Planting Aloes for a Wildlife Garden with Christina Curry
Christina Curry is a botanist and principal technician who manages the Bews Herbarium at the University of KwaZulu-Natal‘s Pietermaritzburg campus.
Her studies focussed on pollination biology but in the herbarium (‘plant museum’) she concentrates on plant diversity and collections management. She is a past chair of the local KZN Inland branch of the Botanical Society of SA and helped to organise a few of the past Indigenous Open Wildlife Gardens for the society.
Christina and her husband are keen ‘non-gardeners’, which means that they do not have a manicured garden; they rather allow things to get a bit shabby to encourage birds, insects and wildlife, a strategy that has worked well for 20 years.
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