From irrigation to temperature control to disease, there is a lot to manage when it comes to maintaining a nursery, public garden, greenhouse or farm. But what about those tiny insects that often swarm your face during the most uncomfortable, inconvenient moment?...
Planting the Arboretum gardens this season just got a lot more meaningful, considering that we are supporting a host of pollinating insect and bird species. From seasonal landscape exhibits, to bee spirals, to feeding waystations, we have developed an array of...
This weekend marks an exciting time here at the Arboretum as our world-famous Bonsai collection makes its debut for the first time since mid-November of last year. In addition to having our Bonsai Exhibition Garden on full display again, we are also celebrating this...
This week marks a significant milestone in Western North Carolina, a region with fascinating biodiversity and a living history that continues to reside all around us. Many decades ago, now-famous naturalists, botanists, horticulturists, foresters and landscape...
When I was a little girl, I spent many days with my family âtrompingâ â thatâs mountaineer talk for âtrampingâ â through the woods of western North Carolina looking for wildflowers. My folks owned a piece of property near the North Carolina/Tennessee state line off a...
The Quilt Garden at the Arboretum requires a commitment to gardening not unlike what Victorian era gardeners called âcarpet beddingâ or floral plantings in masses of harmonious or contrasting colored foliage and flowers. In the 1870s, new plant species arriving from...
I admit it, I adore flowers. I always have. As a self-proclaimed âflower childâ of the 1960s, I often found myself running through gardens and fields, picking flowers and learning early on from my mother the fundamentals of making a bouquet. I wasnât old enough yet to...