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.

Bobby Mottern, MLA: director of horticulture for Duke Gardens. Specialization:  sustainable landscape design, construction and grounds management.

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.

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

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.

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

Michelle Stay, horticulturist. Specialization: coordinating internships.