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Show F8 _TheSaltLake Tribune GARDENING Sunday, April 11, 1999 Classes and Events to Help Gardeners Get Up and Grow Thesigns of spring are out there — underneath all that snow — and gardeners need to get ready for the growing season. A number of classes and events are sched. uled to help them getin the spring mood @ Davis County Advanced Master Gardener NaDene Wiser will teach“Basic Gar. dening, WhereDo I Begin?” on Saturdayat 10 am. at the Davis County Librar North Branch. 5. 1000 Clear- field, No feeor registrationis required for the class. which will cover amending the soil, watering, fertilizing, planting and lawn care. Wed Butte Gardenis inviting public participation in a judged show by the American Orchid Society on April 17 and 18, Professional and amateur orchid growers are invited to enter the show, which also will include orchids grown by society members. Several orchid varieties will be available for sale. rr more information, contact Jim( t 2 The show is open during garden se from 10 a.m to5 p.m. Red Butte Garden Visitor Center is at 300 Wakara Way, east of the University of Utah’s Research Park. @Red Butte Garden is seeking volun- teers for its new Children’s Garden. Train- ing is offered April 21 from6to8 p.m. at the Red Butte Garden Visitor Center. Schedules will be flexible for the volunteers, who are needed to teach kids with “Discovery Carts,’ lead “Bug Safaris,” staff the “Imagination Stations” in the Ratke and help with other garden crafts and programs Collector Travels the Globe to Collect, Save Plants & Haldain Utah The Wasatch Rock Garden Society is sponsoring appearances this month by Czech botanist Jo- sef Halda Halda, winner of the North ® Continued from F-1 American Rock Garden Society's of Halda’s seedlists and doubting that one travels in Mongolia and show photos of its mountain scenery But Halda had. It is not just rock gardeners who have benefited from Halda’s travels. One plant with growing cachet among Thetalk, at 7 p.m. on April 24, will be at the Sugarhouse Garden Marcel Le Piniec Awardforlifetime achievement, will discuss his person could havecollected from so many parts of the world. USS. gardenersis the shrubbytree peony. During numerous expeditions to China, Haldacollected seeds of wild peonies that manythought were alreadyextinct. “We discovered several species and brought back lots of seeds,” Halda says. “Nurserymen in New York now grow them. People here are interested. It’s a newfashion for gardens.” Herbaceous peonies, which die down each year and growthe next, have been grown for hundredsof years in Europe. In the 19th century, a cultivated deciduous tree peony, the Paeonia suffruticosa, became available in the Western world. But it has onlybeenin the past 50 years that U.S or European gardeners could hopeto tend a wildtreepeony. According to the recently published Gardener's Atlas, Paeonia rockii, the wild ancestor to of the cultivated tree peony, was discovered by American plant hunter Joseph Rock around 1925. From that point on, the Paeonia rockii becameoneof the legendaryplants ofhor- @The Ogden Nature Center will teach ‘avorite Herbs, Growing ThemandUsing Themin Landscaping” Wednesday from7 to9 p.m. Costis for asa 4 for others. To (801) 62 The center is at ‘066 WwW 12th St. in Ogden @The Home Depot stores are offering free gardening and home-improvement clinies throughout April. Classes address how to build a deck, how to install sprinklers, how to landscape, howto use fertilizers, howto select plants for the yard and other topics. For the class days andtimes, call the nearest store. nies sold in the past few decades were heavily virused. Halda’s seedcollection led to a healthier stock of these woodyplants, which yield enormous flowers with pale tissuelikepetals ‘The tree peony is not thetypical plant forrock gardens, which generallyfeature low-growingalpines. Most rock gardeners know Halda for his lengthyseedlists of rare alpineplants, collected over the past Center, 1602 E. 2100 South, Salt LakeCity. Thelecture is open to the pub- lic, but those who are not members of the Wasatch Rock Garden Society will be charged $5 admis- sion. On April 23 at 7 p.m., Halda will present a talk on crevice gardening and South American alpinesat 1564 S. Wasatch Drive in Salt Lake. Only members of the Wasatch Rock Garden Societyare invited to that talk, although interested gardenersare invited to join the organization. Annual dues are $15 for individuals and $20 for families. Halda also will accompany society memberson their rock-garden tour the morning of April 24 For more information about that or Hal other appear- ances,call Bill King at 582-0432. ‘60s, 70s and "80s, it has been only since 1986 that he was able to visit the United States. But he had long been in contact with U.S. rock gardeners In 1960,he started writing to Lawrence Crocker of Medford, Ore., a partner in the Siskiyou Rare Plant Nursery, which now 40 years from Turkey, Kurdistan, South grows plants from seed Haldacollected. He began exchanging seed with a number of other Westerners, MORTGAGECORP. NO INCOME - NO’ieee oan amounts up to $3: 90% to mention the Romanian and Bulgarian mountains closer to his home in the Czech Republic. While Halda traveled extensively throughout the Communist world in the Siberia, Central Asia, Manchuria, Caucasus, Lesotho, Patagonia and Mexico — not BUYING OR REFINANCING a Beets BLLUe Tg Looking for heirloom seeds?Places that offer them include: Select Seeds, 180. Stickney Road Union,CT06076 @ ThomasJefferson Center for Historic Plants, Monticello, P.O. Box 318, Char. lottesville, VA 22902 BurpeeHeirloomSeedCatalog, W. Atlee Burpee Co., 300 Park Ave., Warminis WChiltern Seeds, BortreeStile, Ulver ston, Cumbria, LA127PB England Landis Valley MuseumHeirloomSeed His work in expanding the number of plants available to rock gardeners earned Halda the Marcel Le Piniec Awardforlifetime achievement from the American Rock Garden Society a fewyears ago. Halda is part of alongtradition of plant explorers, whosetreks over the centuries have expanded the selection of plants at the local nursery. Planthunters like the famed David Douglas (for whomthe Doug- las fir is named) criss-crossed the world, risking their lives for the plants they collected, John Grimshaw, in The Gardener's At- las, notes that plant exploring is easier now in theageofair travel, But it is still not safe. Halda has exploredin areas rav- aged by war. He has been detained by government officials whoat first did not un- ss Deel ismo Oregon. Modern-day plant explorers like Halda cannot expect free access to a country’s ing, cool-season crops. Someradishesare readyto pull and eat within 20-some days. When it’s still cool, it's fun to add fresh radishes to a salad. Horseradish, a native of southeastern Europe,long has been used as one of the bitter herbs in the celebration of Pass- over, as described in Exodus 12:8. The Greeks loved radishes. Cafleaen made small gold replicas of the globeshaped roots, and when oblations were made to Apollo, the replicas were placed in golden bowls. Around 500 B.C., the Chinese developed newandelongated forms of radish. Bythe 16th century, radishes made their way to England, where they were widely enjoyed raw on bread or stewed into a tangysauce for meat. ar radish varieties: ench Breakfast” is ready in 23 Its oblong roots are an inch long, s white flesh is crisp and mildly across in shades of purple, lavender, been challenged by people fromplant-pro- tection organizations whom Halda calls jealous” of their plants. Someof those plant-protection organiza- apart. Thin salad radishes to 18 plants per “becauseI don’t need anykindoftrouble.” But in Russia, China and Mexico, he has tions worry that plant explorers will alter thewilds’ fragile environments. But Halda argues that responsible seed collectors are ensuring the survival of wild plant populations. “Youhaveto see the countries where we collect, wherereal nature disappears very fas and you have to protect what's left over,” he says. “It's the best wayto protect those plants in nature because people will not dig them if they're on the market.” Project, 2451 Kissel Hill Road, Lancaster. PA 17601-4899. Old Sturbridge Village Museum and Gift Shop, 1 Old SturbridgeVillage Road, Sturbridge, MA 01566 Comstock Ferre, 263 Main St., Wethield, CT 06109 @White Flower Farm, Shepard's Garden Seeds, 30 Irene St., Torrington, CT 06790. Bileirloom See , P.O. Box 245, West Elizabeth, PA 153 2, or www.heirloomseeds.com @ Plantradish seed in rows 16 inches foot of row. @ Because they germinate quickly, you can mix radish seeds with parsnips or car- rots to mark the rows. Radishes also e a good intercrop with beans, cabages or squash because they will be harvested before the other crops need the space. In the Middle Ages, horseradish roots were used in Europe for medicinal rea- sons. Germanscultivatedtheplant asear- ly as 1542; the Italians by 1563 and the English by 1586, when it was used a condiment with meat. Colonists brought horseradish to the United States by 1800. Planting tips: @ Buy root cuttings from a garden cen- ter, seed catalog or a neighbor. Plant the slanted ends of the root cuttings downward. If a neighbor gives you cuttings, havehim orherslant the end that was not attached to the stem so you won't plant the root upside down. @ Plant horseradishin earlyspring, the same time you plant other cool-season crops, such as radishes. Lay the roots slanted end pointing downward at a 45-degree angle rather than straight. Cover the top of the root with 2 inches ofsoil. 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