Red Butte Garden Fall 2014 Newsletter

Autumn 2014 Issue sep • oct • nov Garden After Dark Fall Plant Sale ZAP Renewal WWW.REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG

Editors

Bryn Ramjoué, Kate Randall

Gregory Lee, Rita Reisor, Meghan Eames, Marita Tewes Tyrolt, Crystal Reece, Valerie Green

Contributing Writers

Contributing Photographers

Pierce McConnell, Meghan Eames, Eddy Dawson, Jason Baker, Kate Randall Graphic Designer Pierce

McConnell

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Red Butte Garden, a part of the University of Utah, is a nonprofit organization located in Salt Lake City, Utah. With 100 acres, including display gardens, walking paths, and natural areas with hiking trails, Red Butte Garden is the largest botanical garden in the Intermountain West that tests, displays, and interprets regional horticulture.

300 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84108 · 801.585.0556 Copyright © 2014 Red Butte Garden. All rights reserved.

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I’d like to give a shout out to one of the programs that makes Salt Lake County a great place to live: Zoo Arts and Parks (ZAP). But, to give proper appreciation where it is due, the applause also must go to the voters of Salt Lake County who make ZAP possible.

What is ZAP? It is a program that supports cultural organizations and recreation facilities throughout Salt Lake County. The ZAP program’s mission “is to enhance Salt Lake County resident and visitor experiences through art, cultural, and recreational offerings.”

The organizations supported by ZAP are as varied as the interests of county residents. ZAP annually funds programs ranging from the zoo to arts education, recreation, dance, theater, and visual arts. Every year over seven million people participate in ZAP-funded activities. For a complete list of the current 160 organizations, 13 parks and trails, and 17 recreation centers receiving ZAP support please visit: www.ZAPisyou.org.

Why do these things matter? Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams said it well, “Arts, culture, parks and recreation are the cornerstones of the quality of life we enjoy here in Salt Lake County.”

Salt Lake County manages this highly respected and fiscally responsible program.

When anyone makes a purchase in Salt Lake County, a sales tax of one tenth of one percent of the purchase price goes to fund ZAP programs. That equals one penny for every $10 purchase. With the large number of recreational and cultural organizations it supports, ZAP benefits every community in Salt Lake County.

Because of ZAP, Red Butte Garden is able to stay open seven-days-a-week, to annually offer five days of free public admission*, to care for our garden spaces, and to provide events such as floral shows, Monday Family Nights, Garden After Dark, summer camps, family camp-outs, and other seasonal events that are, for many, family traditions. The Garden would be a pale shadow of itself without ZAP. One of the lesser-known resources of ZAP is a website called NowPlayingUtah. com. This site shows all the events going on in the valley. It lists free events, events by date, and by venue. You’ll find all our Red Butte Garden events posted on Now Playing Utah.

This year, in November, voters living in Salt Lake County will have an opportunity to vote to continue the ZAP program, which must be periodically renewed. Voters have previously approved ZAP twice, once in 1997 when the program began and again in 2004. With the ZAP initiative on this year’s ballot, Red Butte Garden encourages you to exercise your right to vote in 2014.

- Gregory J. Lee, Executive Director

*This fall our free admission days are: Labor Day on Monday, September 1 and Zeke Dumke, Jr. Day, on Monday, October 6.

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Table of Contents

FALL BULB &

PLANT SALE September 26 & 27 Friday 3:00-7:30PM Saturday 9:00AM-7:30PM

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE

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MAXIMIZE YOUR MEMBERSHIP: ACTIVITIES FREE WITH GARDEN MEMBERSHIP/ADMISSION

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GARDEN AFTER DARK ONCE UPON A FAIRYTALE

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ART IN THE GARDEN GALA ART & FLORAL EXHIBITS

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CONSERVATION PLANT HIGHLIGHT: UTE LADIES’-TRESSES

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AUTUMN WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

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PROCURING PLANTS FOR A BOTANICAL GARDEN

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FALL PLANT SALE

Find a wide selection of flowering bulbs, organic garlic bulbs, ornamental grasses, flowering perennials, native and water-wise plants.

GREEK THEATRE ALMOST ABLAZE SKI FILM PREMIERE 13

FREE HORTICULTURE LECTURES CHEESE & BEER LOVERS PARTY MEMORIALS

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VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT

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GROWING MEMORIES AT RED BUTTE GARDEN

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2014 HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE & ART FAIR

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GARDEN ADVENTURES

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2014 AUTUMN EVENTS CALENDAR

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MAXIMIZE Your Membership Benefits This

Autumn!

These activities are FREE for Garden Members and are included with the price of admission for the General Public.

Evening Exploration: Garden Tour

September 18, Thursday 6:00 - 7:00PM Join us for an exploration of what’s blooming throughout the Garden. Walk with one of our Garden Guides to take an intimate look at the Garden and see how it changes in the fall. The sunset view is also hard to beat! Wear comfortable clothes and walking shoes. Meet in the Visitor Center courtyard.

Orchid Show

November 1 & 2, Saturday & Sunday 10:00AM - 5:00PM Fascinating and exotic orchids will be on display in the Orangerie. Members of the Utah Orchid Society will offer advice about growing and caring for orchids. There will also be a large selection of beautiful orchids for sale at prices to fit any budget.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED. CALL 801.581.8454 OR ONLINE AT WWW.REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG

Fall Bulb & Plant Sale

September 26 & 27, Friday 3:00 - 7:30PM Saturday 9:00AM - 7:30PM Fall is the time to plant garlic and flowering bulbs for early spring color. You will find a large selection of spring flowering bulbs for early spring blooms. And we have a wide variety of organic garlic, ornamental grasses, flowering perennials, native and water-wise plants, including trees & shrubs. Garden staff will be available to answer all your questions.

Bonsai Show

October 10 - 12, Friday - Sunday 9:00AM - 5:00PM Explore the millennia-old art from of Bonsai and learn how to take care of your own tree. Members of the Bonsai Club of Utah will display trees from their collections, answer questions, and demonstrate different Bonsai techniques.

Trees and supplies will be available for purchase.

WASATCH ROCK GARDEN SOCIETY LECTURE

NOVEMBER 7, FRIday, Time TBA Spanking New Developments in Dry West Rock Gardening: Unwatered Gardens, Crevice Gardens, Bareroot planting, still-uncultivated plants. Get new ideas in this lecture

by Kenton J. Seth, Paintbrushgardens.com, from Grand Junction, CO REGISTRATION REQUIRED. CALL 801.581.8454 OR ONLINE AT WWW.REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG

Thanks XMission for Garden-wide Wifi!

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Thursday, Friday & Saturday October 16-18 & 23-25, 6:00-9:00PM The Garden has been overrun with your favorite fairytales! From wicked brambles to magic pumpkins, plants are surprisingly prevalent in these famous tales. Join us for an enchanted evening exploring these connections and hunting for signs of fairytale villains hidden throughout the Garden.

With crafts, activities, light displays and more, this is an event you definitely don’t want to miss! Join us for Garden After Dark, an indoor/outdoor, costume, and kid-friendly experience in the Garden to celebrate Halloween.

Tickets on sale Monday, September 22!

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Honoring Laurie Eastwood, a passionate advocate for art and Red Butte Garden. All proceeds go toward the purchase of “Damara’s Gift,” a sculpture by artist Colour Maisch. $200 per person / Space is limited.

To find out more, please call 801.585.5658

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Sarina Villareal

August 8 - September 7

Kirk Marshall

September 12 - October 5

Glass Art Show

November 7 - December 7

ART Shows

Did you know the Visitor Center functions as an art gallery for local artists who specialize in nature-based art?

Floral Shows Bonsai Show

October 10 - 12

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Orchid Show November 1 & 2

CONSERVATION PLANT HIGHLIGHT:

Plant Profile: Ute Ladies’-tresses (Spiranthes diluvialis) Status: Threatened

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By Rita Reisor, Red Butte Garden Conservation Director

The Ute ladies’-tresses (Spiranthes diluvialis) is a stunning native orchid that displays a beautiful spiral of creamy-white, fringed flowers along a central stalk. Up close, these flowers will surprise you with their intricate design and wonderful vanilla fragrance. You may encounter these delightful orchids during a river trip along the banks of the Green River in late summer to early fall.

Spiranthes diluvialis

This species thrives in seasonally moist riparian areas such as gravel bars, oxbows, floodplains, natural springs, and wet meadows. This treasure can be found on the edge of several local rivers, waterways, and seeps that maintain seasonal flowing water. A key requirement of the Ute ladies’tresses habitat is to have a constant flow of surface or sub-surface water.

This is in contrast to a bog orchid that can tolerate standing water and decaying organic matter. Due to its wide elevation range, 720 - 7,000 feet, the Ute ladies’-tresses can be seen flowering from July through September. If you happen to be lucky enough to discover one of these rare gems, take plenty of pictures, but please do not pick any flowers, harvest plants, or disturb the area. This orchid species is federally protected under the Endangered Species Act as a Threatened Species.

While Ute ladies’-tresses has a wide distribution across the western United States, survival of the species is threatened primarily by habitat loss and fragmentation due to significant changes in hydrology. Increased water consumption, climate change, urban development, invasive species, stream downcutting, grazing, and water pollution contribute to the loss of suitable riparian conditions. The common thread among these threats is that each impact has the potential to alter the natural waterway by changing its water flow level or the streamside topography.

Red Butte Garden partners with several organizations to work on effective conservation measures for Ute ladies’-tresses. The Red Butte Garden conservation staff is actively involved in seed collection and banking, greenhouse propagation, outplanting seedlings, and transplanting plants that would otherwise be destroyed by development. Previously, Red Butte Garden has also assisted in habitat surveys, mapping, and invasive species removal. Propagation work involving tissue culture propagation of this difficult-to-grow species, in partnership with the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, has resulted in 50 individual plants that are maintained in our conservation greenhouse.

Critical conservation research partners include the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bear River Coalition, Bureau of Land Management, Uintah Water Conservancy District, and the Atlanta Botanic Garden.

Thank you to the Red Butte Garden community for your support of our conservation research program through your Garden membership, donations, and volunteer time!

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Autumn WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR ALL CLASSES

To register for Red Butte Garden courses, call 801.581.8454 or visit www.redbuttegarden.org To register for University of Utah Lifelong Learning courses ( ), call 801.587.LIFE (5433) or visit www.lifelong.utah.edu

Unique Trees For Utah Landscapes

September 10 - 17, Wednesdays 6:00 - 8:00PM Are you looking for the right tree specimen to add beauty and diversity to your home landscape? Join us for this informative course covering a host of unique tree species that have proven themselves in Utah’s urban environments.

Fall is an ideal time to plant trees, so important planting and care instructions will be covered to help ensure the health and longevity of your tree selection.

Bulb Forcing Workshop

(LLHG 473) October 9, Thursday 6:30 - 8:30PM Brighten the winter blues by planting spring bulbs for winter forcing. We will share the secrets to successful bulb forcing and participants will pot up 6” terra cotta pots to take home for forcing. Selected bulbs, soil, four 6” terra cotta pots, and instructions for forcing will be provided.

GARDEN MEMBERS: $51 / GENERAL PUBLIC: $55

Fall Garden Maintenance (LLHG 551) October 11 - 25, Saturdays 10:00AM - Noon Get a jump-start on spring gardening this fall. Hands-on, simple garden cleanup along with dividing, transplanting, pruning, and mulching instruction will leave you ahead of the game. Learn which perennials to cut back and which to leave until spring, healthy fall transplanting, dividing bulbs, which trees and shrubs to prune in the fall, and how mulching protects and winterizes your garden. Limited to16 participants.

GARDEN MEMBERS: $66 / GENERAL PUBLIC: $72

GARDEN MEMBERS: $20 / GENERAL PUBLIC: $25

Tree Portraits in the Garden

September 18 - 20, Thursday & Friday 6:00 - 9:00PM Saturday 9:00AM - 4:00PM This unique class combines science and art. A staff member will present a short history of the Garden and four trees selected for their beauty and usefulness. Participants will visit each tree to sketch and take notes, and then render the tree and its distinguishing parts such as the bark, the leaves, flowers, and seeds, in a medium of their choice.

Watercolor papers, 5” x 7” drawing papers, and a “Tree Portrait Album” to contain artwork will be provided.

Materials list available at www.redbuttegarden.org.

GARDEN MEMBERS: $124 / GENERAL PUBLIC: $155

Containers For Fall Gardens (LLHG 545) October 4, Saturday 10:00AM - Noon Spend a morning at the Garden creating a striking fall planting. We will review plants suitable for fall container gardening; including cool-season annuals, perennials, and shrubs; and create a masterpiece that will hold up through Thanksgiving—and potentially through winter. Participants will receive a 16-inch terra cotta container, soil, plants, and design suggestions. Limited to 15 participants.

GARDEN MEMBERS: $56 / GENERAL PUBLIC: $60

Pumpkin Sculpting Workshop

October 25, Saturday 9:00AM - Noon Are you ready to take your Halloween displays to the next level? Learn the secrets of some of the world’s best pumpkin sculptors. In this fun, hands-on workshop, participants will learn the basics of pumpkin sculpting and will sculpt a character face. All materials will be provided.

No previous art experience necessary.

GARDEN MEMBERS: $48 / GENERAL PUBLIC: $60

Holiday Floral Arranging Workshop

November 22, Saturday 10:00AM - Noon Join in a fun workshop and create a seasonal floral design for your holiday table. After learning some basic floral design principles, participants will create a unique holiday centerpiece to take home. Fee includes all materials.

Limited to16 participants.

GARDEN MEMBERS: $44 / GENERAL PUBLIC: $55

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Thanks for a great season of live music!

KRCL 90.9FM, KUER 90.1FM, KCPW 88.3FM, SLUG Magazine, Salt Lake City Weekly, Oasis Stage Werks, Marriott University Park, IC Group, and Performance Audio

don’t miss the final concert of the season SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 14

CONOR OBERST w/ JONATHAN WILSON

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Hydrangea angustipetala ‘MonLongShou’

Rosa x moyesii ‘Sealing Wax’

Prunus triloba ‘Multiplex’

Procuring Plants for a Botanical Garden

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By: Marita Tewes Tyrolt, Red Butte Garden Horticulture Director

Obtaining plants for a botanical garden sometimes can be fraught with challenges. While Utah’s many plant nurseries offer a vast selection of plants to the local public, there are often plants we want to display that can’t be found through local sources. Over the years, Red Butte Garden has formed many valuable relationships with local and out-of-state nurseries, as well as with other botanical gardens to help us obtain the plants we would like to add to our collections or displays.

Most wholesale nurseries have minimum order requirements before one can place an order and expect a local delivery.

Since our needs for Garden plantings are so specific, i.e. requiring specific genera, species, and cultivar or variety, and small order size, meeting these minimum order requirements is often beyond our ability. Fortunately multiple local nurseries have allowed us to add our orders on to their plant orders.

seed from seed suppliers both in and out of the country, and sometimes receive donated seed from other botanical gardens. The seeds for Rigid Moor Grass (Sesleria rigida), planted near the Rainbird sculpture in the Floral Walk, were given to us by the Alter und Neuer Botanical Garden in Germany. That addition makes four species of Sesleria we have in our Ornamental Grass collection. Our greenhouse team successfully propagated Deutzia (Deutzia pulchra) from cuttings sent to us by the JC Ralston Arboretum in North Carolina and they are soon to be planted in the Celebration Garden. We also propagate plants from seeds or cuttings collected by the Garden’s Conservation Department during their field work throughout Utah. This method of acquisition will become more important as we begin construction on the new Water Conservation Garden.

Most annual and perennial plants can be shipped to Utah from out-of-state as long as the growing conditions meet Utah Department of Agriculture quarantine requirements; typically that they are grown in a properly screened greenhouse in a soilless mix. When obtaining trees and shrubs however, we are restricted to just a few states in the west, and in some states by the size that can be shipped because of the Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) quarantine. Shipping plants from out-of-state requires a phytosanitary certificate or other approved USDA Nursery Inspection Certificate from the vendor or we cannot obtain the desired plants. If we are looking for a particular woody plant (tree, shrub, or vine) that is only available from a quarantined state, sometimes we are able to work with the respective state’s Department of Agriculture specialist to obtain it, as long as it is a 5-gallon size or smaller. For example, last April we worked with an Illinois Department of Agriculture representative to obtain a Wild Spice Rugosa Rose (Rosa rugosa ‘JACruwhi’). The roses had to receive a specified soil drench to kill any Japanese beetle larvae before they could be shipped. As our own extra, but unrequired, measure we held them in a separate quonset hut for a few weeks before planting them in the Garden.

These plants are now in the Celebration Garden, which is the white garden around the Rose House.

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Prunus triloba

We were able to get our beautiful Flowering Almond (Prunus triloba ‘Multiplex’), planted on the Floral Walk,from a nursery in Canada when a local nursery placed an order with the Canadian nursery and agreed to add our plants to their order.

We recently received Golden Crane Hydrangea (Hydrangea angustipetala ‘MonLongShou’), unique because its flowers are highly fragrant. We believe Red Butte Garden is the first garden in the west to display this plant, which will soon be available in nurseries. They will be planted in the Fragrance Garden.

Another unique story is the hybrid Lilac (Syringa vulgaris ‘Sarah Sands’), a deep purple Lilac behind the Orangerie.

When we began looking for it in 2002, someone alerted us that stock coming from a particular nursery wasn’t the true Sarah Sands Lilac. Because that nursery supplied many other growers, we contacted several suppliers to ask where their stock came from before finding a supplier that could verify that their plants were the true Sarah Sands Lilac.

The most challenging and interesting plant story to date has to be about the Sealing Wax Rose (Rosa x moyesii ‘Sealing Wax’) that arrived at the Garden this June. Ever since the Rose Garden was completed in 2009, we have been searching for a Sealing Wax Rose, but it has proven not to be available in U.S. nurseries and, for the most part, in any U.S. botanical gardens. Twice we received cuttings from the Morris Arboretum in Pennsylvania but were unable to root them. When we asked the Morris Arboretum if they would be willing to send a third set of cuttings, they informed us that their Rose had declined and they were unable to fulfill our request. This past spring, we sent another request out to other U.S. botanical gardens asking again if anyone had Sealing Wax Rose in their collections from which they could send cuttings. The only lead we received was regarding a nursery on Vancouver Island that doesn’t ship plants!

Photo Credit: Steve Law

PLANT HIGHLIGHT: Sealing Wax Rose By: Crystal Reece, Horticulture Crew Director Sealing Wax Rose (Rosa x moyesii ‘Sealing Wax’) is a cultivar or hybrid of a wild rose called Rosa moyesii that was discovered in western China and introduced into the U.S. by E.H. Wilson in 1908. Hybrid moyesii are simply descendants of Rosa moyesii crossed with a different rose variety or classification in order to carry on certain traits such as color, flower size, and hardiness.

A large shrubby plant with soft green fern-like foliage, the Sealing Wax Rose produces clusters of bright pink flowers, and can grow to 10 feet tall and wide, making it suitable for large garden spaces. The large deeppink, five-petaled flowers with a center fringe of golden stamens are lightly scented, and bloom only once a year in early summer. The cultivar will tolerate some shade and is hardy to zone 5.

Even though Sealing Wax Rose only blooms once a year, its main attraction are the large, bright vermillioncolored, flagon-shaped hips that cover its arching branches from late summer on into winter. Rose hips are typically round, but this particular hybrid’s hips are elongated in the shape of a sealing wax stamp press, which may be the reason for its name.

Through a fortuitous set of events, our request became known to Anne Belovich, a Rosarian in Stanwood, WA, who contacted us and offered to help. She was also seeking a Sealing Wax Rose and the aforementioned Vancouver Island nursery was a half-day trip from her home. Belovich kindly offered to make the trip to acquire and send the roses to us!

Her trip involved an hour drive to the ferry in Anacortes, WA; obtaining a ferry reservation and a one-hour wait for it, a two-and-a-half-hour ferry ride to Sydney, on Vancouver Island; and another half-hour drive to the nursery. The return trip was much the same, for a round trip total of 10 hours.

Because paying an out-of-country vendor requires some extra effort on the part of the University of Utah, Belovich paid for the roses and allowed Red Butte Garden to reimburse her. She also coordinated the phytosanitary certificate to bring the plants into the U.S. We now have two Sealing Wax Roses and two additional new roses for our collection; Cooper’s Burmese Rose (Rosa ‘Cooper’s Burmese’) and Le Pompon de Burgogne Rose (Rosa ‘Burgundian Rose’). Anne Belovich’s generosity goes beyond anything we have experienced in our quest to find plants for the Garden, and we are so very grateful for this new friend of Red Butte Garden!

Anne Belovich’s passion for roses, ramblers in particular, is a recent one. For a photo and an article on Anne’s amazing life, see our website.

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FALL BULB &

PLANT SALE September 26 & 27 Friday 3:00-7:30PM Saturday 9:00AM-7:30PM

Find a wide selection of flowering bulbs, organic garlic bulbs, ornamental grasses, flowering perennials, native and water-wise plants.

By Euripides

Directed by Barbara Smith Translation by Marianne McDonald

THE MOTHER OF ALL MISFORTUNE

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Amphitheatre | September 20,21 & 27,28 | 9:00 am AN ORIENTATION LECTURE BY THE DRAMATURGE WILL PRECEDE EVERY SHOW THIRTY MINUTES BEFORE EACH PERFORMANCE.

VISIT WESTMINSTERCOLLEGE.EDU/CULTURALEVENTS FOR DETAILS OR CALL 801.832.2457.

FOR WESTMINSTER DISABILITY ACCOMMODATIONS, CONTACT THE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AT 801.832.2300 FIVE BUSINESS DAYS PRIOR TO THE EVENT.

Presents the Salt Lake City premiere of

Almost Ablaze Tuesday, September 16 Gates at 6:00PM with live music | movie at 8:00PM (Shortyly after sunset) In the Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre $12 Advance | $15 Day of Show | $7 Ages 16 and under | $10 Garden Members Tickets on sale at www.redbuttegarden.org 12

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FREE HORTICULTURE SPOTLIGHT LECTURE SERIES We thank Utah State University Salt Lake County Extension for partnering with us.

All lectures are from 6:30 - 7:30PM in the Red Butte Garden Visitor Center Classroom.

Admission is free, but registration is required at www.extension.usu.edu/saltlake

Ecosystem Services and Birds of Prey August 25, Monday Maintaining Low-Water Landscapes September 29, Monday

Memorials

May - July 2014

Gifts donated in memory of: Lance Collett Margaret P. McMain Adele Parkinson Chase Pinkham Jesse Porter Denise Riser Bruce White

Help Red Butte Garden

h is r u lo F for Generations to Come!

Join us in our efforts to educate children, preserve nature, and provide a beautiful, peaceful respite in a busy world by making a planned gift to Red Butte Garden.

When you make or update your will, please consider including the Garden in your plans.

Contact Kathryn Atwood, Development Director, at 801.585.5658 or kathryn.atwood@redbutte.utah.edu for more information.

For tribute & memorial information call Wendy Loyning at 801.585.3813 Tributes can celebrate any life accomplishment or event.

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VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT

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By Meghan Eames, Volunteer Coordinator

Debbie Sandt never intended her volunteer experience at Red Butte Garden to be a “mother-daughter” activity. Her real motivation was quite the opposite. A single mother since day one, Debbie was preparing herself to be busy when her best friend, roommate, companion, and daughter Madeline went away to college. Debbie wanted a place of her own. She had been coming to the Garden since the two moved to Salt Lake City from San Diego twenty years ago. After joining the Monday evening Horticulture Volunteer group, Debbie quickly realized that she had made the right choice to spend her time at Red Butte Garden.

Debbie loves her job, but wanted an outlet from the stress of her work as a pediatric nurse practitioner, and she knew the Garden as the perfect place to relax. Volunteering became a reason to spend more time in the Garden and she greatly enjoyed working with people like Sharon Kern, Chris Fischer, and Janet Sahakian, among other great volunteers. They worked and talked and became friends, even having dinner together after their shifts and meeting up during the Garden’s dormant volunteer months. It was just what she had been looking for: “[It was] kind of like a second home.”

When daughter Madeline later wanted to volunteer at Red Butte Garden to fulfill a requirement of her pre-med program at the University of Utah (though she is now an Urban Ecology major), Debbie initially resisted the idea; the Garden was her special place. They compromised, and Madeline began volunteering in the Natural Area. When a schedule change forced her to alter her volunteer shift, Debbie finally conceded, and Madeline joined Debbie’s Monday night volunteer team.

Like her mom, Madeline quickly realized that volunteering here was the right choice. She loved meeting everyone and was pleased to work for volunteer crew leader, Fritz. “[He] shows us plants and flowers that I would never even notice.” One of her favorite things about volunteering is that “you actually get to know the Garden.” She loves bringing friends to Red Butte to share the Garden’s best secrets. Watching Madeline in the Garden, Debbie realized that Madeline had become part of the team. She became friends with Debbie’s friends and added a great new dynamic to the group. Debbie recalls, “It was great to watch her be an adult: to be making friendships on her own, adding to the conversation, and laughing. To watch her just be part of the group was so nice.”

Their volunteer group is clearly a big reason why these ladies enjoy their time at the Garden so much. They both talk very fondly of their teammates and share many memories of evenings in the Herb or Fragrance Gardens, of everyone waiting for the “Golden Hour,” the time when the sunset light is fairytale perfect. Being among the flowers, birds, 14

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butterflies, and friends during this special time is a moment to be experienced, not described. The work is satisfying too, and both say they take ownership of the work they do here. “I’ll get that bindweed!” Debbie laughs.

I have had countless pleasant moments with Debbie and Madeline, as a pair and individually, such as deadheading in the Garden, talking about books, and dancing at concerts.

Both have worked with the special events crew and you can currently catch Debbie as part of our stellar concert volunteer team. Madeline has lifelong memories of the Garden, and Debbie’s stories vary from beautiful sunsets to watching a group of bunnies “dance” to an Usher song (true story; ask her about it). Both ladies are funny, open, and interesting, and their love for each other and for Red Butte Garden is immediately evident; their passion for the Garden is contagious. As their Special Events supervisor, I also know them as hardworking, flexible, positive, and dependable volunteers.

Though things might not have ended up the way Debbie originally planned, it has worked out well for everyone. I am thrilled to have them on our volunteer team, and Debbie says, “I couldn’t imagine a more beautiful place to volunteer.”

Madeline enthusiastically agrees. And as for this mother and daughter volunteering together in the Garden, as Madeline says, “Now it’s more about our friendship.”

For information about all of the volunteer opportunities at Red Butte Garden, check our website at: www.redbuttegarden.org/volunteer

Growing Memories at Red Butte Garden

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By Valerie Green, Red Butte Garden Member

I first walked through Red Butte Garden on one of those beautiful Utah days in December. The tree branches were bending underneath eight inches of new snow, and I could hear the creek bubbling beneath me as I stood on the bridge in the lower gardens.

As I walked the paths, so nicely cleared of ice and snow, and marveled at the winter wonderland around me, I thought: “Why would I not get a membership here!” I’ve been a member ever since.

When I became a member on that snowy day in 2004, my daughter Nayra was only a year and a half old. Since then, Nayra and I have visited the Garden every season. We love watching the seasons change and the Garden grow. Each time we visit, we go through the Garden the same way. We head right to the Children’s Garden where we visit the koi pond. Nayra jumps on the lizards and runs through the snake maze. We then loop through the Fragrance Garden, pass the moose statue, feed the fish, and enjoy the sounds of the waterfall. We’ve had picnics in the waysides, shaded from the hot sun by the beautiful, maturing oaks. Like these oaks, Nayra too has grown. She now enjoys identifying the various plants.

But for us, the Garden isn’t just about the plants. It’s about the people we’ve shared this space with over the years. We’ve spent peaceful evenings in the Garden with my parents, sister, and friends from all over the world—Columbia, Germany, and India. Together, we’ve enjoyed the brilliance of the Garden in all of its seasons.

Throughout my years at the Garden, I have realized that our lives, like the Garden, are always in transition. Friends move away; Nayra grows older. But, no matter what the changes bring, we’ll walk our route through the Garden as mother and daughter, grateful for the memories we’ve made here.

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For special events scheduled between November 1, 2014 and April 1, 2015, mention this ad and receive 10% off our winter rates when you book your event before November 15, 2014.

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2014 Holiday Open House & Art Fair December 6 & 7

FREE Garden admission both days.

Enjoy local artisans and the beauty of winter in the Garden.

Artist Call For Entry Deadline October 10

If you are interested in vending your original, locally made, handcrafted art at the Holiday Open House please contact Dianne Crosby at: dianne.crosby@redbutte.utah.edu

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2014 Advisory Board:

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David Gee, Chair Tom Ramsey, Vice Chair Cathy Foote Angstman Byron Barkley Sandi Behnken Thomas Brickey David Classen Fred Esplin Gayle Everest Gregory Lee Carter Livingston Vickie Long Nancy Martin Michele Mattsson Kevin Murphy Michael Perez Chris Satovick Susan Speer Julie Thomas Stephen Urquhart Tim Welsh Henry Wurts Emeritus members E.R. Dumke, Jr. Sandy McOmber

Hours:

September 1 - 30* Daily 9:00 AM - 7:30 PM October 1 - December 23** Daily 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM *Days when outdoor concerts are scheduled, hours are 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM.

Visitor Center 801.585.0556 Private Event Rental 801.585.9563 Volunteer 801.585.5688 Membership 801.585.7172 Donations 801.585.5658 Class Registration 801.581.8454 Groups of 12 or more receive $1 off regular admission price for each person.

Full group payment is due at time of Garden entry.

**Closed Thanksgiving Day

Location:

Product group from well-managed

forests and other controlled sources Visitor Center, Gift Shop, & Mailing Address: 300 Wakara Way - Salt Lake City, UT 84108 Web site: www.redbuttegarden.org Comments: 801.581.4938 or e-mail bryn.ramjoue@redbutte.utah.edu

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Just for Kids Garden Adventures

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Back To Basics

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It’s back-to-school time, and that means it’s time to focus on the basics—the basics of being eco-friendly. Join us to investigate the how’s and why’s of reducing, reusing, and recycling. Through games, experiments, and explorations in the Garden, we’ll learn how to improve the environment and make the world a better place. Later, we’ll make the perfect recycled back-to-school craft!

Apples

Sweet, crunchy, and delicious, there’s nothing like an apple on a crisp fall day. Join us for a day devoted to apples. Through garden explorations and apple crafts, we’ll learn all about this awesome fruit and the amazing trees that bear it.

Spooky Spiders

Some spiders may be scary, but did you know they help your garden grow? Discover the large variety of spiders that call Utah home, some of their cool adaptations, and the importance of spiders in natural ecosystems.

Halloween may be over, but there are still plenty of pumpkins and other gourds to be

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Gourd-Tastic found! After we learn about gourds and discover the variety of fun and crazy gourds

that exist, we’ll create the perfect fall decoration using ornamental gourds and found objects from the Garden.

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Fantastic Fall Foliage

Why do leaves change colors in the fall? Why are some leaves red while others are orange or yellow? Why do trees lose their leaves? Through explorations in the Garden and a leaf-inspired art project, we’ll discover the answers to these questions and more as we fall into the world of autumn leaves.

Garden Adventures are Saturday kids’ classes held semi-monthly. All classes start promptly at 10:00 AM and end at 11:30 AM in Em’s Sprout House in the Children’s Garden. Registration is required. Ages 4-12 are welcome with a caregiver. Limit one caregiver per participant. Registration not required for caregiver. No infants please.

GARDEN MEMBERS: $5 GENERAL PUBLIC: $7 PLEASE REGISTER ON OUR WEBSITE WWW.REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG OR CALL 801.581.8454.

WWW.REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG

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Greek Theatre 9:00AM

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Greek Theatre 9:00AM

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Conor Oberst Concert

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Labor Day

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GARDEN AFTER DARK ONCE UPON A FAIRY TALE 10/16 - 18 & 10/23 - 25 6:00 - 9:00PM

GARDEN ADVENTURES 10 - 11:30AM 10/4 Spooky Spiders

Free Horticulture Lecture 6:30 - 7:30PM

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Garden After Dark Tickets on Sale

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Full Moon

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Art in the Garden Gala 6:00 - 9:00PM

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Garden Tour: Evening Exploration 7:00 - 9:30PM

the Garden (1/3) 6:00 - 9:00PM

Ben Harper Concert

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Fall Bulb & Plant Sale 3:00 - 7:30PM

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Tree Portraits in the Garden (2/3) 6:00 - 9:00PM

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Cheese & Beer Lover’s Party 6:00 - 9:00PM

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Fall Bulb & Plant Sale 9:00AM - 7:30PM

Greek Theatre 9:00AM

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Greek Theatre 9:00AM

the Garden (3/3) 9:00AM - 4:00PM

Tree Portraits in 20

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Holiday Wreath Workshop Registration Begins

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Bulb Forcing

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Bonsai Show

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9:00AM - 5:00PM Fall Garden

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Containers for Fall Gardens 10:00AM - Noon

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GREEK THEATRE FESTIVAL PRESENTS EURIPIDES’ HECUBA 9/20, 21 & 27, 28 Pre-show lecture 8:30AM Performance at 9:00AM

YOGA IN THE GARDEN 8/5 - 9/11 7:30 - 8:30AM Registration required

GARDEN ADVENTURES 10 - 11:30AM 9/6 Back to Basics 9/20 Awesome Apples

Events at Red Butte Garden

Plan your Corporate Holiday Party at Red Butte Garden 801.585.9563

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Unique Trees for Utah Landscapes (2/2) 6:00 - 8:00PM

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Unique Trees for Utah Landscapes (1/2) 6:00 - 8:00PM

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Teton Gravity Research Film: Almost Ablaze 6:00 - 10:00PM

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(ZAP Free Day)

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Daylight Savings

Orchid Show 10:00AM - 5:00PM

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OBER 25

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Veteran’s Day

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Election Day: Go Vote!

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Tuesday

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Full Moon

Garden Closed Thanksgiving Day

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Wasatch Rock Garden Society Lecture Time TBA

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Holiday Floral Arranging Workshop 10:00AM - Noon

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Orchid Show 10:00AM - 5:00PM

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Maintenance (3/3) 10:00AM - Noon Pumpkin Sculpting Workshop 9:00AM - Noon Garden After Dark 6:00 - 9:00PM

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Garden After Dark 6:00 - 9:00PM

Maintenance 10:00AM - Noon (2/3)

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Maintenance 10:00AM - Noon (1/3)

RED BUTTE GARDEN’S ANNUAL HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE IS DECEMBER 6 - 7 Free Admission

GLASS ART SHOW 11/7 - 12/7

GARDEN ADVENTURES 10 - 11:30AM 11/1 Gourd-Tastic 11/15 Fantastic Fall Foliage

Halloween

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Garden After Dark 6:00 - 9:00PM

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9:00AM - 5:00PM

Garden After Dark 6:00 - 9:00PM

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Full Moon

Workshop 6:30 - 8:30PM

Bonsai Show 9:00AM - 5:00PM

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Zeke Dumke Jr. Day

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Non Profit org.

US Postage PAID Salt Lake City Permit #1529

300 Wakara Way Salt Lake City, UT 84108

Zoo, Arts and Parks funding enhances the programs and activities available to the families of Salt Lake County at Red Butte Garden, and allows the Garden to collaborate with other organizations and artists to provide cultural experiences in a beautiful setting.

David E. Gee, Attorney | Parr Brown Gee & Loveless Red Butte Garden Advisory Board President 2014-2015