'I see it as horticultural theater. The way exhibitions are, there is tremendous complexity. It’s like when the curtain goes up the set changes.'
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Orchid Show Part 1: New York Botanic Garden’s Marc Hachadourian on Orchidelirium
That was the standard practice of the explorers in the Victorian period: 'I paid you thousands of dollars to go far off into the forests of India to bring me back this plant. I want this plant.'
Read More »Book Review: ‘Albania’s Mountain Queen: Edith Durham and the Balkans’ by Marcus Tanner
A fascinating woman leads us through a now almost forgotten world at the dangerous meeting point of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires.
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