) E S SUMMER 1993/Center for Urban Horticulture/Washington Park Arboretum/College of Forest Resources/University of Washington/Vol. 10, No. 3 CENTER NEWS NEW AT UNION BAY ARBORETUM TALES SUMMER The next time you visit the Center, Join us for this new series where staff take a stroll around back and see and friends of the Arboretum will something new. The Center, in share tales of their travels during the It appears that this year's interminable springtime raininess may have a cooperation with the City of Seattle noon hour of the third Tuesday of each payoff this summer- namely an Solid Waste Utility, has installed a month. Bring your sack lunch and new Test Garden that utilizes Cedar enjoy highlights of garden tours, adequate supply of water for installing new landscapes around your homes Grove composted yard trimmings in research, travels and other fun and and businesses. The disadvantage of various combinations with soil and as interesting adventures! Tracy Omar this aqueous bounty is that we tend to a mulch. Tests will record garden shows scenes from the deserts of plant growth, water movement and Arizona on July 20, while John Wott forget that dreadfully dry summers, retention, and other factors. Signage will showcase a nursery/garden tour of such as in 1992, are a recurring feature around here. So, remember further explains the project. Australia on August 17. water conservation in your choice of lants, and don't forget that we can WASHINGTON GARDEN GRAHAM VISITORS CENTER elp! Visit the Miller Library for CLINIC CONTINUES (GVC) and the Arboretum Foundation information about water conserving Gift Shop are open weekdays from 10 landscapes and stroll our grounds for a.m. to 4 p.m., and from Noon to 4 p.m. suggestions for low-water-use species The Washington Garden Clinic on weekends. and cultivars. continues to be a highly successful program. The Clinic is operated NEW APPOINTMENT aMtoCndUaHy. eWvaesnhiinngsgtfornomSt4atteoU7n:i4v5erps.imt.y SUNDAYS AT ONE (1 p.m.) Arboretum Guides lead FREE tours Master Gardeners are available to every Sunday highlighting plants of Professor John A. Wott has a new, provide home gardening advice and GVC seasonal interest. Departs from exciting responsibility at the Center. plant pest and disease diagnosis. He was recently appointed Director of Miller Library personnel are available Arboreta and will spend most of his to help you access their vast MASTER GARDENERS from time at our Washington Park resources, and faculty and staff from Washington State University will be Arboretum site. Big doings in the CUH's Otis Douglas Hyde Hortorium at the GVC every Saturday and future include pursuing a new master are available to assist with plant Sunday from Noon to 4 p.m. to answer plan for the Arboretum in cooperation identification (please bring leaves and gardening questions. with our friends in the Arboretum flowers and/or fruits). Foundation and the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation. ARBORETUM NEWS SPECIAL TOURS for school classes, What do we expect of the Arboretum garden clubs and other interested in the 21st century and how do we groups can be arranged with three achieve our lofty goals? Everyone who TIME TO TALK weeks' advance notice. values and loves the Arboretum will have a chance to help us answer these Want to know what's going on at the TELEPHONES kdmeevyelqoupeesdti.onDsr.asWootutr misasatlesor apvlaainlaibsle TArhbeorfiertstumW?edDnoesydoauyhoafveeaccohncmeornntsh?, CweUeHk:da6y8s5-8033, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., speak to groups regarding IArboretum plans; call 543-8800 for from Noon to 1 p.m.W,PwiAll be your WPA: 543-8800, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., opportunity to join Director John weekdays. Noon to 4 p.m., weekends details. Wott for informal chats. Bring your lunch and find out Wott's Going On\ r1 I / - '3 ' ^ < * PUBLIC LECTURE PLANT ENTHUSIAST Part 2: English Gardens to Discov for Yourself SERIES Regional experts present in-depth lectures on specific plant groups. Gayle Walters, an avid gardener and Parking at CUH is in a Universityparking lot; 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., CUH. Lecture fee is $2, traveler, shares her travel secrets and students are responsiblefor their own $1.50 payable at the door. slides of garden gems of England. ptaherkriendgtfiecekse.tPsupirtcthearsseintitchkeetpsar(qkuianrgtelrotss.only) in BAMBOO IN YOUR Discover how easy it is to get off the beaten path and visit private city LANDSCAPE gardens and country estates. Learn LUNCH TIME July 14 about resources that will make your Y GARDEN TALKS ‘ . -fv visit as unique as the gardens you Bamboo is a stunning evergreen plant encounter. Informal talks and walks on home gardening at available in many sizes, forms and the Center for Urban Horticulture. varieties. Learn about culture, site selection, care and control in the 12:10 to 12:50 p.m., CUH, FREE garden. Don Jenson of Fairlight MASTER GARDENER Gardens (a local bamboo nursery) will PLANTS OF PROMISE LECTURES discuss hardy bamboos suited to the June 23 Pacific Northwest. Practical gardening information for everyone, WSU presented by Master Gardeners. The gardens around the Center for Urban Horticulture contain uncommon FERNS 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., CUH, $2. payable at the door. and beautiful plants with great > August 4 potential for use in your own garden! Washington Park Arboretum Director Judith Jones of Fancy Fronds Nursery SEEDS FOR FALL Dr. John A. Wott highlights annuals has helped ferns find a cherished July 15 and perennials with horticultural place in Northwest gardens. Discover promise. new fern introductions from China and Successful cool season crops are how they can be useful in your garden. started while it's still hot outside. GREENHOUSE/NURSERY Learn about selection and cultural now is the time to seed for fall flowers concerns for successfully integrating TOUR and vegetables. Learn to produce ferns into the perennial or shrub sturdy plants for a cool season harvest July 28 border. from WSU Master Gardeners. \ Douglas Research Conservatory r * ’ houses both research projects and the SUMMER BULBS plant production resources of CUH and PLANTS AND GARDENS August 19 the Washington Park Arboretum. Join OF THE WORLD Greenhouse Manager Fred Hoyt and -' I K \ LMrul Summer bulbs add surprise and enjoy a rare chance to visit the Unique combination of travelogue, plant greenhouses, propagation areas and examination, people & plant cultural interest to hot summer gardens. Enjoy information.. slides and learn to identify summer nursery of this state of the art bulbs that are flowering now — and greenhouse facility. 7 to 9 p.m., CUH, $5, payable at the door. can flower for you next year! COMPOST ENGLAND & IRELAND IN DESIGNING YOUR GARDEN BLOOM DEMONSTRATION PLOTS WITH NATIVE PLANTS August 25 July 12 September 16 CUH graduate student Stephanie Part 1: Ireland in Bloom Lower water use, lower maintenance, Allen is completing research on vegetable and flower gardening with The gardens of Ireland are reduced pest problems- just three of Cedar Grove compost in 36 raised unexploited, untrampled and the reasons many native plants are such fine additions to your garden. beds behind the Center. Join unbeatable in exuberance. Join Stephanie for this look at what's Barbara Keightley for a look at Master Gardeners share tips for designing with and selecting nativ happening in her test plots, and learn spectacular gardens, including for your landscape. how to make compost work in your ButterStream in the rich farmland of own garden. Meath, and the 18th Century Annes Grove Gardens. The lush rolling lands of southern Ireland await! 2581 41 v \ CALENDAR OF EVENTS July 1993 Sunday . Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 7p.m.* 1 2 10a.m.* 3 SummerPruning SNuomomneWrPPAruning rCQO^ MasterCardeners NoonWPA a4 4p.m.CUH 6 NoonWPA 7 8:30a.m. 8 9 NoonWPA 10 MasterGardeners WashingtonGarden 1 Wott'sGoingOn Garden DesignerTour MasterGardeners <-u 1 p.m.WPA 05 Clinic Noon 05 SundaysatOneTour GardeningonSlopes NoonWPA 1 4p.m.CUH 12 7p.m.* 13 7:30p.m.CUH* 14 7:30p.m.CUH* 15 16 9a.m.* 17 MS1aupsn.tdmea.rysWGaPartAdOenneersTour r0_o5_, WC7laipsn.himic.ngCtUoHn*Carden ? TreeID YBoaumrbLoaondinscape SeedsforFall TMNraoesoetneIrDWGParAdeners rCQO^ England/Ireland in Bloom NoonWPA 1 4p.m.CUH 19 NoonWPA 20 Noon 21 22 23 NoonWPA ^ 24 MasterGardeners -ru WashingtonGarden I ArboretumTales ColorfulAnnualWalk MasterGardeners 1 p.m.WPA 05 Clinic 7p.m.* 7p.m.* 05 SundaysatOneTour TufaTime Perennial IDWalk 2 p.m.CUH CascadeCactus& SucculentSociety NoonWPA 25 4p.m.CUH 26 6p.m.CUH 27 NoonCUH 28 29 30 NoonWPA 31 MasterCardeners ru WashingtonGarden E AssociationforWpmen Greenhouse/NurseryTour ' \ , MasterGardeners S1upn.dma.ysWPatAOneTour 05 Clinic in Landscaping G8aar.dme.n* HistoryTour ' * 05 August 1993 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday NoonWPA 1 4p.m.CUH 3 NoonWPA 4 8a.m.* 5 8a.m.* 6 NoonWPA 7 M1aps.tme.rWGaPrAdeners r0o5_. WClaisnhiicngtonGarden ? WNoototn'sGoingOn MMtt..SRta.inHieelre/nsTour MMtt..SRta.inHieelre/nsTour MasterGardeners 0j5u SundaysatOneTour Plant PestWalk 8a.m.* 8a.m.* 7:30p.m.CUH* Olympic PeninsulaTour OlympicPeninsulaTour Ferns NoonWPA 8 4p.m.CUH 7:30p.m.CUH* 10 7p.m.CUH 11 12 13 NoonWPA 1 MasterGardeners Washington Garden d Plantsfromthe PlantAmnesty MasterGardeners 1 p.mtWPA 05 Clinic Netherlands CO SundaysatOneTour NoonWPA 1 4p.m.CUH u NoonWPA 17 Noon 18 7:30p.m.CUH* 19 20 NoonWPA 21 MasterGardeners WashingtonGarden E ArboretumTales ConiferWalk SummerBulbs MasterGardeners 1 p.m.WPA 05 Clinic 05 SundaysatOneTour 2 p.m.CUH CascadeCactus& SucculentSociety NoonWPA 22 4p.m.CUH 23 24 NoonCUH 25 26 27 NoonWPA 28 MasterGardeners jtc WashingtonGarden Compost Demonstration MasterGardeners 1 p.m.WPA 05 Clinic ? Plots 05 SundaysatOneTour NoonWPA 29 4p.m.CUH 3C 31 MasterGardeners WashingtonGarden 1 p.m.WPA 05 Clinic ? SundaysatOneTour September 1 {993 , / Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Noon 1 2 3 NoonWPA 4 . , Garden IdeaWalk MasterGardener CO NoonWPA 5 4p.m.CUH 6 7 8 7:40p.m.CUH 9 10 NoonWPA 1 MasterGardeners WashingtonGarden RockGardenSociety MasterGardeners rv. 1 p.m.WPA 05 Clinic ? 05 SundaysatOneTour NoonWPA 1 4p.m.CUH 13 7:30p.m.CUH 14 15 7:30p.m.CUH* 16 10a.m.CUH 17 10a.m.CUH 18 MasterCardeners q- WashingtonGarden PugetSound DesigningWith NHSPlantSale NHSPlantSale p.m.WPA CO Clinic ? Mycological Society Natives NoonWPA S1undaysatOneTour 6p.m.CUH MasterGardeners j-u AmericanSocietyof 05 LandscapeArchitects , 'V < 7p.m.CUH OrchidSociety 7:30p.m.CUH IrisSociety NoonWPA 1.9 4p.m.CUH 20 21 - NoonCUH 22 23 24 NoonWPA 25 MasterGardners ru WashingtonGarden Lunch timeGardenTalk MasterGardeners 1 p.m.WPA $5 Clinic ? 05 SundaysatOneTour 2p.m.CUH (CascadeCactus& SucculentSociety NoonWPA 26 4p.m. 27 6p.m.CUH 28 29 30 MasterGardeners WashingtonGarden 3 Associationfor 1 p.m.WPA CO Clinic Women in landscaping SundaysatOneTour CUH = Center for Urban Horticulture HUB = Husky Union Building WPA = Washington Park Arboretum * = Fee * = MNaosotne-r4Gpa.rmd.e,nWerPAClinic, 1—? 1 = W4a-8shpi.nmg.t,oCnUGHarden Clinic, . G r URBAN Students will construct a small TREE ID, Part 2** container during class and gain the ORTICULTURE r ' - > *’ -/ skills for making larger, more varied COURSES Ready to start or ready for more? shaped containers at home. Learn to recognize over 40 trees in \ this continuation of our introductory Date & Time: July 20, 6:30 to 9 p.m. Pre-registration is required for all identification course. Lecture and field Instructors: Anita Drake, Dave CUH Courses and Tours. trips will provide the opportunity to Stockdale begin to study the landscape and Fee: $23 Each course is offered only once, but ornamental characteristics of these may be conducted over several class landscape-appropriate trees. (You periods on different days. Note "Dates PERENNIAL ID WALK*** & Times" listings for each course. need not have taken Part 1 to Achievement program courses are participate.) See a wide range of perennials asterisked, with explanations at the growing and learn to recognize the end of listings. Dates & Times: Two-part course; July differences between them in this 13, 7 to 9 p.m. and July 17, 9 a.m. to beginner's level course. Common and 4:30 p.m. (with 90 minute lunch not-so-common plants will be viewed, break) SUMMER PRUNING* and information on cultural Instructor: Scott Vergara requirements, plant availability, and Fee: $35 appropriate landscape uses will be Thought you were done for the year? provided. Directions to the garden site Actually, summer is an excellent time will be provided with confirmation of TUFA TIME (even the preferred time) for pruning course registration. certain plants- like those that send out watersprouts, or bleed too much in the Learn to make your own simulated Date & Time: July 21, 7 to 9 p.m. spring. Fruit trees, spring flowering stone planter from a peat moss and Instructor: Sue Buckles shrubs and other plants will benefit cement recipe known as hypertufa. Fee: $12 from summer pruning. Learn how, hen and which plants to prune. Dates & Times: Two-part course; July 1, 7 to 9 p.m., July 3, 10 a.m. to Noon REGISTRATION FORM Instructor: Cass Turnbull Urban Horticulture Courses Fee: $19 COURSE FEE STUDENT NAME(S) TOTAL N • * ( \ $ GARDENS & THEIR DESIGNERS TOUR ) k Join us to see how designers solve problems, select plants, and create moods. Landscape Architects Peter and Deborah Harvard showcase two gardens that incorporate year-round interest and multi-use spaces. CHECK ENCLOSED FOR $_ Designer Kevin Harvey shares a garden which accommodates a plant Checks payable to University of Washington. No bank cards. Registrations filled jn order lover and a growing family. Designer received. Limited class enrollment; classes fill rapidly, so register early. Portion of fee may cover refreshtpents and speaker expenses. Philips Foss Wood shares his own garden, a personal space used as a Refunds: Requests must be in writing or in person. Requests received 7 days or less from first class meeting have a $3.00 handling fee deducted. No refunds after the first class meeting. plant and design laboratory. NAME .Phone: Day_ _Evening_ Date & Time: July 8, 8:30 a.m. to ADDRESS 1:00 p.m. Street City State ZIPCode ee: $32, includes transportation Mail payment and registration to: To request disability accommodation Urban Horticulture Courses, GF-15 contact the Office of the ADA University ofWashington Coordinator, at least ten days in Seattle, Washington 98195 advance of an event: 543-6450 (voice) 543-6452 (TDD); 685-3885 (FAX) [email protected] (E-mail) / ^ GARDEN HISTORY TOUR NORTHWEST visited include the Willaby Creek 0 Nature Trail at Lake Quinalt, the Hoh HORTICULTURAL The Oregon Trail brought new people rainforest and the loop hike in the Hall SOCIETY NEWS and plants to the Northwest 150 years of Mosses, the terraced forest ago. Garden historian Kathy communities of the Southeast corner Mendelson discusses regional of the Peninsula, and the high Call the NHS office at 527-1794 for horticultural history during this tour to elevation sub-alpine forest and information on the following events: the Vancouver/Portland area. First, meadow near Hurricane Ridge. visit Fort Vancouver to see ANNUAL FALL PLANT SALE vegetables, herbs, grains and flowers Dates & Times: Two-day tour; leave commonly used in the 1830's. Next, August 5, 8 a.m., and return August 6 The NHS Fall Plant Sale will be held discover the influence of "Johnny at approximately 7 p.m. September 17-18 at CUH, beginning Appleseed" during our visit to the Guides: Ted Thomas, Dave Stockdale at 10 a.m. each day. A wonderful 1850's Pioneer Orchard of Bybee Fee: $145; fee includes transportation, assortment of plants will be available, House (over 150 heirloom fruit lodging, all meals except second day's so come early for the best selection. varieties). Finally, visit Fir Acres dinner. (now Lewis & Clark College), an • V- opulent example of a 920’s formal * Course also qualifiesfor the Woody Plaqt SUMMER LECTURES 1 Management category of the Achievement terraced garden. Program ** Course also qualifiesfor the Woody Plants New Plant Introductions from the Date & Time: July 28, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. category ofthe Achievement Program Netherlands. Lecture by Gert Guide/Instructor: Kathy Mendelson *** Course also qualifiesfor the Herbaceous Fortgens, Curator, Arboretum Plants category ofthe Achievement Program Fee: $39, includes transportation Tropemburg, Rotterdam. August 10, 7:30 p.m., NHS Hall, CUH. Fee: $5 for members, $7 for non-members. LIBRARY NEWS FLORA OF MT. RAINIER & Beyond Color- the Painterly Art of MT. ST. HELENS Planting. Lecture by Sandra and Nori Library Summer Flours: Mondays, 9 Pope, garden designers, Hadspen The rugged beauty of Mt. Rainier has a.m. to 8 p.m.; Tuesdays through House, Somerset, England. Octobe^^J been shaped by mud flows, frost, Fridays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The library 26, 7:30 p.m., NHS Hall, CUH. CUH and will be closed July 4 and avalanche, and erosion. The region September 5. around Mt. St. Helens is still recovering from the devastation of a The Elisabeth C. Miller Library has ARBORETUM major eruption. This tour explores the received a welcome grant of $10,000 relationships between the terrain and FOUNDATION NEWS from the Northwest Horticultural the plants of Mt. Rainier, and the Society to continue Monday evening recolonization of Mt. St. Helens. hours during the Washington Garden Call the Arboretum Foundation at 325- Dates & Times: Two-day tour; leave Clinic throughout the summer months. 4510for further information about: The gift will also be used to continue V '' August 5, 8 a.m., and return August 6 . - the lending collection, telephone FALL BULB SALE at approximately 9 p.m. Guides: Timothy Hohn, Tracy Omar reference service, and other public Beautiful bulbs, winter-flowering Fee: $125; fee includes transportation, outreach programs. wonders, and more will be available lodging at UW's Pack Forest, all at the Fall Bulb Sale at Graham The library hosted the national Visitors Center on Saturday, October meals except second day's dinner. conference of the Council of 2, from 1 1 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, Botanical and Horticultural Libraries October 3, from 10 a.m. to Noon. this past May. Programs, workshops, NATURAL HISTORY OF THE speakers, and tours were all very OLYMPIC PENINSULA successful. Thanks to the staff, volunteers, and the members of the Northwest horticultural community The Olympic Peninsula offers a who helped. Elisabeth C. Miller unique combination of plant and received an honorary certificate at the animal communities shaped by conference, acknowledging her geology, topography, weather patterns contribution in founding a new and other forces. Study sites to be horticultural library for the public in the Pacific Northwest. / UNIVERSITY BROWN BAG PLANT PEST WALK GARDEN TALKS August 4; meet in the Forestry GARDEN IDEA WALK: Plants For Courtyard between Anderson and Garden Structure General interest gardening talks for University faculty, staff, students. Bloedel Halls September 1; meet at the Red Square FREE. 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. entrance to Suzzallo Library Even if you don't see the pest, your GARDENING ON SLOPES plants often exhibit the signs of pest Trees and shrubs provide our gardens July 7; meet in HUB, Room 304F problems. Mignonne Partington with structure that lasts throughout the UW demonstrates how to identify weevils, seasons. Join student Katherine Learn to make those frustrating slopes fungus, and other critters by the holes,- Van Pelt as she examines campus a showpiece of the garden. Diane spots or galls they leave on plants. specimens and discusses their uses as Ryba discusses gardening techniques foundations within the garden. and plants effective for steep sites. CONIFER WALK August 18, meet at the Red Square COLORFUL ANNUAL WALK entrance to Suzzallo Library Public Education Staff: July 21; meet at the Red Square Dave Stockdale, Coordinator, CUH entrance to Suzzallo Library Conifers are a quintessential part of Jenkins Farmer, Graduate Assistant the Northwest native and created Jean Robins, Program Assistant Annuals can provide instant color, landscape. Join Steve Jensen of Rebecca Johnson, Building Services tropical flair or seasonal fragrance. Washington Park Arboretum for a Coordinator Join CUH Public Education Intern campus walk and discussion of Anita Drake and examine common selection and care of conifers. and unusual campus annuals of all shapes, sizes and colors. f University of Washington, GF-1 5 College of Forest Resources NONPROFIT ORG. POSTAGE Center for Urban FJorticulture U.S. PAID WA98195 Seattle, Seattle, Wash. PERMIT NO. 62 Summer 1993