2012 John Dwyer Lecture in Biology: “Ireland’s Generous Nature—The Use of Wild Plants in Ireland through the Ages”

Join the Missouri Botanical Garden for the 2012 John Dwyer Lecture in Biology. In advance of St. Patrick’s Day, Peter Wyse Jackson, garden president and Ireland native, will present “Ireland’s Generous Nature—The Use of Wild Plants in Ireland through the Ages.”

His lecture will outline the ways in which plants have been a fundamental part of life for people in Ireland for centuries, tracing the history of plants used for food, medicines, fibers, fuel and timber since the earliest times. Learn how the potato shaped the Ireland of today, how cereals were used to make illegal moonshine and how plants were used as the raw material for thatching houses and for ancient pagan rituals.