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Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Welcome Home!
We are so excited to announce a not new, but returning member to our Extension and 4-H Team in Robeson County. Joanna Rogers, who served as our Expanded Foods and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) Assistant has returned to her previous position with us.
What does this mean? Well for our schools who enjoyed the food and nutrition education program she brought them in the classrooms, she is back with her series and will be able to schedule with you in the fall. For our community programs she worked with in the summer, she is back! For our High Schools and other youth audiences who have not had that chance to work with her now is the time to start scheduling because she books up fast. You can reach out to Joanna at (910) 671-3276 or jnroger2@ncsu.edu.
Welcome back Joanna! Can't wait to see the impact you make.
Monday, May 15, 2023
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Application, Interview, Resume, and Essay is a statewide program open to 11-18 year olds with National Trips available for our 14-18 year olds who go through the process.
The process begins with a prep-packet which is located on the NC 4-H Website. It is a two step process to register for the program.
First register through this Eventbrite link on our app under programs or below to take part in the program. Go through the packet and determine what category you would like to take part in and then complete the packet and return to Shea Ann DeJarnette at sadejarn@ncsu.edu by June 1. Once you are registered you will receive an email from the state 4-H Office to sign up for an interview slot.
Thursday, May 11, 2023
International Exchange
North Carolina 4-H is offering the experience of a lifetime for 29 families this summer! A delegation of young people, ages 12-17, plus adult chaperones from Japan and South Korea are in need of YOU! These Japanese and Korean youth are coming to North Carolina from July 23 through August 16 and would love to stay with your family to learn about American culture. Special trips and tourism are not required to host a delegate. These young people are here to be a member of your family for a month, not a tourist. Over half of the delegates have already been matched with North Carolina families, but we still need 13 more families! Can you help?
These delegates are here for a homestay to experience American life. Is your child going to camp this summer? Send your delegate too! Camp fees are covered by 4-H and the international partner organization. Take them to the grocery store, let them do chores like feeding the animals, take them to 4-H meetings! Treat this young person as you would treat your own child. The main requirements are just that the delegate has their own bed, three meals a day, and has adult supervision.
Applications are available at states4hexchange.org/apply/
The world is waiting for YOU to explore! For more information, contact State Coordinator Caitlin Clineff at cadavis7@ncsu.edu or 919.515.4759. Follow our Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/
Host Family Checklist
__ Host sibling must be same gender and within 3 years of age of the delegate
__ Provide delegate with own bed (can room with kids of same gender but needs own bed–air mattress is OK)
__ Provide delegate with three meals a day
__ Will have an adult or older child around at all times
__ Friendly, welcoming home
__ Interest in learning about another culture and sharing yours with your new “family member”
Frequently Asked Questions
Why should I host?
-Create friendships with new people, learn about new cultures, learn more about your OWN culture, and make a difference in your family’s lives and the life of another young person.
What do I do with my delegate when they get here?
-Normal, everyday activities! Go to the grocery store, cook dinner, do household chores, go to the park, play games, watch movies, visit family, etc.
My child is going to camp during the homestay, what would the delegate do during this time?
-Send the delegate to camp as well! Camp in different countries is very different so this would be a great learning experience and a fun way to make more friends for the delegate. Camp costs are covered by 4-H and the international partner organization.
How are delegate/host family matches made?
-Delegates are matched to host families based on similarities in interests and personalities. Delegates for the summer program are the same gender and within three years of age of their host sibling. NC 4-H strives to collaborate and work with host families in order to make the best placement possible.
Do the delegates speak English?
-Some more than others. One of their main goals in coming to the United States is to learn more English. The delegates are usually able to understand more than they can convey. You and your family can also come up with other means of communication such as charades and drawing pictures. Learning to communicate is part of the fun! Chaperones also travel with the delegation and are available 24/7 if you really need assistance with translating.
Can my family host multiple delegates at the same time?
-Yes! Each delegate must have their own host sibling, and they must be from different countries. For example, if you have a 13-year-old daughter and a 16-year-old son, your daughter could match with a Japanese girl and your son could match with a Korean boy.
For more information please contact Shannon McCollum with our state 4-H Office at shannon_mcCollum@ncsu.edu
Monday, May 1, 2023
4-H Top 4 For May 1, 2023
We are 4 months in and it is time to focus on Summer and Fall already. Hang on because our 4-H Top 4 is jam packed this month!
-Our new 4-H Family Seed Saving Club will take place May 4 & 11 from 6-8 pm. Come learn about seeds. Everything from identifying, saving, crafting and even cooking and eating seeds. It's a great way to garden as a family and keep those generational traditions going with a new twist. We promise lots of fun and hands on fun for the entire family. Not to mention seeds. Lots of seeds for planting and swapping. You will also have a chance to follow up on things learned during this club at the opening of the Robeson County Farmer's Market in Downtown Lumberton, May 13.To register you can go to our app under programs or click on this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/family-seed-saving-4-h-club-tickets-625700736747
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Leaders 4-H Club have registrations up on the app under programs.
The Dirty Rascals will meet at the 4-H Office starting at 5:30 on May 9. The group will work in the garden and then make something cool and sweet with the fruit crop coming out of the fields right now (whatever could it be?). To register for this meeting you can go to our app under programs or click this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dirty-rascals-jmg-4-h-club-meeting-may-tickets-625701699627
Young Leaders will meet at the 4-H Office starting at 6:30pm on May 23. Youth will be helping members of the club work on their District Activity Day presentations and more. You can register for the club meeting by going to programs in our app or by clicking this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/young-leaders-4-h-club-may-meeting-tickets-625702792897
-4-H Animal Science is open for registration. We will be doing some new things with this program making it more interactive. This year we are offering laying hens, rabbits, turkeys, and goats. A mandatory training will take place at the fairgrounds prior to animal pick up on May 20th. Please check to make sure your local zoning ordinances will allow you to raise these animals before you register. Youth must be actively registered in 4-H Online to participate. For more information about this program please go to: https://robeson4-h.blogspot.com/2023/04/4-h-animal-science.html. You may register for this program on our app under programs or by clicking this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/4-h-animal-science-tickets-598007114377
fun day camp, or overnight camp programs go ahead and sign up now. To learn more about all the different opportunities and download your own brochure please click this link: https://robeson4-h.blogspot.com/2023/03/4-h-summer-fun.html . You can register for any of these great summer programs on our app under programs or by clicking this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/robeson-county-4-h-summer-fun-tickets-569986203077
If you have any questions about any of these programs please contact Shea Ann DeJarnette at sadejarn@ncsu.edu.
Sunday, April 30, 2023
Where the Wild Campers Are
This is from Our State Magazine...
Near the swinging bridge over Carroll Creek, with water lapping at their ankles, they start their hunt. They’re all first-time summer campers, 8 to 10 years old. With a college-student counselor nicknamed Tae beside them, they step into the creek and bend at the waist, nets in their hands, eyes inches from the water. The kids are in full search mode. And with each discovery, their curiosity takes off.
“Tae, Tae, Tae!” yells one camper. “I found a shell!”
“I see a frog!” says another. “Look! There he is!”
“Guys, guys, guys!” shouts a third. “I’m finding clams! Dig in the dirt! Dig in the dirt!”
“Wow, look at this cool rock!” exclaims a fourth. “This thing looks like a school bus!”
At least a dozen campers see Carroll Creek as their own gold mine.
Zoe’ Baldwin got her feet wet during her first stay at BJP.PHOTOGRAPH BY JERRY WOLFORD & SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH
Campers like 9-year-old Zeneyah Baldwin. She’s from Hillsborough, and everyone calls her Zoe’. She’s digging in the creek bed, looking for clams. She’s hunched over, so close to the surface of the water that when she rises up, the tips of her long braids are soaked.
“I needed to see into the creek so I could put stuff into the buckets,” Zoe’ explains later, over a lunch of chicken tenders, tater tots, and sweet tea. “When I dug into the bank, I found worms! Worms!”
But your soaked braids?
“Oh, yeah,” she replies. “I’ll wash them out in the shower.”
So begins another day at the Betsy-Jeff Penn 4-H Educational Center.
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One of the three NC State Extension 4-H camps, Betsy-Jeff Penn covers 220 acres. It includes eight cabins, a rec hall, a dining hall, a swimming pool, and a 22-acre lake. The facility sits less than a mile down Cedar Lane, just northwest of Reidsville. At least 1,000 campers between ages 6 and 17 come every summer to this sylvan setting, which is owned and operated by North Carolina State University.
Everyone who comes — campers, counselors, staff, alumni — know it by another name: BJP. For them, BJP is a magical place of inner discovery. Relationships flourish, leaders blossom, teamwork becomes instinctual, and individual responsibility takes hold as Mother Nature becomes a teacher and a guide.
Campers are taught good communication skills while canoeing on Lake Hazel. In the green boat, 12-year-olds Serenity Davis (foreground) and Jalisa Bennett keep a close connection with BJP staffers Erika Quintero (foreground) and Dre Richardson.PHOTOGRAPH BY JERRY WOLFORD & SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH
Since BJP opened in 1964, campers and counselors have seen the center as a second home. And every summer, they are everywhere. On the lake in canoes. At the archery range, with bows in hand. In Carroll Creek, dipping nets into the water.
Or inside the dining hall, staring at rows of old summer staff photos dating back to 1980. Campers stand there and pick out who — and what — they remember.
Stacy Burns remembers much. She’s a former sixth-grade teacher from Connecticut who came to BJP in 2007. She changed careers and began work as an environmental educator. She’s now the center’s director, a job she’s held since 2015. Burns knows through her studies how BJP came to be, and she shares its story with the campers. She tells them about Margaret Beatrice “Betsy” Schoellkopf Penn, a woman who was way ahead of her time.
Betsy Penn was a philanthropic trailblazer who rubbed shoulders with men and women who helped shape early-20th century America. One was her husband, Thomas Jefferson “Jeff ” Penn, a farmer and investment banker. The Penns traveled the world and lived on a 1,000-acre estate called Chinqua-Penn Plantation in Rockingham County. They built a sprawling manor house and filled it with treasures that they discovered during their adventures. They raised cattle, grew tobacco, contributed to local charities, and provided jobs.
Betsy Penn, in 1963, was honored for launching the 4-H educational facility.PHOTOGRAPH BY 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT (UA023.008), ITEM 0010443, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH CENTER, NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
After Jeff died in 1946, Betsy focused even more on ways that she could help North Carolina. She built the Betsy-Jeff Penn 4-H Educational Center in honor of her late husband; the facility was formally dedicated in 1964. A year later, Betsy died at 83. Yet her indefatigable spirit runs deep through BJP.
Burns makes sure of it.
Every summer, she takes campers to the stone dam below Chinqua-Penn. It’s an easy walk from camp, situated inside a cluster of tall oaks just beyond the ropes course. At the dam, a place of quarried rock that Jeff built for Betsy as an anniversary present, Burns tells the campers about the generosity of the woman she calls “Miss Betsy.”
“This is what Miss Betsy chose to do,” Burns says to the kids. “She created this beautiful place for children like you, so you can come here forever to understand nature and understand yourselves. It’s a gift that she has given to every one of you.”
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That includes Angela Brisson and Taqqee Richardson. BJP is in their DNA. Each came to the center for the first time when they were 8. Brisson came because of her Extension 4-H agent in Franklin County. Richardson came because of his mom, Marcia, a nurse in Fuquay-Varina. Marcia had come to BJP herself when she was a youngster, and she wanted her son to have the same experience.
At first, Richardson wasn’t a model camper. After a few run-ins with leadership, he was sent to the camp’s stable to shovel horse manure and reflect on how he’d been acting and how to improve. Slowly, BJP grew on him. He grew, too. Today, Richardson is 25 and works seasonally at the center. Campers call him “Sweet T.”
As a camper, Taqqee Richardson learned the value of shared knowledge. He’s now a lead counselor at BJP, passing along the founding philosophy of Betsy Penn.PHOTOGRAPH BY JERRY WOLFORD & SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH
As lead counselor, Richardson oversees 30 other counselors. He also runs the snack bar, DJs the dance in the recreation center, and takes groups of campers into the woods to encourage them to respect nature and understand ecology.
And to play in the dirt.
He also talks to the campers, particularly those who come on scholarship. Nearly a third of them do, and they come from underserved neighborhoods across North Carolina. In every conversation, Richardson wants to hear their stories. Then, he tells them his.
“I found this quote not so long ago that talks about not being selfish with your knowledge,” Richardson says. “It said, ‘A candle loses nothing in lighting another candle.’ That resonates with me.”
What resonates with Brisson is the turn on Cedar Lane that brings every camper, every counselor, and every staff member to BJP. For her, that’s how it all began.
Brisson started as a camper, became a program staff member, and met her husband, Adam Carson, a fellow program staffer, at BJP. In October 2009, as the center’s trees changed from green to gold, they got married beside the lake.
Program staffer Angela Brisson has spent much of her adult life at BJP, learning to be “a positive role model and an empathetic adult,” she says.PHOTOGRAPH BY JERRY WOLFORD & SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH
In 2011, Brisson moved to Washington, D.C., and worked with one of the world’s leading environmental nonprofits, The Nature Conservancy. Seven years later, she came back home to help run the North Carolina 4-H camping program. Her job takes her across the state — and back to where it all started, near that turn on Cedar Lane. At BJP.
“It gets in your soul, and part of that, honestly, is the energy and love that Betsy Penn created in the 1960s,” Brisson says. “Everyone who comes to camp feels that. When the kids come, all they have to worry about is not burning their marshmallow or getting to the pool on time. They learn to relax in a place where people care about them.
“They’re not learning 2 + 2 = 4,” she continues. “They’re learning how to be a good friend, how to clean up after themselves — just all these life skills in an environment that pushes them beyond their comfort zones. There’s something really special about that.” Brisson, now 37, knows that firsthand. And so do many others.
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Like Eli Kicklighter. He’s 13, from Kenly. He’s come to BJP for the past three summers. He talks not about what he’s done but about the confidence that he feels. “It helps me do life,” he says of camp.
And Alijah Alexander. He’s 9, from Siler City. He’s in his first year at BJP. He worried that camp would be like school. He was way wrong. For the first time in his life, he picked up a bow and shot an arrow. “I almost hit the bull’s-eye!” he says.
And Erin Tyler. She’s 21, lives in bandanas and friendship bracelets, and sleeps in a hammock underneath a ceiling of stars. Some campers call her “Miss Frizzle.” She’s come to BJP since she was 8. For the past two summers, as a counselor, she’s helped young teens learn how to live in the woods.
8-year-old Owen Baillon testing out the new swinging bridge, erected in 2018 after Hurricane Michael destroyed the original.PHOTOGRAPH BY JERRY WOLFORD & SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH
This month, Tyler will graduate with a nursing degree from Queens University of Charlotte. She wants to specialize in pediatric nursing because, thanks to BJP, she’s discovered an affinity for helping children. Ask her why she’s kept coming back to BJP for the past 13 years, and she points to the wall of photos. “I like being part of something that has a legacy,” she says. “Now, I’m leaving my own footprint.”
As for Burns, the center’s director; she has so many memories that she sees as special. Like the time when four young teenage boys, standing shoulder to shoulder in the recreation hall, were holding … something? “When I moved closer, I saw they were working together to save an injured dragonfly,” she says. “No one told them to. They just did it.”
And the lesson? It always goes back to Miss Betsy. She believed in that well-known verse from that well-known book that sits in every church pew: To whom much is given, much will be required.
Betsy Penn saw a need to lift up the sons and daughters of North Carolina. She paid for kids to go to college, helped struggling families pay their bills, and donated the 220 acres just south of Chinqua-Penn Plantation so that children could canoe, climb, and gallop through the woods for generations to come.
Last summer, 11-year-old Cheyenne Reagan jumped feet-first into activities at BJP along with 16 fellow campers from Orange County. This summer, she’s returning with 25 — the largest number of Orange County campers in years, according to Jonathon Smith, the county’s interim Extension director.PHOTOGRAPH BY JERRY WOLFORD & SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH
They will be back again this summer. And Burns will be there, too. She’ll tell stories about “Miss Betsy” and help campers experience new things as they shout loud and proud about their discoveries. Like Zoe’, the worm-catcher of Carroll Creek. And then Burns will sit back and watch. She knows what will come. It happens every summer: More memories and more reminders of why this place just beyond that turn on Cedar Lane is so special to so many, not just her.
That is, BJP.
“It speaks to our sense of belonging, our sense of community,” Burns says. “It reminds us that we’re all connected.”
Registration links for summer camp are now available on the websites for Betsy-Jeff Penn 4-H Educational Center in Reidsville, Millstone 4-H Camp in Ellerbe, and Eastern 4-H Center in Columbia.
Four 4-H members raise the American flag and the 4-H flag at the Betsy-Jeff Penn 4-H Educational Center, circa 1967.PHOTOGRAPH BY 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT (UA023.008), ITEM 0014241, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH CENTER, NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
NC 4-H Comes of Age
From early farm clubs to today’s virtual learning classes, 4-H has been helping North Carolina kids value their hearts, heads, hands, and health for more than 100 years.
1909: North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (now NC State) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture launch the first corn clubs for farm youth, which later become 4-H clubs.
1911: The iconic four-leaf clover logo, now inextricably linked with 4-H, is created.
1919: The first county 4-H camp is established in Warren County.
1929: The first state camp opens in Swannanoa; all boys and girls clubs formally become 4-H clubs.
1936: R.E. Jones is hired as the first Black 4-H leader in North Carolina; 4-H club membership among Black children reaches 10,000.
1939: 4-H programs are present in all 100 North Carolina counties.
1942: As part of 4-H’s stateside support during World War II, North Carolina 4-H helps fund and name two U.S. warships.
1942: The first 4-H Electric Congress is held to promote the electrification of rural North Carolina.
1950: North Carolina leads all states in 4-H membership.
1956: The first state 4-H camp for Black youth, Camp J.W. Mitchell, opens in Onslow County.
1960s: 4-H expands to include urban youth, reflecting the state’s declining rural population.
1962: 4-H evolves from school clubs to community clubs, creating 2,800 new 4-H clubs statewide.
1965: 4-H clubs officially desegregate at the state level.
1990: North Carolina 4-H youth participation exceeds 200,000.
2014: 4-H and Family & Consumer Sciences programs become official units within NC State Extension.
2015: 4-H expands its mission focus to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), healthy living, and good citizenship.
2015: Groundbreaking takes place for the State Employees’ Credit Union 4-H Learning Center and Cole Foundation Auditorium at Millstone 4-H Camp in Ellerbe.
2017: NC 4-H Electric Congress celebrates its 75th anniversary at a weeklong event in Charlotte.
2020: Duke Energy funds a teaching trail along Millstone Creek.
2020-2021: 4-H launches virtual learning classes to engage thousands of youth during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Saturday, April 29, 2023
Raleigh's Temple of Blooms
From Our State Magazine....
Raleigh’s Temple of Blooms
When Mark Weathington isn’t traveling the globe, looking for new plant species, he’s often at the JC Raulston Arboretum, where he’s worked for about 16 years.PHOTOGRAPH BY CHARLES HARRIS
Stuck on a six-inch-wide ledge, with a sheer cliff face rising to his left and a near-vertical drop to his right, Mark Weathington was more than a little worried. He’d been trying to reach a lily — and not just any old garden variety. This was a type of surprise lily with gold flowers, one that had never been scientifically collected before, growing in Taroko Gorge in a remote area of northern Taiwan. Weathington wanted a specimen to bring back to the JC Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh.
Weathington has been working for the arboretum since 2007 and has been the director since 2014. In line with North Carolina State Extension’s mission, the arboretum works to educate the public on gardening and diversify the American landscape. Weathington maintains relationships with botanists around the globe, and when a new species, or a new variety of a known species, is discovered, he travels to its location and tries to collect a specimen to bring back to the arboretum. There, the plant is cultivated and then sent to plant breeders and nurseries to be propagated and eventually sold to the public.
Like Weathington, Dr. James Chester Raulston, the namesake of the Raleigh arboretum, was dedicated to diversifying the American landscape.PHOTOGRAPH BY CHARLES HARRIS
That’s how Weathington found himself on a narrow ledge in Taiwan. Most of the plants that he collects come from southeast Asia because the temperate climate there is similar to our own. And they usually come from remote areas — places that are so difficult to get to that farming, logging, and development have not disturbed the natural ecosystems, allowing many undiscovered species and unusual varieties to survive. Some of the species that Weathington collects are so rare that they are only found on one mountain peak. “That happens a lot in Asia,” he says. “You go to the next mountain peak, and there are different species there.”
Slowly, inch by inch, Weathington did manage to get off the ledge. But it’s not the only sticky situation he’s found himself in while collecting. On the same trip to Taiwan, he spent the night in a car when downed trees from a surprise typhoon blocked the road in both directions. More than once, he’s reached for a plant without realizing that a green viper was wrapped around a branch within striking distance. In China, he’s encountered macaques — monkeys with “fangs like a wolf,” he says. “They’re terrifying.”
Not all of Weathington’s travel experiences are scary, though. He enjoys collaborating with colleagues from other countries, communicating through the shared language of botany. He likes experiencing other cultures, checking out local markets, eating foods that are foreign to him. He’s been to places so remote that Westerners are a rarity for the locals, who sometimes line up to take photos with him and his colleagues. The walls of his office at the arboretum are decorated with souvenirs from his travels: wooden canoe paddles from Ecuador, ceramic roof tiles from China and Taiwan, maps from around the world.
Still, why go to all the trouble? It’s not just to make our gardens prettier or more interesting. It’s also to make the American landscape more resilient. “One of the biggest problems we have in our built landscapes, garden areas, and urban landscapes is that people tend to use the same plants,” Weathington says. “Every time you do that, you open yourself up for more possibility of pests and diseases.”
Without plant diversity, diseases can decimate species like Knock Out roses.PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID JEWELL/ISTOCK/GETTY IMAGES PLUS
Take rose rosette disease, which is transmitted by a mite that blows around in the wind. The host of the mite has long been the Cherokee rose, which grows sporadically on fence lines and along the edges of woods. A couple of decades ago, the Knock Out rose was introduced to the landscape industry. It’s easy to grow in a nursery, it doesn’t need to be pruned, and it flowers over a long period, so landscapers started planting it en masse. Suddenly, the mite had a new host, one that was all over the place — and rose rosette began decimating roses. At one time, there must have been 10,000 Knock Out roses on the North Carolina State Fairgrounds, Weathington says. Now there are none. “It really affected the industry. If there had been more diversity, that mite wouldn’t have been able to move like it did.”
But with the wealth of plant diversity here in North Carolina, why travel to the far corners of the world? Because the arboretum’s focus is on built landscapes, where the topsoil has been scraped away to build subdivisions or commercial structures. Many of our native plants don’t thrive in those conditions. For example, our native dogwood, Cornus florida, doesn’t grow as well in urban or suburban areas as the Chinese species Cornus kousa does.
That doesn’t mean that none of the plants that Weathington collects come from North Carolina. He’s always got an eye out for rare plants, and when he’s traveling around the state giving talks, he goes on hikes to look for specimens. Instead of gazing out at the views, he’s looking around his feet or up in the trees, searching for anomalies — like a fern growing a foot taller than others of its species, or a flower with an unusual color.
The JC Raulston Arboretum, on the campus of NC State University, has more than 6,000 plant species.PHOTOGRAPH BY CHARLES HARRIS
Several years ago, a woman contacted the arboretum about a beech tree that she’d seen growing in the woods on a neighbor’s property in Rockingham County. Unlike a typical tall beech, this plant was a dwarf, weeping variation. Weathington didn’t believe it was really a beech tree until he drove out there and saw it for himself. Sure enough, it was a mutation unlike any he’d seen before. The property owner allowed the arboretum to dig it up and take it to Raleigh. After years of trying to figure out how to propagate it, and finally succeeding, the arboretum plans to send it to growers. Eventually, the “White Lightning” beech cultivar might start popping up in yards across the Eastern United States.
And that gold surprise lily? Weathington never did get a specimen. “That’s the way it goes sometimes,” he says. Never mind. There’s always another new discovery, always another plant variety to bring back to North Carolina to diversify our gardens. Always another adventure.
JC Raulston Arboretum
4415 Beryl Road
Raleigh, NC 27606
(919) 515-3132
jcra.ncsu.edu
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