Mike Huben
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== Gardening, Botany and Agriculture == | == Gardening, Botany and Agriculture == | ||
[[Image:Mucuna klitgaardiae.jpg|thumb|Mucuna klitgaardiae with my favorite botanist, Alina.]] | [[Image:Mucuna klitgaardiae.jpg|thumb|Mucuna klitgaardiae with my favorite botanist, Alina.]] | ||
− | [[Image:Garden.jpg|thumb|A corner of my garden in peak season.]] | + | [[Image:Garden.jpg|thumb|A corner of my US garden in peak season.]] |
My mom has a picture of me staring intently at Petunias on Jones Beach at age 2, so I guess I've been a plant guy for 60 years or so. I grew my first seedlings in first grade, and have not stopped since then. I worked in the botanical greenhouse of the Bailey Hortorium at Cornell University for a few years, caring for their live botanical collection of several thousand species in the greenhouse and their outdoor garden. I wanted to be a farmer for a while, until I realized that I had dreadful allergies. [http://world.std.com/~mhuben/garden.html My home garden near Boston had a bit over 300 varieties of perennials and shrubs], not counting daylilies (see below.) | My mom has a picture of me staring intently at Petunias on Jones Beach at age 2, so I guess I've been a plant guy for 60 years or so. I grew my first seedlings in first grade, and have not stopped since then. I worked in the botanical greenhouse of the Bailey Hortorium at Cornell University for a few years, caring for their live botanical collection of several thousand species in the greenhouse and their outdoor garden. I wanted to be a farmer for a while, until I realized that I had dreadful allergies. [http://world.std.com/~mhuben/garden.html My home garden near Boston had a bit over 300 varieties of perennials and shrubs], not counting daylilies (see below.) | ||