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Berry Botanic Garden 30th
Anniversary
Gala & Plant Auction
World Forestry Center
Friday, May 11, 2007
6:00pm
The Berry Botanic Garden is celebrating its 30th anniversary with
a gala fundraising dinner and plant auction Friday, May 11, 6 p.m.
at the World
Forestry Center. Cost is $100 per person. National Public Radio
Senior Correspondent Ketzel
Levine will serve as Master of Ceremonies for the evening. Internationally
acclaimed botanist Dr.
David J. Mabberley, director of the University of Washington
Center for Urban Horticulture and the Washington Park Arboretum
and former dean of Wadham College at Oxford University, will be
guest speaker.
For more information and for tickets, call 503-636-4112 x102.
Auction of Rare Plants
Included in the evenings festivities is a silent Rare Plant
Auction, featuring rare and interesting plants, including the
following:
[click on poster for larger image]
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Wollemia nobilis
The Wollemi Pine is one of the world's oldest and rarest trees. It
was discovered just over 10 years ago by a bushwalker in a
national park only 200km from Sydney, Australia's biggest
city. Fossil evidence of the Wollemi Pine, or at least its
ancestors, goes back to the mid-Cretaceous, and possibly even
the early Cretaceous period some 110 million years ago.
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Trillium grandiflorum 'Floro Plenum'
A double-flowered white trillium.
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Cypripedium japonicum
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Rhododendron pronum (Cecil Smith form)
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Cephalotaxus wilsoniana
Taiwan cow's-tail pine
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Fitzroya cupressoides
This plant is native to southern Chile and southern Argentina. It's reported in 1993 to be the second
oldest verifiable species at 3,622 years old. This tree was originally named by Darwin in honor of
Captain Fitzroy of the H.M.S. Beagle.
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Lagarostrobus franklinii
The Huon Pine is found in southern Australia and western Tasmania. Plant is evergreen, dioecious, and grows slowly to 45 ft.
It is the source of an essential oil called Huon pinewood Oil. USDA Zone 8.
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Microstrobos fitzgeraldii
Called `The Dwarf Mountain Pine', this plant is only found next to
a waterfall in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Austrailia.
USDA Zone 9.
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Pinus contorta `Chief Joseph'
An evergreen tree that is green in summer and yellow (golden) in winter. The tree was found, and later introduced, by Doug Willis of
Sandy, Oregon while hunting in the Wallowa Mountains of northeastern Oregon.
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