A Conservation Garden

Click here to download a map of lands managed by the North Carolina Botanical Garden located near the Display Gardens….

NCBGF Foundation History

…Island in the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia, donated by Dr. and Mrs. Francis Harper. The tract was retained until it could be transferred to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. Arrival…

NCBG receives national Garden Stewardship Award

We are deeply honored to be the the first-ever recipient of The American Horticultural Society’s new Garden Stewardship Award, which recognizes a public garden that embraces and exemplifies sustainable horticultural…

The Paper Garden

…replicas can be passed around a room full of children during programs such as Camp Flytrap. They can be touched and observed without concern about accidentally breaking a vulnerable plant….

Douglas Dwight Sharp

…He was passionate about new learning, old movies, fly fishing the Manistee River near Frederic, MI, solving all the questions on Jeopardy, stamp collecting, politics, and attending his grandkids sporting…

Welcome, new Herbarium students!

…Tar Heel (DTH). Newspaper is an essential item for plant collectors, as each specimen is placed in a fold of newspaper in the plant press. Fortuitously, the DTH is the…