Chapel Hill – Fire-pink (Silene virginica), one of the most stunning native perennials of the eastern United States, has been named the 2015 North Carolina Wildflower of the Year by…
NC Botanical Garden names new director
Chapel Hill, NC The North Carolina Botanical Garden (NCBG) is pleased to announce the appointment of Damon Waitt as its next director, starting April 13. Currently, Waitt is the senior…
Remembering Ritchie Bell (April 10, 1921 – March 6, 2013)
The North Carolina Botanical Garden has lost one of its most ardent and long-lived friends, Dr. C. Ritchie Bell. An active and influential scientist, Bell enthusiastically advanced the appreciation and…
Land Added to Stillhouse Bottom Nature Preserve, Chapel Hill, NC
The Botanical Garden Foundation, Inc. (the Foundation), the non-profit membership support organization of the North Carolina Botanical Garden (the Garden) of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has…
Students Graduate from Certificate Program
November 1, 2006: You don’t have to be a professional to know that there is art in nature. “Illustrated Points of View,” an exhibit on display at the North Carolina…
Long-time curator of UNC Herbarium dies
We report with sadness that Al Radford, a central figure in southeastern botany and long-time director of the the University of North Carolina Herbarium, passed away on April 12, 2006….
Garden Receives Grant for Research Nursery
CHAPEL HILL, NC — In late 2005, Associate Director Andrew Bell received word that the North Carolina Botanical Garden had been awarded a $20,000 grant from the Stanley Smith Horticultural…
A Christmas Gift from One of North Carolina’s Greatest Authors
“Is there a good ‘North Carolina book’ that I could give my friends for Christmas?” I start getting this question every year about this time. Because I host UNC-TV’s North…
New Trails Open in Battle Park
On a hot afternoon in late September, staff, volunteers, and friends gathered at the Forest Theatre on the University of North Carolina campus to celebrate the opening of a renovated…