The Garden Club of America Hope Goddard Iselin Fellowship in Public Horticulture
School: Master’s student, Landscape Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology

Legacy Cherry Tree Conservation Work at the United States National Arboretum

Working with Japanese master gardener Kurato Fujimoto, Friedl will conserve at-risk legacy cherry trees at the US National Arboretum by implementing Japanese horticultural practices. Using design alternatives, Friedl will maintain the integrity of and provide new support to the trees. The technical horticultural work will advance Friedl’s interest in applying methods and practices from around the world in efforts to care responsibly for environments.

The Garden Club of America Hope Goddard Iselin Fellowship in Public Horticulture

Investigating the Role a Public Garden Can Play in Adult Environmental Education after a Natural Disaster

Salisbury, director of the Ambler Arboretum of Temple University, aims to create a model for assessing community need and interest in adult environmental education post natural disaster. Inspired by what the community wants to learn, Salisbury hopes this model for developing relevant educational programming in the wake of a natural disaster will become the standard for program development addressing climate change and climateresilient landscapes. The Ambler Arboretum and surrounding community suffered catastrophic damage in 2021 from an EF2 tornado resulting from the remnants of Hurricane Ida. 

The Garden Club of America Hope Goddard Iselin Fellowship in Public Horticulture
School: Master’s student, Horticultural Science, University of Minnesota

Restoring Prairie Dropseed in Minnesota Prairies

Brewer has a passion for plants and public gardens and wants to build a career sharing her love of plants with the public. Her research focuses on establishing populations of the critical native prairie grass, prairie dropseed, in restored prairies. She conducts her research at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, which allows her to combine her love of public gardens with her interest in plant conservation and education.

The Garden Club of America Hope Goddard Iselin Fellowship in Public Horticulture

Native Plants of Oklahoma

Andy Fusco is a master’s student 
in horticulture at Oklahoma State University. He is studying underused native plants of Oklahoma and their merit for use in public gardens. He is developing an acquisition plan fora future native garden at Tulsa Botanic Garden, as well as designing a native wildflower garden for The Botanic Garden at Oklahoma State University. He also strongly believes in sharing his passion for plants with the public and hopes to inspire the next generation of horticulturists as a leader at a public garden institution.

The Garden Club of America Hope Goddard Iselin Fellowship in Public Horticulture

Michael Bradshaw is a PhD candidate studying fungal pathogens at the University of Washington. His dissertation research will include mapping out and evaluating the diversity of fungi within Paci c Northwest botanical gardens. Bradshaw will create a herbarium collection of these fungi and add them to a genetic database. He also has a keen interest in ornamental horticulture and the substantial economic losses to the industry caused by non-native organisms. Bradshaw’s goal is to become a university af liated garden director or herbarium curator as well as teaching and conducting research.

The Garden Club of America Hope Goddard Iselin Fellowship in Public Horticulture

Olivia C. Caillouet is a master’s student in Agricultural and Extension Education at the Univer- sity of Arkansas. She received her bachelor’s degree in horticulture and aspires to work at botanical gardens or in higher education. She has worked at farms in Mozambique, presented research in Uruguay, and completed internships at farms in California and Puerto Rico. Her project will implement educational signage at the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks in Fayetteville, Arkansas.  The signs will cover concepts such as plant succes- sion, riparian zones, and pollination. After the signs are installed Caillouet will research the educational impact on visitors.

The Garden Club of America Hope Goddard Iselin Fellowship in Public Horticulture

Leslie Touzeau is a master’s student in rural sociology at the University of Missouri in Columbia. Her research examines the life experiences of African-Americans in agriculture. In collaboration with the Mizzou Botanic Garden, she is developing several on campus gardens to honor native Missourian George Washington Carver. The gardens will serve as community growing areas on campus as well as educate students about the roles of marginalized groups in agriculture. Through signage, demonstration plots, and lectures, her project intends to teach the public about the forgotten contributions of minorities and women in building and maintaining our current food system.

The Garden Club of America Hope Goddard Iselin Fellowship in Public Horticulture

Andrew Sell is a master’s student in the Landscape Architecture program at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment. He serves as a student instructor, a member of the American Public Gardens Association Emerging Professional Section, and an editorial group member for Public Garden Magazine. In collaboration with Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum, he is creating a study to measure the impact that children’s gardens play on the development of environmental stewardship and on ‘nature play’ spaces in private homes. Based at Matthaei’s Gaffield Children’s Garden, the study will include surveys, educational workshops, and interviews to highlight the constraints and opportunities of creating translational children’s nature play spaces.

The Garden Club of America Hope Goddard Iselin Fellowship in Public Horticulture

David Pease is a master’s student at the University of Tennessee, Department of Plant Sciences & University of Tennessee Gardens with a concentration in Public Horticulture. The pilot program, 'DIG IT!' (Drawing in the Gardens, Impacting Teens), is an integrated gardening and botanical arts afterschool program for at-risk youth. The program will take place at the University of Tennessee Gardens with 6th, 7th and 8th grade student participants from a local Title I middle school. Lessons within this unique integrated curriculum are informed by principles and theory of Therapeutic Horticulture and Horticulture Therapy. The associated thesis research will look at the effect of this integrated gardening and art program on at-risk youth's self-efficacy and stress levels.

The Garden Club of America Hope Goddard Iselin Fellowship in Public Horticulture

Alysson Ayalon is a Master’s student in Horticulture and Agronomy at the University of California, Davis. Her interests in public horticulture include plant records, collections management, curatorial projects, education and outreach. Her research and curation project will be in the Mary Wattis Brown Garden of California Plants at UC Davis. She will audit the collection, which has not been done since 1977, and will develop a plan of improvements to the native plants garden and will help to align them to the California Floristics course at UC Davis.