Garden Shop Now Online!

You can now order from our Garden Shop online! From botanical t-shirts to gardening books to native wildflower seeds to crafts by local artists, you’re sure to find an awesome…

Therapeutic Horticulture

…We have also developed an Online Certificate in Therapeutic Horticulture for students who need the flexibility to take classes at the pace, timing, and location of their choosing. The online

New Lichens in The Old North State

…was found by looking at old specimens. Another was found by looking more closely and critically at something that was taken for granted as simply algae. The third was found…

Chesley Calhoun Bellamy

…its character, Mr. Bellamy being equally at home in all branches of the vocation… His fraternal connections include membership in the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and in the Improved…

Enchantress along the Eno

…has to do with Circe’s hairdo. In Homer, Circe is identified with her “lovely braids.” The usual scholarly gloss on this is that the braids signal not only beauty, but…

Allen Hierome Curtiss

…evidently he did not serve.”6 A. H. Curtiss did serve as an Enumerator for the 1870 Census in Bedford County, Virginia.7 To date, NCU has cataloged approximately 60 specimens collected…

Garden Shop

…shop merchandise and plants sold online or through the daily plant sale. They cannot be used toward event or classroom registration, gallery or sculpture purchase, or ticket sales. Gift certificates…

Laurie M. Stewart Radford

…was hard to leave the herbarium. I had become very attached to it and its needs. I had accepted the challenge to bring some order out of its great disorder,

New Virginia Gems in the Herbarium

…eye was a particularly lovely specimen of Parnassia grandifolia, or large-leaved grass-of-Parnassus. Parnassia is “a genus of 15-70 species, herbs, primarily of arctic and north temperate areas. Our species (especially