Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 30th, 2012
by Kristen Wolenberg, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Public Relations & Marketing Intern What do you fear? For me it’s snakes and getting stung by a bee, which makes working in the Garden an ideal place to get over my fears. I haven’t seen any snakes in Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, but I have seen a few [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 18th, 2012
by Kristen Wolenberg, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Public Relations & Marketing Intern Last Thursday was my first Flowers After 5 and certainly won’t be my last! This summer I’m a Public Relations intern for Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden and it has been an amazing experience. There is always something going on! I attended Flowers After 5 in order [...]
Posted in Community Kitchen Garden at Lewis Ginter, Uncategorized on Jul 11th, 2012
Photos & text by Albert Brian Vick, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator Sweet potatoes love the heat, but these slips will need to be kept very moist for the first couple of weeks. Actually it’s “batatas”, as in Ipomoea batatas. We’re making a go of trying a small crop of sweet potatoes [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 7th, 2012
by Lisa Taranto, co-founder of Tricycle Gardens, researcher, lecturer & instructor of Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden‘s class: Permaculture: How the World Works An ecological crisis. An environmental crisis. A jobs crisis. A climate crisis. A financial crisis. An education crisis. An obesity crisis. A population crisis. Nature deficit disorder………What the hell is going on? Somehow we [...]
Posted in Butterflies LIVE! on Jun 29th, 2012
by Kristen Wolenberg, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Public Relations & Marketing Intern As soon as I walked into the Conservatory’s North Wing I felt like I was in a tropical oasis. There are lots of green plants at every height that add to the beauty and make you feel like you have just walked into a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 18th, 2012
Photos by Albert Brian Vick, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator Text by Albert Brian Vick & Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator The sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) is blooming at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. Mystical, majestic and magnificent with a magical fragrance. Apparently all parts are edible, but there’s more than [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 9th, 2012
Photos & text by guest blogger Kelly Eastman Combs I’m never surprised when my kids ask me to take them to Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. I’ve been taking them since they were in a stroller. We’ve picnicked and picked vegetables in the Children’s Garden. We’ve had field trips and day trips. We’ve seen the butterflies and [...]
Posted in Butterflies LIVE! on May 26th, 2012
Text & photos by Garrett McLees Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, PR & Marketing Intern When I last visited the Garden I got a sneak preview of Butterflies LIVE! Now the exhibit is now open. It was amazing to see so many species from around the world in one place, I can’t wait to go back and [...]
Posted in Butterflies LIVE! on May 15th, 2012
Photos & text by Albert Brian Vick, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator Yeah, from the title you immediately knew this post would be about butterflies. Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is installing its 2012 Butterflies LIVE! exhibition in the Conservatory. The exhibition doesn’t start until next week — May 25 — but [...]
Posted in Butterflies LIVE! on May 14th, 2012
Text & photos by Garrett McLees Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, PR & Marketing Intern Butterflies LIVE! doesn’t open until May 25th, but today I had a unique opportunity to see behind-the-scenes and get a first look at the arrival of the butterflies. None of the butterflies have emerged from their chrysalis yet, that made their [...]
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