25 Years & Growing
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 28th, 2011
by Dawn Lipscomb, Children’s Garden Program Instructor, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Note: ”Stickman” is the Garden’s ambassador for Patrick Dougherty’s Diamonds in the Rough stick sculpture at the Garden. Each week, the Children’s Garden staff moves Stickman to a new spot in the Garden — so our young visitors can search for him. Dawn Lipscomb, [...]
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, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 21st, 2011
by Albert Brian Vick Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator We had a great blend of volunteers Saturday morning in the Lewis Ginter Community Kitchen Garden. A college alumni group joined several individual volunteers who signed up via HandsOn Greater Richmond, and the finishing touches were applied to the Fall crop of broccoli, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 1st, 2011
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Despite today’s heat, I’m so happy that summer is finally here. Summer at the Garden means children fighting the birds for the mulberries, their faces and hands stained red from the juice. It means a parade of strollers that comes through the Garden each day [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 18th, 2011
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, & Randee Humphrey, Director of Education, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden The next time you come to the Garden, make sure you take a detour to what we at the Garden call ”Ginter Gallery II”, the display area right outside the Lora Robins Library, in the Education & Library Complex [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13th, 2011
Note: Over the next few weeks, we will bring you updates on the progress of the Patrick Dougherty stick sculpture installation at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. We are calling this 3 week transformation of the Anderson Meadow a “Meadowmorphosis.” We will celebrate the completion of the fantasy-like structure with a naming ceremony at Spring Fling on May [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7th, 2011
Note: Over the next few weeks, we will bring you updates on the progress of thePatrick Dougherty stick sculpture installation at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. We are calling this 3 week transformation of the Anderson Meadow a “Meadowmorphosis.” We will celebrate the completion of the fantasy-like structure with a naming ceremony at Spring Fling on May [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 29th, 2011
by Brenda Brown, PR & Marketing Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Volunteers are love in motion Rosalie and Cecil Bailey inspire me. They inspire me with their collective life story as a married couple and their individual life experiences as two people who took different paths volunteering, who both found their calling. This March, we [...]
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