Holly Keris <[log in to unmask]>
Hi, Holly
I'm always grateful when a plant label includes:
common name(s)
scientific name ( Latin genus/species)
plant family (to show relationships)
native to which continent
endangered species status
economic/medicinal uses (or warning about toxicity!)
ecological points of interest (how pollinated, food plant to which
animals, native habitat...)
annual/perennial/flowering season
You'll find this website a great help (supported by our tax dollars!):
http://www.itis.gov/ ITIS, the Integrated Taxonomic Information
System! Here you will find authoritative taxonomic information on
plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.
We are a partnership of U.S., Canadian, and Mexican agencies
(ITIS-North America); other organizations; and taxonomic specialists.
ITIS is also a partner of Species 2000 and the Global Biodiversity
Information Facility (GBIF). The ITIS and Species 2000 Catalogue of
Life (CoL) partnership is proud to provide the taxonomic backbone to
the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
What you can't fit on a legible label can go in a website/blog. I
admire the blog for the medieval gardens of The Cloisters,
Metropolitan Museum of New York:
http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/about/
I hope I get to visit your garden someday!
Karen
Karen Reeds, PhD, FLS
Visiting Scholar, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Guest Curator, Come into a New World: Linnaeus & America Exhibition,
American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia, 2007
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ 2008
http://www.americanswedish.org/
http://www.americanswedish.org/linnaeus.htm
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>Hi all.
>
>We are a museum that happens to have gardens - not the botanical type
>but historic garden spaces. We're looking to label our plants for our
>visitors and I'm wondering if any non-botanical garden would be willing
>to share the information they put on their labels.
>
>Thank you!
>
>Holly
>
>Holly Keris
>Curator
>The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens
>829 Riverside Avenue
>Jacksonville, Florida 32204
>
>904.899.6018
>904.353.4101 fax
>
>www.cummer.org <http://www.cummer.org/>
>
>To engage and inspire through the arts, gardens and education.
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