Need a Reason to Visit the Garden This Weekend?
Here’s one reason. Now go find the 999,999 others! Plus, this is Heritage Weekend at Historic Bloemendaal — full of music and activities highlighting the Garden’s past, as we celebrate […]
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Happy National Volunteer Week!
Photos and text by Jonah Holland, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Public Relations & Marketing Coordinator Happy National Volunteer Week! Here at the Garden, we’re celebrating our volunteers as often as we can. […]
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Named 2nd Best Garden in North America
by Jonah Holland, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Public Relations & Marketing Coordinator Wow! With your help we were just named USAToday Travel’s 10Best Readers’ Choice 2nd Best Public Garden in North America. Thank […]
Botanical Garden to Offer Lake-front Condos in Lakeside
Love gardens but hate the work? Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden has a deal for you! Construction plans for the Cherry Tree Walk around Lake Sydnor have been expanded to include […]
Volunteers Honored; Julie Abbott Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
by Jonah Holland, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Public Relations & Marketing Coordinator This week Garden staff gathered to honor our 500+ volunteers. Five-hundred PLUS! That’s alot of volunteers you say? Yes […]
Ginter ‘Spicy White’ Could be Arriving Soon in Your Mailbox
by Jonah Holland, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Public Relations & Marketing Coordinator You’ve been hearing about the fabulous Magnolia ‘Ginter Spicy White’ for a few years now. It’s a wonderful tree, […]
Community Kitchen Garden: Look Back, Spring Forward
Text & photos by Brian Vick, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden For many weather-related reasons, 2013 was a challenging year for all vegetable growers in Central Virginia, but […]
Message from the Executive Director: 30 Years Later
by Shane Tippett, Executive Director, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden When Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden was formed thirty years ago in March, it consisted of a handful of empty, aging buildings and 73 […]
Happy 30th Anniversary to Us
by Janet Woody, librarian, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden This week we received a wonderful 30th anniversary gift from local author and cycling enthusiast Tom Houff. His book “On Richmond’s Wheel” tells […]
Gardening: Growing the Next Generation of Gardeners
by Lynn Kirk, Public Relations Writer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, reprinted with permission from the Richmond Times-Dispatch “I’m a gardener,” 6-year-old Morgan Veneziano boasted with a big-girl smile. Morgan earned the prestigious […]