFFERSON & 5" clay pot. All fresh greens, berries, plans for a sunny garden and will be ADAMS, ENGLISH GARDEN and other materials will be provided. assigned homework for each session. TOURISTS Peggy Grady is assistant librarian/ Fee for both sessions: $49 members; Thursday, January 16, 5:45 pm horticulturist and Carol Lindemann is $53 guests Garden historian Barbara O'Brien PHS administrative assistant. returns to PHS with an interesting tale Fee: $33 members; $37 guests PROPACTION WORKSHOP: of two future Presidents of the United ORNAMENTAL EVERGREENS States who wandered among the estates FIELD TRD?: Saturday, January 11 of the British aristocracy three years NATIONAL CATHEDRAL - 9:30 am 12:30 pm after the Revolutionary War. Each man AND HILLWOOD Snowdate: January 18 kept a diary and both carried the same Washington, D.C 9:30 am - 12:30 pm garden book. Jefferson's notebook Wednesday, December 11, 7am-7pm Alan P. Slack, experienced propaga- contained scientific information for use Twenty-Five PHS members and guests tor and PHS Council member, will at Monticello, and Adams talked to gar- will have a guided tour of Washington's teach how to propagate smaller deners about democracy. National Cathedral, dedicated last evergreens and dwarf conifers. Discus- Using slides, Barbara O'Brien traces September after 83 years under sions will include varieties, culture and the week-long trip of Thomas Jefferson construction. This Gothic masterpiece, the many uses of evergreens, from and John Adams through the English also known as the Cathedral of Sts. accents the in landscape to container- countryside. Peter and Paul, was chartered by grown patio decorations. Program begins promptly at 5:45 pm, Congress in 1893. Participants will propagate some rarer followed by wine and nibbles. In Georgetown, you'll have lime to forms of evergreens. All materials will Fee: $8 members; $10 guests shop or lunch on your own before a be provided Note: The Library will be open until 1:30 p.m. tour of Hill wood, former Fee: $28 members; $30 guests 5:45 pm this evening. LECTURE: ORNAMENTAL throughout his talk will be information Program will begin promptly at, GRASSES IN THE LANDSCAPE on plant selection, containment, 5:45pm followed by wine and nibbles. Wednesday, January 22, 5:45 pm culture, and recent introductions. Fee: $8 members; $10 guests Rick Darke, Curator of Plants at Rick, who is responsible for the Note: The Library will be open until Longwood Gardens, will talk about ornamental grass area in Longwood's 5:45 pm this evening. ornamental grasses, their history in Idea Garden, has authored a booklet on American gardens, and ways to use grasses and lectured on this topic for LECTURE: GARDENS AND them in the home landscape. Sprinkled seven years. PLANTS OF NEW ZEALAND Tuesday, January 28, 5:45 pm Everything seems to grow well in Reservations New Zealand - from remarkable na- tive flora to South African plants New Zealand growers have popularized. Clip and mail reservations to: Elizabeth Scholtz, horticulturist and PHS, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 Director Emeritus of the Brooklyn Reservations accepted by mail only; please include full payment. Use this form Botanic Garden, will show us the below to speed processing. All events are held at PHS unless otherwise stated. appeal of horticultural New Zealand as Confirmations for events at PHS are not mailed: unless you hear otherwise, we she discusses their gardens and plants. will expect you. Field trip confirmations with important trip information are Betty Scholtz will demonstrate with mailed ten days prior to the event. There is limited space for all activities slides, the strong British influence in (except spring garden visits). Each activity is listed in two consecutive issues of garden design and discuss the ideal the News. PHS growing conditions produced by Refunds and cancellations: superlative soil, excellent light, and wish to withdraw from a registration event, an administrative will If you fee be agreeable temperatures. deducted from your refund as follows: PHS is planning a three-week trip $2 fee for all events other than one-day field trips provided your request is to Australia and New Zealand in received no later than two days prior to the event. November 1992. For more informa- $5 fee for one-day field trips provided your request is received no later than tion, see page 4. four days prior to the event. Fee: $8 members; $10 guests Note: The library will be open until ARRANGING FOR THE FLOWERS DM STITCHES 5:45 pm this evening. HOLIDAYS Members $42 Guests $46 Members $16 Guests $19 LECTURE: JEFFERSON AND TABLETOP TOPIAMES ADAMS MAIL MISHAP Members $33 Guests $37 Members $8 Guests $10 A full tray of misplaced mail was found Southeastern Pennsylvania Post Office FIELD TRD?: NATIONAL LECTURE: ORNAMENTAL at CATHEDRAL AND fflLLWOOD, GRASSES in late October. Imagine our dismay when we were informed that the tray WASfflNGTON, D.C. Members $8 .Guests $10_ Members $55 Guests $60 contained Harvest Show tickets for some Pickup: Hort Center CC LECTURE: GARDENS OF our members. WORKSHOP: SEQUENCE OF BLOOM NEW ZEALAND Timely mail delivery is important to us Members and we thank those members who take Members $49_ _ Guests $53_ $8 Guests $10 time to report mail irregularities. We will WORKSHD?: ORNAMENTAL continue to press branch post offices for EVERGREENS better service. Members $28 Guests $30 PHS News (USPS 763-640) is published ] Please send itinerary for Australia/New Zealand Trip. monthly except July by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 325 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Subscription - $9.75 per year - Single copies $.80. Second class NAME. postage paid at Philadelphia, PA and additional mailing office. Postmaster send address ADDRESS. changes to PHS News, 325 Walnut Street, Phila., Pa. 19106. Chain Donald L. Felley ZIP TELEPHONE: home President: Jane G. Pepper Editor Lisa Stephano Gullan work Activities Section Editor Elizabeth G. RAY ROGERS IS A WINNNER Pepperpot New in the Library The November PHS News incorrecdy The beekeeper's garden, Join me for a spring tour to Holland listed the winner of the Award of Ted Hooper, 1988. and England, May 10-20, 1992. Horticultural Excellence in the Harvest The book garden design, Floriade, Holland's once-a-decade Show. Ray Rogers of Germantown won of John Brookes, 1991. international flower show, was the the Award for his sweet potato plant. Clematis: the queen climbers, inspiration for a spring trip to Europe. Ray also won the 1991 Philadelphia of JimFisk, 1991. Then Ed Lindemann, Philadelphia Flower Show Horticultural Sweepstakes The complete guide to using color in Flower Show Designer and I decided Award, which was omitted from the your garden, David Squire, 1991. we should include the Royal Horticul- 1991 Yearbook. Congratulations Ray! Martha Stewart's gardening, month tural Society's spectacle, the Chelsea by month, Martha Stewart, 1991. Flower Show in the itinerary. Native shrubs and woody vines of the Well spend five nights in Amsterdam Southeast, Leonard Foote, 1989. and in addition to Floriade, we'll visit WELL PLANNED GARDENS: Contest For Creative Home Private gardens of Australia, the giant flower market at Aalsmeer A Garden Designs Darah Guest, 1990. and the beautiful bulb plantings at Enter PHS's new contest and show off Residential landscape architecture, Keukenhof. Before leaving for your garden. If you have a vegetable, Norman K. Booth, 1991. London, we'll spend a couple of days flower or sitting garden that you are visiting private gardens in eastern Holland. proud of, or deck or patio plantings you want to show off, this is the Ed and I will be with the tour through- HOTLINE CLOSED IN perfect way to share your landscaping out. In Holland, a Dutch guide will DECEMBER victory with gardening friends. Prizes join us and in London, Connie Biddle The PHS hotline will resume in will be awarded in professional and Haydon, a Philadelphian now living in January; Monday through Friday, amateur divisions . Entries will be London, has arranged private visits for 9:30 am to 12:30pm judged on design, intent and presenta- us to gardens in Hampshire as well as tion. Grand Prize is a cold frame small gardens in London. Well attend provided by the Kinsman Company of Chelsea's Royal Gala Preview on Point Pleasant, PA. LANDSCAPE DESIGNERS FOR Monday, May 18th and travellers will Entry deadline is May 14, 1993. So fflRE have the option of visiting the Show the during the 1992 growing season, plan PHS is updating its list of Landscape following day or spending a day on your garden, plant your garden and take Design consultants for 1992. If you their own before returning to Philadel- plenty of photographs. Winning entries would like to be added to the list, phia on May 20th. will be on exhibit at PHS from June 4 please call Janet Evans, PHS Librarian, through September 4, 1993. Write or at (215)625-8261 to request a question- call PHS/Contest, 325 Walnut Street, naire. All requests must be made by Philadelphia, PA, 19106 for full details. January 15, 1992. Jane G. Pepper President AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND 1992 Circle your calendar and save your Second Class pennies for a fascinating PHS three- Postage week trip to Australia and New Zealand PHS NEWS PAID in early November 1992. Well spend The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society about a week in Australia travelling 325 Walnut St. • Philadelphia, PA 19106 from Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef Phone (215) 625-8250 to Sidney and Melbourne, sampling private and public gardens and cultural and scenic sights typical of Australia. In New Zealand well visit the North and South Islands, including Queenstown, Dunedin, Christ Church, Auckland and Roto Rua. Itineraries will be ready in early January. To receive your copy, kindly check the appropriate box on the reservation form. # % Recycled Pajwr PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 3 1827 00017438 2 ICI ''•Vat***'