The southeastern United States is home to incredible biodiversity, and new plants are discovered in this area every year. Plant lists for this region, or Flora, evolve and change, making the most…
New Flora Covers Entire Southeastern United States
Category: News Archive
Reckoning at the Garden: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
By Nick Adams, Battle Park Manager Black lives matter. At the North Carolina Botanical Garden, we stand in solidarity with those calling for accountability and justice. We share your sorrow…
Make your own eco-friendly holiday ornaments
Every year we challenge ourselves to make our holiday tree theme both festive and relevant to our mission. In the recent past, we’ve seen many beautiful decorations made from seed…
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…
Rekindling Ancestral Connections
by Emily Oglesby, NCBG Communications & Exhibits Coordinator Anyone who has felt the mouth-puckering astringency of an unripe persimmon knows there’s an art to harvesting wild native foods. The expertise…
William Chambers Coker (1872-1953)
It all started with the botanist who gave his name to one of University’s biology buildings, a pinetum and an arboretum. William Chambers Coker was born in Hartsville, South Carolina…
100 Years of Forest Theatre
Many of us know and love Forest Theatre as the late summer home of the Paperhand Puppet Intervention’s annual performances.Others remember frequent performances by various groups through the mid-1970s, and…
Spring Plant Sale and Festival Celebrates Native Plants and Community
Chapel Hill, NC ‐‐ The North Carolina Botanical Garden will host its second annual Spring Plant Sale and Festival Saturday, April 29, 3 ‐ 7 p.m. Festival‐goers will be able…
Annual Evelyn McNeill Sims Native Plant Lecture Explores Designing Native Plant Gardens
Chapel Hill –On Sunday, April 2 from 2:30 to 4 p.m. the North Carolina Botanical Garden will host plant ecologist Lisa Wagner for the Garden’s annual Evelyn McNeill Sims Native…
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…