2021 Wildflower of the Year

…biting insects. Additionally, the berries are edible, and though somewhat bland and mealy when consumed raw, they can be cooked and prepared into jelly or wine. Beautyberry is very easy…

Gerald McCarthy

…high-road and byway, bog and mountain peak, ever on the look-out for floral strangers, whom they ruthlessly sacrifice to the glue-and-paper deity.” — Gerald McCarthy The University of North Carolina…

Diane Elizbeth Wickland

…the 1994 Field Year. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 76(9):1549-1577. Wickland, D. 1994. Terrestrial Ecology Interests in a Brazilian Study. Revista Brasileira de Geofisica 12(1): 29-31. Bolle, H.-J., J.-C….

The Paper Garden

…donates them to the Garden Shop or Garden educational programs. “I put myself through school, working as a florist,” she said. Woodsong was 17 when she became a floral designer….

Spring Native Plant Sale on May 7

By Angelica Edwards, NCBG Communications Intern The annual Spring Native Plant Sale will return to the North Carolina Botanical Garden on Saturday, May 7 from 10:30 a.m.- 4 p.m. Visitors…

Plant Sales are Back!

The garden may be closed but you can still buy great native plants from our nursery and, in doing so, help support our organization! How to Purchase Plants from NCBG…

Paul W. Gabrielson

…coral endosymbionts. Current Biology 28: 1-11. Hughey, J. R., K. A. Miller and P. W. Gabrielson. 2018. Mitogenome analysis of a green tide forming Ulva from California, USA confirms its…