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Janet Meakin Poor (born November 27, 1929 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a landscape design specialist based out of Winnetka, Illinois. She is the great great niece of the famous American impressionist painter Lewis Henry Meakin. ==Career== She has been vice president of the Garden Club of America, vice chairman on the board of trustees of the Center For Plant Conservation, chair of Open Days; 1989–2000, a showcase of hundreds of American gardens by the national organization The Garden Conservancy, advisor to the historic country estate at the Filoli Center near San Francisco, on the awards committee at the Winterthur Museum and Country Estate in Delaware, a board member with the American Horticultural Society, and a member of the advisory council of the United States National Arboretum, an appointment by the United States Secretary of Agriculture. She is also an advisor on the McKee Botanical Garden. She is a driving force behind saving and conserving our planet’s botanical heritage. At 40, she decided to pursue her passion for plants in earnest. She cobbled together a landscape architecture degree from three different schools, traveling as far away as the University of Wisconsin–Madison to study. The mother of two then launched a career that led her to the forefront of plant conservation and landscape design locally, nationally and internationally, including serving as board chair of the Chicago Botanic Garden, where she has headed an ambitious program to collect seeds from the world’s endangered plants. The Chicago Botanic Garden (CBG) has taken a leading conservation role nationally and internationally under Poor’s leadership. She encouraged CBG into its participation in the international Millennium Seed Bank Project. By 2010, seeds from thousands of the world’s rare and threatened plants will be stored, some of them in Glencoe. Currently, she is playing a major role in the development of the new Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Plant Conservation Science Center at CBG, which provides laboratories and teaching facilities for more than 200 PhD scientists, land managers, students and interns. It opened in September 2009. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Janet Meakin Poor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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