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Nonprofit Organization
U.S. Postage Paid Kingsport, TN
Zip Code 37664 Permit No. 41
The Wheelbarrow Southern Appalachian Plant Society 418 Greenbrook Circle Unicoi, TN 37692
2017 SAPS Board of Directors
President: Earl Hockin 423-817-5473 [email protected]
Vice President: Jane Mullins 423-212-0173 [email protected]
Secretary: Jolly Hill 423-246-7246 [email protected] Treasurer: Joy Moore 423-348-6572 [email protected] Program Chair:
Open Editor–The Wheelbarrow Pat Westington 423-328-7169 [email protected] Tomato Fest Chairman: Dennis Marshall 423-288-3675 [email protected] Website Manager: Carol McCreary 423-817-5668 [email protected] Membership Chairman: Jim Hill 423-246-7246 [email protected] Discount Vendors:
Eva Johnson 483-1453
[email protected] Members-at-Large:
Phil Ramey 423-288-4669 [email protected] Hugh Conlon
423-282-9215 [email protected]
Margaret Seymour 423-534-1191 [email protected] Joy Stewart [email protected]
www.saps.us Southern Appalachian Plant Society March 2017
Creating a Pollinator-Friendly Garden Dr. Lisa Wagner
Former Director of Education South Carolina Botanical Garden, Clemson University
Thursday, March 16, at 7 pm Memorial Park Community Center (Johnson City Senior Center)
510 Bert Street, Johnson City
Butterflies, bumblebees, and hummingbirds
are among our best-known native pollinators. En-joyable to watch, they’re even more important in their role as pollinators; most flowering plants (90%) depend on pollinators for successful repro-
duction, including a third of our food plants. Join naturalist, plant ecologist, and garden educator Lisa Wagner to learn how to encourage native
pollinators (and honey bees) by using native plants that provide nectar and pollen through-out the growing season. She’ll talk about
plant characteristics, look at native plant ex-amples and discuss ways to support pollina-tors in your gardens and communities.
Lisa Wagner served as Director of Education at the South Carolina Botanical Garden, Clemson University for over 20 years. A plant ecologist by background (Ph.D. in Botany, UC Berkeley),
she's also a naturalist, writer, blogger, and educator. She does frequent presentations and classes as a volunteer, on a variety of topics including native plants for pollinators, gardening for
nature, hands-on perennials, and 4-season vegetable gardening. She does landscape consultations to benefit programs at non-profits in the Carolinas, especially
gardens! Her award-winning blog Natural Gardening (www.naturalgardening.blogspot.com) reflects her gardening and nature experiences.
Directions to Memorial Park Community Center inside.
March SAPS Meeting
Top Trees Top 10 trees in the tree inventory 1. Maple ............................................... 22% 2. Dogwood ......................................... 13% 3. Oak .................................................. 10% 4. Cherry .............................................. 9% 5. Crape Myrtle .................................... 7% 6. Pine .................................................. 5% 7. Pear .................................................. 5% 8. Elm .................................................. 3% 9. Redbud ............................................. 3% 10. Sweetgum ........................................ 2% Top 10 trees planted in the last 10 years 1. Crape Myrtle .................................... 21% 2. Cherry .............................................. 19% 3. Maple ............................................... 14% 4. Sweetgum ........................................ 6% 5. Dogwood ......................................... 6% 6. Oak .................................................. 5% 7. Hawthorn ......................................... 5% 8. Elm .................................................. 5% 9. Zelkova ............................................ 4% 10. Leyland Cypress .............................. 4%
As a SAPS member, your Discount Card enables you to receive a 10% discount on REGULARLY PRICED PLANTS AT THE NURSERY LOCATION ONLY (not garden shows/events) or otherwise specified until February 28, 2018. This card is not to be used in conjunction with any other discount, is non-transferable, and is to be used by SAPS members only.
As a member of SAPS we hope you'll find this card beneficial, while providing you with information on the many small growers in our region. Please realize that SAPS is not guaranteeing products offered by these nurseries.
Inside, you'll find a list of all participating businesses, their specialties, and directions to their business, and contact information. We advise you to phone these businesses before traveling to them as many are small and their hours of operation may vary. Don’t forget Brent and Becky’s Bulbs
Go to www.Bloominbucks.com, Scroll down to Southern Appalachian Plant Society. If you order bulbs etc., SAPS will be given 25% of your PURCHASE. Great Fund Raiser for our Society!!!!!!
Address: 7900 Daffodil Lane, Gloucester, Va., 23061 Phone: 1-804-693-3966, Toll free: 1-877-661-2852, Fax: 1-804-693-9436, You may order or download their Catalog. If you
would rather call or mail in your order, simply tell them you'd like to support SAPS when you order or write in "SAPS" at the bottom of the order form. But you must remember to tell them for SAPS to get credit!
2017 Discount Vendors Card Inside
March 2 Herb Saplings Meeting. 7 pm at Exchange Place. Coriander/Cilantro - Herb of the Year - with Joy Moore. Learn about the many uses for this plant that is valued for both its leaves and its seeds. Bring an herb snack to share if you have time.
March 4 Gardening in a New Light. 10 a.m. -12 p.m. Cove Ridge Center at Natural Tunnel State Park. $5. Information on sheet compost gardening, raised beds, and more. Partici-pants will sow seeds to take home. Register no later than the Wednesday prior to workshop at 276-940-2696 or email [email protected].
March 4 "Weed Wrangle". Warriors' Path State Park. 10 am - Noon. Help control invasive Garlic Mustard, which chokes out native wildflowers and kills rare butterflies. It is easy to control without using any special tools or toxic herbicides, if we start early in the season. Meet at the Campfire Circle, east end of the park's main campground. 423-239-6786, [email protected]
March 11 Introduction to Fox Farm Gardening Materials.10 am. Mize Farm and Garden, 251 Old Gray Station Rd in Gray. Free, but please call 423-467-2300 to reserve a spot.
March 16 SAPS Meeting. Create a Pollinator Friendly Garden. Dr. Lisa Wagner, plant ecologist, former Director of Education at South Carolina Botanical Garden, Clemson University. 7 pm. Johnson City Senior Center,
March 17-18 Plant Natives 2017! Symposium. Sponsored by T ennessee Valley Wild Ones. Chattanooga. http://tennesseevalley.wildones.org/plant-natives-2017/
March 18 "Capture The Moment" - Spring Photo Hike. Warriors’ Path State Park. 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM. A Park Ranger with TN State Parks for 38 years, hike leader Marty Silver uses nature photography as a tool to share nature discovery and to document rare plants and animals. His photographs are a frequent feature in TN Conservationist Magazine and on the UT Herbarium website and was featured as the cover for the new book Woody Plants of Kentucky and Tennessee. Marty has taught nature pho-tography at a number of State Park and National Park settings. 423-239-6786, [email protected]
March 25 Raised Bed Gardening with Marty Litz. 10 am. Mize Farm and Garden, 251 Old Gray Station Rd in Gray. Free, but please call 423-467-2300 to reserve a spot.
March 30 Herb Saplings meeting. 7 pm at Exchange Place. Plant-ing by the Signs with Master Gardener Valerya Hyrne. Note change of date due to scheduling conflicts.
April 20 SAPS Meeting. 7 pm. UT Vegetable Trials and Garden Updates. Dr. Natalie Bumgarner, UT Horticulture Exten-sion Specialist and Tennessee Master Gardener Coordi-nator. Kingsport Renaissance Center.
April 29-30 Exchange Place Spring Garden Fair. Saturday, April 29, from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Sunday, April 30, from 12 - 5 p.m. at Exchange Place Living History Farm, 4812 Orebank Road in Kingsport. Thousands of plants will be for sale with an emphasis on natives, herbs, perennials, and heirloom plants, along with garden accessories and related crafts. The Fair will also feature garden experts, children's activities, ol' timey music and traditional foods, as well as demonstrations of springtime activities on an 1850s farm. Admission is $3 for adults and free for children under 12. For more information, 423-288-6071 or www.exchangeplace.info
Across the President’s Desk By Earl Hockin
As spring approaches give some thought to how as a gardener you can support pollinators, including honeybees, native bees, moths, butterflies, and hummingbirds. One way is to ensure you don’t use sprays containing neonico-tinoids and be sure when buying transplants that they have not been treated with neonicotinoids which can remain in residual form for a month or more. Also even organically approved insecticides such as neem oil are harmful to bees, so if you must use it spray it in the evening after the bees are no longer active.
Many plants are very effective in attracting and supporting pollinators. Resist the urge to eliminate dandelions as they are an excellent early season source of nectar and pollen for bees.
According to Sunset magazine some of the best plants for attracting bees include asters, butterfly bush, fennel, lantana, bee balm, borage, oregano, sunflower, pentstemon, red hot poker, salvia, lavender, pincushion flower, blanket flower and coneflower. In our garden we have seen hummingbirds and bees are really attracted to agastache (hyssop) and liatris.
Also don’t forget that pollinators need water, so in times of low rainfall, leave very shallow containers filled with pebbles or marbles out for them. The marbles or pebbles give them a spot to land so they don’t drown when they come to drink. If you have a bird bath put some stones that are half submerged to provide a landing place for bees and butterflies. Be sure to change the water 3-4 times per week during warm weather when mosquitoes are breeding.
Upcoming Events:
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Natives and Pollinator Plants Trending Up By Hugh Conlon
SAPS March Plant Distribution ‘Jeana’ Garden Phlox
By Hugh Conlon
Garden phloxes (Phlox paniculata) are beautiful perennials native in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6 and 7). Unfortunately, many phlox varieties are plagued by powdery mildew disease in our hot humid summers. 'Jeana' phlox is an excep-
tion. It was discovered by Jeana Prewitt along the Harpeth River in Nashville TN. Jeana phlox is a vigorous grower at 4-5 feet high and 2-3 feet wide and is well-branched. Sturdy stems support huge sweetly scented flower heads, each one containing 15 - 25 flowers. Its lavender pink color remains vibrant from mid-summer through early autumn if the old spent blooms are removed (deadheaded).
Jeana phlox thrives in organic, moist to average soil and in full sun to light shade. Plants in shade will have smaller flowers and weaker stems. It is drought tolerant after the first year in the garden. Feed plant in early spring (or after plant-ing) with 10-10-10 or equivalent granular fertilizer or a water soluble product such as Miracle-Gro.
Best of all: Jeana phlox attracts huge numbers of pollina-tors. I’ve seen them covered up with swallowtail butterflies, too numerous to count.
At our March 16 SAPS meeting fifty landscape size plugs of 'Jeana' Garden Phlox will be available on a first-come, first-served basis for SAPS Members only (one plant per household).
Dutchman's Breeches Dicentra cucullaria
Dappled sunlight of woodlands, moderately wet to medium moisture level, rich humusy soil, circumneutral pH. 12 inches height, blooms in spring, white flowers.
Native Region: Middle and East Tennessee Graceful, ephemeral spring
wildflower that goes dormant in summer. Showy flowers. Intolerant of wet soils in winter. Attracts bees.
Most winters, including this one, I attend 1-2 nursery industry trade show to observe what plants are trending with customers of large nursery and greenhouse growers. Over the past 3-4 years native plants, particularly pollina-tor plants, have been popular with growers, professional landscapers and gardeners. This year is no different.
Natives and pollinator plants offer “functionality.” Among landscape architects, growers and landscape con-tractors, natives and pollinator plants are often touted as providing “ecosystem services,” a marketing tag line they will be exploiting this spring in their ads and sales pitches.
Ask yourself if you are also growing more natives/pollinator plants? Is your garden attracting more Monarch butterflies and bumblebees whose population numbers have drastically declined over the past decade?
Mid-Atlantic Garden Faire
Friday and Saturday, April 14 - 15 Mid-Atlantic Garden Faire in Abingdon
The 20th Annual Garden Faire in Abingdon runs from 9:30 am Friday through 6:00 pm Saturday.
Ten exciting speakers throughout both days, including Dr. Susan Hamilton, Dr. Bruce Gillett, MD, and many others. A Garden Marketplace packed with plants, tools, collectibles, yard art, outdoor furniture and much more. Catering by Nancy's Fancy's for lunch or just one of those delectable slices of cake. Visit www.gardenfaire.net for full details.
Green and Growing Seminars
Green and Growing lunchtime gardening seminars, will be presented from 12 noon to 1 p.m. on the first three Thursdays in March at the Kingsport Public Library Mead Auditorium. These free sessions are sponsored by Keep Kingsport Beautiful and Kingsport Public Library. The seminar topics are: March 2 - Nature's Apothecary. Christy Shivell, founder
of Shy Valley Plant Farm, will walk you through starting your own herb garden and Linda Begley will give you a quick course in herbal essential oils.
March 9 - Posies and Pollinators. Roy Odom will talk to you about how to grow a cutting garden that attracts bees and butterflies. Roy holds a B.S. in Ornamental Horticulture/Landscape and is a Kingsport Times News gardening columnist.
March 16 - The ABC's of Container Gardening with Master Gardener Phil Ramey of Harvest of Hope Community Garden. From a pot of tomatoes to a full-on container farm, growing your garden in pots can be easy and fun!
For more information call Keep Kingsport Beautiful at 423-392-8814.
From I-26 South, take the Market St. Exit. Market St. only goes right, so go straight through the intersection and turn left on Main Street. At the intersection of Main and State of Franklin, turn left. Bert Street is the first STREET (not parking lot) after you go past the post office. (Don’t be fooled by the driveway on Main Street. That is the back of the building.) Turn right on Bert St. The main parking lot will be on the right.
Directions to Johnson City Senior Center