George Andrew Christenberry

…“A taxonomic study of the Mucorales in the southeastern United States”. Pilobolus crystallinus in the fungi order Mucorales Image was created by Sava Krstic at Mushroom Observer   Published in…

Carnivorous Conservation

…Carl Linnaeus, a famous 18th-century botanist who developed the modern method of assigning species scientific names, dubbed flytraps “against the order of nature as willed by God.” But Charles Darwin…

Gertrude I. Grimsley Scott

…brown jug with a corn-cob stopper. Now champagne, etc. is the order of the day… We then scraped away the ‘trash,’ leveled the dirt, and sprinkling down the barn, had…

Visitation

…will be sent. In order to control herbarium pests, incoming specimens to the Vascular Herbarium are frozen for 48 hours or more. Users of the collection who bring specimens in…

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…

New Virginia Gems in the Herbarium

…puzzled as me as to why this lovely wildflower has not only a Greek mountain in its name but also “grass” despite having distinctly non-grasslike foliage. “Almost everything about the…

The BGF Gets a New Name

…criteria, but allow one to compare nonprofits against each other. Again, the non-specific nature of the BGF name made the donor work harder to learn what we do. Some didn’t…

What is Therapeutic Horticulture?

…the individual’s life. (Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Disorder, Chronic Lyme Disease, back/joint pain, etc.) People who have experienced trauma, violence, sexual assault People who are in palliative or hospice care People…

Fall Board Meeting 2023

…Public Policy, Duke University, served as the Deputy Chancellor for Instruction, NYC Board of Education, and as Deputy Superintendent, in Tacoma, Washington. She has served on several non-profit boards, including…