BHL Annual Meeting. BHL Open Day Symposium talk on the @BioDivLibrary

Here's my presentation at the BHL Open Day Symposium at the Singapore Botanic Gardens (15 March 2017).

Empowering Global Research in Biodiversity: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Annual Meeting. BHL Open Day Symposium. Singapore Botanic Gardens. Singapore. 15 March 2017.

My visits to four of the the world's great botanical gardens in the past two months ...

Life as BHL Program Director is not always windowless conference rooms in Natural History museums. Though there are plenty of those (as well as exciting tours through the nooks and crannies of those same museums), in the past few months I've had the great pleasure of seeing four of the world's great botanical gardens (and their libraries). I just missed on a fifth, the Royal Botanic Gardens (Melbourne) because of a packed schedule, but had see that a few years earlier.

This week I was at the Missouri Botanical Garden (pictures below). It was a very rainy couple of days (with some tornadoes thrown in), some my Garden time was mostly in the Climatron dome!

So, in order of visits, here they are:

Singapore Botanical Garden.
Beautiful location and lovely facilities.



Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Luckily, the rain held off for my visit and I had a great stroll all the way across the garden.



New York Botanical Garden.
My first visit to the NYBG! Had a surprise snowstorm that made the grounds charming.



Missouri Botanical Garden.
Rainy days and thunderstorms, so not much outside strolling.



I should also through in here some pictures of Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, the amazing botanical garden in Cape Town, South Africa, that I visited in 2012:



And, some pictures from the Royal Botanic Gardens (Melbourne) from a 2010 visit:

What, two weeks on the road ... I think somebody's going troppo!

There he, sitting in the moonlight
Not found, livin' no city
He smile, mucho in a sunshine
High life, counting de fruit bat

Troppo, gone troppo, troppo
It's time you know I gone troppo

Plant me in de Helicona
No thank, meeting de peoples
Wake me, eata the papaya
Much hot, not much on the body

Troppo, gone troppo, gone troppo
It's time you know I gone troppo

Warm sea, see right to the bottom
No like shoveling snowfall
Good time, drinking on me bottle
The high wide Moreton Bay Fig

Troppo, gone troppo, troppo
It's time you know I gone troppo

Quite like you ain't seen a sunset
Could be living in Rain Hill?
Sun hot, you don't got a backache
Brown skin and very a peeling

Troppo, gone troppo, gone troppo
It's time you know I gone troppo

 - George Harrison, "Gone Troppo"