Posted in Children's Garden, community, Education, Garden Volunteers on May 4th, 2013
Text & photos by Kristin Mullen, Children’s Garden Educator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden What do you get when you take an empty field, add piles of twigs, branches, moss, cardboard boxes, stumps, seed pods, pine cones, raffia, magnolia leaves and fabric, and then add hundreds of children and their adults? A Loose Parts Party! That’s exactly what [...]
Posted in Children's Garden, Education, Garden Staff on Mar 5th, 2013
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden The first time I really got to know Allison Kiesler, I was a parent on a field trip with my child here at Lewis Ginter in the Children’s Garden. Yes, I work here, but until I followed my 5-year-old’s kindergarten class around on a field trip, I [...]
Posted in Education, No Child Left Inside: Restoring Nature to Early Childhood on Feb 16th, 2013
by Lynn Kirk, Public Relations Writer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Nature isn’t limited to three seasons – and neither are nature walks. Winter is a delightful time to explore the great outdoors as a family or with a group of youngsters. A winter hike reveals nature’s cold-weather mysteries and seasonal trends. Leafless trees bare their trunks [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 29th, 2012
by Kristen Wolenberg, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Public Relations & Marketing Intern This summer while I’ve been a Public Relations and Marketing Intern at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden my passion has been working on the blog. So much goes on at the Garden, and I’ve tried to tell as many stories as I can. Recently, I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 23rd, 2012
by Amelia Hardy, Gilliam Research Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Interning at Lewis Ginter has been one of the best summers of my life. The fact that a college student, from Florida, says that working all summer is better than being a beach bum should speak magnitudes about how wonderful Lewis Ginter is. I was [...]
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 Garden Volunteers, Uncategorized on Apr 27th, 2012
by Kristen Ablamskyy, PR & Marketing Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden It’s impossible to miss the smiles that quickly emerge when you mention the Spring Plant Sale at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. Volunteers and staff are buzzing around the Garden preparing for next week’s sale and sharing stories from years past. Volunteer, Jane Hartough, is in charge of plant [...]
Posted in Children's Garden on Apr 18th, 2012
by Janice Hunter, Children’s Garden Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Does this remind you of anything? Could it be the flight path of a honeybee? a firefly? a ladybug? I think I’ve seen these dashes drawn to depict the flight pattern of most insects with wings and I never gave much thought to why it’s [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 15th, 2012
by Janet Woody, Librarian, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Paul Keefer is a man in a hurry to take a walk. A long walk from Rockett’s Landing to the western tip of Belle Isle to be specific. Paul grew to love waterside recreation during his years living in Switzerland from 1995 to 2000. He believes the James [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 5th, 2012
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Plants and wildlife go together like peanut butter & jelly. At Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, not only do we have great wildlife like groundhogs, turtles and snakes and also plenty of birds. We have birdfeeders throughout the Garden, and also a bird trail. Last year [...]
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