Madelyn Ringold-Brown

Madelyn Ringold-Brown is the gardener and curator of the Fragrance Garden and Shakespeare Garden at BBG. She fostered a passion for ornamental horticulture through the John Nally internship at Wave Hill where she learned to appreciate the rhythm of the seasons and the ways that a public garden can act as a living archive. Before arriving at BBG in 2021, she spent some years working in private horticulture in Manhattan. She studied public art in college and pursues public horticulture as an interactive ever-changing work of communal art. Madelyn especially loves working in one of the spaces at BBG where visitors are encouraged to touch the plants and connect with the garden through the strong memories that fragrant plants elicit.