20 YEAR RETROSPECTIVE: A to Z BOTANICAL EXPLORATION FROM ARUNACHAL PRADESH, INDIA to ZIMBABWE at Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens

Presented by Dr. Harold E. Sweetman, Executive Director, Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens

Sunday, February 23, 2PM

Join
Harold Sweetman for a colorful lecture highlighting his trekking adventures. With
an eye toward the botanical, you will visit some of the most remote regions in
the world. The first expedition was to Yunnan, China on the border with Tibet in
1993, with trips over the years to Zimbabwe, Panama, Chile, Arunachal Pradesh,
India and the US. Historically, exotic travel and plant exploration was for the
elite and the wealthiest plant collectors. Today, if you are intrepid, you can still
discover rare glimpses of our rich global diversity of plants, peoples, and local
cultures that have remained largely unchanged for centuries.

At
Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens, plants will always be a primary focus.  The Director was very fortunate to be invited
to join an international botanical expedition to Aranachal Pradesh, India in
October of 2005. This remote mountainous region in the high Himalayas was never
previously visited by the famous plant hunters of the past century. On a single
three-day ascent to 13,000 ft elevation, more than 40 different species of
rhododendrons were identified.

“This
armchair adventure travel experience is much preferred to the leech infested
forests of Arunachal Pradesh where there are 72 different species of leeches,
the incessant winds of Patagonia, breathless botanizing, at 14,000ft

elevations, or the Atacama Desert - driest place on earth, stark and lifeless.”

says Dr. Sweetman.

Free of charge, all
are welcome.

No pre-registration
required.

For more information and directions, visit our website www.jenkinsarboretum.org