Past Exhibits
This exhibition explores the diversity of bananas, and who uses them and for what. It also shows how research can help us use this diversity to increase options for both small-scale farmers in the developing world and consumers in industrialized countries.
Exhibition by Smith Art Students and Professor Dwight Pogue
Students followed the development of chrysanthemums in the Lyman Conservatory from the beginning of the semester in September through the Chrysanthemum Show in November.
The World in a Garden exhibit explores ways in which botanic gardens since the early Renaissance have endeavored to represent our increasing awareness of the plant life of other continents and climatic regions.
The Travels of Elizabeth K. Roys
As a student of Botany at Smith College, Elizabeth K. Roys toured Asia with her mother in 1926-27, exploring gardens in China, Japan, Korea, Siam, and India. She kept detailed records and compiled her observations in a collection of five notebooks. These notebooks constitute a unique historical chronicle, providing an irreplaceable firsthand account of Asian gardens in the early twentieth century.
A History of Flower Pots and Garden Containers in North America
The first exhibition devoted to the evolution of the common flower pot!
A special flower pot designed in 1995 by Guy Wolff for the centennial celebration of the Botanic Garden of Smith College is a part of the display.
A Smith College Alumnae Exhibit
Smith is the first liberal arts college in the country to launch a program in landscape studies. In 2002, the Mellon Foundation funded the first faculty hire. This exhibition has been organized to celebrate the new Landscape Studies Program and to recognize the contributions of alumnae in landscape architecture and garden design.
Photographs of the Botanic Garden by neighboring Northampton resident and photographer, Judy B. Messer.
Smith Chrysanthemums: Hybrid Alums is a photographic exhibition of Smith alumnae and their hybrid chrysanthemums.
Showcasing the gardens and botanical artwork of Woolf's family and friends, this display takes you on a journey through botanical descriptions from Virginia Woolf's writings.
Presented in conjunction with the Virginia Woolf Conference, June 5-8, 2003.
This exhibition, a collaboration between the Botanic Garden and the Mathematics Department, explores the arrangement of spirals in the plant world.
