New boardwalk open at Mason Farm

…Hurricane Florence, but those funds fell $150,000 short of the full cost of design, engineering, permits, materials, and labor. In order to open the boardwalk to visitors as soon as…

Carol Enarson, CCCG, Master Gardener

…Gardener course at the Orange County Extension Office in Hillsborough in order to expand her knowledge relating to horticulture. Enarson explained that by becoming an Orange County Extension Master Gardener…

Ferdinand Blanchard

(8 November 1851- 18 December 1892) “Earth is so full of things to know and see From Northern Lights to animanculae”   The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill…

CCG Volunteer Spotlight: Simone

…our compost leaders and even continued to volunteer when she was back during breaks from college! When the stay-at-home order began in the spring and Simone had to return home,…

NCBGF Committees

…are in order; monitoring whether or not it is an appropriate time to pursue accreditation through the Land Trust Alliance and assisting the NCBG Conservation Department with that process; and…

2021 Wildflower of the Year

…periods. Beautyberry typically grows 4-6 feet tall and wide, but in favorable conditions it can grow up to 9 feet tall. In order to keep a more compact form, it…

George Andrew Christenberry

…“A taxonomic study of the Mucorales in the southeastern United States”. Pilobolus crystallinus in the fungi order Mucorales Image was created by Sava Krstic at Mushroom Observer   Published in…

John R. Bozeman

…several terms. In 1965 he received his MA degree and was well on his way toward a PhD, when he decided he needed to get a job in order to…

Carnivorous Conservation

…Carl Linnaeus, a famous 18th-century botanist who developed the modern method of assigning species scientific names, dubbed flytraps “against the order of nature as willed by God.” But Charles Darwin…