The Boxwood Bulletin A Quarterly Devoted to Man's Oldest Garden Ornamental Open April 30 on this year's Maryland House and Garden Pilgrimage tour: Walnut Grove, in Talbot County. with ancient Buxus sempervirens 'Suffruticosa' in the foundation planting. See article on page 82 IN THIS ISSUE 40th ABS Annual Meeting June 2-3 in Annapolis, Md ....... ........ .................... 67 Designing with Boxwood: A Colonial Garden, Sigrid Georgii Harriman .... 70 Garden Week in Virginia Preview: April 22-30, Suzanne Munson ................. 75 Maryland House and Garden Pilgrimage 2000, Jane Vallery-Davis ........... ..... 82 News of the Society ........................ ...................................................... ... ......... 85 April 2000 Volume 39, Number 4 The American Boxwood Society The American Boxwood Society is a not-for-profit organiza­ Available Publications: tion founded in 1961 and devoted to the appreciation, scien­ Back issues of The Boxwood Bulletin (through Vol. 38) tific understanding and propagation of the genus Buxus L. (each) $ 4 Boxwood Handbook: A Practical Guide (Revised)** $ 17 Officers: Boxwood Buyer's Guide (5th Edition) $ 8 International Registration List of Cultivated Buxus L. $ 3 PRESIDENT: Index to The Boxwood Bulletin 1961-1986 $ 10 Mr. Thomas Saunders Piney River, Va. Index to The Boxwood Bulletin 1986-1991 $ 4 VICE-PRESIDENTS: Index to The Boxwood Bulletin 1991-1996 $ 3 Mr. Charles Fooks Salisbury, Md. Publications may be ordered from Mrs. K. D. Ward, ABS Dr. Henry F. Frierson, Jr. Charlottesville, Va. Treasurer, Box 85 , Boyce, V A 22620-0085. SECRETARY: **Price includes tax, postage and handling. Mrs. Sigrid Harriman Fredericksburg, Va. EXECUTIVE TREASURER: Contributions: Mrs. Katherine D. Ward Winchester, Va. Gifts to the Society are tax-deductible and may be undesig­ REGISTRAR: nated or applied to: Mr. Lynn R. Batdorf Washington, D.C. Boxwood Memorial Garden Fund DIRECfORS: Boxwood Manual Fund Mr. John W. Boyd III (2001) Roanoke Va. 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The Bulletin is printed by M-J Printers, Fredericksburg. Va. 40th ABS Annual Meeting Set for June 2-3, 2000 Annapolis, Maryland The ABS Board is most enthusias­ tic about the program the Richardsons Schedule of Events have prepared for the 40th Annual Meeting. Thursday, june 1, 2000 The meeting will be at the Wynd­ The ABS board will gather for dinner at the Treaty of Paris ham Garden Hotel, 173 Jennifer Restaurant in the Maryland Inn, with meeting to follow. Road, Annapolis, MD 21401, (410) Spouses will retire to the Richardson home during the 266-3131. meeting. Invitations and reply cards will be sent. Registrants are responsible for their lodging. A block of rooms are Friday, june 2 being held until May I, 2000. Room 7:00-8:30 Continental breakfast and registration rates are $109 single and $119 7: 15-8: 15 Paul Saunders: Discussion on the National Boxwood Trials double, for those who specify that Project they are with The American Box­ 8:30-9:30 Stratton Semmes, Landscape Architect: "Use of wood Society group. Boxwood in Small Gardens" A registration form is enclosed, to 9:30-10:30 Jim McDaniel, Ladew Gardens: "Gardening in Historic be filled out and sent to Mrs. Robert Gardens" L. Frackelton, 1714 Greenway Drive, 10:30-11 :00 Break Fredericksburg, V A 22401-5209, II :00-12:00 Business meeting, to be followed by brief Board meeting with checks payable to the American to conduct required business Boxwood Society. The registration 12:00-1:00 Lunch fee is $150 for the two days with a 1:00-2:00 Chase Rosade: "Use of Boxwood in Bonsai" $15 supplement for non-members. 2:00-2: 15 Break This includes June 2: breakfast, 2:15-3:15 Lynn Batdorf, U.S. National Arboretum: "Cultivars of refreshments at break, lunch and Boxwood" banquet dinner; and June 3: breakfast 3:30 Boxwood Auction and lunch, bus tour, and admissions. 6:30 Dinner; Naomi Kinard: "Preservation Story of Annapolis" Deadline for registration is May I. Saturday, june 3 7:00-8: 15 Continental breakfast and hotel checkout 8: 15-8:30 Board bus for tour (see following pages) NOTICE: Wyndham 8:30-9:00 Travel to Holly Beach Farm Garden Hotel provides free 9:00-10: 15 Tour Holly Beach Farm Gardens owned by Mr. & Mrs. shuttle service until 10:00 p.m. Thomas Muntz to and from the hotel and the 10: 15-10:30 Travel to Whitehall Tour central portion of Whitehall Manor House and Historic District, State House 10:30-11 :45 and Naval Academy. This area grounds, owned by Mrs. Charles Scarlett includes excellent bars and 11:45-12:15 Travel to Watergate Village for lunch Box lunch restaurants. Registrants are 12:15-1:15 urged to come early and spend 1:15-2:30 Visit Hammond Harwood and Chase Lloyd Gardens Thursday afternoon and 2:30-3:45 Visit Acton Hall and Richardson Gardens evening in the Historic District. 3:45-4:00 Bus returns to Wyndam Garden Hotel Also, the hotel is adjacent to Meeting is adjourned Restaurant Park and the Annapolis Mall. All meetings are in the Garden Ballroom of the Wyndham Garden Hotel April 2000 67 Boxwood Auction Stratton Semmes, Landscape drawing rooms. Large boxwood Architect, graduated from the Univer­ specimens exist around the house. Members who are willing to sity of Michigan. She designed the Hammond-Harwood House was donate plants for this year's Auction Richardson garden and has worked in built for Mathias Hammond between are asked to advise John W. Boyd, III, creating other beautifui gardens in 1774 and 1776. The architect was 26 12 Churchill Drive, Roanoke, VA Annapolis and Washington, D.C. William Buckland, designer of many 24012-2126, (540) 362-0064, in Jim McDaniel is head of Ladew other famous Annapoli s and Mary­ advance. Garden. He graduated from the land homes. William Harwood, great Below is a list from the 1999 University of Maryland and was grandson of the architect, obtained Auction: section head of topiary and rose the house through marriage to a 'Aurea Pendula' (B. sempervirens) gardens for ten years at Longwood relative of Mathias Hammond. The 'Beckett' (B. sempervirens) Garden before coming to Ladew. house is now owned by the Ham­ 'Compacta ' (B. microphylla), Naomi Kinard, a long-time mond-Harwood Association and is IS port of Compacta! resident of Annapolis, has followed open to the public. The garden 'Curly Locks' (B. microphylla) the preservation story of that city for represents a typical in-town private 'Dee Runk' (B. sempervirens) garden. 'Elegantissima' (B. sempervirens) many years as an avocation. 'Glencoe' (hybrid) Chicagoland Chase Rosade is the proprietor of Chase-Lloyd House bears the Green™ Rosade Bonsai Studio in New Hope, name of its two earliest owners. 'Graham Biandy' (B. sempervirens) Pa. He is widely known as an educa­ Samuel Chase, a judge of the U.S . 'Green Beauty' (B. 'microphylla var. tor, lecturer, and designer of bonsai. Supreme Court, could not complete japonica) Lynn R. Batdorf manages the the house because of financial B. 'Green Ice' (?) National Boxwood Collection at the limitations and sold it to Edward 'Green Pillow' (B. microphylla) Lloyd IV. Mr. Lloyd was known as 'Handsworthiensis' (B . sempervirens) U.S. National Arboretum, and is B. harlandii - species Registrar for the ABS, which is the "Edward the Magnificent" because of 'Inglis ' (B. sempervirens) International Registration Authority his wealth and high standard of IJim 's Tru Spreaderl (B. microphylla?) for Cultivated Buxus L. He is also the living. This stately brick house is the 'John Boyd' (B. sempervirens) author of the Boxwood Handbook, only three-story house remaining in 'Justin Brouwers' (B. sinica var. which is in its second printing. Annapolis which predates the Revo­ insularis) lution. The house is now owned by 'Latifolia Maculata' (B. sempervirens) the Episcopal diocese of Maryland 'Latifolia Marginata' (B. sempervirens) Tour Itinerary and serves as a retirement home for a 'Maculata' (B. sempervirens), 'Morris Dwarf (B. microphylla var. Holly Beach Farm was once part small number of elderly women. The japonica) of a 6000-acre estate. It now consists garden is another example of in-town 'Morris Midget' (B.