Gift & Book Shop
Our Education Center houses the Garden's shop, where you can find a variety of gardening, natural history, botany, and children's books for sale, as well as gift items.
Open 10 - 5 on weekdays, 9 - 5 Saturdays, and 1 - 5 Sundays.
Photo by Dan Sears
Gifts
In addition to books, you will find an assortment of T-shirts, table linens, jewelry, stationery, fine art prints, and more at the Garden Shop.
T-shirts with 2011 NC Wildflower of the Year are in!
Great colors, beautiful illustration . . . wonderful gift.
Books
Some of our favorite titles? "Bringing Nature Home" by Doug Tallamy, Newcomb's Wildflower Guide, books on nature journaling, and some really delightful children's titles. Also among the many books we offer are several unique titles published by the Botanical Garden Foundation, the Garden's membership-based support organization:
- Mary Coker Joslin's William Chambers Coker, Passionate Botanist tells the story of William Coker's lifelong interest in plants and his founding of the now historic Coker Arboretum on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's campus. The 197-page book is illustrated with historic photographs and delightful illustrations rendered by Sandra Brooks-Mathers.
- A Haven in the Heart of Chapel Hill: Artists Celebrate the Coker Arboretum (2004), is a feast for the eye. A tribute to the first 100 years of the Coker Arboretum, it includes stories about the Arboretum's evolution and descriptions of its natural history. These come alive amid historical photographs and color reproductions of fourteen area artists' renderings of Arboretum scenes and botanical specimens.
- Chapel Hill and Elisha Mitchell the Botanist (1996) tells the hitherto unknown story of the nineteenth-century geologist's "botanizing" during his early decades in Chapel Hill at the University of North Carolina. This well-documented study will be of interest to students of early American natural history as well as those curious about the foundations of the science curriculum at the University of North Carolina.
To order any of these titles from the Botanical Garden Gift Shop, please fill out the Book Order Form [PDF] and mail it to us.
Educational Videos
Educational videos co-produced by the North Carolina Botanical Garden and Laurel Hill Press of Chapel Hill are sold in the gift shop. These "Take a Closer Look" videos are an excellent resource for teachers, environmental educators, naturalists, and anyone interested in the natural world. For information on ordering by mail, see the sidebar at right.
Fire and the Longleaf (1999)
12 minutes. Winner of a Silver Telly and a Videographer Award of Excellence
"Fire and the Longleaf" explores the nature of the longleaf pine savanna and its amazing stories of biodiversity, interdependence, and dependence on fire. Special video footage of an annual controlled burn of the Botanical Garden's Coastal Plain Habitat helps the viewer understand the special relationship between fire and species diversity. Viewers also learn of the importance of taking responsibility as stewards of our natural habitats. Narrated by 14-year-old Cristina Woods, "Fire and the Longleaf" is specifically targeted for the 4th and 5th-grade Curriculum in Ecology, though the story is readily understood by younger students and is sophisticated enough to interest older students and adults as well.
Plants and the Cherokee (2001)
26 minutes
Produced in partnership with the Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee, North Carolina, "Plants and the Cherokee" tells the story of the relationship between the Cherokee and the plants that are a part of their world. Viewers learn that the Cherokee have a cultural heritage that is based on the natural world, and discover that they believe that life is a circle and that everything in creation is part of this great circle of life. Viewers "take a closer look" at seven plants: dogwood, souchan, yellowroot, river cane, poplar, sassafras, and ramps. Exquisite videography, the musical sounds of nature and people, some spoken words from the Cherokee language, and the narrative voice of young Cristina Woods make this video a rich experience indeed. We recommend it to teachers, students of all ages, and anyone interested in native plants and their uses.
Last updated by NCBG Editor on January 05, 2012 at 01:01:15 am.
