by Erin Wright, Children’s Garden Educator & Horticulturist, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden My favorite recent addition to the Children’s Garden is our three bin compost system. Not only is composting […]
Read Moreby Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden As you probably know, here at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden we love education. And in turn that means we […]
Read Moreby Jane Hockaday, Library Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Last week I decided to take a short stroll to look at some of my favorite pieces in the Hans Godo […]
Read Moreby Erin Wright, Children’s Garden Educator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Everything changes in the spring. Suddenly, the garden is a riot of color and activity. The birds are building nests, […]
Read MoreBy Maggie Southwick, Librarian, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Laura Anne Brooks of Designs From Dunluce taught a seasonal Ikebana flower arranging workshop at the Garden this morning – “Winter into […]
Read Moreby Jane Hockaday, Library Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden In Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest, Joan Maloof, asks us to reflect on our childhood memories of trees. “It […]
Read Moreby Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden The other day, I was walking through the Garden and I saw the longest, cutest, snake of a line […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Miller, Stewardship Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden “Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.” Sir Walter Scott A Garden is a not only a work […]
Read Moreby Erin Wright, Children’s Garden Educator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden For eight years, the Children’s Garden at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden has partnered with Henrico County Public Schools to bring […]
Read Moreby Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden It’s been a whirlwind week at the Garden. First, almost a foot of snow, which until this year, hardly EVER […]
Read Moreby Erin Wright, Children’s Garden Educator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden One of the favorite wintertime activities of the Children’s Garden staff is bird watching. We hang feeders outside of our […]
Read Moreby Jane Hockaday, Library Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Each year, the Pocahontas Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society makes a donation to Lewis Ginter’s Lora M. Robins Library. […]
Read Moreby Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden My husband came home from work the other day, telling me I had to listen to this story on NPR […]
Read Moreby Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden One of the things I really like about working at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is that the Garden is always […]
Read Moreby Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Here at Lewis Ginter, one of the causes nearest to our heart is education. Education of children, education of parents, […]
Read Moreby Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Now that you’ve seen some of our reflections from The Gillette Forum, I thought I’d bring you some audio. This […]
Read Moreby Erin Wright, Children’s Garden Educator & Horticulturist, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Here is the inside scoop on what’s “Happening Now” in the Children’s Garden right now! Persimmon fruit in the […]
Read Moreby Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden I came away from the Gillette Forum completely in awe of the job that landscape architects who are committed to […]
Read Moreby Adele MacLean, Program Developer/Special Projects & Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden The Gillette Forum, the last of Lewis Ginter’s four-part 25th anniversary symposia, was filled […]
Read Moreby Erin Wright, Children’s Garden Educator and Horticulturist, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Working in the Children’s Garden at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is always a lot of fun — the […]
Read Moreby Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden I’m pleased to release the last two podcasts featuring Rachel Flynn and Leni Sorensen, who spoke recently at our symposium: […]
Read Moreby Phyllis McLeod Laslett, Adult Education Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden When I was about ten (never mind when that was) I was playing in a neighbor’s yard when a […]
Read Moreby Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden It’s Moth Month at Lewis Ginter! I’ve always been a fan of Luna moths, because they are so beautiful, especially […]
Read Moreby Beth Monroe, Public Relations & Marketing Director, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Several years ago, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden did a survey and asked members what kind of exhibits they would […]
Read Moreby Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Lewis Ginter’s own, botanical illustration teacher, Juliet Kirby, has her art featured at River Farm, the American Horticulture Society’s headquarters, […]
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