Every spring the Garden offers a lecture focused on native plants and their conservation and ecology. The lecture series was initiated in 2000 with a gift from North Carolina Botanical…
Friendships Bloom at Weed Dating!
Last Friday, the Carolina Campus Community Garden, in collaboration with the Epsilon Eta Environmental Honors Fraternity, held its sixth successful Weed Dating event. Weed Dating is a yearly event hosted…
Emma Wilson – 2018-19 Fred and Virginia Houk Sustainability Intern
This month’s shout out is Emma Wilson, the 2018-19 Fred and Virginia Houk Sustainability Intern! Emma has helped to keep the Garden on track with sustainability goals and has jumped…
Jenny Elder Fitch Memorial Lectures
Named in memory of Jenny Fitch, local plant enthusiast and passionate gardener, this lecture takes place each fall. Mrs. Fitch passed away in 1995. The endowment for the lecture series…
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…
Independent Study Projects
Completed by graduates of the Certificate in Native Plant Studies program Lake Johnson Plant Inventory Jane Cornelius, 2006 Shallow Groundwater Hydrology and Wetland Vegetation in a Field in the Mason…
Carol Enarson, CCCG, Master Gardener
by Abby Zaleski, Communications Student Carol Enarson has been a volunteer at the Carolina Campus Community Garden (CCCG) for the last five years. A local community member, Carol heard about…
What is Botanical Illustration?
Since the 1980s there has been a worldwide resurgence of interest in original botanical illustrations and botanical art not only for private art collections, but also for use in modern…
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…