Photo kindly provided by Patsy and Mike Anderson

Please see the video (in Flash or Real) in tribute to Lynn Lowrey with insights from Scooter Cheatham, David Creech, John Fairey, Mary Anne Pickens, Carl Schoenfeld, and Mike Shoup.

Lynn Lowrey

Region: Piney Woods

Topics: Botany, Horticulture, Landscape


Mr. Lowrey was a noted plantsman long based in Houston, credited with introducing native plants to commercial horticulture, and to the landscapes surrounding Texas homes, institutional and business buildings.  At this point, we do not have any direct recordings or writings of Mr. Lowrey.  The history of Mr. Lowrey draws heavily on the reminiscences of his fellow plant collectors, propagators, gardeners, and many friends and admirers. Please see the links below for their written remarks and/or interview transcripts.

November 13, 2004
Houston, Texas
Reels 2296, 2297, 2298, 2299, 2300, and 2301

NARRATORS

 

Scooter Cheatham Useful Wild Plants Austin Scooter Cheatham is an Austin-based architect, teacher, plant explorer and writer, and the founder and manager of the Useful Wild Plants project, an economic botany encyclopedia for plants of the Southwest.		David Creech SF Austin University Huntsville David Creech is a plant explorer and collector, a professor of horticulture at Stephen F. Austin Univ. in Nacogdoches, and director of its Mast Arboretum, which has diverse collections of forest, bog, and desert plants.		John Fairey Peckerwood Garden Hempstead John Fairey is an architecture professor at Texas A&M University, a plant explorer, and the founder and director of Peckerwood Garden in Hempstead, a collection of woodland, montane and desert plants native to the southern United States and Mexico.
Mary Anne Pickens Native Plant Society of Texas Columbus Mary Anne Pickens is a resident of Columbus, Texas, where she pursues her interests as a gardener, historian, landscape writer, and past president of the Native Plant Society of Texas.		Carl Schoenfeld Yucca Do Nursery Hempstead Carl Schoenfeld is a plant explorer and the founder and owner of Yucca Do Nursery in Hempstead, where he propagates and sells drought and heat tolerant plants, including rare yuccas, cacti, ferns, and bromeliads.		Mike Shoup Antique Rose Emporium Brenham Mike Shoup is a horticulturalist, garden writer, and the founder and owner of the Antique Rose Emporium in Independence, specializing in rare and heirloom roses.
		Sally Wasowski Garden Writer Taos, New Mexico Sally Wasowski is a landscape designer and author based in Taos, New Mexico, whose hundreds of pioneering articles and nine books on native plants include Gardening with Native Texas Plants and Native Plants of the South.