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Victoria Stoppiello
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Treating Women
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PO ACHED EGG, OR IS IT OVER S U N N Y SIDE UP?
Dunne July my garden is at its peak performance,
and filled with color, as the wide variety o f perennials
and annuals come into full bloom. M ost leading garden
plants we now grow originally were collected from the
wilds. The plants we use today have been cultivated for
so long that many o f the original species are unknown.
They nave been greatly changed by domestication, by
hybridizing and selection which has improved their
form, size, color and garden value.
One o f the plants that grows in my garden and
has performed for years in its original state is a low-
growing annual. During May and June this plant’s bright
yellow flowers seem to nil the garden with rays o f
sunshine during spring’s cloudy overcast days.
I first saw these flowers growing in Dorothy
Lindsey’s garden in Cannon Beach. She gave me seeds
from her plants that she called ‘Poached Egg,’ and told
me that her seeds she had collected from tne hills near
her home when she and her family lived in California.
She said they were growing wild along with the orange
California poppy. Dorothy died many years ago and I
have carried on her legacy by sharing seeds o f ‘Poached
Egg,’ Latin name Limnatnes douglasii, with people from
allover the U.S., and labeling them ‘Dorothy’s Poached
Egg Plant.’
Two ladies from England visited my garden in
1996 during the time when this plant was in bloom and
commented that they also grew this flower and that it
was commonly used in English gardens. I was surprised,
as the first time I’d seen it was in Dorothy’s garden and
most visitors I’ve shared the seeds with also were
unfamiliar with this plant.
I’ve continued to correspond with one o f the
English ladies, Jacqueline Giles, who lives in Bolton
Percy, York, England. Giles is a well-known primula
(primrose) grower in England. She writes articles and
lectures about primulas throughout England. Her
garden was featured last spring in “The English Garden”
magazine that showed the wide variety o f Elizabethan
primroses she specializes in growing.
Giles recently sent me articles taken from the
journals o f David Douglas, telling about this famous
lant collector, collecting seeds in 1829 o f a buttercup-
ke yellow/white flower, an annual growing in
California. H e sent the seeds back to England and at
that time this plant was identified as Limnathes
douglasii.
David Douglas was bom in Scone, Scotland on
June 25,1799. H e was more interested in nature than in
schooling, and at the age o f 11 became an apprentice in
the gardens at Scone Palace. Because o f his interest, he
was encouraged and guided by his succession o f
employers and supervisors. H e quickly rose from a
garden lad to an expert plantsman. In 1823, under the
employment o f William Hooker in Glasgow, Scotland,
he was recommended to become a plant collector for
the Horticultural Society o f London, now called the
Royal Horticultural Society. For the next 11 years, until
his untimely death caused Gy an accident in Hawaii in
1834, he sent back to England to be cultivated and
identified 20,000 herbarium specimens and introduced
more than 240 plants new to cultivation to Britain.
Many o f these plants he introduced were collected here
along the north coast: salal, spruce, vine maple,
huckleberry, flowering current, and snowbeny, to name
a few.
Sometimes the Latin name o f a plant will identify
its origin, such as Eschscholzia California (California
poppy) or Papaver orientale, the large orange flowering
poppy that blooms in June and is from Asia. However,
many Latin names identify the color or the collector -
such as Limnathes douglesii, named after D . Douglas.
The origin o f my L. douglasii came from Dorothy. I’ll
continue to call it, ‘Dorothy’s Poached Egg Plant.’
In May and June when this plant is in bloom, I
always think o f Dorothy and how, when she brought this
lant from California, she brought a bit o f sunshine to
lighten our gardens here on the North Coast’s overcast
spring days.
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M y neighbor Nellie drove through Nehalem,
Oregon, recently and said later, "Nehalem just gave me a
good feeling Just driving through, it seemed to be a nice
little town "
"There’ s a reason for that," I responded, "Let me
tell you about Lee Dillard " Lee was Nehalem mayor for
16 years Lee’ s fam ily owns the local phone company and
he's the general manager He excels in both arenas
We didn’t realize how spoiled we were by
Nehalem Telephone until we moved to Ilwaco and
couldn’t get the same kind o f service For example, we
wanted to get letterhead and business cards printed in
anticipation o f moving, but Pacific Telecom wouldn’t
assign us a number until the day the phone went in
By contrast, Nehalem Telephone had all kinds o f
help for a small business like ours They installed fiber
optics in the early eighties and DSL lines a year ago They
offered alternative long distance options quickly, not like
the company here that refused to invest in the necessary
equipment until the federal deadline On one occasion,
when costs were lower than expected, Nehalem
Telephone sent customers refunds voluntarily without an
order from the utilities commission
Lee’ s company could be counted on for generous
and reliable financial support for just about any venture
that benefited the community When N T & T sold its direct
T V operation, they distributed the profits (over $100,000)
to numerous community efforts, including schools,
library, recycling, and programs for seniors and kids
But, what was really striking was how Lee
handled his role as mayor In my job for the community
college, I occasionally had to go to city council meetings
in the various towns to ask for money for special projects,
like fixing up the swimming pool in the old school the
college operated as a community center and classroom
building
You get a very real sense o f the health o f a
town’s body politic when you go to their council meeting
asking for money Sometimes you sit for hours listening
to council members bicker while you wait for your item to
come up on the agenda Sometimes a town council w ill
tell you no without giving you any reason Often you’re
viewed with suspicion, either because you’ re a relative
stranger or because they know you’re there to ask for
money— no matter how worthy the cause (A swimming
pool, when there’s a bay, ocean and several rivers nearby
to drown in would seem a mom and apple pie issue— but
not alw ays)
Going to the Nehalem C ity Council meeting was,
however, different from all the rest At the beginning o f
the meeting, Lee would ask each person in the audience to
introduce themselves and indicate what they were
interested in talking about that night He’d even do this in
the middle o f the meeting when someone arrived late Lee
made you feel that each person was important and their
concerns were worthwhile
Lee carried this tradition into a big town hall
meeting about a controversial highway project Although
the proposed passing lane up the south side o f Neahkahnie
Mountain would have had the most impact on the town o f
Manzanita, the council there didn’t have the chutzpah to
take a leadership role in discussing the positive and
negative impacts on the small businesses, residences and
forest environment adjacent to the project But the
Chamber o f Commerce did, and Lee was the president
About 150 people showed up at the cavernous
Nehalem Fire Hall to hear the highway department
officials explain the project, ask them questions and
make comments A t the beginning o f the meeting, Lee
had each person, all 150, stand up and introduce him or
herself As the identities flowed around the room, a
strange and positive feeling emerged People whose
names I ’d heard before but never met were no longer
anonymous, the good old boys leaning against the back
wall were the brothers who ran the gravel operation,
farmers whose dairies I ’ d driven by now had faces to go
w ith names We were no longer strangers from three little
towns and the Nehalem Valley We were a community
coming together with diverse views and contentions, but
all people recognized as individuals with the same
standing
There are lots o f other stories I could tell about
Lee D illard and the leadership he's brought to life
situations, his integrity, kindness, hard work, and
generosity M ainly I ’d say he’ s a great example o f the
difference one person can make And, I should
mention— he’ s a Republican
Victoria Stoppiello writes from Ilwaco, at the lower left comer
o f Washington State
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