sweet auburn | 2020 volume ii focusing on a selection of historic trees at Mount Auburn Cemetery . The horticultural staff helped me select suitable trees , and with special permission I was able to visit the Cemetery during the pandemic to monitor bud , leaf , and flower development . My final watercolors will show a leafing branch along with detail studies of tree silhouette , flower , fruit , and plant parts . I hope the first series of paintings will be complete by spring 2022 .
Lauren Meier received a BA in Botany from Pomona College and a Masters of Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design . Meier ’ s career has been devoted to the study and preservation of many of the nation ’ s most important cultural landscapes . She was an editor of the final two volumes of the Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted . Meier started taking classes at Wellesley Botanic Gardens in February 2018 and is working toward a Certificate in Botanical Art and Illustration . She lives in Belmont .
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