Michael Dosmann, PhD, Keeper of the Living Collections, Arnold Arboretum, will speak at the Arboretum on February 28 beginning at 7 pm on a subject worthy of prime time television: Do Your Garden Plants Have a Backstory? Museums assign value to their collections by understanding each piece’s backstory – for instance, where did it come from (and please note, we don’t recommend stealing plants – see below), who created/collected it, what does it represent, what feeling does it elicit from a visitor? The plants in our own gardens can and should do the same, but too often have become generic and mundane because we have forgotten their backstories. Perhaps even worse, we may be losing our own personal connections to what we grow. Michael Dosmann will provide his own perspective on how to re-engage with our garden plants in ways that make it personal.
Fee Free for Arboretum member, $10 nonmember. Register at my.arboretum.harvard.edu or call 617-384-5277.
