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….

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….

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…

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…

Percy H. Gentle

…of an Important National Resource. http://www.ukbelizeassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ZAG_UKBA_2019.pdf Nelson, C. 1990. Early collectors of plants from Honduras and the confusion with British Honduras (Belize). Taxon 39(4): 568-571. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1223361 Bartlett, H. H. (1932)….

Josiah Hale

…M.D., Louisiana botanist, Rafinesque’s pupil. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History. 8: 235-243. 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….