Master Gardener
Carol Gravens is a St. Louis Advanced Level Master Gardener and a Plant Doctor. She retired from a professional career as a microbiologist. Carol gives talks and teaches classes on orchids to various groups in the community and at Missouri Botanical Garden as part of the Master Gardener Speakers' Bureau. She volunteers one day a week in the orchid greenhouses at the Garden and grows orchids in her home in Glendale, Missouri. She loves everything about horticulture and has a passion for orchids.

Carol's Speakers Bureau topics are 'All About Orchids', 'Orchids: their Lure and Legend','Problems with Orchids'.