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Message from the Executive Director: A Natural Love Affair

Posted in Garden Staff, Message from the Executive Director on Mar 18th, 2013

by Shane Tippett, Executive Director, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Can you remember being 10 and hurtling up your favorite climbing tree? Can you still feel the rough bark under your hands and the way the sturdy anchor of the tree’s trunk gave way to smaller and smaller branches until it all swayed giddily under your weight? How [...]

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From the Director: Frank Robinson Celebrates 20 Years at the Garden

Posted in Garden Staff on Feb 19th, 2013

by Shane Tippett, Executive Director, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden On February 1, 2012, Frank Robinson celebrated his 20th anniversary as Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden’s leader. Such milestones in an extraordinarily successful career usually invite a series of “before and after” comparisons, but a couple years ago Frank himself edited a pictorial history of the Garden on [...]