“Sporting Wood”
1)    White Ash    (Fraxinus americana)

Tough, plentiful, and easily bent into curves, Ash is used in tennis racquets, billiard cues, skis, and baseball bats.
White Ash is native to eastern and central North America.
This cutting is from the cultivar ‘Rose Hill’, located in grid 47-3E near the Lagoons.

2)   Common Box    (Buxus sempervirens)

Used for crocquet balls because of its hardness. 

This photograph taken in April 1976, shows Joseph A. Witt inspecting seed flats and cuttings in the “pit houses” of the University of Washington Greenhouses at Washington Park Arboretum.

A strange, but beautifully bizarre climbing hydrangea is beginning to bloom at the Center for Urban Horticulture.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1)   Erhetia dicksonii

Ornamental tree from Asia with corky bark and fragrant white terminal cymes.
Located along path heading up to Rhododendron Glen from Azalea Way, grid 15-1E.
Go to link below for thorough description and uses.
http://www.arthurleej.com/p-o-m-July07.html

2)   Holodiscus discolor      (Ocean Spray)

My favorite summer flowering Pacific Northwest native deciduous shrub. 

UW Information School graduates researched and designed a mobile app to enrich the experience of Arboretum visitors. Team member Sarai Dominguez reflects on discovering visitors’ information needs .

Leveraging the recently developed interactive map of the Arboretum’s plant collection UW Information School graduates researched and designed a mobile app. Team member Loryn Lestz shares her experience.

1)  Hydrangea macrophylla   ‘Madame Emile Mouillere’

A blizzard white beauty all summer, long considered the best white mop head.
A charming companion to evergreen shrubs.
A beautiful 70-year old specimen graces the Hydrangea Collection along the Arboretum Drive.

2)  Leucothoe davisiae      (Sierra Laurel)

Native to the mountains of northern California and southern Oregon.
One of 4,000 species in the Ericaceae family. 

Most have us have been stung by a wasp or bee at some point in our lives, and many of us have an innate fear of flying insects with stingers. Personally, I was stung almost every year of my life between about the ages of 5 and 18. It never swayed me from spending all my free time outside, but I did cower at the familiar buzzing sound of nearby wasps. 

June is a great time to celebrate our native Lewis’s Mock Orange which is currently in blooming at UWBG!

By John A. Wott, Director Emeritus
This photo of the Montlake Section in the Washington Park Arboretum was taken September 10, 1953. The label states that you are “looking NE down the site of the canal fill, with the Museum of History and Industry in the background.” It is suspected that the small trees on the right are Japanese Cherry trees, which were later moved into the Quad on the University of Washington campus.