Simply put, it is a living, growing collection of plants. On this report, David Kruse-Pickler, Associate Curator at the San Francisco Botanical Garden, elaborates on this definition by describing how the collections are managed and how the data that is acquired gets used.

Jason Dewees is a horticulturist with Flora Grubb Gardens and a longtime volunteer at the San Francisco Botanical Garden. He’s a palm expert and on this report he shares his incredible knowledge about palms.

The San Francisco Botanical Garden is a living ecosystem with an extraordinary diversity of plants and animals. According to Don Mahoney, curator of plant collections, it is a one-of-a-kind botanical garden.