Dr. Holt was working on converting an old greenhouse that was not open to the public into a public teaching facility. The theme is the evolution of plants through the eons. At the left side of the entrance (at the bottom of the diagram) visitors will enter the Paleozoic and see very simple plants: Mosses and Liverworts. Then as they walk towards the back of the green house they will walk through the Mesozoic and see Clubmosses and Ferns and then Conifers. At the back of the greenhouse, visitors enter the Cretaceous and see the ancestors of Flowering Plants. Finally as they turn to the right, visitors will see Flowering Plant diversity. This will be a wonderful and unique teaching resource for the Gardens.
The staff has raised $25,000 to date and we would like to raise the remaining resources needed to start the project.
