Staci Catron is the Associate Editor of Magnolia Garden History Journal, and Director of the Cherokee Garden Library in Atlanta, GA. She curates numerous exhibitions at the Atlanta History Center, and leads special curatorial tours for horticultural societies, garden clubs, landscape architects, historians, and environmentalists. Staci lectures regularly regarding rare garden books and historic landscapes, and is published in many newsletters, journals, and books.

The Phoebe Cook Lecture series is co-sponsored
by the Memphis Garden Club, a member of the Garden Club of America, and Dixon Gallery and Gardens. This series provides an opportunity to bring outstanding speakers in horticulture, conservation, and floriculture to Memphis. The series was established and endowed by the late Phoebe Cook Welsh in memory of her mother, Phoebe Cook. Gifts from Welsh’s family, the Memphis Garden Club, and friends in the Memphis community continue to fund this series.