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Masters Theses

2003

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The Brooklyn Botanic Garden Children’S Gardening Program: It’S Meaning And Impact On Adult Alumni, Jayme Tims Aug 2003

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden Children’S Gardening Program: It’S Meaning And Impact On Adult Alumni, Jayme Tims

Masters Theses

This study documented how six alumni participants of Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Children’s Gardening Program (BBG’S CGP) described and made meaning of their experience as child participants in the program. Phenomenological interviewing was used to collect data from the six participants. Half of the participants were interviewed in person while the others were telephone interviewed. All interviews were transcribed and names and places have been changed to protect the anonymity of participants. Data analysis was conducted using the Inductive Data Analysis and the Typological Analysis described by Hatch (2002). Three major themes emerged from this analysis: (1) childhood development and learning …


An Exploratory Research Study Of Collection Management Tools For The Knoxville Botanical Gardens And Arboreta’S Living Plant Collection, Kathryn Terese Steinhoff Aug 2003

An Exploratory Research Study Of Collection Management Tools For The Knoxville Botanical Gardens And Arboreta’S Living Plant Collection, Kathryn Terese Steinhoff

Masters Theses

The Knoxville Botanical Gardens and Arboreta was formed in 2001 to purchase the C.B. Howell and Joe N. Howell Nurseries with the intent of forming botanical gardens and an arboretum in the Knoxville, Tennessee area. The two nurseries combined have a long history in the nursery industry and a collection of trees and shrubs worth preserving for the future gardens. The board of directors instantly recognized that the nurseries had several unusual, specimen size plants, but they did not know exactly what they had or where it was located. The board felt that it was important to identify all the …