Garden party

Curator J...hosted an outdoor tea party to thank volunteers. The party was located in the outdoor Botanical Garden, across the street from the GH. It was fairly well attended, but only one other volunteer was able to attend, volunteer K, who has been assisting with IT data management and cataloging. A few others attended the tea including undergrad and grad students. Curator J made scones (herbs and cheese I think), B... brought fruit, and someone made poppy seed shortbread wafers.

For the final hour after the tea I did the following activities: vine maintenance, and scrubbing soot and scale from a small plant (?name) in 3c, on bench 2E

Here is a term I learned from Curator J...: “Fabaceous,” referring to the plant family Fabaceae or Leguminosae plants (bean or legume plants). In room 3c, bench 1E, with a very sooty fabaceous plant: Glycyrrhiza glabra.