Dr. Diane Ragone to receive The Garden Club of America’s Medal of Honor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Kalāheo, Kaua’i, Hawai’i USA (May 10, 2016) – The National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG) is pleased to announce that The Garden Club of America (GCA) has named Dr. Diane Ragone, Director of NTBG’s Breadfruit Institute, as the recipient of its 2016 Medal of Honor. The medal, which is given for outstanding service to horticulture, will be presented in a ceremony at GCA’s annual meeting in Minneapolis on May 22, 2016.
“Her work is in every sense the epitome of the best in horticulture: quest for knowledge, preservation, conservation, research, creative experimentation, sharing, mentoring and fulfilling a humanitarian mission,” said the GCA in honoring Ragone.
In her more than 30 years of working with breadfruit, Ragone has researched, collected, and curated the world’s largest and most diverse collection in existence. She has conducted field research in over 50 Pacific island…
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