by Guest | May 8, 2020 | Horticulture & Landscape
At the height of summer, a healthy garden vibrates, hums, whistles, buzzes and flashes with color. Morning light reveals dewy spider webs stretched between tall grass, hummingbirds careening through the air and chattering testily at one another, caterpillars nearly...
by Clara Curtis | Apr 30, 2020 | Horticulture & Landscape, The Arboretum
Creating a garden is a work over time. It requires interest, drive, concentration, commitment, creativity and even a little luck. The Arboretum’s National Native Azalea Collection certainly embodies all of these traits. It is a dreamy place to wander off the beaten...
by Will Coleburn | Apr 23, 2020 | Horticulture & Landscape
If you are like us, you have probably been spending a lot more time around your houseplants in recent days, and you might have also noticed that those potted friends in your windowsill could use a little T.LC.. Spring is a great time to give your houseplants a refresh...
by Clara Curtis | Apr 16, 2020 | Horticulture & Landscape
The great English gardener Gertrude Jekyll wrote, “A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches us to trust.” My maternal grandparents were great gardeners because they had to be. Their...
by Will Coleburn | Mar 19, 2020 | Nature
Spring: If you are like me, the mere whisper of the word is enough to make your ears perk up from across a room. Every year, from the time the first leaf drops in autumn, the wait until spring’s first blooms seems interminable. But the seasons have a way of...
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...
