Butterflies have mastered of the art of disguise. With so many natural predators, including birds, spiders, reptiles, insects (wasps, flies, mites), and small mammals, they have disguise themselves in order […]
Read MoreWe’ve had so much fun with our #MillionBlooms Instagram contest this year. We’ve had nearly 800 submissions! A few weeks ago we featured some of our favorite #MillionBlooms contest submissions, and here […]
Read MoreWhen Page Robinson sent me a photo of this wall hanging via email last week, all I could think was: This is a labor of love. In the email she […]
Read MoreLewis Ginter Botanical Garden is honored to be part of season’s first harvest in The White House Kitchen Garden with First Lady Michelle Obama today. Amina Abdulkadir and Lilah Monroe […]
Read MoreI find myself fascinated by butterfly anatomy more and more each day as I work with and learn about these remarkable creatures. Even though I have only been with Butterflies LIVE! […]
Read MoreBeing a volunteer at the Garden means you sometimes get the best view of the blooms. Plus, you have an insider’s perspective on the Garden. When horticulture volunteer Hillary Liddick emailed […]
Read MoreThis Cecropia silkmoth (Hyalophora cecropia) is beautiful enough to be in our Butterflies LIVE! exhibit, but actually, it’s not from the exhibit at all. Horticulturist Leah Purdy found this beauty […]
Read MoreIt seems like nearly every garden in Central Virginia has them, and they are plentiful here at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden too — in Flagler and Grace Arents Garden. But did […]
Read MoreOrnamental onions like Allium ‘Ambassador’ are great late-spring to early-summer flowers. Both kids and adults love them, and we often hear visitors say they look like “Dr. Seuss flowers.” […]
Read MoreUpdate: the date of Free Admission for Military Personnel & First Responders changes each year, and is on Memorial Day. For this year’s date and other event details please see our […]
Read MoreArlington-based artist Pam Rogers is innately drawn to the natural world. The paintings in her new show: Field Investigations, on display at Ginter Gallery II, spring from that fascination. Rogers uses […]
Read MoreI’ve seen our Rose Garden bloom more than a few times in my 8 years here. It has a flush if blooms in spring, blooms all summer (granted, with a slow down) […]
Read MoreThe phone! The bills! The kids! When life’s stresses have you ready to lose it, why not take a moment to step away from it all and into an oasis […]
Read MoreLast week was an important week in the Community Kitchen Garden: we made our first harvest of the season! On Monday morning I had the pleasure of working with Lewis […]
Read MoreA Million Blooms continues through June 1st. That means we have about 3 more weeks for a wonderful parade of flowers: peonies, iris, roses and more. Stay tuned for more posts with photos […]
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