Confer~nce 1999 - Association of Professional Landscape Designers

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APLD President's Message Timothy N. Thoelecke, Jr., APLD Goals. We all have goals. Some personal, some professional, and some others. Some are long-term and some are shorter. All goals, however, should be part of a long-term vision with each goal being a step along the way. When I stepped into the president's role, there were a number of things I wanted to accomplish before leaving the office. All of them are geared toward making APLD function better. Many of these items are behind the scenes, but the most important change is the most visible. That is the recent change of management. APLD has retained the services of Association Management Systems, of Naperville Illinois, to manage the day- 1999 Board of Directors President Timothy N. Thoelecke, Jr., APLD (847) 657-7900 President Elect Myrna Dowsett, APLD (503) 292-2363 Treasurer Gerry Crouch, APLD (904) 260-9210 Secretary Lisa Leydon, APLD (215) 794-3854 Directors & Committee Chairs Association Development Chair Patricia S. Ouderkirk (212) 799-4870 to-day business functions of the organization. For those of you who do not know, a management company manages multiple organizations. Our APLD executive staff are employees of AMS and have at their disposal, the resources of a large company. As a result, APLD has access to services including an in-house CPA, technology experts, clerical help, and other executive staff with whom to consult. With pooled resources, APLD's costs are kept to a minimum. It is a great arrangement for everyone involved, and we look forward to many years with AMS. I might also add that the summer conference in Washington, DC would not have been as successful without the efforts of a number of volunteers, especially Deanna Pillarelli, APLD, and John Sonnier, APLD. Special thanks are also due to Samuel Salsbury and Sabrena Schweyer for their contributions. Of course, those who Certification Co-Chair Bobbie Schwartz, APLD (216) 752-9449 Education Chair Jan-Marie Traynor (973) 361-6437 Environmental Chair Larry Weaner, APLD (215) 836-1051 Historic Landscape Preservation Chair Dennis J. Rydberg, APLD (717) 787-5616 Membership Chair Kathleen Tucker, APLD (520) 529-1962 Program Co-Chairs Deanna Pillarelli, APLD (302) 234-3000 Elizabeth W. Robechek, APLD (970) 748-1714 attended all know the herculean efforts on the part of APLD staff to pull it all together. Back on the theme of goals, other goals, more behind the scenes, center on making APLD run more like a business. For instance putting in place procedures, calendars, and so on, to ensure a level of consistency is maintained year to year. Also, our bylaws were updated in March, in San Francisco, to put the framework in place for major steps forward for APLD down the road, including chapters and new categories of membership. Improvements to look for in the remaining months of 1999 include, the "new look" of the newsletter, a move of our web page from apld.com to the more appropriate apld.org, and our winter meeting in Columbus Ohio from January 22-26, and the 2000 summer meeting in Toronto. Publications Chair Robert Spencer (617) 242-2422 Regional Coordinators Chair Gerrie Shapiro, APLD (914) 591-7603 Regulatory Affairs Chair Gale Allbritton Hadley (850) 487-7568 Webmaster Linda Engstrom, APLD (503) 628-2552 Director at Large Richard Dube, APLD (803) 356-3672 APLD Headquarters Janet Banaszak Ralph Gervasi
Environmental Notes con 'tfrom front page automatic choice for all situations where a ground cover is desired. ..,.,,,give an example, there has been a 'at increase of interest, in recent years, in gardening with native plants. On the eastern seaboard, following this inclination, often means creating a woodland garden. Where space does not permit a woodland, a gardener hankering after the feel of the wild, might settle for a collection of native shrubs under some existing trees. In such settings, ivy, vinca and pachysandra would be out of place. A better choice would be one (or more) of the native woodlands groundcovers. There are a host of enchanting ones from which to choose. Pachysandra procumbens, the Allegheny spurge, native to the Southeastern United States, is a close relative of the ubiquitous Japanese pachysandra, but it is a more suitable companion to other native plants. Its habit is similar to that of the familiar import but its leaves are a paler green and they are attractively mottled with silvery grey. T., my New Jersey garden, it is ciduous, though according to Allan Armitage, it is evergreen in the South. At any rate, a deciduous habit is not necessarily a detriment in an informal or woodsey setting and this trait is more than compensated for by the novelty of its lovely foliage. Gautheria procumbens, wintergreen, is a lovely diminutive plant not over four inches tall with dark, glossy, oval leaves which have a powerful aroma of wintergreen when crushed and turn a beautiful bronzy purple in the fall and winter. Wintergreen rounds out its list of desirable attributes with white, urnshaped flowers followed by red berries which taste of oil of wintergreen. Another evergreen groundcover is Galax urceolata with glossy round leaves up top four inches across and dainty spikes of tiny white flowers in the spring. Galex is a superb and truly charming groundcover in a woodsey r -"~ing. However, it does spread Nly. To avoid frustration, plant closely and plan to use it in a small APLD area, at least initially. Comus canadensis, the bunchberry, is a miniature relative of the flowering dogwood tree. This deciduous ground cover has medium green leaves in whorls above which are borne flowers very similar to those of the tree. Clusters of inconspicuous yellowish green flowers are subtended by showy white bracts. The flowers are followed by a tight bunch of bright red berries which make a handsome display in the summer and fall. Bunchberry has many charms, but be forewarned, it too, is a slow spreader. Chrysogonum virginanum, also called green-and-gold, has bright green oval leaves and single yellow daisy-type flowers. Some catalogues claim that the plants bloom constantly all summer. In truth, green-and-gold is more of a spring bloomer which may flower intermittently into early summer. It generally gives up flowering in high summer heat but may sport a few more blooms in the fall, when they are amply welcome. The perky little flowers are very effective in brightening shady corners. Tiarella corifolia has bright green leaves, rather hairy, and somewhat reminiscent of maple leaves in shape. Its white flowers appear in the spring. They are very tiny but are borne profusely in finger-shaped spikes. Their delicate, feathery appearance has given this plant its common name, foamflower. This plant makes a spectacular groundcover. It spreads rapidly, propagating by both seeds and runners. Wherry's foamflower, T. cordifolia var. collina, which is clumpforming rather than stoloniferous and has pale ink flowers, is also a very desirable plant, though less effective as a groundcover because it spreads slowly. Heuchera americana, american alumroot, is a close relative of the foamflower. The evergreen foliage is larger and the plant is a tough, reliable performer. The rounded to heartshaped leaves are mottled with purple when young. The color tends to fade with maturity, however under good cultural condition, new produced all season. The Mount Cuba Center for Study of Piedmont Flora has introduced H. american "Garnet," a new cultivar with deep red foliage. A number of other new cultivars are making their appearance in nurseries. Sporting a lot of variety in leaf shape and in color, and markings ranging from all over color, to veining or mottling in purples and silvery tones. Many hold great promise as shade garden plants. More and more gardeners all the time are drawn for a variety of philosophical, ecological, and aesthetic reasons to create meadows, wetland gardens, woodland gardens, and other oases which are inspired by the surrounding ecosystems. This welcome and healthy trend in landscaping and gardening has created a strong interest in and demand for native plants. Growers have responded, with the result that plants that were formerly difficult, to purchase or available only by mail order or from specialty nurseries are now much easier to find. More recently still, growers and enthusiasts have begun to select interesting and ornamental forms of wild favorites, thereby expanding further the range of options available to gardeners and designers. We don't have to entirely abandon the old stand-bys, the ivies, the vincas, and the pachysandras, which still have their uses. But we are, by no means, restricted to these plants. We can celebrate and take advantage of the variety of the plant material that is available, for creating special gardens that hark back to the forest primeval.
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