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 Virginia Gems in the Herbarium

…to locate potentially special habitats and plant communities. The advent of SERNEC.org and other online herbarium databases has opened up many new possibilities for these kinds of research and made…

Luther Stanford Beard

…Beard (1914- 1944 ; died in France) and Houston Wendell Beard (1917- 1943; died in Italy). Other siblings included Bradwell McCrackan Beard (1915-1990), Edith Pamela Beard (1917- 1960), Edna Ruth…

Steven Worth Leonard

…Plant of the Week: Big-leaf witch-hazel (Hamamelis ovalis). https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/hamamelis_ovalis.shtml accessed on 20 February 2021. Obituary: Steven Worth Leonard. The Lexington Dispatch, Lexington, North Carolina. Posted online 18 August, 2022. https://www.the-dispatch.com/obituaries/plex0281187…

Richard Halsted Ward

…practical applications of science. His original work in the advancement of science has been mostly in the direction of microscopy, in which he was among the first to apply the…

Rene Pomerleau

…in Montreal.1 In 1940, Laval’s School of Surveying and Forest Engineering adopted a new curriculum, and Rene Pomerleau (b. 1904) was appointed professor of forest pathology. Pomerleau had been teaching…

Louis Hermann Pammel

…Ecology 10(2): 251-256. Pammel, Louis H. and Charlotte M. King (1930?) Honey Plants of Iowa. Iowa Geological Survey [incomplete citation]   Sources: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~isu150/history/pammel.htmlaccessed on 19 July 2017. 2. http://www.waysofenlichenment.net/lichens/Bacidia%20coprodes accessed…

Adams Jewett, M.D.

…Tree. Owned by: jpaxton1951. Ancestry.com accessed 20 September 2011. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154125936/adams-jewett : accessed 24 October 2021), memorial page for Adams Jewett (26 Jun 1807–10 Mar…

Garden Shop

…a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays. Shop Online Gifts Share your love for nature with our t-shirts, table linens sewn by…