Connecting people and plants at conservatory of flowers

"I went to college pretty intent on being a veterinarian," says Natoli, the chief nursery specialist at San Francisco's Conservatory of Flowers. "I was in the life sciences college at Cornell University, studying animal biology, and I wasn't enchanted by the classes. So, I took a plant anatomy class and it absolutely blew me away to see how fascinating plants are — how fundamentally differently they work from the way we, as animals, work."

Natoli graduated from Cornell in 1991 with a degree in plant ecology, then headed west for a career in horticulture that eventually brought her to Golden Gate Park.

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Photo: SAN FRANCISCO, CA - JANUARY 29: Kristen Natoli, chief nursery specialist at the Conservatory of Flowers, prepares for her morning rounds inside the landmark 1879 building in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. (Credit: Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)

Source: East Bay Times