Perhaps as iconic to Cook Campus as Passion Puddle and the Rutgers Farm, the Floriculture Greenhouse with its towering smokestack has long been a joyful place for plant-minded people at Rutgers. One of the oldest buildings on Cook campus, the Floriculture Greenhouse originally served as a research station focusing on cut flower production and preservation […]
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Rutgers Gardens Student Horticulturists and Rutgers Alumni Celebrate an Award-Winning Collaboration at the North Jersey Orchid Society Show
The North Jersey Orchid Society show returned to the Douglass Student Center on the Rutgers–New Brunswick campus this January, featuring a dynamic botanical display that showcased some of the plants growing at the Floriculture Greenhouse. Held January 16–18, the free annual event welcomed hobbyist growers, commercial producers and plant enthusiasts to enjoy and connect over this […]
Research and Teaching in the Glass-room
Whether covered in glass or polyethylene, the most diverse spaces on the George H. Cook campus are the greenhouses–with one making agricultural history and revolutionizing the industry. The prominence of greenhouses on the George H. Cook campus reflects the orientation of the school toward the natural sciences. However, not transparent is the impressive number and […]
Alumni Story: Two Recent Grads Take ‘Growing Up’ to New Heights
The concept of living walls – also called vertical gardens – isn’t entirely new, but Michael Coraggio (Cook ’06) and Ryan Burrows (GSNB ’13) have turned it into an innovative business that promotes beauty and sustainability with practical and environmentally sound applications. First “invented” in the 1930s, a living wall turns an impervious vertical surface […]
