Healing in the Garden: Art, Plants, and Medicine at Bartram’s Garden
Join us at the Garden for a conversation about healing across time, place, and practice. Set inside America’s oldest surviving botanical garden, this special event brings together artist Terrence Gore, herbalist and urban forager Lady Danni Morinich, and Dr. Burton of Burton Wellness & Injury Center for a thoughtful discussion on the many ways nature has shaped our understanding of medicine, resilience, and care.
Moderated by WHYY’s Maiken Scott, the conversation will begin with a panel exploring art as a form of healing, the wisdom and usefulness of plants growing all around us, and the connection between traditional, alternative, and modern approaches to health. Terrence Gore will reflect on how Bartram’s Garden has influenced his artwork and his personal healing journey. Lady Danni will share insight into the medicinal and practical uses of plants found in our own backyards and public green spaces. Dr. Burton will bring a medical perspective to the conversation, connecting the body, wellness, and integrative approaches to care.
Following the panel, guests will be invited to continue the conversation outdoors with a guided plant tour of Bartram’s Garden, looking at the landscape through the lens of healing, history, and discovery. Light refreshments will be served.
ACCESSIBILITY – This event will take place in the Barn, an indoor space that is accessible via wheelchair. It is about a 2-minute walk from the main Visitor Parking Loop, ADA-accessible on a paved path at a slight incline. Gendered, multi-stall public restrooms and all-gender single restrooms, both ADA-accessible, are about a two-minute walk away.
We’re happy to make accommodations for guests with mobility limitations. Large portions of our 50+ acre botanical garden can be explored via wheelchair, though some of our paths should be used at your own discretion. If you have questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to reach out ahead of time to .
For more information about planning your visit, see bartramsgarden.org/visit
Terrence Gore
Terrence L. Gore is a Philadelphia artist whose work is deeply connected to Bartram’s Garden and to his own story of resilience, healing, and transformation. A multidisciplinary creative, Gore’s practice includes fine art, interior design, dance, curation, fashion, and food. After a serious health diagnosis in 2006 and life-changing complications, Gore turned to art as a path toward healing and self-expression. His work draws inspiration from memory, place, found materials, and the natural world, including discoveries made at Bartram’s Garden, a landscape that has been meaningful to him since childhood.
Lady Danni Morinich
Lady Danni Morinich is the proprietress of Landed Gentress Handcrafted Herbals and an urban forager, herbalist, educator, and plant advocate. Her work focuses on helping people recognize the value of the plants growing all around them, including plants often dismissed as weeds. Through tours, workshops, and handcrafted herbal products, Lady Danni invites people to see their backyards, parks, and public landscapes as places of nourishment, history, and healing. She brings a practical and grounded perspective on the usefulness of plants and the wisdom that can be found close to home.
Dr. Burton
Dr. Burton is the physician behind Burton Wellness & Injury Center, a medical practice focused on internal, nutritional, and alternative medicine. His approach to care emphasizes the connection between the body, wellness, nutrition, and holistic health. For this conversation, Dr. Burton will bring a medical perspective to the relationship between healing, nature, and integrative approaches to well-being, helping connect historical plant-based knowledge with contemporary conversations about health.
Maiken Scott, Moderator
Maiken Scott is the host and executive producer of The Pulse, WHYY’s nationally distributed health and science radio show and podcast. Through stories about the people, places and ideas shaping health and science, Maiken has explored subjects ranging from medicine and mental health to climate, nature and scientific discovery. An experienced journalist, interviewer and live-event moderator, Maiken is known for making complex topics accessible and guiding thoughtful, engaging conversations among experts, community leaders and audiences. The Pulse airs on more than 125 public radio stations across the country, and its podcast is presented by NPR.
