Archives for the "Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens" Category

Drop in and Dig: The Enormous Turnip

by Jonah Holland , PR and Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden It was a great day! First Children’s Garden Educator Ms. Dawn read The Great Big Enormous Turnip, based on a […]

Celebrate National Pollinator Week at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden

by Jonah Holland , PR and Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden We’re joining The Pollinator Partnership to celebrate National Pollinator Week, June 16–23, 2014. Did you know that one of every […]

Happy Butterfly Education Awareness Day

by Jonah Holland , PR and Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Did you know that Butterfly Education Awareness Day is today, June 7, 2014? We’re celebrating by sharing some butterfly fast facts […]

The Butterfly Tree is in Bloom

By Janet Woody, Librarian, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden The Tree Arrives We recently received an unusual gift, a large, white tree. It was installed in the library last week and […]

Caught Red-Handed: Mulberry Tree!

I love this time of year — our 100-year-old red mulberry tree (Morus rubra) in the Children’s Garden is filled with kids, birds and even adults, searching for the blackest, […]

Message from the Executive Director: Fan Mail

by Shane Tippett, Executive Director, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Thank You for Showing Us the Garden! Love, Meagan Kelly Riley is the children’s education manager at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. A […]

Mother’s Day Revisited, the Year of Exploration

by Megan Compton, Education Assistant, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Having brought our families to Mother’s Day at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden for the past six years, my best friend […]

Knockout Blooms: Siberian Iris 'Blue Moon'

by Jonah Holland , PR and Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden With A Million Blooms at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, it’s so hard to choose favorites, but the Siberian iris ‘Blue […]

Explore the Outdoors: When Everyone Slows Down, Amazing Things Happen

by Kristin Mullen, Children’s Garden Educator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden For two years in a row, we’ve arrived at Explore the Outdoors with a van full of familiar, readily-available natural materials (sticks, […]

Mark Catesby Visits the Library

by Janet Woody, Librarian, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden More precisely, Catesby prints are visiting. Mark Catesby was a British naturalist who lived from 1682 (or 3) to 1749. He came […]