Twilight Thursdays

…30 June 6 June 13 Getting Here We’re located at 100 Old Mason Farm Road in Chapel Hill. You’ll be able to park in our main parking lot until 7…

Twilight Thursdays Begin April 4

…will be offering Yoga in the Garden at 5:45 p.m. each Thursday ($10 per session). Learn more > Hours and Admission The spring season of Twilight Thursdays runs from 4-7…

Green Features

…passive-solar building design, where broad roof overhangs provide shade in summer but let light in during the colder winter months. The buildings were designed around the existing grade of the…

The Future of Conservation Forum

…Anyone who has an interest in the future of conservation in North Carolina. Dates: POSTPONED TO SEPTEMBER 6-8, 2022 Location: North Carolina Botanical Garden, 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel…

Bruce Alexander Sorrie

…Carolina], where annual burning is widespread, are the only locations where the Sandhills Heartleaf can said to be common.”1 In 2011 the University of North Carolina Press published Sorrie’s “A…

Charles Edward Raynal

…year to show two known locations of the plant to Dr. William Chambers Coker, head of the Botany Department at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Raynal also sent…

Chesley Calhoun Bellamy

…Order of Red Men.”4 On 12 August, 1912 Bellamy married Caroline Louise Mallett (1891-1978) of Etowah, Henderson County, North Carolina and together they had two children, Caroline Bellamy Varnau (?…

Orchids: Masters of Deception

…his first book after On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin had used these nectar-producing tubes as examples of the precise adaptions of complex structures by natural selection. In this…

Herman Harrison Braxton

…daughter, Elizabeth Anne, earned her A.B. at Wheaton College. In addition to serving on the Chase City town council for eight years (and Anne serving for six), Dr. Braxton “started…