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…

Random Walk through the Herbarium

…We may well have a specimen from your year/state/county, but it has yet to be cataloged.     SOURCES & NOTES: 1. On a happier note, the new bridge construction…

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…

Clyde Ritchie Bell

…Hill on March 6, 2013 at age 91. He is survived by his wife, Anne Lindsey and his son, David Bell; his sister, Patricia Ramsey (Asheville, NC); and his brother,…

Green Features

for toilet flushing and other non-potable uses Eight cisterns collect rainwater for use in irrigation Rainwater gardens and retention swales use water-loving plants to capture and filter stormwater before it…

The BGF Gets a New Name

…criteria, but allow one to compare nonprofits against each other. Again, the non-specific nature of the BGF name made the donor work harder to learn what we do. Some didn’t…