Daria is the manager for the Center for Home Gardening at the Missouri Botanical Garden, one of the top ten Botanical Gardens in the country.
It's beautiful.
We get to walk through many of the features, displays, and systems of the garden and get the inside scoop.
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- Botanical Gardens play a huge role in research, discovery, and conversation for the plant species of our shared Earth. As well as a major educational resource for learning about the natural world.
- LCMS: Living Collections Management System - a database that tracks the life of every plant in the garden. A GIS system that maps the growing conditions, plant date, and all notes about each plant. This information can then be cross-pollinated with other Botanical Gardens all over the world.
- That's a great reason to work here. You step outside and it's like therapy. It's calming, you get to see beautiful sights every day...it's very relaxing."
- All the botanical gardens are starting to ask the question: "Not what can I plant now, but what can I plant later on?"
Something to think about.
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Dariah, thank you for taking us for a walk through the garden!
https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/
