William Cullina, executive director of Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, Maine. He is this year’s winner of the Scott Medal, awarded by the Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College for outstanding contributions to the science and art of gardening. Cullina is author of Understanding Orchids: An Uncomplicated Guide to Growing the World’s Most Exotic Plants (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). www.MaineGardens.org
Orchids were once an expensive rarity, but within the past decade or two, they’ve become widely available at big-box stores…
