TO SAY I WAS stunned can be understating it. Loads. Once I bought the decision from the Scott Arboretum at Swarthmore Faculty in Pennsylvania just lately that I’d been named because the 2024 recipient of their prestigious Scott Medal, I used to be utterly caught off guard.
I used to be additionally very grateful to be added to the checklist of individuals awarded the prize since 1930, who “have made an impressive nationwide contribution to the science and the artwork of gardening,” the arboretum web site says.
Final week I used to be delighted to get one other name from the employees there, this time alerting me that each one of you may attend the digital model of the awards occasion, free, on March 10 from 4:30 to six PM Jap. I shall be there in particular person, giving a speech (uh-oh!) and making an attempt to recollect easy methods to behave in public.
The aim of the award, the Scott web site says, is “to advertise a higher love of nature, make the nation extra aware of the fantastic thing about the outside, develop a higher data and love of vegetation and flowers, unfold the gospel of higher planting and designing, and arouse a wider curiosity in higher planting and extra stunning gardens amongst all residents.”
Feels like one thing we positively imagine in, sure?
Hope to “see you” March 10. Right here’s the hyperlink without cost digital tickets, and the general web page in regards to the award. The previous Scott Medal recipients checklist is right here.