Posted in Butterflies LIVE!, Events, garden, The Garden Shop on Apr 19th, 2013
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden It’s that time of year again when Richmond Magazine helps RVA decide the Best and Worst of Richmond. Last year, The Garden Shop was voted “The Best Place for Unusual Garden Ornaments” – but did you know, we have so much more than that! Why [...]
Posted in Children's Garden, Do it Yourself, Education, No Child Left Inside: Restoring Nature to Early Childhood, Young Buds on Feb 7th, 2013
Text & photos by Kristin Mullen, Children’s Garden Educator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Have you ever played “I Spy” in the Garden? Some of our youngest guests spent the winter ‘spying’ amazing animals, trees, blooms, habitats, and botanical treasures as part of our preschool Young Buds program. As diligent and thoughtful scientists, the enthusiastic 3- [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 7th, 2012
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Now here’s something fun! Take a virtual tour of the doll houses in the Lora Robins Library at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden! During Dominion GardenFest of Lights, we have 17 doll houses on display. They range from a one-room greenhouse, to a diner, to [...]
Posted in Dominion GardenFest of Lights, Uncategorized on Nov 28th, 2012
Editor’s note: This blog post was originally published on Raising Richmond a parenting blog on RVAnews.com by Valerie Catrow, guest blogger, via Raising Richmond I tend to get a bit weepy when I think about Lewis Ginter this time of year–the garden, not the guy. Now you might find it odd for a grown woman to tear up at the [...]
Posted in Children's Garden, Education on Nov 21st, 2012
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden It’s easy to get in the holiday spirit when you work at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. With our desire to make Dominion GardenFest of Lights even better than the year before — each year — we sometimes get a little over-the-top when it comes holiday [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 22nd, 2012
by Janet Woody, Librarian, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden It’s nearly time for Dominion GardenFest of Lights and Merry Mondays with the Garden Keeper. GardenFest (or GF as we call it around here) is fast approaching and we better remind the GK that she needs to have a terrific book selected for reading aloud. Let’s go to [...]
Posted in Children's Garden, Uncategorized on Jun 14th, 2012
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Here’s an excerpt from our weekly staff update — aptly named: The TWIG (This Week in Ginter) written by the Garden’s Executive Director, Shane Tippet. The TWIG is a great way for our staff to stay up to date on key happenings at the Garden. [...]
Posted in Community Kitchen Garden at Lewis Ginter, Garden Volunteers on Nov 5th, 2011
by Erin Wright, Children’s Garden Educator & Horticulturist, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden You probably know that Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden has hundreds of volunteers, who work thousands of hours each year, all over the Garden. The Garden simply would not be what it is without the dedication and time our volunteers put in. But did you [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 30th, 2011
by Garrett McLees Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, PR & Marketing Intern In my last post, I wrote about my journey to the Children’s Garden, and my short vacation to the tree house in the Children’s Garden. I also introduced Gourd Quest, the exclusive gourd-themed segment of Kids Quest held at the Children’s Garden throughout the month of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 28th, 2011
by Garrett McLees Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, PR & Marketing Intern Hi, I’m Garrett McLees, the new PR & marketing intern here at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. A hardworking and studious graduate of Virginia Tech, I take every job seriously and do my best in whatever I do. Last week, my first at the Garden, [...]
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