25 Years & Growing
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 orchids on Apr 14th, 2012
by Victoria Waiton, Membership Assistant, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden On my most recent trip to the Conservatory, I tried to remember what it was like to see a cascade of Oncidium orchids for the first time, and wondered what it would feel like to walk through a forest and suddenly come across the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 11th, 2012
By Frank Robinson, President & CEO, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Let me begin by saying that there are pockets of the region, specifically in Mechanicsville and Hanover County, where extreme populations of inchworms have emerged this spring. As with anything in the extreme, “too much” is a problem. If you are reading this post you are [...]
Posted in Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Uncategorized on Apr 10th, 2012
by Janice Hunter, Children’s Garden Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden When I was growing up, spring break family vacations were often built around road trips that my parents planned to places none of us had seen before. A road trip was literally the experience of seeing new territory from the back seat of a diesel [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 31st, 2012
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden You may have noticed in the midst of A Million Blooms this spring that we are also working on a construction project at the Garden: the Martha and Reed West “Island Garden” restoration. In busy blooming time, it’s easy to focus on the new blossoms each day, the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 29th, 2012
by Albert Brian Vick, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden The Lewis Ginter Community Kitchen Garden is adding 5,000 square feet. The broad lawn behind Locbury House will be converted into a vegetable garden. A major goal for the new space is accessibility. With help from the community we’ll add raised beds with wheelchair access. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 28th, 2012
by Albert Brian Vick, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden On St. Patrick’s Day, a lucky group of seven planted Red Pontiac potatoes in the Lewis Ginter Community Kitchen Garden, adding to the 335 seed potatoes and/or cuttings we planted earlier this month. While there’s no guarantee all will sprout and produce, we had some very [...]
Posted in Community Kitchen Garden at Lewis Ginter, Uncategorized on Mar 20th, 2012
by Albert Brian Vick, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden The winter indoor planning stage is complete and work has begun in the Community Kitchen Garden (CKG). Here are the current garden plans. Notice that “plans” is plural, because a very exciting aspect of the 2012 CKG is our expansion. The garden layouts shown below [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 6th, 2012
by Janice Hunter, Children’s Garden Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden “The earth moved under my feet today,” at least that is what I told my husband when he asked about my day in the Children’s Garden at Lewis Ginter. I expected him to ask “…another earthquake?” and mused over the ways I could string him [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 9th, 2012
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Before I had kids, It used to be that whenever I felt grumpy, regardless of the season, I started work on my garden. In no time, my grumpiness floated away into the sky or down into the soil, I’m not sure. Hours passed. I’d [...]
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