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 muscipula). The Venus flytrap is internationally-known, but only found naturally in a 90-square-mile area around Wilmington, NC. Called the most wonderful plant in the world…
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 it purchased a beautiful forested hillside on the boundary of North Carolina Botanical Garden nature preserves. Called the Cochrane property, it borders the Parker Preserve…
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 important – it is often the very first piece of information you get about the organization, and you may repeat that name a lot over…
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 love feeling connected to plants, and I visit botanical gardens when I travel. I’ve been visiting Coker Arboretum and Mason Farm and the main campus…
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 was crucial in launching the Garden. In 1966, a dedicated group of volunteers incorporated the Foundation and hired the first Garden employee in 1968. State…