Random Walk through the Herbarium

…at the End of the World by Felicity Hayes-McCoy. I cannot actually recommend this book — I find myself skimming paragraphs just to get on with it — but I’ll…

Benjamin Franklin Bush

…he long resided, familiar to botanists almost throughout the world. Western Missouri was a frontier country at the close of the Civil War, and nowhere had gorilla [sic; guerilla] warfare…

Mary Steed Stipe Eyles

…Sabulina brevifolia (Nutt.) Small”. In addition to NCU, herbaria curating vascular plant specimens collected by Mary S. Stipe Eyles include Arizona State University (ASU), Brown University (BRU), Emory University (GEO),…

Samuel B. Jones, Jr.

…Rodora 89: 35-40. Jones, S. B. 1983. Director’s report. Newsletter, University of Georgia, The Friends of the Botanical Garden 12(1): 3-6. Jones, S. B. 1982. Director’s report. Newsletter, University of…

Walter Lane Barksdale

…the university records as having completed his graduate studies in 1941. Barksdale served in the United States military during World War II. He joined the United States Army in 1941…

Display Gardens

…year round. Carnivorous Plant Collection The southeastern US is home to the world’s most diverse collection of insect-eating plants. Inside these raised beds, you will find insectivorous plants like sundews,…

Carnivorous Conservation

…plant, it’s an opportunity to live a little longer in a habitat nearly barren of nutrients. The Venus flytrap, and carnivorous plants like them, are oddities of the plant world….

Edward Avery McIlhenny

…further developed and is now one of the most prestigious of its kind, with particular strengths in New World botanical and ornithological illustration.”(2) “In 1976, as part of the United…

The BGF Gets a New Name

…country to support a public garden, so a more descriptive name may have been deemed unnecessary at that time. But starting in the 1990s, the outside world started to change….