UDBG Presents our 2022 Featured Plants (and Others You Can’t Live Without) with Bob Lyons and Andrew Adams

Bob Lyons, Professor Emeritus and Andrew Adams, UDBG Horticulture Manager

UDBG Friends Members:  $10;  Nonmembers: $15      (Held via Zoom)

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UDBG is delighted to host Bob Lyons alongside our Horticulture Manager, Andrew Adams, as we highlight this year’s featured plant genera, Clethra and Heuchera, along with a selection of new treasures for your garden. 

Well-suited to our region, Clethra are graceful and well-behaved plants in the garden. Our 2022 inventory includes several native cultivars in addition to straight species, providing a diverse range of flower color, leaf variation, and growth habit. 

Heuchera ’s adaptability, regional nativity, and array of foliage colors are just some of the reasons we chose this plant as our perennial feature, which has been bred to produce a kaleidoscope of cultivars in recent years.

Bob Lyons is the former Director of the Longwood Graduate Program in Public Horticulture and currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Delaware. He received a B.A. in Biology from Rutgers University and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Horticultural Science from the University of Minnesota. Previous positions include the J.C. Raulston Distinguished Faculty Chair and Directorship of the JC Raulston Arboretum at N.C. State University, and Professor of Horticulture and Co-Founder/Director of the Hahn Horticulture Garden at Virginia Tech. He is a Fellow in both the American Society for Horticultural Science and Pi Alpha Xi; he has received the Outstanding Alumnus Award from the University of Minnesota, and the national Award of Merit from the American Public Gardens Association. He previously sat on the Boards of Advisors for the University of Delaware Botanic Garden and Rutgers University Gardens; and he is currently on the Board of The Delaware Center for Horticulture. Dr. Lyons has been a photographer for over 35 years, publishing widely in homeowner, commercial, and educational publications, and he is a primary photographer for Horticopia (Horticopia.com) plant selection software. He has exhibited his work nationally and received awards from the Garden Writers Association of America, and he has taught photography workshops regionally and nationally, in Delaware, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Massachusetts, Louisiana, and Virginia.