Hannah Medford, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Class of 2019 majoring in Biology and English, is the Charles T. Mohr Intern in the University of North Carolina Herbarium…
Dan Meyers – 2018 Mary McKee Felton Intern
Dan Meyers, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill class of 2021, is majoring in Quantitative Biology, and minoring in Chemistry & Entrepreneurship. He is from Holly Springs, Wake County,…
Discovering the Campus-to-Garden Trail
Now that there is safe passage for pedestrians at the Old Mason Farm Rd./Fordham Blvd. intersection in Chapel Hill, we invite you to experience the Campus-to-Garden Trail through our Coker…
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…
Moss Madness Coming to Chapel Hill
by Carol Ann McCormick, Herbarium Curator While Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill may experience… ahem… friendly competition during March Madness on basketball courts, the staff of the Sarah P. Duke…
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…
Anne Cabell, CCCG beekeeper
by Abby Zaleski, Communications Student In 2010, Anne Cabell had been looking for an interesting way that she could give back to the community. After hearing about the garden and…
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…
Hollow‐stem joe‐pye‐weed named 2017 North Carolina Wildflower of the Year
Chapel Hill – Hollow‐stem joe‐pye‐weed (Eutrochium fistulosum), a perennial member of the sunflower family (Asteraceae) native to the eastern and south central United States, has been named the 2017 North…
Celebrate Darwin Day with a lunchtime talk about one of Darwin’s favorite plants, the Venus flytrap
Chapel Hill – On Sunday, February 12th, at 2 p.m., the North Carolina Botanical Garden (NCBG) will celebrate the 208th birthday of Charles Darwin with a presentation by Johnny Randall,…