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Chelsea Flower Show 2007

Chelsea Flower Show 2007: 11 (Saturday) - Verbena and cannabis

Peterseabrook500 Well, the final sell-off of plants from the Chelsea exhibits is over and no sooner had the last visitor left the show than the exhibitors began the curious task of dismantling everything and heading for home. I only worked on one Show Garden at Chelsea, many many years ago: a naturalistic display of wild flowers staged by Kew – the first ever wild flower garden at Chelsea, I think. And tearing apart something so beautiful creates a very curious and depressing feeling – even when you know that it was never quite real.

But I leave with you with a couple of intriguing sights from the show. First of all, veteran gardening columnist and TV gardener Peter Seabrook, who recently celebrated thirty years writing for Britain’s top selling Sun newspaper (has anyone else worked for Rupert Murdoch for so long?) launched a new plant that he found in his own garden in Essex.

‘Seabrook’s Lavender’ is a seedling of the well known Verbena ‘Homestead Purple’, a really hardy and prolific ground covering variety. ‘Seabrook’s Lavender’ is a softer lavender shade but otherwise has the vigour, toughness and prolific flowering of its parent. It’s available in Britain now, and in North America, Peter hopes, next year.

Cannabissativa500 And finally: Marijuana, Cannabis sativa, has been on display at Chelsea for the first time ever. A number if these elegant plants were ranged across the back of an exhibit by the South East England  Development Agency which highlighted the value of plants for uses other than food and garden display. In fact, cannabis was widely grown in the 19th century as an ornamental foliage plant, and I remember the first time I visited Christopher Lloyd’s garden at Great Dixter: amongst a collection of summer annuals growing in pots outside the front door was a magnificent cannabis plant. However, when the local police heard about it they paid him a friendly visit and visitors could enjoy (the sight of) it no more.

Cannabis is used to make rope and fabric – and when I was a kid I remember using the boiled seeds as fishing bait. The plants were not sold off to the public on Saturday – although one or two disappointed exhibitors could perhaps have made use of them…

That's it for my Chelsea blog series for this year. I'll be adding one or two pictures over the next few days but otherwise, it's back to what you might call "normal".

Chelsea Flower Show 2007: 10 (Thursday) - Women on Top

For the first time this year, the Chelsea Flower Show has been run entirely by women. Alex Baulkwill took over as Show Manager last year, having worked on the RHS magazine The Garden for some years. She’s in charge of all the exhibitors, and her deputy’s also a woman. The Operations Manager at the show, in charge of the site, the services, logistics etc is Caroline Humphries and her deputy is also a woman. The Press Office is staffed entirely by women. Even the recently appointed Director General of the whole Society is a woman, Inga Grimsey, and three of the other directors are also women. Bob Sweet, Head of Shows Development at the RHS, and Stephen Bennett, Director of Shows at the Society had better look out as the image of the Society run by men in suits is changing at last!

Chelsea Flower Show 2007: 9 (Wednesday) - Feud at the Flower Show

I haven’t seen the many many hours of Chelsea coverage on BBC TV this year, I’ve either been at the show or subduing my cold with potions that sent me to sleep. But I’m told that the Silver-Gilt Medal winning Westland Garden, designed by Diarmuid Gavin the Dublin-based designer and TV gardener, and named for his sponsor, has not been featured at all. Can anyone confirm or refute that?

At one time Diarmid was part of BBC TV’s presentation team but now seems to be out of favour, fampous as part of an awkward double-act with regular host Alan Titchmarsh in which they failed to pretend to like each other.Cancerresearch500 He’s even been involved in a dispute with fellow Chelsea designer Andy Sturgeon over the supposed plagiarism of one of his designs and and the dispute even ended up in court! He’s also fallen out with Bunny Guinness, one of the BBC radio gardening team. You can read all about it here.

Bill Shankly, the great football (soccer) manager at Liverpool Football Club once said: “Some people believe football is a matter of life and death… I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.” It looks as if Chelsea garden designers are developing the same attitude about their gardens – or perhaps about themselves!

In Britain we have an expression: "Handbags at three paces." It derives from the idea of two women attempting to whack each other in the face by swinging their handbags on outstretched arms. Commentators sometimes use the phrase to deride football (soccer) players shouting at each other and pushing and shoving on the pitch. Sounds like a great term for feuding garden designers.

American readers, by the way, will be astonished at the amount of TV coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show - much of it on BBC1, the top-rated channel in the country. It's as if ABC cancelled Grey's Anatomy and ran flower show coverage instead - and ran the flower show every night of the week. Mind you, Britain is the country where the top rated reality TV show is SpringWatch, which features live coverage of nesting birds and squabbling foxes out in the countryside. Those Brits...

  • BTW I’ve also contributed a Guest Post, with more pictures, to the Garden Rant blog, you can find it here.

Chelsea Flower Show 2007: 8 (Wednesday) - More Chelsea info and blogs

Sorry about the lack posts here... I've been struck down by one of those knives-in-the-throat, hacking cough, blocked sinuses and aching muscles - just what I need to go with the feet that feel as if they've been pounded with a steak hammer. Fortunately, I've not got the famous "Chelsea flu". This is caused by an allergic reaction to the tiny unfertilized flowers which waft around from the many London plane trees near the show gardens and press tent.

And each of my three US radio interviews was plagued by technical problems and had to be cut short. Again, my apologies.

Anyway, to keep you going, here are few links to places where you can find out more about the show.

Webcam of the Great Pavilion
Webcam of the Show Gardens
Full list of awards
Full details of each Show Garden, with panoramas of each one.
Pictures of every floral exhibit in the Great Pavilion
BBC coverage of the Show
GardenRant guest post from William Hughes
Daily Telegraph blog from Ursula Buchan and others

Unfortunately, the RHS Chelsea blogs have been something of a disappointment, mainly owing to a chronic lack of posts, so I'll refrain from embarrassing them further by giving you the link!

Now, where's my cough medicine - or jollop as my father used to call it.

Chelsea Flower Show 2007: 7 (Tuesday) - Webcam vandalism!

Well, whatever next! You may have noticed that there's been a problem with the Chelsea Flower Show webcams - this is why: The router that connects the webcams was stolen! The cables were discovered flying free after someone - we have our suspicions... - levered it from its housing, disconnected the cables and made off with it! And you thought the Chelsea Flower Show was such a respectable institution.

Fortunately, the RHS web team have installed a new router and everything is up and running again. These webcams give you a great view of the show. So now that they're working well again please check the Show Garden webcam and Great Pavilion webcam.

Chelsea Flower Show 2007: 6 (Monday) - Royal visit

Queenhps After judging today, Her Majesty the Queen arrived for the Royal Visit. Guided by the Royal Horticultural Society’s President, she toured a number of Show Gardens and exhibits in the Great Pavilion in a distinctive rose pink coat with crimson buttons. She always seems to wear colours which stand out from the dark suits around her: primrose yellow one year, pale lime green another. The police with their sniffer dogs were seen around the show earlier and most people were cleared from the showground.

She really seemed to be enjoying herself. In the picture she’s seen chatting to two members of the Hardy Plant Society, whose exhibit celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the society.

Chelsea Flower Show 2007: 5 (Monday) - Judging day

Knoll1 Well, it was a fascinating afternoon judging some of the exhibits of perennials in the Great Pavilion. Most, including a lovely stand of ornamental grasses from Knoll Gardens, were of a very high standard and their exhibit also featured three new grasses that none of the judges had seen before. these included the very pretty, and drought toleraant, Panicum virgatum ‘Dewey Blue’ from the USA. This plant was selected by Rick Darke on the coast of Delaware. Rick was on hand at the show to launch his superb new book on grasses, The Encyclopedia of Grasses for Liveable Landscapes.

One exhibitor, who perhaps I won’t name, had obviously been having trouble with his agapanthus (African lilies). He must have been so disappointed that so few were in flower. But it was great to see new plants like the pink and white bicoloured sweet pea, ‘Promise’, with its wonderful scent, on the stand from Matthewman's Sweet Peas.Sweetpeapromise

The results will be out early in the morning, I’ll bring you the highlights, including news of how the American garden, an the other show gardens, fared in the medals, as soon as possible.

Chelsea Flower Show 2007: 4 (Monday) - Webcams

Just to mention that the Royal Horticultural Society is running two webcams at the show. You can see what's going on outside on the Show Gardens webcam, and see what's going on around the floral exhibits on the Great Pavilion webcam.

I have to say, however, that as I write this on Monday morning one of them has disappeared! When I see the man in charge of them... Ah, there he is. Geoff!!! (Just a moment...) OK... he's sorting it out. I'm sure by the time you read this it will be fixed.

Chelsea Flower Show 2007: 3 (Sunday) - What makes the show so good

Fetzerpensioner500 Later on Sunday afternoon, this Chelsea Pensioner (war service veteran) in his traditional uniform enjoys a glass of Fetzer Chardonnay on the Fetzer Sustainable Winery Garden. The California native annuals on this garden, grown in Britain!, are simply superb and arranged so exquisitely. And the design of the barn, using recycled timber, is both rustic and cleanly elegant.

The overall quality of the gardens this year is unusually high. This is because designers have resisted the temptation – to which they have sometimes succumbed in the past – to create elaborate buildings and other structures and give less attention to the plants. There are some impressive buildings both traditional and modern, but everywhere the plants and the planting is of a very high standard.

Surplusplants1 These two pictures show one reason why: in the first, foxgloves and other perennials which have been judged not to be of sufficient quality to grace a show garden are loaded on to a truck for removal. And in the second, buckets of cut proteas and other flowers (which seem to be of excellent quality) are waiting to be removed from the Great Pavilion as others were judged to be superior and were chosen for inclusion on the exhibit. It’s the quality of that judgement in differentiating between the excellent and the super-excellent which can bring a Gold Medal. For the quality oif the plants and flowers is not good enough, no artistry or creative design can compensate.Surplusproteas

OK… I need to put my feet up.

My wife judy and I will be back at the show at 6am tomorrow (Monday). And tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of the day we met – on Press Day at the Chelsea Flower Show.

Chelsea Flower Show 2007: 2 (Sunday) - Working hard on the exhibits

Beardshaw1_2Everyone is working away madly this afternoon. Some gardens are finished and the designers and can stand back, admire their handiwork, hope for a Gold Medal and have a relaxed conversation with journalists like me. Most are still working away.

Watering and finessing the plants on the Chris Beardshaw Garden, which celebrates the garden at Hidcote Manor. One of the finest of English gardens, Hidcote was created by an American – Major Lawrence Johnston.

Downderry1 Most of the plants are in place on the lavender exhibit in the Floral Pavilion staged by Downderry Nurseries and the plants already need watering.

PhysocarpusandsalviaThere are many new plants on show, including these two on the exhibit from Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants. Salvia patens 'Dot's Delight' is backed by Physocarpus 'Lady in Red'.

OK... I've updated you and had my coffee here in the press tent, I'd better get back to the show.


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Graham’s Transatlantic Guide to Weeding

CalystegiaSepium700I’ve been doing some weeding. This is in our British garden where the weeds are always jumping at this time of year, especially when it’s been so wet and it’s been unwise to get on the soil.

I’ve also been having a clear out, bringing files and folders out from the back of the file cabinets and what did I find? My weed collection, three fat folders of pressed plants, that I made when I was a student at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in London almost forty years ago (below right, click to enlarge).

And the first pressed plant I found in the first folder I opened was the same plant I’d just been pulling out of the garden: hairy bitter cress (Cardamine hirsuta). We have a close relative, Pennsylvania bitter cress (Cardamine pennsylvanica) in our American garden.

And this brings me to my first rule of weeding: our top weeding priority should always be to pull out are the weeds that are in flower or developing seeds. Hairy bitter cress rarely grows more then 10in/25cm high but can still can produce 700 seeds and fling them 31in/80cm, but it can also produce seeds when just two inches (5cm) high. So pull it out. Now.

Many of the traditional rules of gardening have little value but “One year’s seeding makes ten years weeding” really is true. Dandelions (below), which as annoying in Pennsylvania as they are in Northamptonshire, can produce over two hundred seeds in one seed head. So - obviously - don’t let them seed.

My second rule of weeding is always to shake the soil off the roots after you pull out the weeds and before they go on the CardaminePressedcompost heap or (in those cities with green waste recycling) in the green waste bin. You can ship out a huge amount of good soil if you’re not careful.

And my third rule of weeding is this: get them when they’re young. When nasty perennial weeds like bindweed come through at this time of year, a one inch shoot is often an indicator of yards of root underneath. Later, when their twirling stems become entwined with our garden plants, it’s all but impossible to remove them. It’s so much easier when they’re just an inch high and, at this time of year, if you disturb the plants you’re trying to protect when extracting bindweed roots they’ll soon settle down again. By the time the bindweed is strangling your cistus (top) it’s far far FAR too late.

My final rule is this: Don't spend half a day weeding and then the rest of the week nursing your aching back. I did half an hour this morning and half an hour this afternoon and I’ll try to keep that up. But if I’d spent two hours forking out weeds at a single stretch this morning (as I was tempted to do) I’d not be able to get out there again tomorrow or the next day or the rest of the week. Little and often…

OK, it's time to get back to the bindweed and dandelions and the dreaded hairy bitter cress.

Sycamore? Or sycamore?

American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis, growing on the New York side of the Delaware River. ©

Gardeners and botanists both use common names as well as scientific names when referring to plants. Using common names for plants is more widespread in North America than it is in Britain, even among botanists, and even though common names are often simply made up if there doesn’t seem to be one already in use. But common names are confusing. After all, there are more than twenty different plants, from around the world, that are called “bluebells”.

Native Americans must have had local names for many native plants when settlers first arrived in North America but the settlers didn’t bother to learn them and simply made up new ones - or, as with birds like the robin, transferred a familiar common name to a plant that looked vaguely similar to one from back home.

So when I saw a large mature sycamore (above) way across the Delaware River the other day, its white branches ghosting against the oaks and maples behind, I was reminded of this: in Europe, sycamore is used for Acer pseudoplatanus; here in North America sycamore is Platanus occidentalis. The leaves are very similar, so I presume settlers simply transferred the name. But surely, native Americans must have had a common name for P. occidentalis. After all, I’m told they used to tap it for sap in the same way as sugar maples.

In Europe, P. occidentalis is the plane tree and its hybrid with P. orientalis is a familiar city street tree. In Paris, large plane trees in the streets are pruned – literally – into a plane with all the branches parallel to the street and none overhanging.

The sycamore of Europe, Acer pseudoplatanus (below) - whose botanical name, by the way, literally translates as “the maple that looks like a plane tree”! - is a menace. There’s a huge one in our neighbor’s garden in England and its seedlings spring up all over the place. What’s worse is that they get their new roots down deep quickly so that even when they’re less than a foot high they can be tough to extract, especially between the cracks in paving.

I’d much rather have the American version.

European sysamore, Acer pseudoplatanus, growing at Parc de Mariemont in Belgium © Jean-Pol Grandmont. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Acer speudoplatanus image (above)  © Jean-Pol Grandmont. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

The day our echinaceas died

Echinacea 'Flame Thrower' © Terra Nova Nurseries
The day the echinaceas died... It was yesterday. And this is how it happened.

Echinaceas, coneflowers, and especially all the fancy hybrids that have come on the market recently, like ‘Flame Thrower’ (above) and all the doubles (below), hate bad drainage in winter. That’s what kills them. But yesterday that’s exactly what they got.

On Sunday night the temperature in our garden here in Pennsylvania went down to -10F (-23C). So, after a temperature almost as low the night before, and low temperatures for a few days before that, the ground was frozen solid to a depth it was hard to assess.

And then it snowed. Not a lot, just a couple of inches and the whole garden looked lovely. But then, yesterday, Monday, it got warmer. A whole lot warmer, and quickly. By early afternoon the temperature had risen to 48F (9C), and the snow had melted and the top inch or two of soil had thawed out as well.

But because the soil was frozen down deep, all the melted snow just sat there on the surface, in puddles – it could not drain away because the soil underneath it was frozen. Our borders were covered in pools of water, yesterday, and they’re still there this morning.

And in those puddles of thawed snow are the crowns of our last remaining echinaceas (this has happened before...) – and echinaceas hate bad drainage. So those last few may well die.

Of course, this is not a phenomenon that comes into play in Britain all that much, or in parts of the USA where the winters bring less ferocious frosts. Because if the soil is not so solidly frozen, melted snow drains away and impacts much less on our, rather sensitive, echinaceas.

But here's what's important: it reminds us that, wherever we garden, it’s bad drainage in winter that prevents us enjoying the vast range of exciting new echinaceas for years and years after we first planted them. Which is a shame, because they really are gorgeous. As you can see.

Double echinaceas from Marco van Noort. ©Luc Klinkhamer

Transatlantic touch-me-not

ImpatienscapensisCloseIt’s always intriguing to find a plant that’s native near our American home in Pennsylvania growing near our English base in Northamptonshire (and vice versa) and the other day a stroll by the River Nene not far from our Northamptonshire house provided an enjoyable surprise. Spotted touch-me-not or jewelweed, Impatiens capensis, was growing on the bank (below, click to enlarge).

There were only a few patches, all grouped near each other, and I wondered for a moment if I myself had inadvertently introduced it on my shoes as perhaps I did in Pennsylvania when it suddenly it turned up in our garden. I walk this same stretch of river every time I’m back in England.

Mike Grant, editor of the Royal Horticultural Society magazine The Plantsman, pointed out in a comment on my piece about this plant turning up in the garden that “it has the distinction of first being recorded in the wild by the philosopher, John Stuart Mill Impatienscapensis(in Surrey in 1822)” and it is now well established in Britain, though mostly a little farther south and west from where I came across it.

In fact, we’d been thinking that perhaps we have the wrong native Impatiens in our Pennsylvania garden. Touch-me-not, Impatiens pallida, is bright yellow instead of red-speckled orange and would show up more effectively from a distance. Tomorrow I’m going to collect some seed from the plants that I’ve seen a few miles from our PA home. In which case look out for it in Northamptonshire a few years from now!

Thoughts on another non-native Impatiens species next time.

Sundews on the shore

We’ve been here at the house on the lake for thirteen and a half years, and it took my five year old grandson to find an insectivorous plant that we didn’t know we had.

Monty is mad about insects – and so, by association, insectivorous plants. He has pitcher plants growing in their kitchen in the London suburbs. So when he was exploring along the banks of our lake with his dad Carl (below, click to enlarge), he knew a sundew when he saw it because he has some in a pot at home. And he knows what they do to insects. He’s not at all squeamish and watched with interest while I hit the bass his dad caught on the head so we could have it for supper.

So it turns out that we have a flourishing colony of Drosera rotundifolia (above, click to enlarge), the round leaved sundew, growing on the bank of our lake. But they’re growing in an unlikely spot. They’re only a few feet from the water, even now when the water levels are very low, but they’re on an east facing sandy bank where the soil is actually quite dry. Not the soggy sphagnum which we associate with these plants. While there is some moss, some plants are growing in bare sand.

Most of the bank is overhung by low shrubs, so only a five year old is short enough to make his way easily along there and look closely at the plants. But for two or three feet at the point where this colony is happy enough to have produced quite a few seedheads, it’s much more open.

This is a plant that grows all around the world – in a band through the Northern Hemisphere that takes in much of North America, north and eastern Europe and much of northern Russia. In Britain, it occurs mainly in Scotland, Ireland and Wales as well as southern and south west England. It's found scattered across Pennsylvania, in our county (Pike County) it’s recorded from seven sites but surely occurs more widely than that. But it took a five year old to find it on our own property.

Purple loosestrife - is it really that bad?

Purple loosestrife (lythrum salicaria) in northern New Jersey. Image ©
It’s purple loosestrife season here in Pennsylvania. Swamps and other wet habitats are vivid in its purple coloring (above, click to enlarge), in some places it looks as if it’s smothered everything. This colourful European native is generally viewed as a destructive menace and many millions of dollars are spent every year in a futile attempt to eradicate it.

In Britain, by the way, where purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) originated, it’s far less common and is a popular plant for bog gardens with over a dozen named varieties, two of which have been awarded the prestigious Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society.

In North America, purple loosestrife is generally regarded as evil but part of its reputation derives from the simple fact that it’s so colorful, it’s so obvious that it’s there. If it had dull brown flowers no one would notice. Ken Thompson, in his important book that I reviewed here recently, put it this way: “Very tall people with red hair, big tattoos and conspicuous facial scars rarely have successful careers as bank robbers, and purple loosestrife has a similar problem: it’s just too conspicuous for its own good.” He goes on to emphasize: “Recognition of loosestrife as a problem was largely based on anecdotal observations, which are likely to be particularly unreliable in the case of a tall species with such bright, obvious flowers. This is a well known problem that standard textbooks warn against: it’s easy to conclude that an otherwise rather dull wetland has been completely taken over if you look at it when loosestrife is in flower…, even if a more careful examination would reveal no such thing.”

My local experience indicates that it does not necessarily spread once the first plant arrives, and that it can also decrease over time. On the lake where we live, I spotted two plants growing together about ten years ago. I checked the whole lake last week and those two plants are still the only ones present in spite of there being many suitable habitats all along the margins. Native swamp loosestrife, Decodon verticillatus, is far far more aggressive.

And in the swamp where I first saw it flowering colorfully it has declined, as it has elsewhere, and a striking feature is that native shrubs including dogwood (Cornus) and arrowwood (Viburnum) are establishing themselves on individual clumps of purple loosestrife.

Monarch butterfly on Purple Loosestrife (Lythrim salicaria). Image © Liz West ( it’s not as if purple loosestrife is entirely useless for wildlife. It’s been shown that a number of native species are more likely to grow in habitats containing purple loosestrife and in a study of over 250 plots it was found that there were more birds in those with purple loosestrife than in those without. I’ve seen around thirty individual butterflies on one plant and over sixty insect genera use it, including adult monarchs (left, click to enlarge). Birds even nest in it. Another significant study that looked carefully at this issue found that there was no difference in species richness between plots with and those without purple loosestrife.

Ken Thompson says, as he concludes his discussion of the issue: “Persecuting loosestrife is, and always has been, a waste of time.”

I was tempted to pull out those first two plants that appeared at the far end of our lake but I just left them and kept an eye on the situation. Ten years later they’re doing no harm.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that anything and everything that could be, and is, invasive should just be left alone. What I am saying is that it’s not as simple as “native good, non-native bad”. Especially when you look at how fast US native swamp loosestrife (Decodon verticillatus) can spread and the monocultures that result.

Monarch butterfly on Purple Loosestrife (Lythrim salicaria). Image © Liz West ( Used here under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.

Intriguing recent plant discoveries

Asclepias tuberosus (butterfly weed) with golden leaves. Image ©GardenPhotos.comMaking the hour’s drive back and forth to my cardiac rehab three times a week, and often walking woodland trails on the other days, I’ve spotted some interesting plants along the way.

A couple of years ago I wrote about a yellow-leaved form of common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca, which I spotted growing by the side of the road and last week in a quiet area at the back of the radiology unit (yes, I was just poking around…)  I found a yellow-leaved plant of a different Asclepias species – A. tuberosa, butterfly weed. As you can see (left, click to enlarge) it looks very dramatic and doing very nicely amongst the crown vetch (Coronilla varia).

There were also normal green-leaved plants scattered about the area, which had clearly been disturbed during construction work so we’ll see if that coloring was the freak result of something nasty in the soil or a genuine mutation. I’ll stop back later in the summer for another look.

A white-flowered form of wild bergamot, Monarda fistulosa. Image ©GardenPhotos.comWhite flowered monarda

Just at the moment our local wild bergamot, Monarda fistulosa, is in full flower. This seems to be a “first respondent” if you like, one of those plants that quickly arrives in freshly disturbed soil on open sunny sites. It occurs as a few plants or in huge drifts which, when you look closely, include an occasional plant with darker, or paler flowers.

But this week I screeched to a halt as I spotted a plant - just one - with white flowers (abiove right, click to enlarge). It turned out not to be the white flowered species M. clinopodia (which has a few purple spots on the flowers), but a genuine white-flowered form of M. fistulosa (wild bergamot). There were only a few plants in that location, but I’ve marked it and will collect some seed later.

UPDATE That was a few days ago - and yesterday I found another one, twenty miles farther south. I've been all these years and never seen one white one, and now I come across two.

An Asian bush honeysuckle with attractive amber berries. Image ©GardenPhotos.comAsian bush honeysuckles

I’d never stopped to look closely at all the shrubby honeysuckles along the roadside (please forgive my severe dereliction of botanical duty), they’re growing along a stretch of road where it’s not safe to stop the car. But they’re quite a sight in May when covered in white or cream or pink or red flowers, and again now when they’re in fruit.

Then in a parking area the other day I spotted a plant with lovely amber orange berries (left, click to enlarge). Frankly, I’m not sure if it’s Lonicera maackii, L. morrowii, L. tatarica, or L. x bella (the hybrid between L. morrowii and L. tatarica)  – all of which are collectively known as Asian Bush Honeysuckle; I’ll have to make more of an effort to check them when they flower next year. But, although I know they’re all rated as invasive, they’re very attractive especially those with brilliant scarlet berries (rather than a dull and dirty red) and this pretty amber berried form.

Variegated oak

And finally, on the way up the hill to the ledge from which I shot this wonderful picture of a field of Black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia hirta) – a variegated oak seedling (below, click to enlarge). I think this may be the only one I’ve ever seen outside a botanic garden, and here it is growing by a woodland trail in Pike County, Pennsylvania.

Variegated seedling of red oak, Quercus rubra. Image ©GardenPhotos.comIt’s a seedling of red oak, Quercus rubra, and a quick online search for variegated red oaks reveals only ‘Greg’s Variegated’ and one named as 'Foliis Variegatis' in the Journal of Arboriculture in October 1987. It’s growing very near the trail; I may have to move it to the garden in the fall.

The only other one I’ll mention here is the vanishing trumpet vine (Campsis radicans). There are occasional plants all the way along my drive, all with the usual orange flowers. But, last week, I spotted one cluster of purplish red flowers.

There was too much traffic to stop examine it but it turns out this is a known variation - ‘Atropurpurea’ – but very rarely seen. So rarely seen, in fact, that when I did stop a few days later – I couldn’t find it!

A field full of Black-eyed Susans

Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) growing in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Image ©
There I was, driving along counting all the European plants growing - and often looking very attractive - along the Pennsylvania roadside when in the distance I noticed a whole field of orange. In this part of the world it could only be one thing: Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta). And so it proved, a large field covered from edge to edge in R. hirta, with a scattering of fleabane (Erigeron annuus).

This is in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, a park ripe with alien plants as well as natives and also very rich in bird life. But acres and acres of rudbeckia? It didn’t look natural. The park people had a hand in that, I’m sure, they must have sown seed. But it looks spectacular.

There were also three interesting features about the uniquely colorful field. Firstly, I spent two half hours, on two different sunny days, walking through the field and looking at the plants and I did not see a single insect of any kind feeding on the flowers. Not one.

And secondly, the flowers varied in shape noticeably: some flowers were very starry with narrow ray florets (the petals) and some much more full with broader rays; and many were in between.

RudbeckiaHirtaCloseUp-GPAlso, I noticed that on all the plants the flowers were bicolored: dark yellow-orange at the base and a paler tone at the tips (left, click to enlarge). That two-tone coloring is a feature of many garden varieties but the Flora of North America – the most authoritative work on North American native plants - is very specific: it says that the rays are “usually uniformly yellow to yellow-orange”. I’ve since checked other plants in the area and they’re all two-tone.

The Flora of North America also says: “or with a basal maroon splotch, sometimes mostly maroon”; I’ve never seen a wild plant with maroon flowers in the wild. But it shows that the rusty coloring of many garden varieties and the development of the first red flowered form 'Cherry Brandy' (below, click to enlarge) are based on an inherent genetic capacity for darker shades.

So, naturally, many people want to grow this colorful plant in their gardens. But, as a friend said to me the other day: “We keep planting them, but they never come back the next year.” The reason is that they’re biennial, and they die after flowering and you either have to sow more seed or hope they self sow. If you want a perennial form, grow Rudbeckia fulgida.

Rudbeckia hirta 'Cherry Brandy'. Image © Johnsons Seeds
UPDATE: And here's a view of the field a few days later from the top of the nearby escaprpment, hundreds of feet above.

Field of Rudbeckia hirta (Black-eyed Susan) seen from the overlook above Cliff Park, Milford, PA. Image ©

Book Review: Where Do Camels Belong? by Ken Thompson

Where Do Camels Belong?: Why Invasive Species Aren't All Bad by Ken ThompsonIn Britain, this invaluable book is subtitled The Story and Science of Invasive Species; in North America, the more provocative subtitle is Why Invasive Species Aren't All Bad. Both are appropriate; look dispassionately at the science and it’s clear that invasive species are not all bad.

So often, discussions of the whole issue of natives and non-natives (plants, animals, insects and the rest) are run through with the repetition of bold assertions, unproven by science, that it’s a relief to find a book in which the whole issue is viewed more calmly, in a broad context, considered over time, and backed by solid science. It's just what we need: more unbiased science and less thoughtless hysteria – and that is what this book provides. And it’s all presented in a lively, and very readable.

Ken Thompson discusses how we define “native” and how we stretch our objective definitions to take account of subjective impulses; he reveals how little we actually know about so many non-native species and how very few ever cause problems; he examines whether the most hated invasive species really are as destructive as we’re told and points out that some have positive impacts; he discusses how natives and non-natives can happily co-exist in the same habitat; he applies science to the myths surrounding invasive species.

One of the striking features of the response to the presence of non-native plants, in North America in particular, is the frequency with which they’re simply removed – just in case – rather than studied. As Dr Thompson points out, the proportion of non-natives that arrive in natural habitats and end up causing problems is minute. And when non-natives are studied over the long term, we sometimes find that their initial dominance is followed by a sharp decline followed by a stable balance.

I won't steal the author’s thunder by summarizing his invaluable discussion of how we define the word “native”, except to say that picking any date as a cut-off point after which an arriving species is declared an alien is clearly arbitrary and ignores the fact that ecosystems have always evolved over time and continue to do so. And suggesting that only new arrivals in natural habitats that are unassisted by man can be classified as “native” ignores the obvious fact that nowhere on the planet is unaffected by man’s influence, so nowhere is genuinely “natural” anyway.

So. What a refreshing book and one that’s full of stimulation and reminders to look at the evidence and not listen to the hearsay. This book effectively skewers the prejudices and pseudoscience of the plant police extremists for whom natives are, by definition, good and non-natives inherently bad. It should be read by anyone with an interest in native and non-native plants, by those working in the field, and also by natural history and garden writers like me - so we don't simply repeat misconceptions in our work. The book is stimulating and refreshing: as soon as I got to the end I immediately started again at the beginning. [The anwser to the book's title, by the way, is a fascinating one. Needless to say, it's not what you think.]

Where Do Camels Belong?: The story and science of invasive species by Ken Thompson is published in Britain by Profile Books. It will be published in North America as Where Do Camels Belong?: Why Invasive Species Aren't All Bad by Greystone Books in September. North American readers who are eager to read it before September can order the British edition from

Rampageous wisteria in the Pennslyvania woods

Wisteria floribunda smothering the Pennsylvania woods. Image ©GardenPhotos.comInvasive plants keep turning up on these pages, and often I’m less than supportive of the way the plant police want to rip out any non-native plants that turn up in wild places – as with the snowdrops I wrote about last month - whether or not they’re doing any harm.

Well, here’s one that we can justifiably worry about.

I spotted the bluish purple flowers hanging from the branches as I drove between the woods and the Delaware River in Pennsylvania the other day. That's Wisteria, I thought. I was on a tight schedule and couldn't stop, so when I got home I checked with the Pennsylvania Flora Project website which told me that no wisterias, native or introduced, grow in the area. The USDA plants website said the same thing.

Yesterday I was again passing that way and took a closer look. Yes, it’s wisteria – but the Japanese Wisteria floribunda (below, click to enlarge) and not the uncommon Pennsylvania native W. frutescens which flowers later and has much shorter strings of flowers. And it’s not just a plant or two, there must be half a mile of it in half a dozen different places over a stretch of a few miles. It's covering the trees(above, click to enlarge).

This is in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, where you’d expect some expert oversight of These strings of flowers of the Japanese Wisteria are longer and earlier than those of the native species. Image ©GardenPhotos.comthe habitat that’s being preserved, and one stifling mass of it is by the turn to the Pocono Environmental Education Centre. So why do the distribution maps say that it doesn’t exist in the area? I presume that, like the hellebores I wrote about a few weeks ago, it originated on a now-vanished property. When it was planned to flood this valley to create a reservoir many houses were vacated and removed - but not the plants. But it’s clearly been there a long time, so it’s strange that no one noticed -or, at least, no one reported it.

Of course, it looks spectacular but it completely smothers and weighs down the trees. Clearly anything growing on that scale – 30 to 40ft high, and more, through trees – must be doing some damage. I wonder if anyone has published any before-and-after wisteria research.


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Average rate: $24 - Hotel class: 2 stars
584 Don Gil Garcia Street, Cebu, Philippines

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Affordable Hotel in Cebu Sep 27, 2012
I highly recommend this hotel for budget travelers.

Breakfast is included when you check-in (Choice of Continental, Filipino and English Breakfast).

They have cable TV, hot and cold shower as well as your own fridge. Towels are also provided.

They also have spacious closet where you can put your stuff specially if you are staying long.

They also have an internal phone if in case you need something or you want to order food from their in-house cafe.
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Discover all that Cebu has to offer with Verbena Pension House as a base.
The hotel features a wide range of modern facilities and services in its 16 well-appointed guestrooms and throughout the premises.
Each of the hotel's guestrooms offers air conditioning, internet access – wireless (complimentary), shower.
Guests can experience the high standards of comfort while staying at this luxury Cebu hotel with everything they need right on the site such as coffee shop, laundry service/dry cleaning, room service, restaurant.
The hotel offers massage to provide extra pleasure and relaxation for all guests.
With elegant facilities and hospitality, guests at this hotel will surely have an impressive stay.
To reserve a room at the Verbena Pension House, simply select your dates of stay and fill in our secure online booking form.

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has anyone got the working holiday visa online and would they reccomend this service need to sort my visa out soon and don't know wether to do it in writting or online
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Wake up was 6:30, bags out 7:15, departure 8:00.  We are off early as we have a very long journey today.  Granada is over 300 miles from Valencia.  As we left Valencia we passed again the Serrano Towers part of  the old wall.  We also went by The Arts and Sciences Complex and cross the Flower Bridge.  It took us about 30 minutes to get out of the city as it is the third largest in Spain after Madrid and Barcelona.  We will see the 4th and 5th largest cities of Granada and Sevilla.  Once out of the city we saw the Ford/Opel factory that employs over 10,000 people.  We saw more orange groves and rice paddies.  Valencia is known for its rice and paella, a rice dish, was invented there.

Before long we came to the coast and could see it off and on for most of the morning until the coffee break.  We stopped at the Cruzanda La Pasaela for our morning break.  Derek and I took a walk around the parking lot to stretch our legs and Larry got coffee.  We drove for a couple of more hours passing lemon and pomegranite trees and fields with cabbages and kale and spinach etc.  We saw large resorts with very tall buildings all along the coast.  There are several coasts with names in Spain.  When we were on the north coast that was Costa Verde (green) as they get a lot of rain.  On the Mediterranean north of Barcelona is the Costa Brave a very rugged coast.  South of Barcelona is the Costa Dorado and near Valencia the Orange Blossom Coast.  When we got to Alicante on the Costa Brava we headed inland across more arid land with almond trees and then into desert.  We stopped for lunch near Lorca at La Parada another cafeteria type restaurant.  I had bread and salad, Larry had a beef stew and carrots dish and Derek had chicken with rice.

When we started off again Raymond had a 20 point quiz for us with all kinds of trivia questions.  It helped to pass the two more hours until our destination.  He also send around a list if we wanted to give out our emails/addresses to everyone.  After the quiz we started going through more mountainous areas.  We came to the Grand Canyon and descended into it.  Along the sides of the road we started seeing cave houses along the road.  The people who live in them are called troglodytes.  When we got to the Sierra Nevadas there was snow along the road.  We went up and up and crossed the mountains at La Mora Pass.  We started down from the pass and soon we could see Granada in the valley below.  It wasn't long before we getting off the bus at the Hotel. We have a very nice room and can see the Alhambra Palace from our window on the 8th floor.  Sixteen people are going on a tour of Granada but we decided not to take this tour.  It is a good thing because now Larry is not feeling well either.  So we have 3 hours to ourselves.  It is cold and grey outside and we are far from the downtown so we are just staring in the room until it is time to go to supper.  Larry and Derek slept for two hours while I blogged and looked at emails and played Free Cell.

We left for supper about 7:00 and took the bus into downtown Granada.  Our destination was Restaurante Paco Martin.  We had to walk just a little way from where the bus had to park.  When we walked in they were ready and waiting for us.  Each of us was handed a Sangria before we even sat down.  On each table was a bottle of red wine called La Mancha and a hard roll with butter.  Bev sat with us again tonight.  We hadn't been seated very long when they brought out the first of four starters: salad with lettuce, tomato topped with egg, and tuna.  The second starter was a small square of fried bread with Cerrano ham.  My favorite was the baked eggplant glazed with honey.  Lastly, there was breaded deep-fried baby shark.  They were all delicious.  Larry and Derek got the pork spare ribs w/o barbecue sauce which came with potatoes, peas, and carrots.  Bev had the grilled chicken with the same vegetables.  I had the fish which came with a slice of poblano pepper and a great red sauce.  Bev shared her vegetables with me.  During the meal, Raymond brought around more baby shark and white wine.  I drank white wine after the Sangria.  Raymond filled my glass at least two times.  Bev, Larry and Derek had beer, Cruzcampo.  Larry and Derek also finished off the bottle of La Mancha.  For dessert there was a puff pastry with chocolate glaze and of course coffee if you wanted it.  When we left, Larry, Derek and Ed visited a little store to get some more beer.  We got back a little before 10:00.
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And so we returned to Bangkok after yet one more border adventure and another long day traveling in mini-buses.
We still had some time for one final goodbye as we headed off to the tallest tower for a special view of Bangkok at night. We were lucky to avoid the tropical thunderstorm which seemed the perfect signal for the end of our amazing adventure.
As I reflected in my final bed that evening it was clear to me that the highlight has been the people that we had met along the way.
A few days later on a cold day back in Kent I ended up sharing a table with a 95 year old English man in the coffee shop at Waitrose.
It turned out that he had been a prisoner-of-war in Thailand. So here I was talking to a man who had helped built the railway line that we had traveled on. As his story unfolded it also turned out that he was sent onto Japan once the railway was finished. Again another strange co-incidence as Japan will be the location for our next adventure.
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There is a song by Incubus, one of my favourite, called Aqueous Transmission. Accompanied by flute and an Asian stringed instrument, it is a soothing song that ends with the sound of frogs, their song growing ever louder in a crescendo before fading out. For some reason hearing the rhythmic sound of frogs at the end of that song always filled me with a longing that I couldn't quite explain..But now I think I know what it was. It was a longing for nature.

Now my wish has been granted. I am here, in nature, and a part of it. I heard the song of frogs last night and it made me feel so happy and peaceful. Last night, when we were tucked in our beds beneath our mosquito nets, a thunderstorm rolled in. Rain drummed down on our little tin roof, a few drops falling through and cooling my skin as I breathed in the scent of fresh earth. Lightning flashed in the sky, illuminating the thousands of tiny holes in the bamboo walls, making them look like a galaxy of stars.

After the storm, the frogs began to sing. They began in a rhythmic chorus, accentuated by an alto frog, and the sound rose and fell in in its own pattern. It was just like what I'd heard in the Incubus song, but it was real, made even richer by the symphony of other sounds--the staccato of a scratching bird, the plosh of the fish swimming in the pond beneath the floorboards of our house on stilts, the chirp of geckos in the eaves.

Then as the morning light began to filter through the walls, an old man in the hut next door began to sing his morning prayers, his soft voice blending seamlessly with the sounds of nature around us.

As I lay there awake listening to this morning music, I felt something I hadn't felt before in a long time. It was joy, the pure, exuisite joy of being alive. I felt my body, mind and soul join together as I became one with the natural world again.

When I arose to go outside and take it all in, Briony, another girl working on the orangutan project with us here at Coconut Island, was already sitting on the porch with a cup of tea. We simply smiled and remained silent. For this short space in time, we both knew that words were no longer necessary.
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Any extreme sport enthusiast knows that there are ways to plummet from great heights that don't involve trading stocks or the Dow Jones. As the Dow Jones fell 675 points in the final moments of trading, athletes around the world were base jumping, cliff diving and getting insane air off of 100-foot skateboard ramps.

This cheeky collection of extreme sports celebrates both urban and rural locales, from high-flying belly flops to elegant swan dives using a bungee cord made from condoms. If you're looking for an adrenaline rush that won't hit your wallet like today's plummeting Dow Jones, these sports let you fall somewhat safely. Financial traders--if you're considering a career change anytime soon, taking up these extreme sports is every bit as risky as following the Dow Jones.


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If you're looking for some badass humanimal shots, look no further than the Alejo Giraldo 'Animal Gangs' artwork. The Barcelona-based artist has created four imaginary rivaling wild gangs, from 'The Lower East Side Bandana Foxes' to 'The East Village Zebra Punks'. The illustrations are a hilarious tribute to hipster fashion, acting as both a parody and nod to the way of life. My favorite piece is 'The Upper East Side Dagger Cats', which features the classic Wayfarer-style frame on a very 'cool cat.'

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Portuguese architect Bernardo Rodrigues designed the Flight of Birds House, a project that looks as though it sprang from the pages of a Dr. Seuss storybook.

Located in the Azores' São Miguel Island, this totally abstract abode features a lighthearted interplay of straight lines against curved forms, and bright colors juxtaposing pale neutral hues.

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The Jan Fabre 'Pieta' sculpture is a contemporary reinterpretation of the Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo. Using the most famous version of the Pieta, a religious sculpture of the Virgin Mary holding her son Jesus's dead body, Belgium-based artist Jan Fabre transforms this classic iconography. The artist often uses themes of humanity and empathy in his work and these avant-garde pieces are no different. Replacing Christ with Fabre's own figure, while Mary's face becomes a skull, the piece is examining themes of death and grief.

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The newly built Perathoner Headquarters are located in the heart of the Dolomites of Val Gardena. The impressive corporate complex--designed by Bergmeister Wolf Architekten--takes inspiration from the traditional art of wood carving and boasts an impressive facade that is worthy of the wood sculpture company's aesthetic.

Using raw materials, the Bergmeister Wolf Architekten team creates a geometry-infused structure that offers the perfect balance of glass and steel elements. This structural shell is accented by reclaimed wood pieces that evoke movement and dimension.

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Sam Li photographed McKenzie Hayes in this exclusive C-Heads editorial.

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Reading skipper McAnuff hails 2-goal Kebe: A real sight to see

Reading captain Jobi McAnuff was delighted for two-goal Jimmy Kebe after victory over Sunderland.

McAnuff, who provided the assist for Kebe's opener, was full of praise for the former Lens man.

"He's a real handful for any defence in this league," he said.

"He has shown a different side to his game - he was back defending, blocking crosses and it was a fantastic header to get the winner.

"Jimmy is in really good form and he's been a big player for us so far this season. His goal return has been good and he's flying at the moment.

"He's a real sight to see when he's in full flow and I'm glad he's in our side when he's on song like this."

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Sheffield United takes action in Central Coast partnership

Central Coast Mariners partnership with English club Sheffield United is starting to prove fruitful says chairman Lyall Gorman. Sheffield players are believed to be considering loan deals to play in the A-League for a few months in what would be a major coup for the Mariners.

Names being thrown around include former Northern Ireland international Keith Gillespie, former England international Lee Hendrie and 22-year old Ireland international Stephen Quinn.

Gorman said that not only the on-field endeavours will prosper from the 'brotherhood' partnership, but there are also off-field gains to potentially enjoy.

"I know a lot of fans only think about the playing side of things, but players aren't the major priority here," he said. "Think local, act global, is the slogan Sheffield United use, and that also applies to us. This is about consolidating and building an international brand."

Besides the relationship with the A-League club, the Blades own Hungarian side Ferencvaros and Chinese club Chengdu Blades and just last week, Blades international director Mike Farnan visited Australia and spent some time with the Mariners to discuss possibilities.

"We had three very interesting days with Mike, and it's fair to say we've really learnt the potential of the relationship for the first time," Gorman said.

"It's the first time we've had a chance to sit down and look at this. We've finally got the time to be proactive rather than reactive. I think we can also say that Mike was exceptionally happy, exceptionally surprised, to see what sort of club we've built in such a short space of time.

"From our side, we finally understand the dimensions of this partnership. For instance, we could end up having the same naming rights sponsor across all our shirts, or we could end up getting a major sponsor for our [Asian Champions League] campaign through these contacts.

"We could also end up, over time, getting new investors out of this. There's also the coaching and player exchanges, there's things like talent identification, we might send our staff over there for a month at a time, and there's the chance to play matches. For instance, we could send the team over to Chengdu for a camp to prepare for the ACL [Asian Champions League].

"There's a range of opportunities which really are quite amazing. It's been an eye-opener for us, that's for sure. We've now got a to-do list, 30 items are there, and we'll start to prioritise them from here on. Sheffield are also having a seminar in Malta in January for all the clubs, and we'll be going over there to take this to the next level."

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Date of Birth: April 30, 1926

Cloris Leachman has starred in a wide range of theater, television and motion picture projects, creating such indelible characters as Phyllis in the TV series Phyllis and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Nurse Diesel in High Anxiety, Frau Bluecher in Young Frankenstein and Ruth Popper in The Last Picture Show (for which she won an Oscar and a BAFTA).

The native of Des Moines, Iowa attended Northwestern University on a theater scholarship, eventually becoming a member of New York's original Actor's Studio and making her Broadway debut in Sundown Beach.

Since then, Leachman has gone on to play roles in more than 50 feature films, six television series, 35 telefeatures, a dozen television specials and 24 theatrical productions, including the recent and popular revival of Showboat.

Other feature film credits include 50 Violins (playing Meryl Streep's mother) and Hanging Up (in which she played the mother of Diane Keaton, Meg Ryan and Lisa Kudrow).

Other awards include a Daytime Emmy for the TV movie The Woman Who Willed a Miracle (1983), two nighttime Emmys for her role in Mary Tyler Moore and five more Emmys for various projects, including the sitcom Malcolm in the Middle. For her tv series Phyllis, she won a Golden Globe and she has also received a Star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

The Story of Bonnie and Clyde (2010)
American Cowslip (2009)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Ponyo (2009) (voice)
New York, I Love You (2009)
The Women (2008)
Beerfest (2006)
Scary Movie 4 (2006)
Mrs. Harris (2005)
Sky High (2005)
Spanglish (2004)
The Longest Yard (2005)
Bad Santa (2003)
Alex and Emma (2003)
Manna From Heaven (2001)
The Amati Girls (2000)
Hanging Up (2000)
Music Of The Heart (1999)
The Iron Giant (1999) (voice)
50 Violins (1999)
Gen 13 (1998)
Annabelle's Wish (1997) (V) (voice)
Never Too Late (1997)
Now and Then (1995)
The Beverly Hillbillies (1993)
My Boyfriend's Back (1993)
A Troll in Central Park (1993) (voice)
Texasville (1991)
Love Hurts (1991)
The Giant of Thunder Mountain (1991)
Texasville (1990)
Prancer (1989)
Cannon Movie Tales: Cinderella (1988)
Cannon Movie Tales: Hansel and Gretel (1988)
Walk Like a Man (1987)
Shadow Play (1986)
My Little Pony: The Movie (1986) (voice)
History of the World: Part I (1981)
Yesterday (1981)
Soggy Bottom, USA (1980)
Foolin' Around (1980)
Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)
Scavenger Hunt (1979)
The Muppet Movie (1979)
The North Avenue Irregulars (1979)
High Anxiety (1978)
Crazy Mama (1975)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Daisy Miller (1974)
Charley and the Angel (1973)
Dillinger (1973)
Happy Mother's Day, Love George (1973)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Steagle (1971)
The People Next Door (1970)
WUSA (1970)
Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969)
The Chapman Report (1962)
The Rack (1956)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Carnegie Hall (1947)
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