Plants Behaving Badly: A Review
As you walk around our garden enjoying the beautiful plants, you might not realize that they have complicated personal lives. All those beautiful colors and structures have a purpose. Often […]
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Conservation Conversation
A visitor recently asked me about Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden’s conservation efforts. It made me stop and think. So many of those efforts are simply part of our everyday activities. […]
Carnivorous Plant LOVE
Native Carnivorous Plants I’ve made a few jokes about how carnivorous plants have so many fans — especially tween boys. They even have paparazzi! So, I wasn’t surprised when a saw a post […]
Peace for Pitcher Plants
Pitcher plants are hungry for change. If you venture out to the West Island Garden, chances are that you will run into some spectacular-looking Sarracenia, commonly known as pitcher plants. To me, they […]
“Feed me Seymour!” & the Garden’s Carnivorous Plants
by Jay Austin, Horticulturist, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden If “Feed me Seymour!” is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the term “carnivorous plants” you are probably not […]
Pitcher Plants in the West Island Garden are Thriving
Photos and text by Jonah Holland , PR and Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden A cunning carnivore with an inescapable death trap silently waits for prey in some southeastern wetlands. Its […]
Preserving the Pitcher Plants & Restoring the Ecosystem
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden You may have noticed in the midst of A Million Blooms this spring that we are also working on a construction project at […]