by guest bloggers Ruth Intress and Nan Johnson, originally published on WCVE’s Science Matters blog The colors, textures and landscaping at Richmond’s Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is all but hidden from people who are blind and visually impaired. But not for long. Christina Walinski, a Virginia Commonwealth University Engineering student and her professor, Dianne T.V. Pawluk, Ph.D., are creating a wireless device that could aid [...]
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Text & photo by Kelley Deegan, Horticulture Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden This blazingly orange orchid, currently blooming in the Conservatory, shines bright with a pop of scarlet to chase away those winter blues. Lalieocattleya Fire Island ‘Fiery’ HCC/AOS is a hybrid species derived from two closely related genera: Laelia and Cattleya. Orchids of these [...]
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by Janet Woody, Librarian, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Recently we had a request for information about growing vegetables and flowers in a raised planter. Since I am not sure if this question pertains to a planting box with sides that sits right on the ground, or a raised planter box with its own, possibly slatted, [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 20th, 2012
Photos and text by Beth Monroe, PR & Marketing Director, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden When you work at a botanical garden, there aren’t many people exactly like you around. Usually there’s only one botanical garden in a geographic area, so colleagues tend to be far flung. If you’re lucky, you can still find like-minded organizations [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 31st, 2012
by Kristen Wolenberg, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Public Relations & Marketing Intern Many schools do not start back until after Labor Day, marking this the last week of summer. I’ve been interning at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden this summer, and I’ve had a bucket list of activities that I wanted to do. Like the saying goes, there’s [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 29th, 2012
by Kristen Wolenberg, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Public Relations & Marketing Intern This summer while I’ve been a Public Relations and Marketing Intern at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden my passion has been working on the blog. So much goes on at the Garden, and I’ve tried to tell as many stories as I can. Recently, I [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 8th, 2012
by Kristen Wolenberg, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Public Relations & Marketing Intern A pivotal moment in the movie Braveheart, directed by Mel Gibson, is of the Scottish rushing into battle with their faces painted blue and white. I always thought their face paint was a Hollywood move, with nothing to do with history, but I was [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 30th, 2012
by Kristen Wolenberg, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Public Relations & Marketing Intern What do you fear? For me it’s snakes and getting stung by a bee, which makes working in the Garden an ideal place to get over my fears. I haven’t seen any snakes in Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, but I have seen a few [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 10th, 2012
by Kristen Wolenberg, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Public Relations & Marketing Intern As the summer months stretch on, you may be looking for something new to do to really enjoy the fact that it’s summer. There’s so much to do at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden! In the Garden Café, we’ve left some spiral notebooks looking for [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 18th, 2012
Photos by Albert Brian Vick, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator Text by Albert Brian Vick & Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator The sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) is blooming at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. Mystical, majestic and magnificent with a magical fragrance. Apparently all parts are edible, but there’s more than [...]
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