by George Briggs | Mar 2, 2020 | The Arboretum
Beginning today, Monday, March 2, 2020, the personal vehicle parking fee for The North Carolina Arboretum increases from $14 per car to $25. Rates for passenger vans, motorhomes and commercial buses will remain unchanged. The Arboretum’s board of directors made the...
by George Briggs | Apr 25, 2018 | Horticulture & Landscape
April is World Landscape Architecture Month. This internationally recognized celebration represents a highlight of our year at The North Carolina Arboretum, although others outside the profession of landscape architecture have likely never heard of this particular...
by George Briggs | Dec 27, 2017 | The Arboretum
As the calendar approaches its reset into 2018, so, too, does the Arboretum. While we cannot predict the future with certainty, I can say with confidence that 2017’s accomplishments will have consequential implications well beyond the new year. One of the most...
by George Briggs | Dec 28, 2016 | The Arboretum
This time of year is action-packed with all the inspiring elements of the holidays, the closing of an old calendar and hanging of a new one, and thinking about what the approaching New Year will bring. All of this is certainly the case at The North Carolina Arboretum,...
by George Briggs | Jul 6, 2016 | The Arboretum
Around the time The North Carolina Arboretum began its existence in the 1980s, a popular television program entitled “thirtysomething” examined the makeover of baby boomers, from youth to yuppies. It highlighted the many societal changes that the baby boomer...
