Tuesday, March 28, 2023, is GiveUNC, UNC-Chapel Hill’s annual day of giving. By making a gift during GiveUNC, you help the Garden conserve plant biodiversity in the Southeastern United States and work to promote healthy and sustainable ecosystems for future generations to enjoy.
The March-April 2023 issue of Chapel Hill Magazine features a story on the Garden’s Therapeutic Horticulture program. “Therapeutic horticulture is basically when a trained professional uses plants and/or nature-based activities…
Every Thursday evening from April 6 to June 15, we’re staying open until 7 p.m. so you can enjoy our display gardens after work. Our exhibit hall and Garden Shop…
Join our Camp Flytrap team this summer! We’re hiring two Camp Environmental Educators to help prepare for and lead our hands-on natural science camps for children. At Camp Flytrap, kids…
On Sunday, NCBG staff led the planting of a native pollinator garden with teens and their chaperones at the Museum of Life and Science as part of their Youth Climate…
(1831-1913) Special thanks to the following individuals for providing information on J.W. Chickering, Jr.: Jane Rutherford, Reference & Instructional Librarian of Gallaudet University, and Scott Martin, for information on Chickering’s…
by Gary Perlmutter, Lichenologist & University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium Associate and Carol Ann McCormick, Curatrix of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium …
(3 March 1917 – 27 March 2000)1 Information compiled in 2017 by Carol Ann McCormick,Curatrix of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium. Special thanks to Nicole Wallace,…
(29 May 1842– 9 July 1914) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates both vascular plants and lichens collected by William Wirt Calkins. All six vascular…
(19 June 1902- 1 April 1995) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has about a dozen specimens collected by Stanly A. Cain. As only a fraction…