Up Now: Sculpture in the Garden

…and all ages are welcome. Most sculptures are available for purchase, and a portion of proceeds benefits the North Carolina Botanical Garden. This year’s show features 77 installations by 50…

Walter Charles Blasdale

…Germany with Jacobus Henricus Van’t Hoff, who received the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901. Blasdale and Van’t Hoff published several papers on salt solutions, and Blasdale’s continued research

Saving the Crystal Skipper

…not available for purchase, the goal will be to encourage landowners to recognize the beauty and importance of native plants and to maintain habitat that is already in place. Restoring…

Augustin Gattinger

…Library in the Capitol. Unfortunately, we did not take into consideration, in making this purchase, the possible – or, rather, impossible – revenues to be derived from this possession, a…

Willard Webster Eggleston

…Vermont: A List of the Fern and Seed Plants Growing without Cultivation in 1900. In 1904 he became a research scholar at the New York Botanical Garden, then in 1908…

Peter MacOwan

…microfungal collection continues to be cataloged, it is possible that more specimens collected by him will be found. All NCU’s fungi can be searched at mycoportal.org Other herbaria that curate…

DEI Strategic Plan

…town to improve bus lines to NCBG, more evening hours, etc.) Staff Lead: Allison Essen Aim Two – Accessibility for All Prioritize inclusion, accessibility, and diversity so the Garden is…

Katherine Augusta Taylor

…Ms. Taylor moved there permanently in 1912. 3 “She managed her property as a working farm, going into town to purchase supplies in jeans when other women of her wealthy…

Joseph Austin Holmes

…chemistry, agriculture, botany, chemistry, entomology, horticulture, math, and veterinary science. In botany, he took courses in systematics, histology, fungi, and extra credit, which probably consisted of original research. By July…