Jenny Wainwright-Klein: Growing Alpines in the Schachen Alpine Garden

Date: 11:30am-1:00pm, Jan 14, 2026

Lunch Meeting, Zoom Only

Jenny Wainwright-Klein: Growing Alpines in the Schachen Alpine Garden, a satellite garden of the Munich Botanic Gardens

Jenny grew up in Zambia. She qualified as a horticulturist in South Africa and moved to the UK to work at Kew Garden. In 1992 she started work at the rock garden (Alpinum) at Munich Botanic Garden and became fascinated with alpines. Today she is supervisor of the alpine propagation unit and of the Alpine Garden on the Schachen in the Wetterstein Mountains, part of the Munich Botanic Garden. She has been involved in numerous seed collecting expeditions to Georgia and Lesotho.