Newsletters
The Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture Newsletter is published two times per year and is sent to all current WCFH members.
Spring 2008:
"Wellesley's Edible Landscape" by Catherine Chu '10
"Notes From the Director - Spring Greetings from Wellesley!" by Kristina Niovi Jones, WCBG Director
"Combating Purple Loosestrife" by Emily Estes '10 and Rachel Lewis '10
"Focus on Succulents: The New Desert House" by Rebecca Hewitt, WCBG Intern
"Welcome Eileen Sprague"
"Illustrating Fruit Tree Tags"
"Visitor Voices"
Fall 2007:
"Plants: For Budding Investigators" by Gail Kahn, WCFH Administrative Manager
"Notes From the Director - Fall 07" by Kristina Niovi Jones, WCBG Director
"Greenhouse Ecology - Helping Plants to Thrive" by Kristina Jones, WCBG Director, and Tony Antonucci, WCBG Senior Greenhouse Horticulturist
"The Science of Gardening at Wellesley" by Courtney Streett '09
"Transitioning from the Friends' Office to a Valued Volunteer"
"Adventures of an 'Arkansaw Traveler'" by Barbara Jarvis
"On the Road in the Mid-Hudson River Valley" by Anne Moore '56
Spring 2007:
"The Annex at 100" by Gail Kahn, WCFH Docent
"Notes From the Director - Spring 2007" by Kristina Niovi Jones, WCBG Director
"Hydrangea Flowers and Anthocyanins" by Sonja Hicks, Wellesley College Professor Emerita and WCFH Docent
"A Visit to the Eden Project" by Anne Manners, WCFH Docent
"'Living Water' Showcases True Spirit of Scientific Inquiry" by Gail Kahn, WCFH Docent
Fall 2006:
"Transforming a Space into an Educational Place" by Mary D. Coyne 'MA61, Professor Emerita, Biological Sciences
"Notes From the Director" by Kristina Niovi Jones, WCBG Director
"Growing Fruits and Nuts in the Suburban Garden" by Tricia Diggins, WCBG Horticulturist
"Plants for Winter Color" by Helen Freidberg '59
"Visitors' Voices" by Elyssa Weber '08
"Philodendron - Best for Beginners" by Anne Sinnott Moore '56
Spring 2006:
"Margaret C. Ferguson" by Christina Dillenbeck Wood '83
"Notes From the Director" by Kristina Niovi Jones, WCBG Director
"Summer Research Program: Investigating Chloroplast Movement in Chloroplast Division Mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana" by Selasi Dankwa '07 & Kristen Granger '06
"The Plant Personified" by Gail Kahn, WCFH Docent
"Olga Kreeb Delves" by John A. Delves III
"A Ferguson Greenhouse Experience" by Toni de Bonneval Frederick '51
"A Wellesley Wintersession Course: Introduction to Botanical Art"
Fall 2005:
"The Cool Temperate House: Displaying the Four Seasons" by Mike Schroeder '58. WCFH Docent
"Meet Kristina Niovi Jones - New Director of WCBG"
"Plant Health Care - An Update on the Outside Gardens" by Tricia Diggins, WCBG Horticulturist
"DNA Microarray Analysis of Global Gene Expression: Patterns of Phot1 and Phot2 Mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana" by Yu-Tzu (Debbie) Liu '06
"A Good Age: Vision-Impaired Seniors Make Tropical Escape" by Sue Scheible, reprinted from The Patriot Ledger, March 7, 2005
"The Harriet B. Creighton Botanic Gardens Fund"
"Friends of Horticulture Memorial Book Fund"
"Welcome to Gail Kahn"
"Wellesley College Members Find a 'Secret Garden'
Spring 2005:
"Gymnosperms: The Naked Truth by" Carol Govan and Gail Kahn, WCFH Docents
"Notes From the Director" by Duncan Himmelman, WCBG Director
"Spring Fling" by Nancy Kingman '53
"The Healing Garden" by Betsy Tyson-Smith, Executive Director, Thurston Healing Garden
"Art and Botany: A Winning Combination"
"Drawing in the Ferguson Greenhouses" by Alexandra Roy '08
"WCFH Memorial Gift Fund: Donations in Memory of Jesse Weaver Brown '12 and Jane Barcus Billington '37"
"Horticultural Tidbit: Propagating Seed" by Maureen Bovet DS '92
"Visitors' Voices" by Mary Gottman DS '98
Fall 2004:
"The Desert House: A Journey of Arid Adaptations" by Mike Schroeder '58, WCFH Docent
"Notes From the Director" by Duncan Himmelman, WCBG Director
"Update on Invasive Plants in the Botanic Gardens" by Tricia Diggins, WCFH Horticulturist
"Exploring the Language of Plants" by Nancy Abraham Hall, Ph.D., Department of Spanish
"Trees for Fall Color" by Helen Freidberg '59
"Visitors' Voices" by Mary Gottman DS '98
"First Year Plants"
"From the WCBG Floraphiles" by Gail Kahn, WCFH Docent
"Student Grants"
Spring 2004:
"A Farewell to Harriet B. Creighton" by Mary D. Coyne '61, Professor Emerita of Biological Sciences, Wellesley College
"Notes From the Director" by Duncan Himmelman, WCBG Director
"Earth's Atmosphere and Beyond" by Jean Fuller-Stanley, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Wellesley College
"To the Friends of Horticulture" by Brita Jessen '04
"Gardening for the Ecosystem: Butterflies, Birds and Other Critters" by Sharon Soltzberg, Department of Biological Sciences, Wellesley College
"Controlling Pests: A Kinder, Gentler Method for Plants and You" by Elizabeth Reece, WCFH Staff
"Oaks in the Wellesley College Botanic Gardens" by Carol Govan, WCFH Docent Training Coordinator
"The New England Tropical Conservatory" by Nancy Kingman '53
Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture
106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
781-283-3094
Gail Kahn(horticulture@wellesley.edu)
Created: 04/27/06 by Diane Slutzky and Lizzi Merrill
Last Modified: 4/29/08