Posted in Horticulture, Knockout Blooms, Rose Garden on May 5th, 2013
Photos & text by Jay Austin, Rose Garden Horticulturist, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Rose season is officially upon us! This is one of the first blooms to open this year, Rosa ‘Livin’ Easy’. Over the course of the next week, there will be tens of thousands of additional blooms of all shapes, sizes, and fragrances [...]
Posted in Flagler Perennial Garden, Horticulture on May 2nd, 2013
By Frank Robinson, President & CEO, & Lynn Kirk, PR Writer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, reprinted with permission from the Richmond Times-Dispatch Accept it, gardeners — change is the norm for gardens and landscapes. Nature alters growing conditions through ever-changing weather and seasons, as does the interaction of plants, insects and wildlife. Man creates modifications each time he [...]
Posted in Education, Horticulture on Apr 28th, 2013
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden When I met with Ellen Shepard, the woman behind the intricate gardens and orchard at Linwood Holton Elementary School, I never expected to end up talking about zombies, But that’s exactly how it happened. Zombie plants that is. I’d never heard of them, but you [...]
Posted in community, Flagler Perennial Garden on Apr 20th, 2013
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Photographer Tyler Darden captured a sweet moment the other morning of a mother and child in the Flagler Perennial Garden. It got me thinking, there are so many special places here at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. What’s your favorite?
Posted in Horticulture, Knockout Blooms on Apr 20th, 2013
Posted in Community Kitchen Garden at Lewis Ginter, Horticulture, Volunteers on Apr 13th, 2013
Text & photos by Brian Vick, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Karen Reynolds brought her Dominion PJM Energy Settlements team to the Lewis Ginter Community Kitchen Garden earlier this week for a surprisingly sweltering afternoon of gardening. The team transplanted parsley and lettuce, seeded beets and turnips, and also accomplished some ditch digging [...]
Posted in Grace Arents Garden, History, Horticulture on Apr 10th, 2013
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden’s most historic garden is getting a “summer house” and new arbors. The formal beds in front of Bloemendaal House were originally planted by Grace Arents (Lewis Ginter’s niece, and the founder of our Garden) in 1914. In fact, we call it [...]
Posted in Community Kitchen Garden at Lewis Ginter, Horticulture, Volunteers on Apr 2nd, 2013
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Wondering what we’ve been up to lately in the Community Kitchen Garden? POTATOES! Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator Brian Vick, made a 2-minute movie featuring the potato planting. Thanks to volunteers Jeff Curtis, John Jamieson & Gary Pantaleo for helping to grow food for Richmond’s neediest [...]
Posted in central garden, Collections, Education, Horticulture on Mar 28th, 2013
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Today, Shannon Smith, Senior Horticulturist, met with staff and volunteers during a “15 Minutes in the Garden” session where we learned about a new section of plants for this very special garden — the George Bragdon Daffodil Garden. The Bragdon memorial garden will show a spectacular [...]
Posted in Children's Garden, Education, Knockout Blooms on Mar 21st, 2013
by Heather Veneziano, Children’s Garden Horticulturist, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden The Children’s Garden volunteers and I have been keeping a secret, but we can’t keep it any more. In December my Tuesday volunteer group and I planted 500 Crocus tommasinianus ‘Ruby Giant’ in the grassy area below the tree house.
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