What is Therapeutic Horticulture?

…be practiced in a large variety of clinical and community settings, such as: Mental Health: Psychiatric Hospitals Domestic Abuse Shelters Substance Abuse Clinics Group Homes Community: Community Centers Homeless Shelters…

Work from Home Work-Study Students

When Carolina shifted to all on-line classes at the end of Spring Break due to Covid-2019, we faced the challenge of how to keep our loyal and hard-working Work-Study Students…

Samuel McCutchen Bain

…the sciences, particularly botany. With the few books he had at his command, he commenced the study of the flora of the neighborhood. Before his graduation, he was asked to…

Benjamin Franklin Bush

…the field of botany. Born in Columbus, Indiana, Dec. 21, 1858, the future botanist moved to Independence with his mother, Mrs. Henrietta Bush, in 1865; and Jackson County, of which…

Tree Cores Come to the Herbarium

…Plain of North Carolina.2 Mitchell’s research uses tree cores to reconstruct historical tropical cyclone frequency to try to understand hurricane activity before historical records. Mitchell uses longleaf pines (Pinus palustris…

Joachim Heinrich Schuette

…California, USA), K (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, UK), L (Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Leiden University, Netherlands), NY (New York Botanical Garden, New York, USA), and US (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.,…

Flora Apps

…Georgia FloraQuest: Northern Tier How it Works The FloraQuest apps provide both easy to use Graphic Keys and more advanced Dichotomous Keys, phenology, habitat descriptions, species range maps, conservation status,…

DEI Strategic Plan

…that serve them to expose a diverse group of students to conservation and botanical garden career paths Organize events for NCBG staff to volunteer during work hours at other organizations…