New boardwalk open at Mason Farm

…soon as possible, we had to dip into our rainy day fund. Please consider donating to help us cover the costs of rebuilding this special resource! Make a gift today…

Wreath Making with Native Plants

…Yaupon Holly Magnolia grandiflora, Southern Magnolia Pinus taeda, Loblolly Pine Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine Tsuga canadensis, Canadian Hemlock Grasses Andropogon virginicus, Broomsedge What do you do with your wreath at…

John R. Bozeman

…the yearly average sent out had been slightly over 3,000 specimens. During his first year, John shipped out 70,431 specimens which reduced the backlog considerably. In two years he had

William Chambers Coker

…He had also begun the planting of the Coker Arboretum adjacent to Davie Hall. Coker’s research interests were far-ranging. His Ph.D. research concerned the embryogeny of Taxodium (bald cypress). He…

Richard J. LeBlond

…joined the National Park Service in 1967 as an administrative assistant at Glacier National Park, transferring to Cape Cod National Seashore in 1968. He left the park service in 1972…

Eugène Poilane

…in Tonkin but had lost almost everything at the end of the Franco-Vietnamese war, when he abandoned his property in what became North Vietnam. Llinares had no love for the…

Digging into the Science

…F. C. Naczi, Alan Weakley, George D. Gann, Bruce G. Baldwin, James Miller, Patrick McIntyre, Brent D. Mishler, Gerry Moore, Richard G. Olmstead, Anna Strong, Kathryn Kennedy, Bonnie Heidel, and…

Henry Ashby Rankin

…Henry Rankin, who had discovered the plant. Small’s description was published in Addisonia 13: 37-38. In 2006 Rankin’s granddaughters, Dorothy and Douglass Rankin, gave his papers to the Southern Historical…