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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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By Jonah Holland This morning I started out to document what’s in bloom right now at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. I didn’t get very far. After leaving my office and strolling through the Woodland Walk, I quickly realized that this would have to be a catalog of simply what was in bloom just in the [...]
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Tomorrow is the Green Tonic: Urban Gardening for Health & Wholeness symposium at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. And while the symposium hasn’t even started, there is something new that has started: Richmonders are starting to talk about what they want for their future for the city. Richmonders are starting to realize that they have more [...]
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What do the Obamas and Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden have in common? Easy — we are both trying to do the right thing — grow vegetables locally to help our communities lead healthier lives. And if we can get folks excited about gardening themselves and educate them about how to do it in the process [...]
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Photo by Heather Weimer, courtesy of the My Great Richmond Photo Contest My Greater Richmond recently sponsored a photo contest all about our wonderful Richmond Region. This website is a great place to go and see beautiful photos of the Richmond and the surrounding area and to get ideas for things to go see or [...]
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