DEI Strategic Plan

…North Carolina Botanical Garden as a leader in native plant conservation and education in the southeastern United States. NCBG Mission Statement Our guiding mission is to inspire understanding, appreciation, and…

Explore a Seven-Layer Forest Garden

…at the NCBG for a booklet that includes garden descriptions and a map. In-person ticket sales (cash or check only) begin April 1 at the NCBG Gift Shop, Southern States…

Budd Elmon Smith

…support. New recruitment strategies were implemented that aimed to increase the student body from its tenuous level of about 400. In 1955, Dr. Smith interested Mr. Charles A. Cannon of…

Charles Fuller Baker

…According to S. A. Rohwer, information received by Dr. L. O. Howard from Baker indicates that the insect “collection is considerably larger than it was in November 1926, as baker…

Dr. John Loomis Blodgett

…interesting objects in the natural history of Africa”. It is possible that she might have interested Blodgett in natural history. When Blodgett returned to the United States late in 1838,…