From AwayToGarden.com and RobinhoodRadio.com, this is AwayToGarden with Margaret Roach.

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I saw news of a new book called Pressed Plants recently, and it got me thinking about my

grandmother and one of the many crafts she enjoyed way back when.

Grandma made what she called pressed flower pictures.

It's of her garden that she carefully dried, arranged on fabric, and framed under glass,

and some of those still hang on my walls.

It also got me thinking of the 500-year-old tradition of pressing plants for science and

the Herbarium world.

Whatever the intention, pressed plants are today's topic topic so more in a moment but first this message.

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Today's guest is Linda Lipson, author of the book,

Pressed Plants Making a Herbarium.

Linda presses specimens in the name of science as a curator at the University of British

Columbia Herbarium in Vancouver.

She's carrying on a method of recording the botanical world this way as humans have for

centuries.

She's here today to talk about what information those centuries of

pressing hold for us in today's world and how and why we gardeners might

want to give pressing plants a try, whether for art or for science.

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