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Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
Dec 1, 20192 min read
Botanist's Lens: Pumpkin Overload Yet?
How about little more of Pumpkin, but just as food for thought: 'Pepon', 'Pompon', 'Pumpion' and then finally how did it get to...
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Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
Nov 22, 20192 min read
Botanist's Lens: Exotic Liana invading ecosystems with Arbuscular Mycorrhiza Fungi to its aid.
Lianas (woody creeping plants) can easily add an artistic touch to any landscape, unless one of them is an aggressive invasive. Most...
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Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
Nov 16, 20193 min read
Botanist Lens: Cross 1, Cross 2, Cross 3!
Camellia sasanqua 'Hana Jiman' (picture courtesy: Dinny White) Crossing plants is certainly a fine craft and more so when it comes to...
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Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
Nov 1, 20193 min read
Botanist Lens: Rings of Life
Oak stump cross section. Towering the tallest canopy layers in the woodland gardens at London Town, you will mostly find the grand Willow...
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Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
Oct 25, 20193 min read
Botanist Lens: Best foot forward before the deep of winter sets in
It is turning out to be a slow-paced beautiful fall so far this year. The warm fall leaf colors of the Black Gum, Maple and Gingko trees...
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Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
Oct 21, 20193 min read
Botanist Lens: "Dinosaurs" of the garden: the living fossils
Around the time that the sugar Maples starts showing off the fall leaf colors with an array of yellow, orange and red mixed together,...
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Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
Oct 11, 20192 min read
Botanist's Lens: Ethylene or ABA, who is going to be more active this fall?
Slowly but surely, many leaves have started to show off their fall colors. The pigments in the leaves that are responsible for the...
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Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
Oct 10, 20193 min read
Botanist's Lens: Novice Gardeners' Indoor Treats
Mums, asters and pansies have filled up nurseries to the brim, and many are already blooming in garden beds as fall prep. Around this...
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Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
Sep 27, 20192 min read
#BotanistLens: Companions complementing tall canopy covers and each other.
Groundcovers and understory shrub layers are an essential core of a woodland garden. The canopy layers in a woodland forest are a mixed...
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Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
Sep 27, 20192 min read
#BotanistLens: Paired Perfectly, Wood Ferns and Toad Lilies
Woodland gardens have room for many plants that can tolerate deep shade, yet create interest and have a lasting impact even within the...
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Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
Sep 6, 20192 min read
#BotanistsLens: Jasmine Tobacco
Nicotiana alata is a nightshade family marvel that is an easy summer backdrop plant for garden beds as well as containers. It can fill up...
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Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
Aug 30, 20191 min read
Botanist's Lens: Bark Tales
Barks have many tales to tell: age, stress, genus, disease, and predators. Barks can also be an excellent tool for plant identification...
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Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
Aug 23, 20192 min read
Botanist's Lens: Seed Dormancy: "Surviving the Adverse"
Seed germination is one of the most critical points in the life cycle of a plant. Seeds vary in size, structure, texture and a whole lot...
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Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
Aug 16, 20193 min read
Botanist's Lens: Propagate, "Causing of Plants to Reproduce"
One of the newest volunteer groups in the horticulture department is the 'plant propagation' group that meets every Friday to experiment...
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Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
Aug 9, 20192 min read
Botanist's Lens: Wind Flowers in Pink
If I had to pick one flower that has the most delicate shade of pink, and lasted throughout summer, I would definitely pick the Japanese...
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Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
Aug 6, 20192 min read
Botanist's Lens: Fragrant Jewels in the Gardens at London Town
London Town’s gardens have an excellent collection of specimen trees and shrubs, some happen to be exquisitely fragrant. I will be...
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Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
Jul 26, 20191 min read
Botanists Lens: Pollinator and Rain Gardens
Enjoy watching the pollinator garden transformation, including the first Monarch butterfly of the season! The restoration process for...
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Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
Jul 19, 20192 min read
BotanistLens: Commensalism, "Hitching a Ride"
Plants/organisms that live together share different types of relationships that either benefit both or benefit at least one partner or...
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Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
Jul 12, 20192 min read
Botanist's Lens: Stuck on Stargazer!
Not just the swallow tail in the video below seems stuck on the gorgeous Lily, but I am too! Oriental lilies are considered be one of the...
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Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
Jul 8, 20192 min read
Botanist's Lens: Purple Defense
Calla lilies come in a variety of colors. Callas are true ornamental flowers that exude elegance, style and beauty from all angles and in...
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