Meeting Date |
Start Time |
End Time |
Monday, July 8, 2024 |
09:00am |
05:00pm |
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Thursday, July 11, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Friday, July 12, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Monday, July 15, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Tuesday, July 16, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Wednesday, July 17, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Thursday, July 18, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Friday, July 19, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Monday, July 22, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Tuesday, July 23, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Wednesday, July 24, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Thursday, July 25, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Friday, July 26, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Saturday, July 27, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Sunday, July 28, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Meeting Date |
Start Time |
End Time |
Monday, July 8, 2024 |
09:00am |
05:00pm |
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Thursday, July 11, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Friday, July 12, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Monday, July 15, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Tuesday, July 16, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Wednesday, July 17, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Thursday, July 18, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Friday, July 19, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Monday, July 22, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Tuesday, July 23, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Wednesday, July 24, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Thursday, July 25, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Friday, July 26, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Saturday, July 27, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
Sunday, July 28, 2024 |
09:00am |
04:00pm |
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Katharine Barrie
Katharine Barrie
Katharine Barrie
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Katharine Startup Barrie is a garden consultant and a graduate of NYBG's School of Professional Horticulture. She previously gardened at Chanticleer in Wayne, Pennsylvania and Iroki: the private estate of Judy and Michael Steinhardt in Mt. Kisco, New York.
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Duncan Himmelman
Duncan Himmelman
Duncan Himmelman
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Duncan Himmelman, Ph.D., has more than 35 years of experience in practicing and teaching horticulture and landscape design. He recently retired as the Education Manager at Mt. Cuba Center.
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Michael Hagen
Michael Hagen
Michael Hagen
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Michael Hagen is Curator of the Native Plant Garden and the Rock Garden at NYBG. He is also Institutional Conservation Officer for the Center for Plant Conservation, and he represents NYBG on the steering committee of Local 59, an organization dedicated to improving the native plant supply chain.
Previously he served for almost 13 years as Staff Horticulturist for Stonecrop Gardens in Cold Spring, NY and was Garden Manager at Rocky Hills, in Mt. Kisco, a preservation project of the Garden Conservancy. He is also an adjunct professor at Westchester Community College where he lectures on sustainability, native plant propagation and gardening with native plants.
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Mark Kokinchak
Mark Kokinchak
Mark Kokinchak
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Mark Kokinchak earned his BS degree in Environmental Horticulture fromthe University of Connecticut in 1985. Mark first worked for a family nursery obtaining practical landscape experience before attending UCONN. Afterwards, he trained with Bartlett Tree and implemented the first IPM Monitor program in Danbury, CT. He then worked for 15 years for Lesco, Inc. where he used his knowledge to encourage sales helping customers to understand insect and disease controls. Currently Mark conducts a wide range of insect, disease and weed control at a large wholesale nursery in Newtown and Watertown, CT. He also teaches License classes for CT. 3a Ornamental and turf and 3d arborist.
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Michael Ruggiero
Michael Ruggiero
Michael Ruggiero
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Michael Ruggiero came to the garden in the summer of 1961 and is the former Senior Curator of Horticulture. During his time at the Garden he was responsible for the Orchid Collection, Propagation Greenhouses, Annual Displays, Plant Records, The Native Plant Garden and The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden. Along with Lynden Miller, he oversaw the preparation and Planting of the Perennial Garden: The Herb Garden with Penelope Hobhouse, the Home Gardening Center, Children's Adventure Garden and the Planning, building and planting of the Paeonia, Daylily, and Liaison Daffodil Collections. After retiring, he was Horticulturist at Matterhorn Nursery where he Built the David Austin Rose Garden and for five years designed the Macy's Flower Show. He has written articles on many diverse gardening subjects for gardening publications and has appeared on The Victory Garden, Rebecca's Garden, and with Martha Stewart. He has authored Annuals with Style, Perennial Gardening, and Reliable Roses and Spotters Guide to Wildflowers of North America.
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Melissa Finley
Melissa Finley
Melissa Finley
Thain Curator of Woody Plants
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Melissa Finley is the Thain Curator of Woody Plants at the New York Botanical Garden. She holds a Master?s of plant pathology from the Pennsylvania State University, where she researched the ability of Erwinia amylovora, the causal agent of fire blight, to parasitize apple fruit tissues. She also holds a Bachelor?s of sustainable crop and landscaping systems with an emphasis in environmental horticulture from the University of Idaho. She is an International Society of Arboriculture certified arborist and a qualified tree risk assessor. Her previous roles include: forester for the city of New York Department of Parks and Recreation, commercial arborist, and many various gardener and laboratory technician positions.
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Richard Rosiello
Richard Rosiello
Richard Rosiello
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Richard Rosiello is the owner of Rosiello Designs, LLC, a designer at Meadowbrook Gardens, the Immediate Past President of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers and an alumni of NYBG's Landscape Design Certificate Program. Originally trained as a painter, he transitioned into a Landscape Designer. Shaping the land, working with stone and water, creating gardens and sculpting spaces represents for him a natural extension of his artist sensibilities in his current work for clients.
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Kim Eierman, EcoBeneficial
Kim Eierman, EcoBeneficial
Kim Eierman, EcoBeneficial
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Kim Eierman is an ecological landscape designer and environmental horticulturist specializing in native plants. She is the founder of EcoBeneficial LLC based in Westchester County, NY. Kim teaches at New York Botanical Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, The Native Plant Center, and Massachusetts Horticultural Society. An active speaker nationwide on many ecological landscape topics, Kim also provides horticultural consulting and landscape design to residential, municipal, and commercial clients. Kim is the author of The Pollinator Victory Garden: Win the War on Pollinator Decline with Ecological Gardening.
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