horticulturist

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Backyard magnolia trees or shrubs will have their leaves and flowers “burned off” if temperatures hit 25 degrees between dusk and dawn, said Christopher Elenstar, a horticulturist at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, Maryland.

From Washington Times

Palmer Crippen, a horticulturist at the nearby Mounts Botanical Garden, began studying the painting in mid-October, preparing to show how Mr. Stella’s shapes and colors relate to real-life tropical plants and flowers.

From New York Times

“The dahlia’s first duty in life is to flaunt and to swagger,” wrote British horticulturist Gertrude Jekyll, “and to carry gorgeous blooms well above its leaves, and on no account to hang its head.”

From Washington Post

For Renfro, a trained horticulturist and sommelier, it felt like fate.

From Salon

But to maximize size, growers remove all but one or two of these pumpkins in order to decrease competition for resources, says Robert Westerfield, a horticulturist at the University of Georgia.

From Scientific American