Horticultural expert Jamie Burghardt takes us through the garden to show us the beauty behind plant dormancy.
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — Beauty emerges from the waste as you drive into town on Interstate 71, near the reservoir and over the Old Town dump.
The talented Waterfront Botanical Gardens team is tasked with growing from trash and works year-round to ensure our community always has a fresh perspective.
Jamie Berghardt, chief horticultural and education officer at the Waterfront Botanic Gardens, said people in the United States tend to want perfect, neat lawns.
“But there are no dead plants here, but they are dormant in the winter,” says Burghardt. “There’s still so much beauty in color and texture. There’s a subdued beauty in winter.”
With a different environment and a different perspective, there’s a lot you can learn about plants at a botanical garden even in the off-season.
“There are all kinds of things going on around us,” says Burghardt. “Botanical gardens are a good way to connect with the land where our lives unfold.”
Four years ago, Berghardt came to Louisville to take a job at the botanical garden. Originally from Minnesota, he is humble, hardworking, and funny.
“I went to college for a biology degree, but everyone had a medical or veterinary degree,” Burghardt said with a laugh. “I was like, ‘I like plants.'”
One of the things that makes this city so appealing to Jamie is that we all love it. Small but big, fast but slow, old but new.
“I love history and interesting stories, and Louisville has a lot of them,” said Burghardt. “It ties in nicely with our garden. The fact that we’re in a street dump in Ohio builds on top of the historic neighborhood of the Point, so when you literally dig into it, you’re digging into history.” It will be.”
As we walked around the grounds, Jamie showed us all the ways a dark sea can come to life, made us think differently about our gardens, and encouraged perspective thinking in more parts of our lives.
“It’s for ornamental use now, but we’ll have to wait until March for the buds to swell. We’ll have to wait until the star magnolia has white petals.”
“It shows it’s alive. It’s dormant now, but it’s just waiting for the right photography period, day length and temperature to bring it out of dormancy,” he said. .
During winter, the garden visiting hours vary. Click this link for more information on hours.
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