On the Inside with Jacqueline Hériteau: Have You Ever Communed with a 100 Year-Old Maple?

Posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 by admin in Care
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The Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is everything a botanical garden can be: a glorious place to spend a golden fall day, a great center for learning, a storehouse of treasured native plants, and not too far from an interesting city—historic Richmond in this case.

But what is even more exciting is the evidence everywhere of this young botanic garden’s vision of the contribution it hopes to make. To introduce plants adaptive to central Virginia and to expand the plant palette is one way they state their goal. But it’s way bigger. They hope to teach future generations about the interdependence of people and plants. Holly Shimizu, who left her position as Assistant Director of the US Botanic Garden in DC to join the Ginter Garden, puts it this way: