What’s Your Flavor? Special Event

…natural dyeing. To accompany her talk, Dr. Class will provide sumac berry “lemonade” and beauty berry jelly on crackers. 2 p.m. Spring Council will discuss “Mama Dips: Past & Present.”…

Lichen Updates: new name and new county records

…Eaglenest Mountain (4925 feet; 35.4962070 latitude, -83.0431905 longitude) and adjacent North Eaglenest Mountain (5066 feet; 35.5002672 latitude, -83.0416956 longitude) are on Eaglenest Ridge, WSW of Lake Junaluska and NW of…

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…

Spring Native Plant Sale on May 7

By Angelica Edwards, NCBG Communications Intern The annual Spring Native Plant Sale will return to the North Carolina Botanical Garden on Saturday, May 7 from 10:30 a.m.- 4 p.m. Visitors…

Saving Cochrane Property

…they ever decided to sell. After Mrs. Cochrane’s death in 2015, we pursued land purchase in earnest. The 13-acre parcel was purchased from the Shirley G. Cochrane Trust and directly…

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…

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…

New Lichens in The Old North State

…more dynamic form, published online and updated as new information becomes available. Gary Perlmutter and Tom Howard are the people behind Lichens of North Carolina the one of the many…

APPLES interns grow in garden

…brings students to nonprofit & governmental agencies and enrolls them in an online service-course that counts toward graduation. “It was a very valuable experience,” said Becca Beechold, a senior environmental…