植物园 & 植物园 公告栏

本月最佳植物

Yoshino Flowering Cherry
杨梅
地点: Grid U3 at the base of the new rock steps leading up to the Hosta Walk.

不幸的是, I do not think we will ever have the display of Cherry blossoms that they achieve in Japan or Washington D.C. or the University of Washington campus in Seattle. Cherries tend to struggle here, I think our winters are a little too cold and dry for them to thrive, then they become stressed and are prone to various diseases.

然而, we do have 22 different varieties of flowering cherries in the collection, some better than others. Most of them are planted on the west facing slope near the north end of the 植物园. Ikuyo Suzuki, retired Japanese language faculty member is a regular arboretum visitor. She has encouraged us to plant more cherries and donated funds for more trees. I decided to plant them in a more protected locations to see if that makes a difference in how they do here.

Flowering cherries are easy to distinguish from other flowering trees because they are generally the first trees to flower in the spring and the flowers open before the leaves emerge. They usually flower here in late March, followed by flowering plums in April and flowering crabapples in May.

每月项目

March may have come in and left like a lion and was very lamb-like in the middle. Moscow hit a record high of 69° on March 17 and 18. That nice weather allowed us to get the first trees of the season planted and gave us a little head start on general spring clean-up. 不幸的是, it also gives all the weeds the go-ahead to get started thriving…

Fun activity this month was a road trip to the Orton 植物园 in Twin Falls, Idaho. Two of my summer crew and I spent three days over Spring Break collecting plants for a new bed in the Xeriscape Garden. 扎克绿色, one of the crew has proposed adding a collection of cold hardy cacti and succulents and the Orton Garden agreed to share some plants. We were able to collect 19 different cacti, three yuccas (including two Joshua Trees) and an agave. We also toured the Idaho 植物园, the Sawtooth 植物园 and Moss Greenhouses, the largest greenhouse grower in Idaho.

即将来临的事件

植物园 Associates Annual Meeting
1912 Center, Great Room, 412 E 3rd St.
7 p.m. 4月16日星期二

Guest speaker Philip Shinn, retired certified arborist, will speak on pollinators

Featured speaker Paul Warnick, the University of Idaho 植物园 Horticulturalist, will speak on the annual arboretum update

植物园 Associates Annual Plant Sale
NEW LOCATION THIS YEAR!!! — 设施 Greenhouse, 875 Perimeter Drive
10 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 18

When visiting the 植物园, please remember that for your safety, the safety of others and for the protection of wildlife and plant collections, no pets are allowed. Ice on ponds is very unstable—远离冰块.