CABBAGECABBAGE WHITESWHITES & THIMBLEBERRYTHIMBLEBERRY KIOSKKIOSK #08#08 Northwest Native Conifers Pilchuck Glass School Pioneers & Auction Centerpiece Designers Sitka Spruce 1997 - Tracy Glover & John Chiles (Elegant Designs) The largest tree in the Gardens stands to your right, countless other young Sitka Tracy is a glass artist of much fame, trained at the Rhode Island School of Design and Pilchuck Spruce surround you; they do well in moist soil like ours. Rough broken bark Glass School; she specializes in glass lighting and decorative accessories. In 1997 she collaborated indicates a spruce, but its sharp needles are the best indicator. It can grow to: with John Chiles, who began his work in 1980 and continues today from Vermont (Tracy is in RI). Original editions are found in PLC’s Permanent Collection; 15’ diameters 300 feet tall with sharp, 1” needles In 1997, like other artists for 3 Decades, they gave weeks of their time for the Glass School’s beneit. these are scaled, attached replicas. live 800 years drive from CA to BC and you will ind no trees older than 150 years! 2007 - Michael Fox (Nested Vessel) Its wood is very strong and was once used for airplane propellers. During WW II the largest plane ever then built, Michael’s design emphasized the contrast of colors, giving inspiration to the 40 Poleturners, the “Spruce Goose” was made of Sitka Spruce (it’s now housed in the Evergreen Museum, McMinnville, Oregon 261 gaffers, and production people necessary to produce 80 centerpieces in 2007. Michael’s background miles from here). Once an important lumber and pulp tree, but now rarely planted in favor of Douglas Fir. Only includes working on a regular basis with Benjamin Moore, Richard Royal, Dante Marioni, Dan Daily remnants of the original forests remain. It is the West’s 4th tallest tree (Redwood, Sequoia, & Douglas Fir are taller). Preston Singletary and many others, all Pioneers at the Pilchuck Glass School. Northwest Native Broadleaved Trees Apostles & Disciples‘ Martyrdoms & A Later Remembrance Bitter Cherry Matthew To the right of the Sitka Spruce is a large deciduous tree (as large as cherries get) Author of one of 4 Gospels and 1st Book in New Testament of the Bible. A tax collector, he was with bark that has horizontal striations. Flowers are in clusters, white and showy most likely literate in Aramaic and Greek. Legend has him dying in Ethiopia as a martyr, and in the Autumn, giving way to shiny dark red berries that are eaten by birds beheaded at Nad-Davar. The Quran describes him a “helper to the work of God.” and animals. These berries make humans very sick and as the name suggests, are Leaf graphics and ranges are “temps,” ranges are from US Government web Peers in Holocaust - Auschwitz-Birkenau pages and Wikipedia; our goal is to use our own photos of real plants in very bitter. In the Spring you may see Cabbage White butterlies, our most common place in the Gardens. At least 1.1 million died at Oswiecim, a short ride from the ancient Polish city of Krakow. The chart butterly type, feeding on the lowers (Cabbage Whites ly from late February to mid-November). above illustrates that it was not just the Jews who died here (Auschwitz was a Polish oficer training If you drive along the freeway in early Spring, its lowering is followed almost a month later with other cherries that facility and irst used in WW II for Polish political prisoners). It was its 2nd camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau look the same. These latter cherries are domestics that have “gone wild;” these trees are often sterile, producing lit- staffed with SS, 15% of whom were convicted of war crimes after the War, where the focus was those of tle fruit. Look at the trunk of a tree and if it has horizontal bark ridges, it is most likely a cherry. the Jewish faith. 1 in 6 of those with Jewish ethnicity killed in the Holocaust most likely died here. Northwest Native Shrubs & Ferns Other Plants Red Huckleberry This kiosk’s roof is planted with thistles, surrounded by shrubs and trees essential for Cabbage Whites. Erect shrubs, often growing out of fallen logs or old stumps (as seen at the right and throughout Food sources include Bitter Cherry and Red Huckleberry, along with the 4 other types of huckleberries the Gardens). Leaves fall off each Autumn, the fruit of the Red Huckleberry is a very bright red native to this area: and used as a food source by Native Americans either fresh or dried. Evergreen Oval-Leaf Cascade Mountain Anderson’s Sword Fern This is a deep woods fern, looking very much like the Western Sword Fern but with narrower fronds. The stems are clumped and erect with buds at the tip of fronds and often found in - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Huckleberries - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - lowland forests such as the Gardens’. View them to your right and as you walk to Kiosk 10. This is the Paciϐic NW (Cascadia’s) botanical holocaust garden maintained by the Pilchuck Learning Center (a WA nonproϐit) with a targeted list of ~1,000 native plant species. Visitors enter under the QR Code Links and photos are taken from: www.usda.gov (attribution: U.S. Department of Agriculture), Wikipedia and Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike, and the University of Washington’s www.biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium website under pending agreement. URL Links provided by: USDA, NRCS. 2010;he PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 24 April 2010). Revised Codes of the State of Washington - RCW 4.24.200 & 4.24.210 allowing public recreational use, including nature study and viewing or enjoying scenic or scientiϐic sites/waterways on private land. National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA. Visitor photos of the birds, butterfl ies, and native plants (found/taken within the Gardens) sent to [email protected], are to replace any borrowed from the USDA and other websites. We thank those contributors; please remember to note the closest kiosk to where the photo was taken.) You Randy Walker (K09) Chuck Lopez (K09) Rik Allen John Chiles & Tracy Glover (K08) are Bertil Vallien Ryan Marsh Fairweather, Tim Belliveau & Phillip Bandura (K07) Chuck Vannatta (K06) Jiri Harcuba (K06) Marc Petrovic Jean Salatino (K04) Susan Bane Holland Reed Katja Fritzsche (K03) Red = Centerpiece Designers Greg Owen (K02) Scott Beneield (K02) Dante Marioni (K01) Marvin9 Liposksy Pike Powers Shelley Muzylowski Allen Karen Willenbrink-Johnson 8 Michael Fox (K08) Here Ulrica Hydman-vallien 7 Mitchell Gaudet (K07) Preston Singletary Judith Schaechter 6 Stanislav Libensky Erwin Eisch 5 Richard Whiteley 4 Niels Cosman (K04) John Reed 3 Lynn Everett Read (K03) Blue = (“New”) 2nd Wave 2 Hiroshi Yamano (00 Pond Globes) Veruska Vagen (K01) 1 Ross Richmond Fritz Dreisbach Sonja Blomdahl Buster Simpson Dan Dailey Mark Zirpel Raven Skyriver Robbie Miller John Drury Debora Moore Nancy Klimley Ethan Stern Nancy Callan James Mongrain & Jaroslava Brychtova Joey Kirkpatrick (K13) Matthew Szosz Richard Whiteley Paul Marioni (K14) Green = (“Old”) Pioneers Richard Nisonger(Freeborn Reserve) Cappy Thompson Katherine Gray (K10) John Miller John Kiley Henry Halem Steven Proctor Mark Gibeau (K11) Lino Tagliapietra (K11) Pino Signoretto Michael Schiener Richard Posner Bob Carlson Johnathan Turner & Flora Mace RobAdamson Kurt Swanson (K05) Rob Stern (K05) William Morris (K14) Dale Chihuly (K15) Ruth Tamura John/Anne Hauberg & Page Families (Tatoosh) Cary Hayden (Topography) Ann (Warff) Wolff 10 Ann Wahlstrom (K10) Fred Tschida Ginny Ruffner Deborah Horrell Harvey Littleton 11 Jenny Pohlman & Sabrina Knowles Paul DeSomma (K12) Benjamin Moore (K12) 12 Marc Boutte Roger Paramore 13 Richard Royal & Lisa Schwartz Klaus Moje 14 Richard Marquis (bridge) 15 Martin Blank (K15) Pilchuck Glass School (K16) 16 Randy Recor (Boardwalks) Therman Statom Narcissus Quagliata Einar & Jamex de la Torre Kelly O’Dell Walter Lieberman Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend Jen Elek / Jeremy Bert Barbara Vaessen Joseph Rossano (K13) Danny Perkins Astri Reusch James Carpenter Richard Posner Ro Purser Michael Glancy Lucio Bubacco Bryan Rubino (K16) Pilchuck Artists’ David Reekie Kate Elliott Toots Zynsky Keke Cribbs Karen LaMonte Dick Weiss Italo Scanga Boyd Sugiki / Lisa Zerkowitz Charles Parriott (The Freeborn Reserve collection is found scattered among this Gardens, the Herbarium and Bonhoeffer Hall; several placement (mockups) exist. That is, not all pieces show are artist’s originals, the latter have security connections via Sonitrol to ca meras above directly connected to Sonitrol’s professional monit ors in Everett, WA. Damage or theft of these items or to the gardens will be prosecuted as a felony. Please allow all to enj oy this living history.) Glass Legacy.