25 Years & Growing
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 23rd, 2010
by Janet Woody, Librarian, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden It’s me! I’m the new librarian. Janet Woody reporting for duty. I’ve worked in many kinds of libraries over the years, but not a special one. And Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is very special. I don’t know how people get any work done here, surrounded by beautiful [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 17th, 2010
by Jane Hockaday, library volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Mother Nature seems to have opened a spa in Richmond this summer, and a glance at a weather map suggests she has extended it to most of the country. Every few days she throws another dipper or two of water on the stones to add extra [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 12th, 2010
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden In the heat of August, It’s hard to imagine, that the annual Fall Plant Sale is just around the corner, on Sept. 17 &18. This is an event that many avid gardeners look forward to all summer. Our volunteers have been working hard planning [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 6th, 2010
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden If you love the Hans Godo Frabel’s Glorious Glass in the Garden exhibit at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden — you may be interested in seeing some of the glass-working process actually take place here at the Garden. Local glass artist, Brad Pearson, will be [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 3rd, 2010
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Last week, Richard Nunnally and Virginia Home Grown on PBS broadcast some interesting videos about Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. The first video, on sacred lotus, really gives homeowners who want to start a lotus garden some basic information on how to do it. As [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 29th, 2010
by Frank Robinson, Executive Director, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden I recently had the privilege of visiting the Botanical Garden and the Technical University at Delft, (TU for short), in the Netherlands. TU has one of the world’s leading initiatives in applied botanical research with a focus on solving modern-day problems. The Delft Botanical Garden has [...]
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 Jul 9th, 2010
by Phyllis Laslett, Adult Education Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Every Wednesday morning, I see volunteers carrying trays of freshly-cut flowers and other plant material into the GardenFest of Lights decoration workshop—signaling the first stage of the imaginative, hand-made holiday decorations that delight annual GardenFest visitors starting the weekend after Thanksgiving. In most inside spaces, [...]
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 [...]
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