Heather Quarterly Volume 34 Number 1 Issue #133 Winter 2011 North American Heather Society Reflections on David Small Karla Lortz ..................................2 Long-distance collaboration with David Small David Wilson ..........................................................................3 David Small – A Personal Appreciation David Plumridge........4 David Small as educator Bryan Taylor.......................................6 David Small, no Pooh-Bah Judy Wiksten ................................7 A special man Susan Ewalt ......................................................9 David Small: reflections on a giant Donald A. M. Mackay.............................................................10 The irreplaceable David Small Ella May T. Wulff.................12 NAHS Board meeting minutes.....................................................24 Calendar....................................................................................28 North American Heather Society Membership Chair Ella May Wulff, Knolls Drive 2299 Wooded Philomath, OR 97370-5908 RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED issn 1041-6838 Heather News, all rights reserved, is published quarterly by the North American Heather Society, a tax exempt organization. The purpose of The Society is the: The Information Page (1) advancement and study of the botanical genera Andromeda, Calluna, Cassiope, Daboecia, Erica, and Phyllodoce, commonly called heather, and related genera; (2) HOW TO GET THE latest heather INFORMation dissemination of information on heather; and (3) promotion of fellowship among BROWSE NAHS website – www.northamericanheathersoc.org those interested in heather. READ Heather Quarterly by NAHS CHS NEWS by CHS Heather Clippings by HERE NAHS Board of Directors (2010-2011) Heather Drift by VIHS Heather News by MCHS Heather Notes by NEHS Heather & Yon by OHS PRESIDENT ATTEND Society and Chapter meetings (See The Calendar on page 28) Karla Lortz, Shelton, 502 E Haskell Hill Rd., Shelton, WA 98584-8429, USA 360-427-5318, [email protected] HOW TO GET PUBLISHED IN HEATHER QUARTERLY FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT CONTACT Stefani McRae-Dickey, Editor of Heather Quarterly Don Jewett, 2655 Virginia Ct., Fortuna, CA 95540, USA [email protected] 541-929-7988. 754 Wyatt Lane, 707-725-1394, [email protected] SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT Philomath,OR 97370-9022OK for ideas and last-minute news. Pat Hoffman, PO Box 305, Swedesboro, NJ 08085-0305, USA DEADLINES 21st March, June, September, and December 856-467-4711, [email protected] HOW TO pay MEMBERSHIP DUES SECRETARY Susan Ewalt, 2850 Sykes Creek Road, Rogue River, OR 97537 MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS include an electronic subscription to the Quarterly, participation 541-582-3338, [email protected] in Society meetings and elections; borrowing privileges for book library and slide TREASURER programs; discounts from Storefront, some nurseries. John Calhoun, 31100 Country Rd, Fort Bragg, CA 95437 DUES NAHS: $15/year, $28/2 years, $40/3 years with electronic newsletter. 707-964-0804, [email protected] To receive mailed copies of the newsletter add: PAST PRESIDENT $11/year in US, $15/year in Canada, $22/year outside of US and Canada Mario Abreu, P.O. Box 673, Albion, CA 95410-0673, USA Chapter dues can be paid when paying NAHS dues, by adding: 707-937-3155, Fax 707-964-3114, [email protected] CHS $5/year; HERE(1 person), MCHS, OHS, VIHS $10/year; HERE(family), DIRECTORS NEHS $15/year Mario Abreu, P.O. Box 673, Albion, CA 95410-0673, USA REMIT TO John Calhoun, NAHS Treasurer 707-937-3155, Fax 707-964-3114, [email protected] 31100 Country Rd, Fort Bragg, CA 95437 Mendocino Coast Heather Society (MCHS) (707) 964-0804, Ramona Bloomingdale, P.O. Box 1136, Gold Beach, OR 97444-1136, USA 541-247-6017, [email protected] DETAILS Ella May Wulff, Membership Chair Oregon Heather Society (OHS) [email protected], 541-929-6272, NAHS website Don Jewett, 2655 Virginia Ct., Fortuna, CA 95540, USA 2299 Wooded Knolls Dr., Philomath, OR 97370-5908, USA 707-725-1394, [email protected] Heather Enthusiasts of the Redwood Empire (HERE) HOW TO BUY FROM THE STOREFRONT Karla Lortz, Shelton, 502 E Haskell Hill Rd., Shelton, WA 98584-8429, USA BROWSE NAHS Website, www.northamericanheathersoc.org 360-427-5318, [email protected] CONTACT Ella May T. Wulff, Storefront Manager, (Address: see above.) Cascade Heather Society (CHS) Joyce Prothero, 281 Cudmore Hts, Saltspring Island, BC V8K 2J7, Canada HOW TO BORROW BOOKS FROM THE NAHS library Phone/Fax 250-537-9215, [email protected] WRITE Sharon Hardy, 50 Del Point Drive, Klamath, CA 95548-9331, USA. Vancouver Island Heather Society (VIHS) [email protected], 707-482-6755, NAHS website Mary Matwey, 7 Heights Court, Binghamton, NY 13905, USA HOW TO BORROW SLIDE PROGraMS 607-723-1418, [email protected] Northeast Heather Society (NEHS) WRITE Janice Leinwebber (Slide Librarian for members in USA) 8268 S. Gribble Road, Canby, OR 97013, USA Board Appointments (For details, see inside back cover) [email protected], 503-263-2428, or NAHS website Sharon Hardy - Book Librarian Elaine Scott (Slide Librarian for members in Canada) Janice Leinwebber - Slide Librarian for United States 2836 Oceanside Lane, Mill Bay, BC V0R 2P2, CAN. Stefani McRae-Dickey - Editor, Heather Quarterly [email protected], 250-743-0965, NAHS website Elaine Scott - Slide Librarian for Canada Ella May Wulff - Membership Chair, Storefront Manager HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE NAHS WEBSITE COVER: Design, Joyce Descloux BROWSE NAHS Website, www.northamericanheathersoc.org IMAGE: Erica carnea ‘Bell’s Extra Special’ CONTACT Karla Lortz, Shelton, 502 E Haskell Hill Rd., Shelton, WA 98584-8429, USA 360-427-5318, [email protected] HNQ # 133 Winter 2011 are: President Karla Lortz, First Vice-President Don Jewett, Secretary President’s Forum: Karla Lortz Susan Ewalt, and Treasurer John Calhoun. It is an honor to serve the North American Heather Society. I have Second Vice-President Pat Hoffman was elected by mail/email ballot in served in various capacities in the Cascade Heather Society and late fall, 2010. (Details of election and by-laws change will be published NAHS for the past two decades. Thank you for the opportunity to in the spring quarterly.) continue to serve heather enthusiasts. One of my major concerns as your incoming president is the declining membership numbers of NAHS and its supporting Calendar chapters. Some of our chapters are on the brink of collapse. We need to brainstorm to figure out how to bring in more folks. We need to look to the future and consider restructuring how we March 5 OHS Pruning party and sack lunch, Cottage Grove operate. Community Hospital, Cottage Grove. Info: Ella May Wulff, (541) 929-6272, [email protected]. Many of our members are not computer savvy, and we cannot forget them. At the same time, the up and coming generation March 19 CHS is meeting at 1 PM at Heaths & Heathers’ (from which our future leaders will come) is on-line exclusively, Display Garden at 631 E Pickering Rd, Shelton, WA. and that leads me to the subject of Facebook. A web site is not Info: Alice Knight (360) 482-3258, enough any longer with the younger crowd. Facebook is where [email protected]. they hang out, and we need to be where they are. April 9 NEHS Heather Trimming at 10 am, Fort Tryon, I am the owner of Heaths & Heathers Nursery in Shelton, WA. Manhattan, NY. Rain date on April 16. Board I made a Facebook page for the nursery last month, with a lot meeting after trimming. Bring a lunch. of landscape photos from my display garden. My 33 year-old Info: Mary Matwey (607) 723-1418, hairdresser looked at my page on Facebook after I mentioned it [email protected]. to her. Now she and her husband want to come see my display garden. They were inspired by the photos. She never once looked April 24 NEHS Heather Trimming at 10 am, The Heritage at my web site over the past three years but did go to my Facebook Museum and Gardens, 67 Grove Street, Sandwich, page immediately. MA. Bring a lunch. Info: Mary Matwey. Facebook could be a great place for members to post in their garden shots. I would love to go to an NAHS page and see Aug. 20 OHS Full day in Gold Beach area. Meeting, garden other members’ gardens in other parts of the country, with their and nursery visits, including presentation by Susan comments. We could create an on-line heather community. Ewalt on “Growing Heather”. Info: Ramona Bloomingdale, (541) 247-6017, The future may include gathering more on-line than in person. [email protected] Fewer and fewer folks actually go to meetings but still want to belong to a society. I’ll try to help guide NAHS through this Aug. 26–28 NEHS Annual meeting and heather conference, transition. Please let me know your own thoughts on this vital Binghamton, NY. Info: Mary Matwey. subject. 28 HNQ # 133 Winter 2011 1 Reflections on David Small Mario expressed concern about the ability of chapters to continue to host an Annual Meeting of the NAHS membership on a rotating basis; Karla Lortz the Board concurred with his suggestion that NAHS membership 502 E. Haskell Hill Rd., Shelton, WA 98584-8429 conferences be held every other year. Accordingly, the following Motion, [email protected] proposed by Ella May, seconded by Karla, was passed unanimously: We had the pleasure of hosting David Small twice. The first time, MOTION #2: That a bylaw change be made to Article V, Section 1 so we had a few days and took him on a camping trip. He wanted that “Annual Meeting” is replaced by “Biennial Meeting.” to see the Olympic Peninsula rather than private gardens. Our family took him from the top of Hurricane Ridge in the Olympic The schedule approved for the next five biennial meetings of the NAHS Mountains (hunting for Cassiope and Phyllodoce) to camping on membership is as follows: 2012 Cascade Heather Society (CHS), 2014 the beach at the Pacific Ocean. Northeast Heather Society (NEHS), 2016 Heather Enthusiasts of the Redwood Empire (HERE), 2018 Vancouver Island Heather Society On the second trip, Anne and David were here for only a very (VIHS), 2020 Oregon Heather Society (OHS) short visit.