Haru (Francia) Chisaki Hommersand

…of California, Berkeley. Fran and Max met in Berkeley in the summer of 1960. Max had completed his Ph.D. in Botany at UC Berkeley, and that summer returned there after…

Elbert Thomas Bartholomew

…NCU curates specimens collected by his father, Elam Bartholomew, who typically signed his specimens labels “E. Bartholomew.” In addition, NCU has cataloged a specimen collected by Elbert’s brother, Jesse Elam…

AEC

…and the Burke & Judy Davis Garden Shop with books, clothes, stationery, fine art prints, a daily plant sale area, and more. Offices for the Garden’s administrative, development, and education…

Seed Banking & Ecology

…plants – typically for more immediate use for public distribution, horticultural display plantings, the daily plant sale, and for ecological restoration. In 2005, NCBG began a partnership with the Seed…

Exhibit Hall

…large breezeway. The main floor of this wing accommodates our Garden Shop, library, art gallery, and volunteer break room. The upper floor provides space for administrative offices. Up Now: Saving…

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…

Arthur Stanley Pease

…(1908) Four introduced plants at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Rhodora 10: 167. —- (1908) Preliminary lists of New England Plants XV, addenda. Rhodora 10: 36. —- (1909) Certain railroad weeds of northern…

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…