2021 Wildflower of the Year

…planted in a group to give a fuller appearance, at the back of a shrub border, or in a naturalistic woodland garden where it can stretch out. Read more about…

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…

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,…

Ferdinand Blanchard

…to enter upon a fuller field. In the meantime two life-events had occurred: he had lost his three children with diphtheria, himself barely escaping, and he had begun in earnest…

Carnivorous Conservation

Native only to a 90-mile inland radius around Wilmington, the Venus flytrap is a symbol of the Atlantic coastal plain’s unique ecology — and a contender for the federal endangered…

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

…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

New boardwalk open at Mason Farm

…Bog, replaces an earlier structure destroyed by Hurricane Florence in 2018. Without a boardwalk, Siler’s Bog has been impassable: visitors have had to treat the loop trail through Mason Farm…

Samuel McCutchen Bain

…would take care of itself. As he had never had a teacher of Botany himself, he developed his own peculiar methods of presenting the subject. Through his wide study and…