25 Years & Growing
Posted in Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Uncategorized on Jan 30th, 2012
by Nancy Turnage, Public Relations & Marketing Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden A few months ago, while on a mission to capture some fun photos for my Every Day is a Playday blog, I encountered a little friend. He was so cute — set amidst the foliage and ornate shrubbery. He was so completely out of place. He [...]
Posted in gardenfest, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Uncategorized, volunteer on Jan 18th, 2012
by Nancy Turnage, Public Relations & Marketing Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden; Photos by Don Williamson Photography A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure [...]
Posted in facility events, gardenfest, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, No Child Left Inside: Restoring Nature to Early Childhood, Uncategorized on Dec 8th, 2011
By Nancy Turnage, Public Relations & Marketing Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden As the song goes, It’s the Holiday Season…. For the adults, like me, there doesn’t seem to be enough time for everything – shopping, cooking, wrapping, celebrations. For the kids, like a certain one of mine (not mentioning any names — you know who you [...]
Posted in facility events, gardenfest, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Uncategorized on Nov 17th, 2011
by Nancy Turnage, Public Relations & Marketing Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Last week we told you all about our new addition in the Conservatory – “The Old Tree”. We are happy to announce that volunteers Nancy Butler and Alexandra Slusher have created a masterpiece. The Old Tree is ready for holiday visitors! The inhabitants have [...]
Posted in Community Kitchen Garden at Lewis Ginter, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, volunteer on Nov 5th, 2011
by Erin Wright, Children’s Garden Educator & Horticulturist, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden You probably know that Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden has hundreds of volunteers, who work thousands of hours each year, all over the Garden. The Garden simply would not be what it is without the dedication and time our volunteers put in. But did you [...]
Posted in gardenfest, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, volunteer on Nov 4th, 2011
By Nancy Turnage, Public Relations & Marketing Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden I know what it means … saw through my telescope … woodsmen … sawing down trees … with Xs on them … like ours…. They’re going to cut down our tree! As both author and illustrator, Ruth Brown brings to life bustling, bickering [...]
Posted in Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden on Dec 17th, 2010
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden We recently added a staff member to the Children’s Garden, her name is Kristin Mullen. Kristin started as Early Childhood Program Developer earlier this month, after relocating to Richmond. Since our Children’s Garden educators often develop a bit of a celebrity status with the [...]
Posted in Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Uncategorized on Feb 24th, 2010
by Jane Hockaday, Library Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden In Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest, Joan Maloof, asks us to reflect on our childhood memories of trees. “It turns out that many people have a very specific memory of a particular plant species, a memory of wonder….” she says. I was born and [...]
Posted in Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden on Nov 4th, 2009
by Erin Wright, Children’s Garden Educator and Horticulturist Working in the Children’s Garden at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is always a lot of fun — the staff here loves learning about nature as much as we like teaching kids about it. Krissi, one of the Program Developers in the Children’s Garden, has the very cool [...]
Posted in Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Uncategorized on Sep 17th, 2009
By Beth Monroe, Public Relations and Marketing Director While most people think of spring as the best time for planting, avid gardeners know fall can actually be the best. First of all, it helps to know the difference between an annual and a perennial. Annuals typically only last one season, while perennials come back year [...]
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