Workdays

…events for everyone to sample, and it is always a hit! To learn how to make the bread yourself, download the recipe using this link: Sweet Potato Chocolate Chip Bread….

Up Now: Sculpture in the Garden

…hours (suggested donation $5), and all ages are welcome. Most sculptures are available for purchase, and a portion of proceeds benefits the North Carolina Botanical Garden. Learn more at ncbg.unc.edu/sculpture….

William Battle Cobb

…1915 [Collier] Cobb had used a portion of Mary Know Gatlin Cobb’s dowry to purchase land and build houses on Cobb Terrace [35.917169 latitude, -79.054471 longitude in downtown Chapel Hill]…”5…

DEI Strategic Plan

…located Staff Lead: Becca Wait Purchase several pairs of color vision corrective glasses for visitors with color vision deficiency to use while at the garden Ongoing: Continue hosting Spanish language…

Walter Charles Blasdale

…The genus “Clarkia” was named in honor of Capt. William Clark (1770-1838), famous as a leader of the Lewis & Clark Expedition which explored the Louisiana Purchase. The subspecies was…

Willard Webster Eggleston

…used the $50 dollars from the prize to purchase a down sleeping bag, which made my own fieldwork as a biologist much more pleasant. I can see now that WW…

Elam T. Bartholomew

…in Illinois. Accordingly, he purchased a copy of Gray’s Lessons in Botany and had soon passed the examinations in botany as well as in the other required subjects. Following the…

Peter MacOwan

…was acquired by purchase for the Pretoria Herbarium from Dr. S. Schonland [Selmar Schonland; MacOwan’s son-in-law] when he retired from the curatorship of the Albany Museum [in Grahamstown, South Africa]….