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Trees with Knees?

Last month I uncovered something mysterious growing around the rim of the West Island Garden. Our swamp cypress trees have knees. It’s not that we didn’t know they had knees. We did. We […]

Ode to Virginia's 1,000-year-old Tree

by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden I didn’t know that Virginia’s largest tree was 80 miles southeast of Richmond. And I didn’t know that the 123-foot-tall […]