Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 9th, 2012
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Before I had kids, It used to be that whenever I felt grumpy, regardless of the season, I started work on my garden. In no time, my grumpiness floated away into the sky or down into the soil, I’m not sure. Hours passed. I’d [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 6th, 2012
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Last week we told you about how excited we are to have StoryCorps come to the Garden in March to record our oral history. But to truly tell the Garden’s story, we need your story. The link is now open on our website and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 5th, 2012
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Plants and wildlife go together like peanut butter & jelly. At Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, not only do we have great wildlife like groundhogs, turtles and snakes and also plenty of birds. We have birdfeeders throughout the Garden, and also a bird trail. Last year [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 4th, 2012
by Nancy Turnage, Public Relations & Marketing Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden On my first day at the Garden, I passed what I thought then was a bonafide Cold War bomb shelter. I recalled those black and white photos from high school textbooks of underground fortifications, and I envisioned tuna fish cans from 1957 stacked neatly [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 1st, 2012
by Kristen Ablamsky, PR & Marketing Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Did you know there is a holiday, native to Israel, that celebrates a new year in honor of plants? It’s called Tu B’shevat (TOO-bish-VAHT). It’s sometimes called Jewish Arbor Day. This agricultural holiday began in ancient times as a way to keep track of [...]
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