Flora Holland! 100 Years of Horticulture
by Melissa Miller, Stewardship Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden I am very fortunate to be traveling by coach from Amsterdam to Maastricht in the Netherlands (or Holland as we often […]
Winter Entertainment in the Children's Garden: The Birds
by 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 […]
Leaves from the Library: You Can’t See the Forest Without the Trees
by 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. […]
Community Kitchen Garden: All Good Things Must Come to an End (But Only Temporarily!)
by Janine Butler, Garden Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Sadly, this will be the last edition of blog posts about the Community Kitchen Garden for this growing season. We have harvested […]
Community Kitchen Garden: So Long Summer, Hello Fall!
by Janine Butler, Garden Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Well, the pools are closed for the year and the kids are back in school; I guess that means that summer is […]
Community Kitchen Garden: Two-Thirds Towards the Goal!
by Janine Butler, Garden Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden We are two-thirds of the way to our goal of donating 10,000 pounds of vegetables to FeedMore! (FeedMore is the umbrella organization […]
Green Tonic Urban Gardening Symposium Inspires Richmond
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Lewis Ginter’s Green Tonic symposium last week was a great success. Architects, journalist, concerned citizens, students and urban planners turned […]
Community Kitchen Garden: A Special Report "The Vegetable Food Chain"
by Janine Butler, Garden Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden I have been working in the vegetable garden at Lewis Ginter for several months now; planting the vegetables, weeding and mulching, and […]
Community Kitchen Garden: First Harvest!
by Janine Butler, Garden Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden The volunteers and staff continue to work hard in the vegetable garden; weeding, mulching, feeding, watering and what not, and finally we […]
Community Kitchen Garden: United We Serve
by Janine Butler, Garden Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Please note, this blog post was originally published on June 29, 2009. We are getting close to our first harvest! According to Tom […]