Posted in Butterflies LIVE!, Events, garden, The Garden Shop on Apr 19th, 2013
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden It’s that time of year again when Richmond Magazine helps RVA decide the Best and Worst of Richmond. Last year, The Garden Shop was voted “The Best Place for Unusual Garden Ornaments” – but did you know, we have so much more than that! Why [...]
Posted in Lora Robins Library, The Garden Shop on Dec 11th, 2012
By Janet Woody, Librarian, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Two new Virginia-related books offer great choices for bike-lovers and plant-lovers on your gift lists. Both are available in our Garden Shop. On Richmond’s Wheel: A Timeline History of Cycling in Richmond, Virginia by Thomas Houff is a history of bicycling in Richmond and much more. It will [...]
Posted in The Garden Shop on Dec 9th, 2012
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Does your family hide a pickle on your Christmas Tree? You don’t? Maybe it’s time to start a new tradition! The person who finds it gets an extra present or a year of good fortune. What a fun way to start out Christmas morning! [...]
Posted in The Garden Shop on Dec 7th, 2012
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden In my family we have a tradition: each year my children pick out ornaments for their grandmothers in the Garden Shop at Lewis Ginter. (Spoiler alert — for any of my kid’s grandmothers who are reading along — you may want to avert your eyes now!) This year, [...]
Posted in Butterflies LIVE!, The Garden Shop on Oct 4th, 2012
Photos and text by John Laslett, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Public Relations & Marketing Intern Butterflies are some of the most delicate creatures in the world. The butterfly, of all creatures, is most robbed of the power to destroy. Thousands may descend and produce little more than a fragile breeze, the likes of which delights [...]
Posted in Garden Volunteers, The Garden Shop, Uncategorized on Sep 20th, 2012
by Jonah Holland, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Public Relations & Marketing Coordinator Garden volunteers are resourceful. They love what they do, and they do it with pride. I hate to say it, but many of them know alot more about plants than I do. Often, they are the ones I go to with questions about a [...]
Posted in The Garden Shop, Uncategorized on Oct 28th, 2010
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden One of the things I love about Richmond is that you don’t have to shop at the mall for holiday gifts. In fact, I think it is Very Richmond to treasure unconventional, one-of-a-kind gifts bought at local merchants, museum shops and attractions, where the money earned [...]
Posted in The Garden Shop, Uncategorized on Oct 20th, 2010
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden One of the things I most love about working at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is that each week, without a doubt, I learn something new. On Monday, I was working on a video with Energy Conservation Specialist, Allison Kaufmann at Dominion Virginia Power and Tom Brinda, [...]
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