Posted in Butterflies LIVE! on May 15th, 2012
Photos & text by Albert Brian Vick, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator Yeah, from the title you immediately knew this post would be about butterflies. Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is installing its 2012 Butterflies LIVE! exhibition in the Conservatory. The exhibition doesn’t start until next week — May 25 — but [...]
Posted in Butterflies LIVE! on May 14th, 2012
Text & photos by Garrett McLees Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, PR & Marketing Intern Butterflies LIVE! doesn’t open until May 25th, but today I had a unique opportunity to see behind-the-scenes and get a first look at the arrival of the butterflies. None of the butterflies have emerged from their chrysalis yet, that made their [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 3rd, 2012
by Janet Woody, Librarian, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Excitement is building for Butterflies LIVE! We can’t wait for the May 25 opening of this display. If you haven’t visited it before, you are in for a real treat. We will be planting both host and nectar plants to attract and support all of the free-range butterflies that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 7th, 2009
By Beth Monroe, Public Relations and Marketing Director Last call! This is the final week of Butterflies LIVE! at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden and the butterflies are going out on a high note. Just last week a new shipment of chrysalides came in – including some species we’ve not yet had. (The last day of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 18th, 2009
It’s Moth Month at Lewis Ginter! I’ve always been a fan of Luna moths, because they are so beautiful, especially when you find them unexpectedly in your own yard. But I’d never heard o f Luna Moths’ cousin, the African Moon Moth! For Moth Month in addition to the giant Atlas Moth, we added Cecropia [...]
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