Pollinator Plantings
As you move down the Main Garden Path this summer, you’ll notice the rainbow of flowers — each one part of a group of pollinator plantings–stretching at its side. You’ll […]
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Spring Garden Renovations
Spring is here and seems like the perfect time to tell you about some garden renovations taking place at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. We got swept up in spring cleaning […]
Winter Symposium: Gardening With Purpose & Passion
During this year’s Winter Symposium and CVNLA short course, we dug deeper into what it means to garden with purpose and passion through perennial gardens. Perennials offer a different gardening […]
Go Wild With Landscaping
“Look to the wild,” suggested Thomas Rainer, co-author of “Planting in a Post-Wild World.”” His advice is intended for anyone who influences a patch of land, whether a sprawling backyard […]
A Bed is Born
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Garden Design Give a gardener a new bed, full of fresh soil and unlimited possibility, and stand back. Twice a year at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, in […]
Found Objects & Gardens
Gather found objects, add infinite imagination and create whimsical gardens like none other. That is the premise that inspires Jason Reeves, horticulturist and research associate at the University of Tennessee […]
Making Beauty Sustainable: Landscape Design That's Pleasing & Functional
By Kate Pyle, PR & Marketing Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Making Beauty Sustainable Gillette Forum on Landscape Design at Lewis […]
Coming Soon: Ornamental Grass Garden at the Conservatory
Between now and September we’ll be building a new Ornamental Grass Garden in front of the Conservatory. • This garden will replace 9,200 sq. feet of existing traditional turf […]
‘New Homestead’ Connects Sustainability with Style
by Lynn Kirk, Public Relations Writer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, reprinted with permission from the Richmond Times-Dispatch Editors Note: Earlier this week we wrote about July Moir Messervy’s appearance at the Winter […]
Winter Symposium & CVNLA Short Course: Sublime + Sustainable with Julie Moir Messervy
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden This morning I spent a few minutes listening to a horticultural rock star of our time. Julie Moir Messervy […]