Moss Madness Coming to Chapel Hill

by Carol Ann McCormick, Herbarium Curator While Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill may experience… ahem… friendly competition during March Madness on basketball courts, the staff of the Sarah P. Duke…

Famous Folk Among the Fungi

By Carol Ann McCormick, Curator, University of North Carolina Herbarium My daughters claim there are no famous botanists. I have tried to refute this claim, but never to their satisfaction….

Herbarium

About the Herbarium Through its Research Programs, the Garden manages the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU), the premier plant and fungi biodiversity collection in the region….

Carol Enarson, CCCG, Master Gardener

by Abby Zaleski, Communications Student Carol Enarson has been a volunteer at the Carolina Campus Community Garden (CCCG) for the last five years. A local community member, Carol heard about…

And the winner is…

The people have spoken. Visitors cast over 500 votes for the Sculpture in the Garden People’s Choice Award since the show opened on September 15. We’re pleased to announce that…

Seed Processing Volunteers

by Abby Zaleski, Communications Student Our Seed Processing volunteers work hard each week to clean seeds and package them for various programs and purposes. The Garden has a number of…

Horticultural Therapy at NCBG

by Abby Zaleski, Communications Student The Horticultural Therapy program at the North Carolina Botanical Garden has a mission to promote health and well-being of people through positive interactions with plants…

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…

Independent Study Projects

Completed by graduates of the Certificate in Native Plant Studies program Lake Johnson Plant Inventory Jane Cornelius, 2006 Shallow Groundwater Hydrology and Wetland Vegetation in a Field in the Mason…