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(Opening theme music) (Nat Sound, "I'd like to introduce Dan Bulkowski
our gardens managers")
Voice over Art Cameron: Tonight we're celebrating our 20th anniversary
of the gardens. The gardens were dedicated just about 20 years ago today. And we're here
to kind of celebrate. The gardens represent a great deal to so many people in my mind.
They provide inspiration, they can provide education to our students, they can provide
a place of spiritual healing, you know they can provide so many things. Its beyond just
looking at plants in a garden, but also providing that connection to nature that we all need.
If you watch and come here on an evening and watch people taking pictures or watch the
children playing in the children's garden or people just wandering and looking at plants,
I think there is so much it brings to our general public. Plus we offer the option to
learn all these plants. Most of them are labeled and we have many avid gardeners in our area
that are always trying to figure out new tricks of the trade. I teach a course in principles
of horticulture and we're out in these gardens several times as maybe you can imagine, learning
about plants, learning to identify plants and also talking about gardening techniques.
We have about 14 students right now who are working in the gardens, taking care of the
plants. Many of them are horticultural students and they learn directly by hands on. The donor
foundation is responsible for really what made this happen. The gardens are largely
privately funded and those dollars are really what's making this happen. We have a range
of plants. We have ornamental plants that you see, herbaceous perennials, annuals, fruits,
vegetables, they're all here. So if you wander around these grounds long enough you'll find
something that will make you go, "I should go home and try that".
(Closing theme music)