Public Garden THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION VOLUME 34, ISSUE 1, 2019 GARDEN RELEVANCE MARKETING ALLIANCES INCLUSIVE INTERNSHIP PROGRAMS < Back to Table of Contents Public Garden is looking for your best shot! ROUGH CONSERVATORIES Send a high res, 11”X17” landscape-orientation photo for the Photosynthesis feature to [email protected]. Subject is your choice. CLEARLY SUPERIOR The Rough tradition of excellence continues at Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden. Since 1932 Rough has been building We have the experience, resources, and maintaining large, high-quality and technical expertise to solve your glazed structures, including: design needs. For more information • arboretums about Rough Brothers’ products and • botanical gardens services, call 1-800-543-7351, or visit • conservatories our website: www.roughbros.com DESIGN SERVICES 5513 Vine Street MANUFACTURING Cincinnati OH 45217 SYSTEMS INTEGRATION ph: 800 543.7351 CONSTRUCTION www.roughbros.com THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION VOLUME 34, ISSUE 1, 2019 FOCAL POINTS 6 THE GARDEN AND THE CITY: EXPANDING RELEVANCE IN RURAL SOUTH CAROLINA This small garden is working to bring horticulture to its community as part of an effort to revitalize the city and expand people’s awareness of the garden and of horticulture. Learn how they are accomplishing this in an unique partnership. 10 ALLIANCES ENHANCE MARKETING EFFORTS Increasingly public gardens should consider alliances to strategically increase exposure, share resources, and provide greater impact. The successes of five such alliances are shared here. BACKBONES 14 DIGGING DEEPER: Creating a Racially Diverse and Inclusive Internship Program 16 LEARNING IN THE GARDEN: Curiosity Collectors 24 PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES: Mobile Apps and the Visitor Experience PERENNIALS 5 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S NOTE 13 GARDEN EXHIBIT 18 PHOTOSYNTHESIS 20 NATIONALLY ACCREDITED PLANT COLLECTION™ SHOWCASE 23 HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW? 26 GARDEN PROFESSIONAL SPOTLIGHT 27 THINGS WE LOVE THIS WINTER ANNUALS 22 TURN UP YOUR COLLECTION 32 AMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP REPORT—2018 35 MEMBERSHIP LISTS EDITOR IN CHIEF Richard A. Doran American Public Gardens Association MANAGING EDITOR Dorothea J. Coleman American Public Gardens Association ASSOCIATE EDITOR Caitlin Simkovich American Public Gardens Association EDITORIAL ADVISORY GROUP Duron Chavis Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Carissa Kowalski Dougherty, Vice Chair The Morton Arboretum Jenny Young du Pont Greetings, Association Members, Shari Edelson, Chair The Arboretum at Penn State Neil Gerlowski Vallarta Botanical Garden This letter is different. I want to provoke you, dear Public Garden Lindsey Kerr reader, and prompt a debate: If public gardens are indispensable, Frédérique Lavoipierre Phoenix Enterprises why do we struggle to define them? Sharon Loving Longwood Gardens Tracy Magellan Montgomery Botanical Center I have had MANY hours of “civil discourse” with MANY colleagues— Amber M. Ramirez, JD Desert Botanical Garden students, teachers, donors, corporate communicators, team members, Andy Sell Sasaki board members, legislators, etc. surrounding “the definition of a Kate Senner Sarah P. Duke Gardens public garden” (or botanical garden, arboretum, and their differences). Melanie Sifton University of Toronto Ben Stormes University of British Columbia Botanical Garden We even have a page about it on our site. Yet, our own consumer focus groups for National Public Gardens Week showed no ability or DESIGNER: Alena Scogna desire to define what a public garden, botanical garden, or arboretum PRINTER: Sheridan is. Other partner initiatives and garden research firms corroborate AMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS this throughout a wide range of demographics. PRESIDENT — William M. LeFevre Sarah P. Duke Gardens Practically all public garden professionals (e.g., researchers, guest VICE PRESIDENT — Brian Vogt Denver Botanic Gardens TREASURER — Bruce Harkey Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens services, finance, hort team members, from seasonal staff to SECRETARY — Carmia Feldman University of California Davis Arboretum and Public Garden executive) have been confronted with the “What do you do for a IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT — Sabina Carr Atlanta Botanical Garden living?” question. To which you respond “I work at a public garden DIRECTORS AT LARGE (—or botanic(al) garden, arboretum, or etc.).” Michael S. Dosmann The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University And then you brace yourself for the inevitable follow-up question— Grace Elton Tower Hill Botanic Garden “What’s that?”—knowing you will have only one quick chance to M. Patrick Griffith Montgomery Botanical Center Scott Jamieson Bartlett Tree Experts relate what you care so deeply about, before whoever asked you On the Cover: Stephanie Jutila Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden loses all interest… Nancy Kartes Longwood Gardens Plant Records Bellevue Botanical Garden Thus, dear reader, I ask you: International Intern Bingyu Li and Scott LaFleur Sherman Library and Gardens Professional Gardener student Cody MaryLynn Mack South Coast Botanic Garden ❶ What did you say? What is a “public garden” or “arboretum” or Caporaso assist with the annual spring bulb Ray Mims United States Botanic Garden “botanical garden” to you? Did you note differences in them from a planting as part of their intensive Shane D. Smith Friends of the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens residential education experience. park, a nature preserve, an urban greenspace, etc.? (Note: many Photo: Longwood Gardens, Inc. EX OFFICIO people who work at these are also members, no less serious about Cynthia Druckenbrod Chair, Council of Communities our profession.) D. Casey Sclar Executive Director, American Public Gardens Association ❷ Does it matter? Is it important for everyone to understand what AMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION ADVERTISERS a “public garden” or “botanical garden” or “arboretum” is? 351 Longwood Road, Kennett Square, PA 19348 AMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION Phone: 610-708-3010 • Fax: 610-444-3594 It’s YOUR turn. My email is [email protected]. Please send 2019 ANNUAL CONFERENCE .............Back Inside Cover www.publicgardens.org me a note with your 35-word-or-less definition that anyone can grasp CALL FOR PHOTOS .........................................................1 Volume 34, ISSUE 1, 2019. Public Garden (ISSN 0885-3894) is published quarterly by American Public Gardens Association, and isn’t bored by, and/or why you think we must define these terms. 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Or request a media kit at [email protected]. [4, 5] PUBLIC GARDEN MAGAZINE Volume 34, Issue 1, 2019 < Back to Table of Contents they are someplace special, and that there is a garden nearby. People are discovering MFBG not because we are on a list, but THE GARDEN by what we do. Word is spreading and so is interest. How did it happen? People say that Lake City, South Carolina, is AND in the middle of nowhere. I say it’s in the middle of everywhere. THE CITY: Lake City is a crossroads town in a region with