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…
You Can Help Expand Stillhouse Bottom Nature Preserve
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Fall Plant Sale: Fall is for Planting!
Did you know fall is the best time to plant North Carolina’s wonderful native perennials, shrubs, trees, ferns, and grasses in your home landscape? Planting in the fall gives time…
Don’t get caught without one!
The North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation, Inc. and the Friends of Plant Conservation (FoPC) are teaming up to offer a new North Carolina license plate featuring the Venus flytrap (Dionaea…
Saving Cochrane Property
Greg Fitch, President, North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation The North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation, the support organization for the Garden, expanded the scope of habitats it protects in July when…
The BGF Gets a New Name
You can probably recall names of organizations that either made you want to learn more or failed to grab your attention. The name an entity selects for itself is so…
Q & A with President Greg Fitch
Q. How did you begin your involvement with the BGF? A. I’ve been interested in gardening since I was a kid helping my grandfather in his Chapel Hill garden. I…
Introducing the Foundation
Deeply intertwined with the history and success of the North Carolina Botanical Garden has been the support received by the Botanical Garden Foundation (BGF). In the early days, that collaboration…