Plant Sales are Back!

…this time, we can only accept payment by check and by mail. Instructions will be included in your confirmation email. Pick up, plant, and enjoy! See the list of available…

Spreading the Herbarium Gospel

…Man’s Beard,” instead. It’s in the olive family! You can buy one at the Botanical Garden! I hope to have inspired at least a few acquaintances to Go Native.) Stewartia…

Explore a Seven-Layer Forest Garden

…along the base of the hill on which the 1980s house sits. About 20 years ago, the second homeowner, inspired by NC state parks, established a more extensive network of…

Elizabeth Kathleen Goldie-Smith

…Goldie-Smith, who usually signed her labels as “E.K.G.S.” Our fungal collection is being cataloged into the searchable on-line database, www.mycoportal.org As we continue to catalog our fungi it is probable…

Stuck at Home, not Stuck Inside

…year! Did you know chickweed is edible? So are columbine flowers! Youngia japonica (oriental false hawksbeard) is in flower. The good news is this makes it easier to see and…

APPLES interns grow in garden

…her internship, she was initially the satellite garden manager at Edible Campus, but COVID altered her internship experience. The first few weeks of her internship were completely online, and to…

New Virginia Gems in the Herbarium

…for the Herbarium. “It’s a small batch of interesting taxa, mostly things out of a personal herbarium I’ve kept over the years. I plan to distribute the rest of it…

Hiden Toy Cox, Jr.

…collected in South Carolina. NCU curates four fungal specimens collected by Cox. All were collected in August, 1939 in Highlands, Macon County, NC. It is highly likely that Cox was…