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Dr. Cathy Donaldson

Dr. Cathy Donaldson started her first wildflower garden in the tenth grade. While studying for the state biology exam, she asked her teacher, “What is a Solomon’s seal?” The next day her teacher brought in a bare-root Solomon’s seal to show her that the basis for the plant name was…
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Stephen W. Kress

Stephen W. Kress is director of the National Audubon Society’s Seabird Restoration Program and manager of the Society’s Maine coast seabird sanctuaries. He teaches field ornithology at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, where he is a research associate. He is author of The Audubon Society Bird Garden, The Audubon Society…
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Robert Newgarden

Robert Newgarden is a former gardener at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. He tended the Cashew Plant Family and other plant families in the Plant Family Collection. He also cared for the Herb Garden.
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Stephanie Cohen

Stephanie Cohen teaches at Temple University, Ambler and is founding director of the arboretum there. She is that author of The Perennial Gardener’s Design Primer.
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Mark Fisher

Mark Fisher is director of Horticulture at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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David Horak

David Horak has been growing orchids for more than 30 years. He is the curator of orchids and the Robert W. Wilson Aquatic House at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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Carlos Fighetti
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Susanne Lucas

Susanne Lucas is a freelance horticultural consultant, garden designer, and landscape gardener. She has encountered many plants, but it is her passion for bamboos that has endured. Over ten years ago she set out to grow only the most cold hardy bamboos in her garden in coastal Massachusetts and continues…
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Julia Solarz

Julia Solarz is the editor of DIG, an award-winning bimonthly gardening magazine, published by the nursery Hortus in Pasadena, California. She grows potted cacti and succulents year-round in the courtyard of her Spanish-style, Hollywood Hills home, where the mild climate allows for such a luxury.
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Tom McClendon

Tom McClendon is president of the Southeastern Palm and Exotic Plant Society and an avid grower of palms, citrus, and other subtropical plants.
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C. Colston Burrell

C. Colston Burrell is an avid plantsman, garden designer, and award-winning author.
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Brent and Becky Heath

Brent and Becky Heath are garden educators who own and operate “Brent and Becky’s Bulbs,” a wholesale/retail catalogue and web-site flower-bulb business in Gloucester, Virginia. They distribute all types of bulbs to gardeners, cities, universities, and botanical gardens throughout the United States. Daffodil hybridizers, Brent and Becky are co-authors of…
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Panayoti Kelaidis

Panayoti Kelaidis is a plant exlorer, gardener, and public garden admninistrator at Denver Botanic Gardens, where he is now director of outreach. He began his career at the garden in 1980 as curator of the rock alpine garden, where he designed and oversaw the initial plantings of the now extensive…
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Susan F. Martin

Susan F. Martin has been Curator of Conifers at the U.S. National Arboretum, in Washington D.C. since 1979.
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Ellen Zachos

Ellen Zachos is a Harvard graduate and received her Certificate in Horticulture from the New York Botanical Garden. She specializes in tropical plants and has restored several greenhouses in the New York City area, which she now maintains for her clients. Her company, Acme Plant Stuff, installs and maintains commercial…
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Andrew Bunting

Andrew Bunting is the curator of the Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College, in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and the owner of Fine Garden Creations, a garden design and installation business. Each year he teaches a six-week course on ornamental vines at Longwood Gardens, in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
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Judith Jones

Judith Jones is a self-taught fern specialist. Her nursery, Fancy Fronds, in Seattle, has introduced six new ferns to the American nursery trade. She has lectured throughout North America and England and her nursery’s displays of hardy ferns have won four gold medals at flower shows in the Northwest. She…
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Nancy Swell

Nancy Swell grows and propagates a wide variety of hardy ferns in her garden in Richmond, Virginia. She is an active member of The American Fern Society, The British Pteridological Society and The Hardy Fern Foundation and is a self-proclaimed fern fernatic.
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Herb Garden

The Herb Garden serves as a vibrant living classroom where the community can learn practical urban food gardening techniques and tips for making sustainable food choices. The garden is designed to be a decorative but utilitarian potager, or kitchen garden, that freely mixes medicinal and culinary herbs, vegetables, berries, fruit…
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Daffodil Hill

Thousands of trumpet daffodils transform the slope of the hill adjacent to Magnolia Plaza into a mass of blazing yellows and golds in late March and early April. Several varieties are planted, most notably Narcissus ‘Spelbinder’ which displays bright yellow and white blooms as well as Narcissus ‘King Alfred’, the…
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Celebrity Path

Across from the Shakespeare Garden is the start of Celebrity Path, where stepping-stones are inscribed with names of famous Brooklynites past and present. The path meanders through Austrian pines, rhododendrons, and daffodils, just south of the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden. At irregular intervals along the way, approximately 100 artists, poets, performers,…
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Katherine Gould

Katherine Gould obtained her degree in tropical plant systematics, working on the genus Spigelia, which includes the North American wildflower S. marilandica, Indian pink. After doing postdoctoral research at Harvard, she worked for two years in BBG’s Science department as coordinator of the New York Metropolitan Flora project.
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T. Meghan Ray

T. Meghan Ray, the gardener in charge of the Fragrance Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, also cares for Prunus mume ‘Kasugano’ located outside the Japanese garden.
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March is Magnolia Month!

March is Magnolia Month!
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Richard L. Bitner

Richard L. Bitner, an anesthesiologist by trade, lectures on deciduous flowering plants at Longwood Gardens and is a member of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s Gold Medal Plant Award Committee.
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Ilene Harfenist Sternberg

Ilene Harfenist Sternberg and her husband were both born and raised in Brooklyn but didn’t take their first stab at gardening until they bought a home in Maryland. “He cut the townhouse lawn with scissors,” says Ilene, “while I experimented with growing miniature vegetables. Not understanding the concept of soil…
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Claire Hagen Dole

Claire Hagen Dole is the publisher/editor of Butterfly Gardeners’ Quarterly, a newsletter for gardeners and butterfly enthusiasts, which can be viewed online at butterflygardeners.com. She has also written articles for Organic Gardening, Country Living, Sierra, Wild Garden, Hortus West, and other publications.
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Kim Hawkes

Kim Hawkes is the owner of Niche Gardens, a nursery in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, specializing in nursery-propagated wildflowers, selected garden perennials, ornamental grasses, and underused trees and shrubs.
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Bob Hyland

Bob Hyland is a former VP of Horticulture and Operations at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. He currently co-owns Loomis Creek Nursery in Hudson, New York, which specializes in out-of-the-ordinary perennials, tender perennials, and annuals.
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Mariellé Anzelone

Mariellé Anzelone works to preserve the floristic diversity of the five boroughs through conservation and habitat management and restoration. Learn more at www.drosera-x.com.
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Susan Amoy

Susan Amoy has been growing succulent plants for 25 years and runs her own retail bonsai web site, www.susanamoy.com. She has BFA and MFA degrees in the visual arts and is a member of Friends of Bonsai of the BBG, as well as the Cactus and Succulent Society of America.
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Barbara Perry Lawton

Barbara Perry Lawton has served as editor and manager of publications for the Missouri Botanical Garden, president of the Garden Writers Association of America, and weekly garden columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Her latest book is Hibiscus: Hardy and Tropical Plants for the Garden (Timber Press, 2004).
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Barbara Blossom Ashmun

Barbara Blossom Ashmun writes a regular gardening column for Oregon’s Portland Tribune. Her latest book is Married to My Garden, a collection of humorous and philosophical stories.
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Erik A. Draper, James A. Chatfield, and Kenneth D. Cochran

Erik A. Draper is an Ohio State University cooperative extension agent for Geauga County, Ohio. Jim Chatfield is an OSU extension specialist based in Wooster, Ohio. Ken Cochran is curator of OSU’s Secrest Arboretum, in Wooster, Ohio.
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Lilac Collection

The recently relocated Lilac Collection, located along an accessible winding path between the Osborne Garden and the Cranford Rose Garden, features a diverse array of lilacs propagated from divisions of the original specimens from the Garden’s historic collection dating back to 1914.
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Amy Stewart

Amy Stewart is the author of Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business (Algonquin Books, 2007). Visit her online at amystewart.com.
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Jessica Reisman

Jessica Reisman has written for Texas Monthly, The Austin Chronicle, and several encyclopedias and is the author of the novel The Z Radiant (www.storyrain.com).
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Joni Blackburn

Joni Blackburn is a former copy editor at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. She writes and gardens in the Catskills.
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Walter Chandoha

Walter Chandoha has been a professional freelance photographer and writer for over 40 years, specializing in flora and fauna of the world. Much of his inspiration is drawn from his 46-acre farm in northwestern New Jersey, where he has many experimental gardens of flowers, vegetables, fruits, herbs, and ornamental grasses.…
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Grace Gershuny

Grace Gershuny is the author of several books and articles on soil management and composting, including Start with the Soil, published in 1997 by Rodale Press. She was editor of Organic Farmer: The Digest of Sustainable Agriculture for its four-year existence. Gershuny lives in Barnet, Vermont and serves on the…
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Beth Hanson

Beth Hanson is former managing editor of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s 21st Century Gardening Series and former managing editor of the Natural Resource Defense Council’s Amicus Journal. She writes about gardening and environmental issues for a variety of publications and composts just north of New York City.
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Jim Chatfield

Jim Chatfield is an assistant professor and Extension specialist with the Ohio State University Extension, where he has worked for the past 12 years. He teaches and writes extensively on plant pathology, plant selection, and plant diagnostic topics.
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William Quarles

William Quarles is an integrated pest management (IPM) specialist and the executive director of the Bio-Integral Resource Center (BIRC) in Berkeley, California, a non-profit organization that researches pesticide alternatives and educates the public about them.
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Jennifer Bennett

Jennifer Bennett, who lives near Kingston, Ontario, is the author of eight gardening books and a regular garden column for Canadian Livingmagazine. Her most recent book is Dry Land Gardening: A Xeriscaping Guide for Dry Summer, Cold Winter Climates (Firefly, 1995).
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Peter Loewer

Peter Loewer, , horticulture writer and illustrator, gardens near Asheville in the mountains of North Carolina. He is the author of many articles and books, including Seeds: The Definitive Guide to Growing, History and Lore (Macmillan, 1995). His most recent books are The Winter Garden (Stackpole Books, 1997) and, with…
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Karen Davis Cutler

Karen Davis Cutler, who has edited five previous BBG handbooks—Essential Tools, Salad Gardens, Tantalizing Tomatoes, Flowering Vines, and Starting from Seed—gardens on 15 acres in northern Vermont. A frequent contributor to national garden magazines, her latest book is The New England Gardener’s Book of Lists (2000).
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Stevie Daniels

Stevie Daniels is the director of publications for Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. She is the the author of The Wild Lawn Handbook: Alternatives to the Traditional Front Lawn (Macmillan, 1995) and gardening columnist forPennsylvania Magazine. She has been a Penn State Master Gardener since 1988. Daniels has spent the…
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John Greenlee

John Greenlee, dubbed “The Grassman” by Wade Graham of The New Yorker, established Greenlee Nursery in 1985 and is the author of The Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses (Rodale Press, 1992).
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Composting Exhibit

In this area, various composting techniques and tools for home gardeners are on display, from commercial bins, such as those made from recycled plastic like the Biostack, Earth Machine, and Garden Gourmet, to homemade variations, such as the Circular Wire Mesh Bin, Compost Bench, and Wooden Two-Bin System. Stop by…
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Spring Awakens

Spring Awakens
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Children’s Garden

In BBG’s Children’s Garden, kids 2 to 17 years old can plant their own crops and flowers and harvest them under the guidance of garden instructors. Younger children combine planting, tending, and harvesting with craft making and creative play. For older children, lessons in science and urban ecology accompany the…
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Garden Guide Training

Garden Guides are specially trained volunteers who provide interpretive tours for adults and families.
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Citizen Pruners
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Richard A. Larson

Richard A. Larson, M.S., is the plant propagator at the Dawes Arboretum in Newark, Ohio.
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Janet Marinelli

Janet Marinelli is the former director of publishing at BBG. Her book, Plant, published by Dorling Kindersley, showcases 2,000 species worldwide that are threatened in the wild but alive in cultivation.
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Paul Roland
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Sandra McLean

Sandra McLean is a food writer, chef, and educator. She teaches at the Institute of Culinary Education in Manhattan and is the chair of Slow Food NYC. She is currently writing a primer on the local foods movement.
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Doris Loechle

Doris Loechle is a certified horticulturist with extensive experience in chemical-free container and rooftop gardening. She has worked in various botanic gardens and in exotic places like Cape Town, South Africa, where she studied the native Cape flora.
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Joan E. Prior

Joan E. Prior is a prize-winning floral designer whose arrangements have adorned weddings from Manhattan lofts to Southampton mansions. Joan is also an accredited flower show judge and author.
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Christopher Roddick

Christopher Roddick is an ISA-certified arborist at BBG. He is also the coauthor of the BBG handbook The Tree Care Primer, a BBG All-Region Guide.
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Community Horticulture Workshops
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Jent LaPalm

Jent LaPalm is a Brooklyn-based musician, writer, and bee enthusiast.
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Scott D. Appell

Scott D. Appell is a regular contributor to BBG publications and the author of four books, Pansies, Lilies, Tulips, and Orchids. He lives and gardens on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico.
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Niall Dunne

Niall Dunne is the former Associate Editor of Plants & Gardens News.
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Rebecca Bullene

Rebecca Bullene is a former editor at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. She is the proprietor of Greenery NYC, a creative floral and garden design company that specializes in botanical works of art including terrariums, urban oasis gardens, and whimsical floral arrangements.
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Rose Unes

Rose Unes grew up on a farm in Minnesota. After a career in publishing, she began raising chickens in her Brooklyn backyard. She is an organic gardener and holds a Certificate in Horticulture from the BBG.
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Ian Tonnessen

Ian Tonnessen is the owner of Flowers by Ian Tonnessen and has been working in the floral design industry for over 20 years.
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Lis Thomas

Lis Thomas is a former outreach assistant for Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s community greening program.
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Douglas W. Tallamy

Douglas W. Tallamy is professor and chair of the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology and director of the Center for Managed Ecosystems at the University of Delaware. Chief among his research goals is to better understand the many ways insects interact with plants and how such interactions determine the…
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Robin Simmen

Robin Simmen is a former director of Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s community greening programs.
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Jim Russell

Jim Russell has gardened and maintained landscapes at the Prospect Park Zoo and at Battery Park, in Manhattan. He holds a BBG Certificate in Horticulture.
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Adele L. Rossetti

Adele L. Rossetti is a professor of art at Pratt Institute and a member of the BBG Florilegium Society. A lecturer, scientific illustrator, and artist, she received the American Society of Botanical Artists’ Excellence Award in 2001. She has a BS in scientific illustration and an MFA in painting and…
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Richard B. Primack

Richard B. Primack is professor of biology at Boston University and holds a BA from Harvard University and PhD from Duke University. His current research focuses on the impact of climate change on plant and bird species in the U.S., Japan, and South Korea.
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Margarita Poulson

Margarita Poulson, current Gardener of BBG’s Water Garden and former curator of BBG’s interior displays and Washington Avenue gardens, makes unique jewelry pieces using botanical materials, a passion she discovered and embraced as a Horticulture intern at BBG. She draws inspiration from the cultural traditions, folklore, and natural history of…
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Jon Pope

Jon Pope is a Master Composter from the class of 2009 and is involved with composting at Prospect Heights Community Farm and the Fort Greene Compost Project. He is also a professional carpenter.
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Ellen Spector Platt

Ellen Spector Platt is a member of the Brooklyn Watercolor Society and holds an MA in art education from Brooklyn College. She has taught in public and private institutions and exhibits her work throughout New York.
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Ellen Spector Platt

Ellen Spector Platt, former editor of Flowers & Herbs magazine, is an expert in dried flowers and the author of nine books on flowers and herbs. As proprietor of Meadow Lark Flower & Herb Farm, Ellen learned how to dry more than 500 kinds of flowers. Visit her blog at…
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Rose Pellicano

Rose Pellicano is a member of the BBG Florilegium Society and the American Society of Botanical Artists. Her work has been exhibited at botanic gardens and museums across the country, and was included in the 10th International Exhibition of Botanical Illustration at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation and the…
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Susan Pell

Susan Pell is the director of science at BBG, where she studies the evolutionary relationships of the cashew family. She holds a PhD in plant biology and teaches continuing education and training courses in genetics, angiosperm morphology, and systematics.
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Sarah Owens

Sarah Owens is the owner of BK17 Bakery and the author of Sourdough, winner of the 2015 James Beard Foundation Book Award (Baking and Dessert). She was the curator of the Cranford Rose Garden and the Rose Arc Pool at Brooklyn Botanic Garden for six years.
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Karla Osorio-Pérez

Karla Osorio-Pèrez is a former community greening manager at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. She holds a BA in biology from the University of Puerto Rico.
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Robb Moss

Robb Moss is owner of FloraCulture and has taught floral design courses at Parsons School of Design, the New School, the New York Horticultural Society, and his own Floral Design Center of New York.
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Leda Meredith

Leda Meredith is a professional gardener and ethnobotanist with expertise in herbs and locavorism. She is an urban garden consultant and author. Her most recent book is The Locavore’s Handbook: The Busy Person’s Guide to Eating Local on a Budget.
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Joan McDonald

Joan McDonald runs a private garden design business, Gardens by Joan, and is a graduate of the BBG Certificate in Horticulture program.
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Michael Mauro

Michael Mauro is the curator of the Plant Family Collection. He holds an AS degree in engineering from CUNY and a BBG Certificate in Horticulture and has more than 20 years’ experience at BBG, Old Westbury Gardens, and private gardens.
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Albert Massimi

Albert Massimi holds an MA from Columbia and studied art at SUCB, the University of Siena (Italy), and LIU; he learned brush and ink painting while in the Peace Corps in Korea. He belongs to GNSI, A SBA, and is the president of the Brooklyn Watercolor Society.
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Uli Lorimer

Uli Lorimer is director of Horticulture at Garden In The Woods, in Framingham, Massachussettes. Previously, he was curator of BBG’s Native Flora Garden.
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Cayleb Long

Cayleb Long is the former curator of the Annual and Perennial Borders, Lily Pools, and Magnolia Plaza at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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Judith Kunhardt

Judith Kunhardt holds a degree in art history from the City College of New York. She is a member of the Brooklyn Watercolor Society and a fellow of the BBG Florilegium Society.
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Patricia Jonas

Patricia Jonas is a former director of Library Services and curator of the Florilegium Society. She curated “Banks’ Florilegium: An 18th-Century Botanical Art Treasure Rediscovered’’ (2005) and “Drawing from Life: Maud H. Purdy and 90 Years of Women Artists at Brooklyn Botanic Garden” (2007), for which she wrote the exhibition…
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Wendy Hollender

Wendy Hollender holds a BFA in textile design from the R hode Island School of Design and a Certificate in Botanical A rt and Illustration from NYBG, where she is an instructor and coordinator. Wendy founded WH Art & Design, which uses her botanical artwork for museums and conservation groups.
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Paul Keim

Paul Keim, who holds a BFA from Pratt Institute, is a full-time printer and colorist and an avid birdwatcher/naturalist. He belongs to the Brooklyn Watercolor Society and the Brooklyn Bird Club, where he has served as president.
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Robert Herold

Robert Herold is a national director of the American Wine Society, whose motto is “Wine appreciation through education.” He is ranked among its top 50 award-winning home winemakers. In addition to teaching, he is a consultant on establishing vineyards in Connecticut and New York.
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Susan Hartman

Susan Hartman holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia University and has published three books and more than a hundred pieces in the New York Times and other national media. Susan also teaches creative writing and journalism at NYU.
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Monika Hanneman

Monika Hanneman has taught gardening and soil science to adults and children for the past ten years at BBG and throughout the New York City area. She has a biology and environmental science degree from Oberlin College and is an ISA-certified arborist.
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Luke Halligan

Luke Halligan is the compost educator for the NYC Compost Project hosted by Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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Cindy Goulder

Cindy Goulder is an ecological landscape designer providing planning, design, installation supervision, and management planning for ecological restoration projects and residential landscapes and gardens throughout the region.
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Joe Giunta

Joe Giunta has led bird walks for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Nature Conservancy and the South Fork Natural History Society and taught a beginning birding course for Summer Fest. He has birded extensively in the U.S., Panama, Belize, Venezuela, and Costa Rica.
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Jackie Fazio

Jackie Fazio holds a degree in horticulture from SUNY Cobleskill. She served as director of Horticulture at BBG from 1994 to 2007, after 16 years as a BBG gardener. Jackie specializes in native plants and pest management.
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Rose Edinger

Rose Edinger is an award-winning floral designer with over 20 years’ experience. She specializes in thematic design work and has decorated events in the New York region and beyond.