25 Years & Growing
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 20th, 2010
by Frank Robinson, Executive Director, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden I write the following to document and interpret the impact of our weather on the Garden, but more so to commend the horticultural, operations, maintenance and volunteer staff for the superb job you have done under really difficult conditions in recent weeks, with special thanks to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 14th, 2010
By Beth Monroe, Public Relations and Marketing Director, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Trees often have a special place in childhood memories. For me, it was a dogwood I loved to climb in my parents’ backyard. About five feet up, the branches made a “V” providing a perfect perch to view the world. Hopefully the mulberry in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 25th, 2010
by Jonah Holland, PR & marketing coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Although I was very tempted to write a blog post about how playing in the dirt can make you smarter and less depressed (as reported in new research this week), instead I’m going to write about how in so many ways, Gardening is becoming [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 16th, 2010
by Melissa Miller, Stewardship Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden I am very fortunate to be traveling by coach from Amsterdam to Maastricht in the Netherlands (or Holland as we often call it). Though we’ve been in the country for 3 full days, I am just now able to take time to log some of our [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 9th, 2010
by Jane Hockaday, Library Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Summer seems to have moved into the Garden, but it is June after all. There are many shady spots to get out of the sun, but if you need to cool off come see us in the Garden’s Library where it is cool, quite, and lovely. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 8th, 2010
by Erin Wright, Children’s Garden Educator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Everything changes in the spring. Suddenly, the garden is a riot of color and activity. The birds are building nests, the turtles come out of hibernation, and the bees seem so relieved to find flowers again. The entire garden is bursting with blossoms, and the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 17th, 2010
by Jane Hockaday, Library Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Many inches of snow and cold temperatures gave us the coldest winter in our area in several years. If you’re like me, you may have wondered if spring was ever coming. This week, a wonderful spate of warmer weather recently inspired me to walk the paths [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2010
by Erin Wright, Children’s Garden Educator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden One of the favorite wintertime activities of the Children’s Garden staff is bird watching. We hang feeders outside of our office windows, and keep them well stocked. The most popular feeder is outside of the kitchen window of the Children’s Garden Carriage House, where we [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 15th, 2010
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden My husband came home from work the other day, telling me I had to listen to this story on NPR — about trees. NPR was interviewing Diana Wells, author of the new book, Lives of the Trees: An Uncommon History, exploring people’s relationship with [...]
Posted in Community Kitchen Garden at Lewis Ginter on Dec 11th, 2009
By Janine Butler, Garden Volunteer Sadly, this will be the last edition of blog posts about the Community Kitchen Garden for this growing season. We have harvested the last of the fall crops, and the vegetable garden is being put to bed until next spring. Last week we delivered the remaining cabbages, cauliflower’s, mustard greens [...]
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