Visitation

…will be sent. In order to control herbarium pests, incoming specimens to the Vascular Herbarium are frozen for 48 hours or more. Users of the collection who bring specimens in…

Carnivorous Conservation

…Carl Linnaeus, a famous 18th-century botanist who developed the modern method of assigning species scientific names, dubbed flytraps “against the order of nature as willed by God.” But Charles Darwin…

New boardwalk open at Mason Farm

…Hurricane Florence, but those funds fell $150,000 short of the full cost of design, engineering, permits, materials, and labor. In order to open the boardwalk to visitors as soon as…

Carol Enarson, CCCG, Master Gardener

…Gardener course at the Orange County Extension Office in Hillsborough in order to expand her knowledge relating to horticulture. Enarson explained that by becoming an Orange County Extension Master Gardener…

Random Walk through the Herbarium

…for contributing to specimens to the Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. Ramseur botanized in Alamance County on the Caswell County border as well as on a route…

Fall Board Meeting 2023

NCBGF Fall Board Meeting Friday, November 17, 2023 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Hybrid NCBG – Joslin Classrooms or via Zoom Join online: https://unc.zoom.us/s/96128624304 Join by phone: 1-301-715-8592 Enter Meeting…

What is Therapeutic Horticulture?

…the individual’s life. (Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Disorder, Chronic Lyme Disease, back/joint pain, etc.) People who have experienced trauma, violence, sexual assault People who are in palliative or hospice care People…