Post by Fernando de la Torre, ACG horticulture intern for summer 2025. As a PhD student in plant breeding and plant genetics at UW-Madison, my specialization has been in breeding intersectional hybrids of Vaccinium – which is the family of plants that contains blueberry, cranberry, and lingonberry, among others. For summer 2025, I wanted to …
Post by Ryan Dostal, based on research by students in UW-Madison Religious Studies course “Food, Meaning, Religion”. What is an Afro-Diasporic Garden? As people of African descent found themselves in new places, they resisted the hardship of slavery, often by keeping gardens. Despite numerous challenges placed on African gardeners, they built on their already substantial …
Guest post by Lina Martin and Lauren Cornelius from the Native American Center for Health Professionals who collaborated on our Three Sisters Garden this year (2022). The NACHP 3 Sisters garden was started in 2014 for our students to get an introduction to traditional foodways of Iroquois tribe. Seeds were donated by local tribes who …
Ever heard of a Tapestry Lawn? Our Horticulture Director, Josh Steger, dives into detail about the Garden’s newest lawn style.
Sempervivum’s plant profile is brought to you by our Horticulture Apprentice, Tori Lopez. Learn all about this hardy, beautiful plant!
Plant Adoption Day bring hundreds of students to the Garden to adopt their very own plant. Our Plant Parent Intern, Sam Wood, shares his experience preparing and running an event this big for UW students.
Plants make people happy. Hear from our Director, Ben Futa, about the wonderful work our staff is doing during the pandemic.
You can’t cancel nature. Hear some good news from our Director, Ben Futa.
Josh, Director of Horticulture at Allen Centennial Garden went on a week long adventure as a Guest Gardener at Chanticleer in Wayne, PA. Check out what he learned along the way!
Learn about our Czech Crevice Garden from former Horticulture Apprentice, Ryan Drake.