An Introduction to Birds and Birding

…on availability on Saturday, March 16, Sunday, March 24, or Saturday, March 30 Time: 7:30 – 10:30 a.m. (Please note the early start time!) Fee: $52 ($47 Members) Join instructors…

Herbarium Identifies Ten New Species in July

  By Bao Anh Tran, Communications Intern Hidden amid similar specimens, differing only in its “weirdness,” a new plant discovered by herbarium associate Kevan Schoonover McClelland was finally given a…

Collectors

…Reed Hoffman, Freedom “Freed” W. Holdsclaw, Terry Holland Beers, Alma Hollinger, Jason Holmes, Joseph Austin Holway, Edward W. D. Hommersand, Haru Francia Chisaki Hommersand, Max Hoyt Hood, Sylvia Horn, Charles…

Potting Volunteer Group

by Abby Zaleski, Communications Student I recently spent a Wednesday morning with the NCBG plant propagation (potting group) volunteers as they worked in the Totten Center, learning more about them…

Saving Cochrane Property

…was at a small memorial service for Mrs. Parker in the Paul Green Cabin at the Garden that Johnny Randall and former NCBG development director Charlotte Jones-Roe met Shirley Cochrane….

March Madness: Botanical Sports Mascots

…women’s basketball game and shout out “Pinus” I want to hear all members of the North Carolina Botanical Garden in the stands roar back, “palustris.” Go Heels!     Credits…

Event Venues

…(reception w/ round tables and dance floor) Reeves Auditorium (North or South) For smaller groups, consider renting half the auditorium.It is an ideal venue for smaller receptions, banquets, meetings, lectures,…

Independent Study Projects

…Propagation Jim Schmidt, 2012 Educational Posters on Threatened Plant Communities of North Carolina Nicolette L. Cagle, 2012 Seed Propagation of Six Native Southeastern United States Wildflowers Sandy Young & Paul…

Stephen A. Spongberg

…Spongberg, and Theodore Dudley. Courtesy of the Archives of the Arnold Arboretum. “Born October 15, 1942 to Alan Edward Spongberg (1912-1981) and Barbara Elsie Sandehn Spongberg (1912-2008), Stephen Alan Spongberg…

Hans Oscar Juel

…unusual favor of sending me for study all the Clavarias at present contained in the herbarium of the herbarium of Elias Fries.” 1 NCU Curators assume that Coker retained small