As Dawn M. Blackman Sr. tells the story, “I was a city girl … I did not know a thing about gardening. Then, in 2003, I started gardening with 10 neighborhood children.” That project, started in her 50s, grew into Randolph Street Community Garden.
Irish novelist, historian, and poet
American venture capitalist and social reformer
South African botanist who created the museum garden and rock garden in the Kimberley Public Gardens
Peggy Ozais-Akins, a professor of horticulture at UGA’s Coastal Plain Experiment Station, developed a system to make a transgenic pearl millet cell that can be quickly improved using genetic-engineering techniques and then coaxed to grow into a full, fertile plant.
Cleveland florist and author who wrote about Euclid Ave.’s “Millionaires’ Row”
Cleveland florist
In 1893, she published the first Australian Garden Guide written by a woman, “The Flower Garden in Australia. A book for Ladies and Amateurs”.
One of Australia’s first professionally trained landscape designers, she introduced ‘Garden City’ concepts to Sydney in the 1930s influencing garden design through her garden commissions, art and writing.
Helen Fowler was a talented businesswoman and horticulturalist who expanded the aquatic garden’s influence, traveled the world to find new plants to add to the beauty of the gardens and transformed Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens into what it is today.