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…be tax deductible. Donate Compost The CCCG accepts compost donations from community members, faculty, staff, students and everything in between. Compost donations are chopped and incorporated into one of our…

APPLES interns grow in garden

APPLES intern Becca Beechold with a tomato harvest at the Carolina Community Garden By Angelica Edwards, NCBG Communications Intern The North Carolina Botanical Garden’s partnership with APPLES Service-Learning offers students…

Botanical Art Fundamentals Program

…North Carolina art professionals and botany professionals. The program can be completed entirely online, but you may opt to take classes in-person as well. To complete the program, you must…

Dr. John Loomis Blodgett

commenced in a village near us, which only failed for want of common ability in the teacher. The natives had hired him without our knowledge, and at their own expense….

Edward Avery McIlhenny

…McIlhenny Company, famous for Tobasco brand pepper sauce, he was also an ardent naturalist and Honorary Life Associate Member of the American Ornithologists’ Union.(1) Edward Avery McIlhenny collected this fungal…

Orchids: Masters of Deception

…I gradually realized that all of the behavior I was studying was some form of communication and that what I was trying to understand was the evolution of communication by…

Egbert Hamilton Walker

…1991 of complications from an influenza infection.”1   SOURCES: Meyer, Frederick G. 1992. Egbert Hamilton Walker (1899-1991). Taxon 41 (3): 618-620. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1222855 Data Portal. 2021. http//:sernecportal.org/index.php. Accessed on November 24….

Explore a Seven-Layer Forest Garden

…the Loovis garden as well as four other private gardens and the NCBG are $30 in advance and available online at chgc2024gardentour.eventbrite.com. Eventbrite vouchers will be redeemed on Tour days…

Josiah Hale

…http://www.tulane.edu/~darwin/Herbarium/Herbarium/Herbarium%20History.htm http://www.huh.harvard.edu/libraries/archives/RIDDELL.html Torrey and Gray (1842) A Flora of North America 2: 304. Small (1898) Studies in the botany of the southeastern United States XV. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 25(12):…

Augustin Gattinger

…burned to the ground and all 50,000 specimens – including Gattinger’s – were destroyed.] REFERENCES: 1. http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/gattingera.shtml accessed on 17 June 2011. 2. https://www.tn.gov/environment/program-areas/na-natural-areas/natural-areas-middle-region/middle-region/gattinger-s-cedar-glade-and-barrens.html accessed on 22 October 2019 3….