56 How Does Your Garden Grow?

Archive Fever by Clare Wright and Yves Rees

Dec 19, 202539:58Society & Culture

As you tend your garden this summer, spare a thought for Alison Vaughan, responsible for no less than 1.5 million precious botanical specimens. As collections manager at the National Herbarium of Victoria, which dates ba...

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