by Theresa Bramblett | Apr 30, 2011 | Events
Eight visitors from the Key West Garden Club and one Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden employee visited Montgomery for a tour of the collections of palms and cycads. The Key West Garden Club is a non-profit organization and one of Key West’s last remaining free...
by Theresa Bramblett | Apr 2, 2011 | Events
Montgomery Botanical Center’s 52ndMembers’ Meeting was held Saturday April 2, 2011. The MBC Board of Directors announced MBC’s new President, Nicholas Kelly. Charles P. Sacher, the outgoing President, spoke about MBC’s accomplishments during his four years as...
by Theresa Bramblett | Apr 2, 2011 | Events
A highlight of the 2011 Members Meeting was the dedication of The Marion and Tex Haynes Patio. The very generous support of Walter Haynes, Marion Haynes, and the Haynes Family has enabled MBC to add this wonderful new outdoor gathering space. This improvement...
by Theresa Bramblett | Mar 23, 2011 | Research
The fieldwork component of a multi-institutional collaboration focused on conducting research on Bahamian Zamias has recently been completed. The field research, conducted on five separate trips, included fieldwork on all six islands in The Bahamas in which the genus...
by Theresa Bramblett | Mar 8, 2011 | Events
Dr. Angelica Cibrian, from the New York Botanical Garden, was hosted at Montgomery in early March as part of the Kelly Research Fellows Program. Angelica offered a public seminar, titled: “The use of living collections to understand plant evolution, from genes across...