Posted in Garden Volunteers, Uncategorized on Apr 27th, 2012
by Kristen Ablamskyy, PR & Marketing Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden It’s impossible to miss the smiles that quickly emerge when you mention the Spring Plant Sale at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. Volunteers and staff are buzzing around the Garden preparing for next week’s sale and sharing stories from years past. Volunteer, Jane Hartough, is in charge of plant [...]
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Posted in Children's Garden on Apr 23rd, 2012
by Albert Brian Vick, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden has a new installation in the Children’s Garden: 4,000 blue & silver pinwheels. It’s small in terms of square footage, but it’s really cool to see, particularly on a robin’s egg blue sky day. The “Pinwheels for Prevention Garden” [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 1st, 2012
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Recently, I was pleasantly surprised when I saw an NBC12 article via Facebook on the possibility that State of Virginia would help support Virginia beekeepers (and farmers) by offering a tax credit to those who purchased hives. Knowing that many of our members and fans [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 1st, 2012
by Kristen Ablamsky, PR & Marketing Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Did you know there is a holiday, native to Israel, that celebrates a new year in honor of plants? It’s called Tu B’shevat (TOO-bish-VAHT). It’s sometimes called Jewish Arbor Day. This agricultural holiday began in ancient times as a way to keep track of [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 30th, 2012
by Nancy Turnage, Public Relations & Marketing Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden A few months ago, while on a mission to capture some fun photos for my Every Day is a Playday blog, I encountered a little friend. He was so cute — set amidst the foliage and ornate shrubbery. He was so completely out of place. He [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 25th, 2012
by Scott Hornby, Development Writer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Has anyone ever said something to you that was so funny, so gripping, so moving or so powerful that you wished your mind had a big, red record button? It’s a sad comment on the state of my mind that I can recite, word-for-word, the dialogue to hundreds [...]
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