Defining the Garden's Culture
Defining the Garden's Culture

The Power of Transformation: The Life and Times of a "Learning Organization"

Kathleen Socolofsky and Mary Burke
How has the UC Davis Arboretum accomplished so much so quickly? By examining and re-defining its organizational culture, staff were able to position the Arboretum for success, both with internal university partners and external audiences.


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Celebrating America's Public Gardens

Christine Flanagan and Ray Mims
A partnership between the U. S. Botanic Garden and APGA created an exhibit in a very public part of Washington, D. C., that celebrated the work and diversity of public gardens.


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Sense of Place: The New Role of Public Gardens in the Celebration of Place

Brian J. LaHaie
With a place-based design strategy, gardens have the opportunity to serve as reflections of local nature and culture.

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Placing Nature as Art Park: Genesis of a Landscape's Architecture

Ed Blake
Blake asks "How does one place a place?" to begin his story of the genesis of a new art and nature park.

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A Southwestern Garden's Farming Heritage

Catherine Hubbard
A garden expands its reach by tapping into its region's agricultural heritage to reconnect visitors with the often-forgotten relationships between the food we eat and the land, plants, and animals that provide it.

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Speaking a Local Language in Designing Garden Displays and Exhibitions

W. Gary Smith
Gwen L. Stauffer
Gardens can connect people with plants but only if they make the connection clear. Permanent displays and temporary exhibits with a provincial aesthetic can open the eyes of visitors to their immediate natural world.

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Culture Across Borders: An International Perspective

Peter Olin
The story of how a few American dollars went a very long way to helping gardens in Russia and Estonia should inspire all American gardens to help colleagues in other countries in a worldwide conservation effort.

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Learning from the Past to Save Plants for the Future

David A. Burney and Linda Pigott Burney
After 30 years studying how species become endangered and eventually extinct, researchers in Hawaii are trying soemthing new-using the clues from the past to save species from extinction.

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Spirit of Cooperation

Trish Wesley Umbrell
The creation of a new demonstration garden drawing upon 150 volunteers continued one institution's mission to bring people and plants together.

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Interview with Scot Medbury - One Garden's Culture

Leeann Lavin

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Book Review - Good to Great and the Social Sectors: Why Business Thinking is Not the Answer

Reviewed by Don Buma

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Book Review - Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants

Reviewed by Leora Ornstein Siegel

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