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GENERAL INFORMATION Vol. 16,No.9
EDITOR: Iris Hossé Phillips
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Registered charity number 0228114-56 TRELLIS is published ten times a year as a members newsletter by the CIVIC GARDEN CENTRE, 777 Lawrence Avenue East, North York, Ont. M3C 1P2. Tel. No.: (416) 445-1552. Manuscripts submitted on a voluntary basis are gratefully received. No remuneration is possible.
Lead time for inclusion of articles and advertising material is six weeks: manuscripts and material must be received by the 15th of the month to insure publication. For example, material received by October 15 will be included in the December issue of Trellis.Opinions expressed within do not necessarily reflect those of the Centre.
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Sometimes a single idea, sentence or paragraph stands out in an article or review which makes one rethink or re-evaluate a plan or position. This happened to me when | read Robert E. Grese s article on Jens Jensen and the Prairie School of landscape design in the March/April 1989 edition of Fine Gardening. Mr. Grese, a professor of landscape architecture, states: If we only substitute native plants for exotics in conventional plans, we've accomplished very little. We must concentrate instead on cultivating our ability to read, understand and adapt the patterns and forms we see in the natural landscape. | think we can strive for new criteria for evaluating landscape designs and gardens, criteria that include regional and ecological appropriateness. In creating my new garden, | am using native plants where formerly | would have planted traditional imports and hybrids. However, my landscape design certainly does not reflect ecological appropriateness and | must explore these concepts in my winter reading.
| have received a few articles for Trellis from our members and wish to encourage and invite other members to submit either articles or ideas for articles. During my first year as editor, many members have written to express their enjoyment of the diversity of articles in Trellis. Please put your gardening ideas, theories, and hints on paper and send them to me.
October promises to be a very busy month with the highlight ofthe Third Great Gardening Conference. Also, the activity surrounding our various courses and events will make the Centre a very interesting and busy place.
Iris Phillips
Those forgotton bulbs, the Alliums
by Anne Marie Van Nest
Named ornamental onions, ornamental chives, garden allium or ornamental garlic, this group of hardy bulbs is often overlooked by many gardeners as having no real garden value. The bulbs are perceived as blooming late in the season when the garden is already overrun with other flowers. The flowers are small and sparse and smell like onions. These are all valid arguments; but, only to a point. Alliums will give off an onion-like odour only when the leaves are bruised. Alliums have a wide flowering span from the month of May until later summer and can be found in a variety of colours many more than the typical rose-purple colour. Allium caeruleum is a medium sized bulb reaching a height of 60 cm. The porcelain blue flowers are small in size but, when perched on top of the tall, wiry stems they add a very different look to the flower border. Most Alliums are very hardy as they are native to the mountainous regions of Europe and Asia. Allium moly is no exception. Called the Lily Leek or Golden Garlic it is one of the most popular Alliums because it multiplies into an attractive clump. The bright yellow flowers rise to 25 cm in early summer. A beautiful pink with a darker stripe, Allium roseum is only 25 cm tall. The flowers are in an open umbel instead of the typical round ball formation and often reach 7 cm in diameter. To round off the colour spectrum is Allium neapolitanum, a slightly tender bulb that also reach 25 cm in height. It has pure white flowers that are slightly fragrant. The large flower heads of Allium giganteum and Allium aflatunense are highly prized for dried flower arrangements. Allium giganteum is one of the most striking members of the allium family. The leaves lie flat on the ground while the flower stalk rises over a metre above it. A globe of violet-coloured star-shaped flowers opens in July. This allium shows well in a perennial flower border among the silver foliage of 2
Artemesia. Allium giganteum, only 75 cm., but it bloomsa little earlier, during the month of June. The flower heads are filled with starry lilac-purple flowers that hold their shape as the seed head forms. The dried flower structure is valued for fall flower arrangements. The novelty in the garden is the Allium called Drumstricks, otherwise known as Allium sphaerocephalum. The 60 cm stems hold up small, (5 cm at best) dense clusters of reddish-purple flowers. It is apply named!
Most of the Alliums prefer a sunny site and will flower well without much care if they are planted in a well drained soil and are allowed to remain dry during the late summer months. They are very easy to grow and will provide a striking feature for the garden. They multiply readily (but, not out of control) so that the clusters can be divided every few years. Alliums have a lot in their favour. Plant a few in the garden this fall.
Anne Marie Van Nest is the Centre s horticulturlist.
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Accidents Will Happen. ..
by June Punnett
It sometimes happens that we happily plant the right thing in the right place, and it flowers at the right time. In my garden this is a rare enough occurrence to cause a flurry of notebook activity, as | race to record the success before time and the weather obliterate the picture. As | write, | have in mind the pleasing composition formed by a perennial foxlove, a lily, an iris and a monkshood. None of the plants turned out quite as | expected and their blooming together was fortuitous. The bearded iris, of medium height, was selected because the name Dutch Chocolate was irresistable to a chocoholic like myself. | first planted it in front of a purple hazel which did nothing for the iris except shade it. In an act of mercy | moved the iris to a sunny location in a new flower bed where | envisaged giving it yellow flowers for company. Dutch Chocolate's flowers are, as might be imagined, brown with a buttery tinge, very rich, but the scent is more spicy than sweet.
| have yearned for a yellow foxglove for many years, but never found Digitalis grandiflora, D. lanata or D. lutea offered at the big garden centres. | tried to grow Digitalis Apricot from seed, but although it germinated it failed to over-winter for me. My interest had almost been extinguished when | chanced upon a plant labelled Digitalis davisiana at the Country Squires Garden (I have since learned that Keith Squires sells the other yellow foxgloves too). Digitalis davisiana appears to be a large-flowered relative of D. lutea, with its pure, pale yellow flowers and dark green, narrow, hairless leaves, but its exact parentage is unclear since the grower received it as seed. None of the plant encyclopaedias | have consulted mention Digitalis davisiana, so | would like to hear from anyone who can shed light on the name or the plant s origin. When it came to planting D. davisiana, | was unsure of its light requirements, but as the leaves were
quite leathery and narrow | risked putting it in the sun near the brown iris. Now it favours me with five, curving spires of flowers from the basal clump of leaves, and gracefully hangs its creamy yellow gloves in abundance.
| am forever chasing after new plants. No sooner had a dwarf, white monkshood been put on the market in England than | wanted it here, now, in my garden where | could point to a miniscule, miserable plant and say this is the only one of its kind in Ontario, you know . Therefore, | went to ridiculous expense to import a specimen of Aconitum x bicolor Ivorine ;, when | should have been patient and waited a year or two then ordered it from a Canadian nursery. Anyway, | duly received a somewhat battered plant which had to battle for its life against marauding earwigs and survive a drought, both of which | thought would Kkill it, but it limped on in a surly fashion. Finally, in the third year after planting, it began to look like the catalog illustration: spikes of parchment white, raised above fresh green leaves.
Bulbs in general area terrible temptation s0 easy: just dig a hole, mix in a bit of bone-meal, plonk in the bulbs at the approximately right depth and spacing, shovel in the dirt, press down, insert label and wait till spring. | succumb quite easily to lilies, as they are big bulbs and rewardingly spectacular in flower. | was intrigued by a catalog description: From China. .rich orange-red blooms with mahogany dots . | ordered three bulbs. At planting time, as usual, was without a plan and couldn t remember what color the flowers were going to be, so it was pure luck the bulbs got buried where they did. As it turned out, the flowers were a rich orange-red with dots as promised, up-facing and cup-shaped. The true identity of the lily is another matter as it was supposed to have had pendulous, downward facing flowers. The supplier admits that he was
sent the wrong bulbs, and can only speculate on what they might be. In Martyn Rix and Roger Phillips s excellent Bulb Book there is a photograph of Lilium dauricum which looks very much like my lily. Further research in the Civic Garden Centre s comprehensive reference library, however, reveals an abundance of alternatives. Asiatic lilies L. dauricum and L. concolor have been crossed to make L. x maculatum, and then the lily breeders added the European orange lily, L. bulbiferum croceum to the mix to make L. x hollandicum, and so on and so on.
One of the most popular early-flowering lilies to come out of all this hybridising is Enchantment , with bright nasturtium-red flowers. My orange lily, though, is most likely the result of an earlier cross as it still has the natural charm of a species lily.
These four plants meshed together this year, Iris Dutch Chocolate unfurling its first smooth, brown petals on June 6, Aconitum Ivorine filling out its pale spikes on June 9, Digitalis davisiana's soft yellow buds beginning to open on June 11, and the orange lily kicking in on June 17. The composition held together until the last week of June, although the foxglove and the lily continued to complement each other into early July. Such fortunate accidents should happen more often.
June Punnett is a member of the Centre.
Some New Books in the Library
by Pamela MacKenzie
The Book of Potpourri, by Penny Black. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1989.
Borders, by Penelope Hobhouse. London, Pavilion books, 1989.
Botany for All Ages, by Jorie Hunken and the New England Wildflower Society. Chester, CT, Globe Pequot Press, 1989.
Chinese Bonsai, by llona Lesniewicz and Li Zhimin. London, Blandford, 1988.
The Crafty Flower Arranger, by Derek Bridges. London, Century, 1989.
Cultivated Pleasures: the art of romantic gardening, by Elizabeth Saft. New York, Viking, 1989.
Flowering Trees and Shrubs: an illustrated directory of species and how to grow them successfully, by Richard Bird. London, Ward Lock, 1989.
Glorious Gardens to Visit, by Patricia Dunhill and Sue Freedman. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, 1989.
The Language of the Garden: a personal anthology, compiled by Anne Scott-James. London, Penguin, 1987.
Perennials for American Gardens, by Ruth Roger Clausen & Nicholas H. Elkstrom. New York, Random House, 1989.
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The Edwards Foundation Lecture and The Civic Garden Centre s 235th Anniversary Party
Dr. Charles Nelson, curator of the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, will be the guest lecturer at the Edwards Foundation Lecture at the Civic Garden Centre on Tuesday, November 7th at 7:30 p.m. Dr. Nelson s illustrated talk is titled Ireland s Heritage of Beauty Gardens and Garden Flowers . Dr. Nelson is a garden historian, a television personality, a senior editor, and plant taxonomist. He is co-author of The Brightest Jewel, A History of the National Botanic Gardens, Dublin.
This year the lecture celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Civic Garden Centre. We invite everyone to come to the lecture and join us afterwards for a party to recognize 25 years dedicated to the promotion of horticultural information and the floral arts.
The Edwards Foundation has provided funds for the Edwards Memorial Lecture programmes for the past seven years. This generous gift enables us to bring outstanding international speakers to the Centre.
The Third Great Gardening Conference
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This is the /ast opportunity to register for The Third Great Gardening Conference.
Some of the world s outstanding gardeners and garden writers will be the speakers at the Civic Garden Centre during this weekend:
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Earthworms are Vital for Better Soil
If you have good soil, you have earthworms. Farmers and gardeners have always known that earthworms can improve soil texture, but the results of a University of Guelph study on radioactive fall-out offer additional scientific evidence about the role earthworms play in maintaining soil quality.
Prof. Richard Protz of Guelph s department of land resource science says that under optimal conditions, earthworms could completely ingest and turn over the top 15 centimetres (six inches) of a plowed field every three years. In doing so, they help stabilize the soil structure with fecal material rich in silt and clay and distribute important organic matter throughout the depth of the soil.
To help determine the extent of earthworm activity, Protz has studied the depth distribution of the radioactive element Cesium 137 in soil. The presence of Cesium 137 is related to the fall-out from above-ground nuclear testing. Such testing was halted in the late 1960s, giving scientists the opportunity to conduct distribution research without having their results altered by increasing amounts of this element. Cesium 137 fall-out from the Chernoby! disaster is not expected to reach southern Ontario.
Protz will present his findings later this month at the annual meeting of the American Society of Soil Scientists in Anaheim, California, during a special symposium designed to review and clarify the effects of earthworms on soil and agriculture.
We are not totally aware of the potential of earthworms in maintaining healthy soil, he says. The contributions of all fauna, fungi and microbes need more study.
Protz says the optimal conditions for earthworm activity basically, an entire frost-free year would never be found in Canada. Nonetheless, his studies of earthworm influence on soil quality in
southern Ontario have convinced him that the activity of the creatures is significant enough to make marked improvements in soil conditions.
He is developing a faunal activity model that will further quantify the importance of earthworms and their effects on soil. A better understanding of biological activity is an important part of the province s effort to reduce farmer dependency on agrichemicals, he says. We have to be concerned for the land, the soil and its living components. The caring ethic must be based on a better understanding of natural systems.
(Courtesy of the University of Guelph, Newsclips)
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PERENNIALS FOR ONTARIO GARDENS - 8 weeks
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Garden Therapy
Toronto Bonsai Society General Meeting
North Toronto Horticultural Society
General Meeting
Ikebana International Meeting
THE THIRD GREAT GARDENING CONFERENCE
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Opening Dinner $35.00 - Pierre Bourque
The THIRD GREAT GARDENING CONFERENCE
Pre registration required
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THE THIRD GREAT GARDENING CONFERENCE
Dinner $37.00 - Patricia Thorpe
BEGINNERS INDOOR PLANT GROWING - 6 weeks
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Toronto s original art and craft shows is back with a new look and a new name at the Civic Garden Centre, 777 Lawrence Avenue East, Toronto, on Nov. 2, 3 and 4th. Mistletoe Magic is geared to easy Christmas shopping with free parking, dozens of decorating ideas and the materials to help launch the season with a flourish.
Gifts exhibited by more than 50 artisans will provide you with a solution to the most difficult problem on your Christmas shopping list. The exhibitors have been asked to focus on Christmas. Selected merchandise include smocked dresses, Victorian pillows and linen lingerie, baskets, quilts, herb mixes and seasonings, hand-blown glass, children s toys, pottery, porcelain, gourmet chocolate, Christmas cakes, jewellery and much more. The Christmas theme will continue throughout the building with music and decorations. Learn how to make a bow or wreath; watch chocolate being dipped into mouth-watering forms and see wool spun and turned into magnificent sweaters. A silent auction of exquisite, small Christmas trees, unusual raffle prizes, demonstrations, dried flower wreaths and arrangements, supplies for even the most discerning hostess, and the chance to support a major fundraising event for the Civic Garden Centre makes Mistletoe Magic an important event on your calendar.
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A Farmer Gardening
by Marie Kordas-Fraser
When my husband and | bought a small farm and started building our house nine years ago on a flat field overlooking Lake Ontario, | immediately began to plant trees. At first it was horse-chestnut saplings which had sprouted freely on my father s refuse rock pile. But these had a slow and agonizing death amongst tall grass and insect infestation. Then we bought a lawnmower. Soon | learned from a neighbour that if you have at least twenty acres, the Ministry of Natural Resources can supply large quantities of very inexpensive young trees. Since qualified | got some white pines, white spruce, silver maples and Carolina poplars. Needless to say, after eight years my evergreens are plodding along SLOWLY in our sandy alkaline soil. But the poplars and maples reign gigantically for their age along with the boxelders saplings | had dug from edges of fields. Finding myself on a bare, flat, boring field | had been impatient for rapid and large growth the box-elders were native, hardy, fast-growing and free! With a bit of pruning a box-elder can be sculpted over a few years to the gardener s design. Unlike other trees, they can take lots of abuse intentional or unintentional. My favourite tree on the property is a very old box-elder which a fierce wind blew down around 1954. It decided to continue growth lying on its trunk and for many years now has had a beautiful round crown. It always reminds me of a Bonsai Tree that grew out of control. My home is called Elderwood after this tree.
| tended to be a shy gardener at first sticking mainly to trees and spending a little every spring on colourful annuals, particularly pink and purple petunias which | still enjoy. Long bleak winters were somewhat forgotten while delving into piles of plant and seed catalogues very therapeutic for my annual January to March malaise. Eventually, we had vegetable gardens, a berry garden with raspberries, red currants, strawberries and a few black-berries, a small French-Hybrid
grape vinyard, and a water garden in our fish pond.
A major change came for me when | started attending events at the Civic Garden Centre in the spring of 1986. A lecture and slide-show by David Tomlinson introduced me to so many possibilities in perennials and shrubs in Southern Ontario. Although | live over fifty miles east of the Civic Garden Center, | now make at least four pilgrimages a year. | have attended " Catch The Gardening Spirit for two springs and in October 1987 was fortunate to attend the Second Great Gardening Conference. | eagerly await the Third Great Gardening Conference coming in midOctober. Not only was it a thrill to meet and hear Penelope Hobhouse, Allen Paterson, and Stephen Lacy among others, but they were influencial in my starting up an oldfashion rose garden in a piece of plowed hayfield. This is something | never would have initiated had David Tomlinson not excited me earlier that spring about this place called Sissinghurst Gardens, and of course, his own success Merlin s Hollow. That summer | had practically lived in a pile of books | had borrowed from the Horticultural Library at the Civic Garden Centre. The books were mainly about English gardens, especially the fascinating history of Sissinghurst Gardens, Vita Sackville-West and Gertrude Jekyll s contribution to modern gardening. By winter | had about a dozen designs of what | would plant and where. With the help of my father | got a piece of hay field next to our new solarium plowed. At the end of April 1988, | started planting the new garden (about 60 x 70 ). My husband David and | planted an external tall, informal hedge of young liliacs, caragana, mockorange and snow-ball shrubs. This is divided by a grass-walk from an internal formal hedge of privet. The privet made a square border for the flower beds which were five feet deep. Here | planted 30 roses mostly old fashioned European
roses such as Bourbons, Gallicas and Damascenas. In spite of the heat and drought in the summer of 1988, | managed to keep everything happily growing and blooming. Incidentally, the young shrub roses were planted five or six feet apart so | filled in the large spaces with the gladioli and dahlias. This gave me lots of brilliant colours in late summer after most of the roses finished their blooms. The gladioli and dahlias of course will need new beds in years to come as the old European roses will gloriously spread out. | should note that the west bed of the garden has one Persian Yellow Rose, Oriental and Imperial Hybrid lilies, three peonies, and some exotic day-lilies. The latter will eventually be thinned out or transplanted, but | love a wild and massive fullness rather than dainty invitations to weeds.
Even though | did all the manual labour of this garden myself, it still was an expensive venture. | am not rich. | had simply struck a deal with my husband. | would forfeit all birthday, Christmas, and Mother s Day presents for the year, to be allowed carteblanch on this beloved project.
May this winter be gentle to my little ones out there as | eagerly anticipate the rewards and pleasures they will present me this coming summer. In the meantime | look forward to flower shows and gardening workshops at the Civic Garden Centre.
Maria Kordas-Fraser is a member of the Centre.
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September 19th - Oct. 9th
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From the Bookshop WREATHS
Seasonal and festive wreaths have long been symbols of joy and celebration. Such wreaths provide versatile and decorative touches that can be used in all seasons for most rooms in the house.
The Trellis Shop has several books about wreaths. Wreaths for all Seasons, by Steve Sherman (Stephen Greene Press) $12.95, is a well illustrated, full-colour book that covers the subject in 116 pages. There are chapters on Tools and Materials , * When and Where to Display Wreaths", Supplies and a comprehensive index. There is even a chapter on Edible Wreaths '!
A Canadian book with full-colour illustrations is Wreaths, by Richard Kollath (Collins) $19.95. The 144 pages include a detailed index. It starts with Basic Tools and Basic Wreath Forms, both illustrated by line drawings. Similar drawings Winding a Wreath, for example are used throughout the book.
Just re-ordered is the more detailed standard work, The Wreath Book by Rob Pulleyn (Oak Tree) at $29.95. As this is a difficult book to keep in stock, you might wish to reserve one from the upcoming delivery.
Most general books on flower arranging ignore wreaths. One noteworthy exception is The Book of Dried Flowers by Malcom Hillier and Colin Hilton (Simon & Schuster) at $31.95. It lives up to its description as a complete guide to growing, drying and arranging . The authors devote space to Christmas and other festive wreaths, grass and harvest wreaths and the general making of and preparing bases for wreaths. There are photographs of hands performing the various tasks.
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If you enjoy dealing with the public and have half a day a week available, | would like to hear from you. Our reception desk needs more volunteers. Please call me at 445-1552.
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HARROWSMITH SPRING FLOWERS.
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Harrowsmith s newest book in their popular gardening series. Topics covered are: spring bulbs, perennials, shrubs for spring colour, and garden preparation and design. Four gardening enthusiasts offer advice on making glorious spring gardens.
TAYLOR S POCKET GUIDE TO BULBS FOR SPRING.
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Contains beautiful photographs of the most popular spring bulbs. Good gardening tips are given as to planting time, soil type and depth. This is an excellent reference guide to take along when you purchase your fall bulbs.
We offer the finest selection of fall bulbs, paperwhites and amaryllis. Stop in to see what is new and unusual in tulips, narcissus, crocus and minor bulbs. Bulb planters various colours and shapes
Civic Garden Centre Executive Committee
President: Dr. Brian Bixley
1st Vice-President: Mrs. Susan Macaulay
2nd Vice-President: Mr. Klaus Bindhardt
Treasurer: Mr. Kenneth H.C. Laundy
Member: Mrs. Anne Bawden
Member: Mrs. Heather MacKinnon
Board of Directors
For 1989: Mrs. Anne Bawden, Mr. Klaus Bindhardt, Dr. Brian Bixley, Mrs. Barbara Brown. Mrs. Eliane Hooft, Mrs. Doreen Martindale, Mrs. Heather MacKinnon, Mrs. Gail Rhynard.
For 1989 and 1990: Mrs. Cicely Bell, Mr. Stuart Gilchrist, Mr. Alan Grieve, Mr. Kenneth H.C. Laundy, Mrs. Susan Macaulay, Mr. Victor Portelli of Metropolitan Toronto Parks, Ms. Laura Rapp.
For 1989, 1990 and 1991: Ms. Georgina Cannon, Mr. William Granger, Mrs. Bayla nfross, Mrs. Judy Lundy, Mr. Robert Saunders, Mrs. Robin Wilson. ie
A CREATIVE LANDSCAPE BEGINS WITH A PLAN... AND JUST KEEPS GROWING!
Have your planting plan prepared by a professional landscape consultant who will visit your home. The Landscape Consultant will listen to your landscape ideas and provide a scale drawing of your new landscape that is £ easy to follow.
This service is available for only $50 per front and back yard ($100 for both) within our designated area. Fee is refundable with purchase of Weall and Cullen nursery plants valued at $400 or more ($100 refunded with a minimum $800 plant purchase). Ask at your nearest Weall and Cullen location for more details.
7 locations to serve you #8 opening in Etobicoke in May.
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