Deirdre Larkin, managing horticulturalist of The Met Cloisters, discusses quince and its significance in medieval gardens.

Deirdre Larkin, managing horticulturalist of The Met Cloisters, discusses bryony and its significance in medieval gardens.

Deirdre Larkin, managing horticulturist of The Met Cloisters, discusses medlar and its significance in medieval gardens.

Managing Horticulturist Deidre Larkin reflects on growth and differences of male and female hop plants in the Cloisters Garden.

Deirdre Larkin, managing horticulturist of The Met Cloisters, discusses holly and ivy and its significance in medieval gardens.

Deirdre Larkin, managing horticulturist of The Met Cloisters, discusses the art of topiary and its significance in medieval gardens.

Deirdre Larkin, managing horticulturalist at The Met Cloisters, shares the blooms of the espaliered pear tree in the Bonnefont Cloister garden.

Deirdre Larkin, managing horticulturalist of The Met Cloisters, discusses the origins of the Date palm and its significance in medieval art and life.

Deirdre Larkin, managing horticulturist of The Met Cloisters, discusses the origins of pannage, the practice of bringing pigs to the wood to forage, and its significance in medieval art and life. 

Betsy Kornhauser, Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, discusses a sword in the exhibition Arms and Armor: Notable Acquisitions, 2003–2014 that appears in a portrait of Revolutionary War hero Colonel Marinus Willett.