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Dracula Ball

Oct

18

Dracula Ball

by Conservatory of Flowers

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Date and time

Thu, October 18, 2018

6:30 PM – 10:30 PM PDT

Location

Conservatory of Flowers

100 John F Kennedy Drive

San Francisco, CA 94118

United States

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Refund policy

No Refunds

Description

An elegant, intimate experience at the Conservatory of Flowers, featuring Guest of Honor, Ron Gagliardo, Senior Manager of Horticultural Services at Amazon and Manager of Amazon’s spectacular new conservatory (and more!), The Spheres. Ron will share the amazing tale of how the Spheres were built and how the collection has been curated.

Tickets are $250. Capacity is extremely limited.



6:30p.m. – 7:30p.m. — Welcoming reception

7:30p.m. – 8:30p.m. — Seated dinner

8:30p.m. – 9:00p.m. — Program with Ron Gagliardo

9:30p.m. – 10:30p.m. — Dessert
Featuring Humphry Slocombe’s Conservatory of Flowers Chocolate Cassis Ice Cream


Guest of Honor: Ron Gagliardo


Ron Gagliardo
Sr. Manager, Horticultural Services – Amazon.com LLC

Ron spent his early years growing up near the Everglades National Park in south Florida, where he developed what has become a lifelong passion and interest in natural history. He trained as a botanist and chemist and received undergraduate and graduate degrees in Botany from North Carolina State University. In 1993, Ron joined the Atlanta Botanical Garden where he worked until 2008 developing tropical plant collections as Curator and managing the Garden’s Plant Tissue Culture Laboratory. In 2001, Ron began to put the techniques of captive propagation to use in developing an active amphibian conservation program at the Garden. This program included components of fundraising, education, captive breeding research and support of range country partners in Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, and Peru. In 2008, Ron joined the Amphibian Ark team to continue this work in conservation of threatened amphibians through training and capacity building programs literally all over the world.

Missing plants and horticulture, Ron became an early consultant for Amazon on The Spheres project in 2013 and in early 2014, became the company’s first official horticulturist. Along with The Spheres, Ron oversees all other aspects of Amazon horticulture and corporate landscapes. With a small, highly talented team of horticulturists, he has built a meaningful and diverse collection of plants from around the world for display in The Spheres which opened in early 2018. Ron’s primary goal for The Spheres is connecting people with nature with an amazing “Year Five on Day One” horticultural experience.


Capacity is extremely limited - please RSVP today or by October 10.

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