MEDIA INFORMATION

Duke Gardens is pleased to assist the media in any way possible.

If you're a reporter or photographer and would like any information preceding your visit, or if you'd like to arrange an interview with any of our curators or horticulturists on site or by phone or e-mail, please contact Orla Swift, director of marketing and communications, via e-mail or at (919) 668-6451. We are also happy to provide high-resolution jpgs of any part of the Gardens.

Below are some of our staff members and their areas of specialized knowledge.

Stefan Bloodworth: curator of the H.L. Blomquist Garden of Native Plants. Specialization: endangered species, wildlife gardening, native plants of the Southeast, gardening and global warming, sustainable landscape construction.

Paul Jones, curator of the Culberson Asiatic Arboretum. Specialization: Asian plants; comparative relationship between the flora of the Eastern U.S. and that of Southeastern Asia; temperate flora of China; stone placement in a garden setting; public gardening.

Mike Owens, curator, Historic Terrace Gardens. Specialization: garden bed design.

Jason Holmes, curator of the Doris Duke Center Gardens: Specialization: plant propagation, winter interest and blue flowering plants.

Harry Jenkins, superintendent and horticulturist. Specialization: Duke Gardens history.

Tamara Kilbane, horticulturist. Specialization: aquatic plants. Kilbane helps the International Water Lily and Water Gardening Society run its annual New Waterlily Contest, which will return to Duke Gardens in 2010.

Michelle Stay, horticulturist. Specialization: coordinating internships.

Katie Vogel, program coordinator and educator for Healing and Hope through Science, which helps children at Duke and UNC Hospitals experience and appreciate nature.