25 Years & Growing
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 7th, 2011
by Albert Brian Vick Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator It was a gorgeous morning at Lewis Ginter’s Community Kitchen Garden. We took a day off from pampering the cole crops, and applied our energy to the incremental removal of some of the hundreds of tomato plants. The process of preparing the garden [...]
Posted in Community Kitchen Garden at Lewis Ginter, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, volunteer 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 gardenfest, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, volunteer on Nov 4th, 2011
By Nancy Turnage, Public Relations & Marketing Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden I know what it means … saw through my telescope … woodsmen … sawing down trees … with Xs on them … like ours…. They’re going to cut down our tree! As both author and illustrator, Ruth Brown brings to life bustling, bickering [...]
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 Oct 21st, 2011
by Garrett McLees Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, PR & Marketing Intern The theme for my blog posts this month has been October Oddities, the month-long display of odd and interesting items at the Children’s Garden. Each Saturday in October, from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. the Children’s Garden hosts Odd October-themed events. So far I [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
|
