Every Thursday evening between Memorial Day and Labor Day, we’re staying open until 8 p.m. so you can enjoy our display gardens after work and in cooler temperatures. Our exhibit…
Garden Open for Twilight Thursdays this Summer
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New Edition Released: Flora of the Southeastern U.S.
This month, Alan Weakley, along with Michael Lee and the greater Southeastern Flora Team, released the 2022 edition of the Flora of the Southeastern United States (FSUS), including 90 new keys, 700 new taxa, an expanded geographic range, and more.
Garden Honors Larry Mellichamp with Flora Caroliniana Award
The North Carolina Botanical Garden is proud to award Larry Mellichamp with the Flora Caroliniana Award. Mellichamp is the seventh person to receive this honor, given for enthusiasm and service to the preservation, restoration, and appreciation of the natural world around us.
A River Runs Around It: Restoring the Rare Flora of Penny’s Bend
Two hundred million years ago, before birds existed, or bees, or wildflowers, molten rock seeped into cracks below the surface of what’s now Durham, North Carolina.
APPLES interns grow in garden
APPLES intern Becca Beechold with a tomato harvest at the Carolina Community Garden By Angelica Edwards, NCBG Communications Intern The North Carolina Botanical Garden’s partnership with APPLES Service-Learning offers students…
2022 Wildflower of the Year
We are excited to share downy woodmint (Blephilia ciliata), a lovely native perennial in the mint family, as the 2022 Wildflower of the Year. Similar in appearance to its mint family relatives like bee balms (Monarda spp.), downy woodmint is a clump-forming perennial up to two feet tall, but it spreads slowly and won’t become aggressive like other mint species sometimes do.
You Can Help Expand Stillhouse Bottom Nature Preserve
Did you know the North Carolina Botanical Garden stewards over 1,100 acres of garden and conservation areas? Some of these are well known, like our display gardens, Coker Arboretum, and…
A Toast to Polk County, Galax, and Bigleaf Scurfpea
By Carol Ann McCormick, Curatrix, UNC Chapel Hill Herbarium I have recently become very interested in a place I’ve never visited. It’s not a terribly exotic place, nor is it…
Team Developing Flora of the Southeastern U.S. Grows
What do a cigar orchid, giant air plant, Everglades palm, and pygmy fringetree have in common? They’re all plants that, in the United States, only grow Florida. And they’re covered in the latest version of the Flora of the Southeastern United States, published by our Herbarium!
Winter in the Garden Programs
Enjoy the peaceful holiday splendor of the Garden as we celebrate the end of the year with a craft market, guided tours, and more throughout the season. Food Pantry Donations…