It was late January when Jared Chauncey, Senior Horticulturist and arid plant expert at the Missouri Botanical Garden, noticed that something extraordinary was about to happen: an Agave pelona was sending up a flowering stalk. It was about to bloom. These plants live for decades before sending up the only bloom of their lifetime—they are…
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Turning Special Interests into a Career: Horticulture and Autism
Horticulture, botany, conservation, and education are all fields people on the autism spectrum often have interest in, and in which they can excel.