Notebook continued Jennifer jumped in immediately to help promote the magazine,


selling subscriptions at home and garden shows and writing arti- cles. She had a landscaping business, which gave her access to hid- den Ontario garden gems and treasures not readily seen by most people. This was a great help to the magazine. Her children were quite young at the time and it was not surprising that her eldest daughter Danielle would early learn to appreciate the wonders of nature as she could witness, first-hand, the creatures that come into gardens; good and bad. The children also had the freedom to explore the countryside around Elora and to learn by watching their mother as Jennifer pushed the hardiness zones and tested plants in her own gardens. It was an additional thrill for Jenniefer to share her knowledge with others thorugh the magazine! It was after moving to the 130-acre horse farm in Puslinch that Danielle really began to show an interest in photography. It seems natural that Danielle, after being part of the magazine as a little one and having inherited a love of gardening, developed her own flare with the artistic side of gardening, expressing this through her photography! In her photos, Danielle captures unique mo- ments in time with insects and birds in the gardens or exhibits different photo angles that give people a different outlook on what is around them. Danielle has shown her photos in local fairs and school events to everyone’s enjoyment and is now branching out to other avenues. Danielle’s adventures continue with her moving back to Elora


and and taking trip to Peru in April! Jennifer, who continues to do landscaping and writing, runs a small English horseback riding school in Baden and is expecting her 4th child in July 2012. We expect you’ll see more of Jennifer and Danielle in upcoming


issues. A lacewing lights on a plant, irridescent in the light. Non-invasive Buddleias


amateur botanist (1662 –1715), the story was different. During his lifetime, he was a humble rector at North Fambridge in Es- sex who devoted his life to praising God and celebrating plants. He completed a new English Flora in 1708, seven years before he died, although it was never published. Still he had garnered a lot of respect among


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his peers and 15 years after Buddle’s death, Dr. William Houston sent the first buddle- ia species to England from the Caribbean, along with the suggestion that it be named for Adam Buddle. Buddleia Americana is not the loveliest of the species. The flowers are small and greenish yellow and the plant has a strong odour. It was used medicinally in the southern Americas to treat a number of conditions. The first ornamental buddleia (Buddleia


globosa) reached England from Chile in 1774 or 1776. When Karl Linnaeus named the plant in 1754, he spelled it Buddleja. The Buddleia we are all most familiar


with, Buddleia davidii, was named for an- other clergyman, Father Pierre Armand Da- vid, who apparently discovered it in China


6 • Early Spring 2012


aving a name like Buddle is not a harbinger of fame for most folks. But for Reverend Adam Buddle, an


in 1869, although it did not show up on British shores until the late 1800’s (some sources say it was at Kew in 1896). Buddleia davidii, which is the one most


of us all familiar with, is an invasive species in England and could easily become so in Ontario. However, it is a beautiful plant that attracts butterflies and other pollinators with its lovely sent and beautiful flowers, hence its common name, butterfly bush. You really want to have this graceful beau-


ty in your garden, but beware: each plant produces over one million seeds. So to solve the invasive problem and the challenges pre- sented by the size of the bush (which often grows to a height and spread of six feet), the hybridizers have been at work. Dr. Dennis Werner of North Carolina State University introduced a cultivar called ‘Blue Chip’ sev- eral years ago. It blooms from early summer to late fall and produces little if any seed. This year, there are two new introductions


called ‘Lilac Chip’ and ‘Ice Chip’, the first with lavender-pink flowers and the second with snow white flowers. Both grow to two to three feet tall and stay in a nice 30-inch clump. All three plants are hardy to zone 5. Buddleia will die back to the ground in zone 5 but will come back completely in the spring.


Buddleia is not called butterfly bush for nothing. It is a virtual butterfly magnet.


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