Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Blog

Jun 19th, 2012

Beetle Bugaboo

Photos & text by Albert Brian Vick, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator Scary scarab, or just another neighbor in the Community Kitchen Garden? One of our brave […]

Jun 18th, 2012

Mystical Majesty

Photos by Albert Brian Vick, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator Text by Albert Brian Vick & Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator The sacred lotus (Nelumbo […]

Jun 14th, 2012

More Fan Mail — and a Wife — for StickMan

by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Here’s an excerpt from our weekly staff update — aptly named: The TWIG (This Week in Ginter) written by the […]

Jun 12th, 2012

Photos & text by Albert Brian Vick, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator Last Monday we had another great visit from Christa Vidonic and her Dominion Power co-workers […]

Jun 11th, 2012

Victoria Waterlilies on Display at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden

by Grace Chapman, Director of Horticulture, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Waterlily pools in front of the Conservatory. On Friday, we got a shipment of four Victoria amazonica ‘Longwood Hybrid’ at Lewis Ginter Botanical […]

Jun 9th, 2012

Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden — A Trip Down Memory Lane

Photos & text by guest blogger Kelly Eastman Combs I’m never surprised when my kids ask me to take them to Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. I’ve been taking them since they […]

Jun 8th, 2012

Reichenbachia: Conserving the Imperial Edition

Text & Photos by Erica Borey, VCU Museum Studies Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden has been very fortunate in the intended donation of a rare and almost […]

Jun 4th, 2012

The Garden Times….Online

by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden’s mission is education and our passion is bringing people and plants together to improve our community. […]

May 31st, 2012

Kicking it Off in the Community Kitchen Garden

Photos & text by Albert Brian Vick, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator We made our first 2012 deliveries this week from the Community Kitchen Garden to FeedMore’s […]

May 26th, 2012

The Butterflies Have Landed!

Text & photos by Garrett McLees Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, PR & Marketing Intern When I last visited the Garden I got a sneak preview of Butterflies LIVE! Now the exhibit […]

May 26th, 2012

Beetles & Radishes

Photos & text by Albert Brian Vick, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator Quite an incongruous headline, but it includes just a couple of the topics today […]

May 23rd, 2012

Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Partners with Greater Richmond ARC

by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Greater Richmond ARC‘s effort to facilitate people with developmental disabilities volunteering in meaningful work is growing, and now includes weekly […]

May 21st, 2012

Altria Day of Sharing in the Community Kitchen Garden

Photos & text by Albert Brian Vick, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator On Friday, May 4, 21 members of Altria’s PMUSA Brand Management team came to the […]

May 17th, 2012

Laura Mulligan, Visitor Services Coordinator, Earns Tourism Award

by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Congratulations to Laura Mulligan, Visitor Services Coordinator, for earning the 2012 Easy to Love Customer Service Award from the Richmond Metropolitan Convention […]

May 16th, 2012

Potato Promenade

Photos & text by Albert Brian Vick, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator Laurel & Yevonne, the Red Pontiac potatoes you planted March 17 in the 2012 […]