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Happenings February 2022

Exhibitions:

Feb 18-April 10, The Landscape Legacy of Dan Kiley, Tampa, FL
Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Thru May 16, A Garden of Words,
The Huntington, San Marino, CA
thru June 19, Chihuly in the Desert, Phoenix, AZ
Desert Botanical Garden, 480-941-1225

Events:

Jan 13-March 3, The Making of a French Garden, ONLINE
1pm Eastern, Eight Illustrated Lectures, Thursdays
Garden Conservancy and Alliance Francaise

Feb 4, Urban Tree Symposium, ONLINE
9am-4pm Eastern; Tower Hill Botanic Garden
Feb 4-13 Great Big Home & Garden Show, Cleveland, OH
I-X Center, Cleveland

Feb 8, Immigrant's Journey Thru the American Landscape ONLINE
7pm Eastern, Lecture, LA Wambui Ippolito, Hort Society of MD
Feb 9-13, Northwest Flower & Garden Festival, Seattle, WA
Washington State Convention Center
Feb 10, The Northwest Gardens of Lord & Schryver, ONLINE
2pm-3pm Eastern, Lecture, The Garden Conservancy
Feb 11-13, Nashville Antiques & Garden Show, Nashville, TN
Music City Center, Nashville

Feb 15, Plants and Placemaking, Lecture, ONLINE
1pm-2pm Eastern, LA Matthew Cunningham, NY Botanical Garden
Feb 17, 22nd Land Ethics Symposium, ONLINE
8am-1pm Eastern, Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve
Feb 18, Greenscapes Symposium, ONLINE
"Advancing the Natural Landscape in a Modern World"
9:15am-4pm Eastern, Brookside Gardens, Wheaton, MD
Feb 18-21 Great Backyard Bird Count 
Help Audubon and the Bornell Lab of Ornithology keep track of our birds
Feb 19, Winter Lecture, LA Edwina Von Gal, ONLINE
10am-11am Eastern, Berkshire Botanical Garden
"Eye of the Beholder: Messy or an Acquired Taste"

Feb 23-24, Ecological Landscape Alliance Conference, ONLINE
28th Conference & Eco Marketplace
Feb 24, Rebuilding Abundance, Lecture, Bronx, NY
10:30am, LA Claudia West, NY Botanical Garden
Feb 24-27, Connecticut Flower & Garden Show, Hartford, CT
Connecticut Convention Center
Feb 25-27, New Jersey Home & Garden Show, Edison, NJ
NJ Convention & Expo Center
Feb 26, Wake Up Your Garden Saturday, Bronx, NY
10am-5pm, NY Botanical Garden

Orchid Shows:

thru March 13, Orchids Forever, Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Botanical Garden
Feb 1-April 24, Orchids: Groundbreaking Women, Washington DC
Smithsonian/ National Portrait Gallery, Kogod Courtyard
Feb 12-March 17, The Orchid Show: Untamed, Glencoe, IL
Chicago Botanic Garden
Feb 12-March 20, Prismatic: Orchid Exhibition, Boylston, MA
Tower Hill Botanic Garden
Feb 12-April 10, Orchid Daze, Atlanta, GA
Atlanta Botanical Garden
Feb 26-May 1, Jeff Leatham's Kaleidoscope, Bronx, NY
NY Botanic Garden

LOOKAHEAD:

March 10, Black Landscapes Matter, Boston, MA
7pm-9pm, Conversation with LAs, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

April 23-30, Historic Virginia Garden Week
Various locations throughout Virginia
April 28-May 1, 75th Colonial Williamsburg Garden Symposium
Williamsburg, VA

May 13-15 Tamiami International Orchid Festival, Miami, FL
May 24-28, Chelsea Flower Show, London, UK
June 11-19, Philadelphia Flower Show, Philadelphia, PA

New Plants 2022

The following are from Monrovia ... check out all of their new 2022 releases here.

Photos: Monrovia - click to enlarge

Sparkler® Pink Petite Butterfly Bush
(Buddleia '1331')

This little charmer is only 3-4 feet high and wide at maturity, with distinctive pink flowers and pure green leaves.  It needs full sun and weekly watering (more water in extreme heat and in containers), but otherwise it's quite carefree.  At this size, it can be used in the border, in urban or wildlife gardens, in mass plantings and for firescaping.  And of course it attracts butterflies, as well as hummingbirds.  Suggested companions include coneflower, butterfly weed, salvia, Russian sage, and bee balm.  Zones 5-10.
And another new buddleia in the Sparkler collection: Purple Petite®, with true dark purple blooms.

 

Ruby Colonnade® Holly
(Ilex x crenata 'RutHol5')

What makes this holly different is that the new foliage emerges a deep red color before it transitions to a dense, glossy bright green.   And you can put it almost anywhere, because it can be sheared and shaped for spirals or topiary, and it can also be grown in containers.  It's hardy in zones 7-9, and if you leave it alone, in its normal growth habit of columnar, pyramidal form, it'll reach 10-12 feet tall and 8 feet wide.  Great for hedges, mass plantings, screening, as a specimen or topiary.  It takes full sun and should be watered when the top two inches of soil are dry. Suggested companions: rhododendron, astilbe, coral bells, camellia, Japanese forest grass. Sounds like a winner.

 

Jurassic™ T-Rex Wood Fern
(Dryopteris tokyoensis)

This is just one of the ferns in the Jurassic collection discovered by Dan Hinkley in Asia.

This fern has vertical fronds of a lime-green hue, from a dark to a light color, and it takes full or part shade.  It's slow growing and deciduous, and reaches 24-36 inches high and wide.  Zones 5-8.  It's easy to care for, naturalizes well, and tolerates acidic and wet soils. It needs to be watered at regular intervals to maintain moist soil conditions.  Suggested companions: coral bells, lenten rose, columbine, lungwort, bleeding heart. 

And do check out the others in this series: they are truly spectacular.

 

Sunvilla™ Giant Red Mandevilla
(Mandevilla 'MANZ0019')

Who doesn't love a mandevilla vine in high summer? The sunvilla series (including ones with white, pink, and red blooms) have flowers that are slow to fade, and they all have yellow throats and glossy, green leaves.

This particular one has extra large flowers with twining stems that reach 15-20 feet long to grow on an arbor or trellis or anywhere else of your choice.  It needs full to part sun, and regular watering.  Zones 9-11, a frost-tender evergreen or an annual in cooler climates. It's great beside pools or in containers or hanging baskets; it also attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.  Suggested companions:  lantana, hibiscus, plumbago, purple fountain grass, princess flower.

New Roses 2022 - David Austin

Two new roses from David Austin USA this year:

Silas Marner® Rose
(Rosa 'Ausraveloe')

Named after the hero of the classic novel by George Eliot, this medium-sized shrub rose has soft pink petals that are pale on the back side and at the edges.  It's a repeat-flowering rose that has what's described as an Old Rose fragrance, with hints of lemon, banana, and apricot.  It size is 3.5 high by 4.5 wide, and looks great in a mixed or a rose border.  It takes full sun to part shade and is ideal for cutting.  And ... yes ... I think back in high school, that Silas Marner was on the reading list!

The Country Parson™ Rose
(Rosa 'Ausclergy')

I've never read The Diary of a Country Parson by James Woodforde, but it's an account of the parish life in the late 18th century.   This rose, of Scottish descent, is named after the pastor and is part of Austin's literary-themed rose collection. 

Strong yellow blooms on this shrub rose are said to have a fruity scent, and the petals are translucent on the edge, creating an effect of illumination.  It's medium sized, at 3.5 feet high and wide.  It has greyish-green small leaves and spiny thorns and it is repeat flowering from June until the first frost in autumn.  It takes sun or part shade and could be used in a mixed or rose border, or even as a hedge. 

Other roses in the literary colletion include Gabriel Oak (Rosa 'Auscrowd') after the hero of Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd, Eustacia Vye (Rosa 'Ausegdon') from Hardy's Return of the Native, and Roald Dahl, after the late British author.

 

January 2022 Happenings Update

Jan 13-March 3, The Making of a French Garden, ONLINE
1pm Eastern, Eight Illustrated Lectures, Thursdays
Garden Conservancy and Alliance Francaise

Jan 27, AHS Webinar, Ethnobotanist Michael Balick, PhD ONLINE
7pm Eastern, Lecture, AHS
First of 3 "Conversations with Great American Gardeners"

Jan 29-March 13, Orchids Forever, Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Botanical Garden

2022 Urban Tree of the Year

photo: NY State Urban Forestry Council

The Society of Municipal Arborists has named the musclewood tree (Carpinus caroliniana) as its Urban Tree of the Year for 2022. 

Native to the eastern United States, (and also known as ironwood or American hornbeam) it's similar to the European hornbeam (C. betulus), but it's smaller in size, maturing at 20-30 feet high and wide.  The tree is named for it's smooth gray sinewy bark that resembles muscles.

The leaves are dark green with ragged edges and prominent ribs, and turn to a deep red, orange, or yellow in fall. Spring catkins are followed by nutlets in fall that appeal to some birds and other wildlife. The tree is hardy in Zones 3-5, and prefers full sun and moist soil conditions. Newer cultivars with spectacular fall color include Ball O'Fire™, Firespire™, and the upright Palisade™.

You can read the more detailed original press release from the NY State Urban Forestry Council  here.