Peggy-Ann Wetmore Kessler Duke

…Potpourri (Trado-Medic Books, 1985), Living Liqueurs (Quarterman Publications, 1987), Handbook of Edible Weeds (CRC Press, 1992), Amazonian Ethnobotanical Dictionary (CRC Press, 1994), The Green Pharmacy (Rodale, 1997), Herbs of the…

Eloise Wicker Knight

…(b. 1919), who earned his degree in Pharmacy from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1951. The Knights had two sons and one daughter: Alan Wicker Knight (b. 1958), Kevin Richard Knight, and…

Plant Sales are Back!

The garden may be closed but you can still buy great native plants from our nursery and, in doing so, help support our organization! How to Purchase Plants from NCBG…

Abram Paschal Garber

…collection of plants. Among the published letters of Prof. Asa Gray, of Harvard University, there is one which refers to the proposed sale of Dr. Garber’s small Puerto Rican collection….

Ellsworth Bethel

…natural history, so collected not only fungi, but also lichens, bryophytes, algae and vascular plants. According to mycologist Fred Seaver, Bethel was “an omnivorous collector.”1 Among non-scientists, Bethel’s most lasting…

Mary Williams Ward Shanor

…motto was “A wrong sale is worse than no sale.” Mary Williams Ward was born on a family farm at Ward’s Corner, about twenty miles north of Wilmington, North Carolina….