Botany gives gardeners a closer look.
I think botany is neat—fun, surprising, and engaging. While parts of plant biology are counter-intuitive, it’s a marvelous world of interactions. But some people aren’t into botany that way… Rumor has it that some people just want their plants to grow!
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Photograph by Jonathan Singer
Anything about Magnificent Botany is bound to get my attention, so it was with great joy that I realized that the publication of this stunning book was bringing Dr. W. John Kress to Denver. He’s a curator at the Smithsonian Muesum of Natural History, and I’m delighted to hear him speak! Jonathan Singer, the book’s equally famous and remarkable photographer, will also be here and I am eagerly anticipating this Saturday’s event . Mervi Hjelmroos-Koski had a great post about the book on her blog.
Thank you, Online College Blog, for including us in your Top 100 list of botany blogs. We are honored by this acknowledgment. Our blog started in February 2008–we’ve come a long way in such a short time!
Enjoy exploring the list. “Students of botany and amateur plant enthusiasts alike can take advantage of the information offered up by these bloggers.” Look for us under Botanic Gardens, #98.
Camel Caravan in Mongolian Altai
The Altai and Tien Shan Mountains of Central Asia each comprise dozens of mountain ranges that straddle Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China. For three enchanted weeks in late June and early July, Mike Bone (propagator here at the Gardens) and I had the privilege of exploring four of these ranges and the steppes and deserts between them on behalf of Plant Select. Thousands of photographs later,
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