25 Years & Growing
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 6th, 2012
by Janice Hunter, Children’s Garden Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden “The earth moved under my feet today,” at least that is what I told my husband when he asked about my day in the Children’s Garden at Lewis Ginter. I expected him to ask “…another earthquake?” and mused over the ways I could string him [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 5th, 2012
by Amy Clark, Assistant Education Registrar & Membership Assistant, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden This morning I couldn’t wait to get to work. Why? Besides the obvious reason that I work at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, I couldn’t wait to see Diamonds in the Rough dusted with Virginia snow. I snuck down to the Anderson Meadow [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 4th, 2012
by Shane Tippett, Executive Director, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden On February 1, 2012, Frank Robinson celebrated his twentieth anniversary as Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden’s leader. Such milestones in an extraordinarily successful career usually invite a series of “before and after” comparisons, but a couple years ago Frank himself edited a pictorial history of the Garden on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 1st, 2012
by Janet Woody, Librarian, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden While cooking some parsnips this weekend, I thought about how nice it is to discover a new food that’s good for you and easy to cook. Ahh, the lowly parsnip has come into my life. If parsnips had a Facebook page, I would click on the “Like” button [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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