The garden may be closed but you can still buy great native plants from our nursery and, in doing so, help support our organization! How to Purchase Plants from NCBG…
Category: Horticulture
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The value of volunteers
By Margo MacIntyre, Curator, Coker Arboretum The Coker Arboretum’s corps of volunteers, the Coker Nuts, have been furloughed since March 17, but I never had to experience a pandemic…
2020 Wildflower of the Year
Marsh-pink Sabatia angularis A stunning biennial in the gentian family (Gentianaceae), marsh-pink (Sabatia angularis) is also known as rose gentian, rose pink, or bitter-bloom. Native to the eastern and…
Gardens Across America
We’re honored to be one of 20 public gardens nationwide selected to create a demonstration garden in the U.S. Botanic Garden’s Gardens Across America exhibit, which runs from now through…
2019 Wildflower of the Year
Narrow-leaf mountain-mint Pycnanthemum tenuifolium This wonderful member of the mint family (Lamiaceae) is native throughout the central and eastern United States and can be found in dry, open rocky…
Wildflower or Weed?
by Heather Summer, NCBG Collections Manager I once read that the only difference between a wildflower and a weed is our perspective. Anyone who has noticed a sea of pale…
Gardening for a Drought: North Carolina Native Plants to the Rescue
North Carolina’s abundant, diverse, and colorful native wildflowers will teach us many lessons, if we only listen. One of those lessons is that plant species differ in their tolerance to…
Stream channel improvements underway at Arboretum
Thanks to a donation from the estate of devoted Coker Arboretum volunteer Bob Gordon, we are able to make improvements to the stone channel below the Abundance of Springs Kenan…