Posted in Uncategorized on May 3rd, 2011
by Cathy Butler, guest blogger & instructor at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Cathy Butler is a certified Feldenkrais Method® instructor, who will be teaching a class on Effortless Gardening™ at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden on May 14th -15 (10 am – 3 p.m. Saturday, Sunday 1 – 4 p.m.) We’ve asked her to share a bit about her [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 12th, 2011
by Janet Woody, Librarian, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Please join us in the Lora M. Robins Library on Thursday, April 21, at 2 p.m. as we celebrate Arbor Day. A guest speaker from the City of Richmond Urban Forestry Division will tell us about tree planting goals in the city. Then we will amble through [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 4th, 2011
By Beth Monroe, Public Relations and Marketing Director, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Richmond orchid enthusiast Dr. Arthur Burke is one of the the forces behind Orchids Galore! . An offer of plants from his personal collection helped make the display possible and he also kindly loaned the Garden his copy of Reichenbachia antique chromolithographs for [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 11th, 2011
by Janet Woody, Librarian, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden This is the first in a monthly series of things to do in your home garden each month of the year. You might think of them as chores … but why not think of them as opportunities to get some fresh air and make your surroundings look better. This [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 5th, 2011
by Beth Monroe, Public Relations Director, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden The year 2010 was a year of extremes for us here at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden: the wettest spring, the hottest summer, and the coldest December. We also had the extreme pleasure of exhibiting Glorious Glass in the Garden, which ends January 10, 2011, after [...]
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Posted in garden shop, Uncategorized on Oct 20th, 2010
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden One of the things I most love about working at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is that each week, without a doubt, I learn something new. On Monday, I was working on a video with Energy Conservation Specialist, Allison Kaufmann at Dominion Virginia Power and Tom Brinda, [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 30th, 2010
by Frank Robinson, Executive Director, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden One of the best things about Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is that we just get better and better! In early 2011, expect some major enhancements to the Central Garden (CG) between the Robins Visitors Center (top of photo) and the Conservatory (bottom of photo.) The proportions [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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