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New York Metropolitan Flora Project

In 1990 the Garden embarked on the New York Metropolitan Flora project (NYMF), a multiyear effort to document the flora in all counties within a 50-mile radius of New York City, including all of Long Island, southeastern New York State, northern New Jersey and Fairfield County, Connecticut.
Community Greening

Community Garden Alliance

All Brooklyn community gardens are invited to join the Community Garden Alliance. The Alliance’s focus is on promoting sustainable gardening practices to support healthy communities of people, plants, and wildlife. It facilitates skill sharing between gardens through workshops and seasonal gatherings and offers an avenue for communication and learning, where…
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Herbarium

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden Herbarium includes over 300,000 specimens of preserved plants.
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A Hardy Succulent Garden

A Hardy Succulent Garden
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Elizabeth Peters

Elizabeth Peters is the director of Digital and Print Media at BBG.
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Charles Wilson

Charles Wilson cowrote, with Eric Schlosser, Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food (Houghton Mifflin, 2006). He lives in New York City.
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Laura Berman

Laura Berman is a Canadian photographer based in Toronto. Her work can be seen at greenfusephotos.com.
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Claire Sawyers

Claire Sawyers is the director of the Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
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Bill Shank

Bill Shank was the cofounder (in 1984) and first president of the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons, in Bridgehampton, New York. He is currently vice-president/deputy garden editor of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. In addition, he serves both on the Garden Committee of Wave Hill and on the Board of the…
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David Slawson

David Slawson is one of the most sought-after designers of public and private Japanese gardens in the United States. His Secret Teachings in the Art of Japanese Gardens is one of the most influential books on the subject. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Tina Marie Wilcox and Susan Belsinger

Tina Marie Wilcox has been the head gardener and herbalist at the Ozark Folk Center’s Heritage Herb Garden in Mountain View, Arkansas, since 1984. She tends the extensive gardens, plans and coordinates annual herbal events and workshops, and facilitates the production and sale of plants, seeds, and herbal products for…
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Holly Shimizu

Holly Shimizu is the executive director of the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C., and former managing director of the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, near Richmond, Virginia. She contributed to the BBG handbook Gourmet Herbs (2001), served as editorial consultant on the Eyewitness handbook Herbs, and was a coauthor of…
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Deirdre Larkin

Deirdre Larkin is a horticulturist and historian with a special interest in the use of historical techniques in restored and re-created gardens. She worked for ten years in the gardens of the Cloisters branch of the Metropolitan Museum, in New York City, where she continues to lecture on plants and…
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Shila Patel

Shila Patel is the garden editor at marthastewart.com and the former managing editor of National Gardening magazine.
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Janet Otranto

Janet Otranto, a certified horticulturist, volunteers at BBG’s Gardener’s Resource Center.
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Susan Aument

Susan Aumont was curator of the Desert Pavilion, the Tropical Entry House, and the Trail of Evolution in BBG’s Steinhardt Conservatory until 2016.
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Adrian Bennett

Adrian Bennett, Ph.D., is a research assistant in the Science Department at BBG.
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Nancy Seaton

Nancy Seaton is the former curator of Magnolia Plaza and Lily Pool Terrace at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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Megan T. Ray

Megan T. Ray is curator of the Rock Garden and Plant Family Collection at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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Community Greening

Brooklyn Botanic Garden promotes urban greening through education, conservation, and creative partnerships. By working with block associations, community gardens, and other service groups, the Garden is building a vibrant network of people, places, and projects dedicated to making Brooklyn a greener place. For more information, contact [email protected] or call 718-623-7250.…
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Tom Burford

Tom Burford is an orchard and nursery consultant specializing in restoration, re-creation, and design at historic sites and private estates. He is the author of Apples: A Catalog of International Varieties (1991, 1998), a reference work on hundreds of apples, and has written manuals on grafting, orchard design, and fruit-tree…
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Tim Hensley

Tim Hensley runs Urban Homestead in Bristol, Virginia, a mail-order nursery specializing in antique apples. The father of eight children, he has written for a variety of publications including Mother Earth News, Grit, Highlights for Children, Fine Gardening, Homelife, Old-House Journal, and Smithsonian.
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Ian A. Merwin

Ian A. Merwin is a pomologist at Cornell University, where his current research projects include screening apple rootstocks for resistance to soil-borne diseases; integrated pest management systems for orchard weeds; collecting germplasm of European bittersweet cider apples; and molecular fingerprinting techniques to study soil microbial populations in the apple tree…
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Doug Dudgeon

Doug Dudgeon is the assistant horticulturist at the Dawes Arboretum in Newark, Ohio. For nearly 14 years, until early 1999, he worked at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where he was in charge of the chile pepper collection, the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, the Fragrance Garden, and the Shakespeare Garden.
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Susan Belsinger

Susan Belsinger is a food writer and photographer.
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John D. Simpson
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Louisa Jones

Louisa Jones is a Canadian-born writer who has lived and gardened in Provence, France, since 1975. She is the author of Gardens of Provence; Provence: A Country Almanac; Art of French Vegetable Gardening, and The World of French Vegetable Gardens.
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Elizabeth Manus

Elizabeth Manus ia a freelance writer based in Brooklyn.
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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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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…