North Carolina Botanical Garden newsletter

              February 2013  Promoting Education, Conservation, Research, Plant Collections, Public Service  Volume 41, Number 1
N E W S L E T T E R
N O R T H C A R O L I N A B O T A N I C A L G A R D E N
T H E U N I V E R S I T Y o f N O R T H C A R O L I N A a t C H A P E L H I L L
Let’s Do It Again!
The Carolina Moonlight Gala 2012 was so much fun
that planning is well underway for our second Carolina Moonlight
Gala: May 18, 2013, 7–11 pm. Gala Committee and BGF Board
members are busy rounding up wonderful items for the online
silent auction that will again go live for your browsing and bid-ding
pleasure two weeks prior to the event. Plus, our 2013 Gala
will feature an exciting live auction at the event. Among auction
offerings, we expect such prizes as natural history adventures,
original art and photographs, sculpture, regional trips, plants and
more plants, gift certificates for restaurants, and much more. To
whet your bidding appetite, go to ncbg.unc.edu/carolinamoonlight/ where
you can link to and browse last year’s auction.
The May evening under a waxing Carolina moon will feature
music, fine food and drink, fascinating conversation with like-minded
folks and, most important, the
opportunity to support your favorite
local botanical garden!
The reason for all of this fun and
excitement? Simply put, it is to raise
unrestricted funds for the Garden’s
many and ever-increasing programs.
Consistent with the Garden’s conser-vation
mission, the Gala’s subtheme is
Celebrating Sustainable Living. Your auc-tion
participation and attendance will
be your personal green celebration in
support of the North Carolina Botani-cal
Garden.
Stay in touch by bookmarking ncbg.unc.edu/carolinamoonlight/ so you
can return there easily as we post information on the Gala. Tickets
and a link to the online silent auction will be available there too.
Celebrate Sustainable Living: Attend the 2013 Carolina
Moonlight Gala!
Healing and Hope Receives Grants
At the end of 2012, we learned that our Healing and Hope
Through Science Program (HHTS) had been awarded a
Student Science Enrich-ment
Program grant
from the Burroughs
Wellcome Fund. The
$121,000 grant will
support the program’s
efforts over a period
of three years. HHTS
provides hospitalized
children with a connec-tion
to the natural world via hands-on natural science activities.
“We are so excited because this grant will enable us to provide
more empowering education and engaging activities to pediatric
patients at UNC Children’s Hospital,” says Katie Stoudemire, pro-gram
coordinator for HHTS. “ These funds will help us nurture
an interest in science and science careers while helping children
cope with hospitalization.”
HHTS also received a $25,000 Ribbon of Hope grant from
the North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation. These funds
will enable HHTS to form a partnership with NC State University’s
College of Design to create a unique garden-on-wheels to be used
at the University of North Carolina Children’s Hospital.
Flora of Virginia Published
UNC Herbarium Director Alan Weakley has published a 1554-
page book on the plants of Virginia with two Viriginia colleagues. A
tool for botanical and ecological research, education, and conserva-tion,
the book is the first
manual of the flora of
Virginia published since
1762. Eleven years in the
making, this manual will
be apprecited by all plant
enthusiasts. Read more
about it on page 12.
Your 2013 Seed List
is included inside this newsletter!
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D i r e c t o r ’ s M e s s a g e
Ten Themes of Botanical Gardens
In November, I traveled to Claremont McKenna College in
California for my first ever invitation to speak at an English De-partment.
I was to present “Turn the Poet Out of Doors: A Natural
History of Robert Frost,” a talk in which I celebrate the scientific
interests and accurate field observations of the famous poet.*
The trip to Claremont was a thrill, and it involved participation
in two English classes (the first I’d attended since undergraduate
days!). One of those classes was led by writer Jamaica Kincaid and
the topic was “gardens in literature.” Ms. Kincaid asked me to out-line
the characteristics and themes of modern botanical gardens. I
had earlier been inspired by an article that appeared in The New York
Times several years ago stating that botanical gardens are “not just
about flowers anymore.” The world around gardens is changing,
and so gardens are evolving. Plants, indeed all of nature, under
threat; climate warming; sustainability issues; needs for healthier
lifestyles and diets; a deeper understanding of the importance of
childhood experiences in nature—all of these issues concern public
gardens today. As director, I feel the pressure to define our role,
perhaps never so much as in these tough budget times (and many
thanks for your membership and continued support!)
For Ms. Kincaid’s class, I developed a list of ten themes. I
imagine these as overlapping spheres that define today’s botanical
gardens. Not all gardens have each one in equal strength.
1. Science: the adjective (“botanical”) in the term botanical
garden underscores that everything else we do is secured by
objective knowledge and seeks to increase that knowledge—in
horticulture, taxonomy, ecology, and conservation.
2. Horticulture: the traditional role in growing and enhancing
a green world.
3. Food: community gardens, such as the Carolina Campus
Community Garden, are now a major way that botanical gar-dens
teach and demonstrate the desirability of a connection
to food supply and healthy eating and lifestyle.
4. Sustainability: demonstrating how people must interact with
their environments, from local to global scales.
5. Conservation: protecting and restoring nature itself, including
support for the interconnections of plants and animals, and
using garden expertise to save critically endangered species.
6. Nature: nature trails and wild nature, untended or tended.
7. Diversity: variation in species, forms, colors, seasons, uses,
experiences, people.
8. Community: a project that people do together to build a
sense of community and public good.
9. Art and Experience: beautiful places that provide respite,
exercise, and inspiration for the spirit and the arts.
10. Education: teaching people of all ages, backgrounds, and
abilities. (I put Education last only because it reaches across
the other nine spheres.)
These ten themes collectively show that botanical gardens are not
walled islands, as they may have been in an earlier age. They also
do not serve only that part of society that is interested in, educated
about, and otherwise possessing enough resources to be invested
in fine horticulture. Today botanical gardens have a bigger role to
play in making the world a more diverse, sustainable, and educated
place. As Aldo Leopold wrote over six decades ago, “our tools
are better than we are and grow faster than we do. They suffice
to crack the atom, to command the tides. But they do not suffice
for the oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land
without spoiling it.” Leopold was a conservationist, a proponent
of ecological restoration, and a gardener, and the work he chal-lenged
us to undertake is not yet complete. Botanical gardens are
at the center of Leopold’s challenge, spanning both wild nature
and human-tended places.**
My ten spheres are a kind of classification and can also be
seen as a grading scheme for botanical gardens. I hope you will
recognize aspects of the North Carolina Botanical Garden in each
of the ten—and that you will grade us highly, while also helping
us to achieve even higher marks.
*I give this same talk at the Garden in March; see p. 5
**See p. 7 for an opportunity to attend the first showing, in our area, of
“Green Fire,” a celebration of Leopold’s contributions, and to participate
in other Leopold anniversary activities.
Note: Photo of Coker Arboretum, above, by Janet Liloia.
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What’s New in the Garden Shop?…
Have you visited the Garden Shop lately?
Be prepared for your imagination to
take flight: a delightful selection of nature
puppets has arrived. From birds to reptiles to
mammals, you won’t be able to resist playing
with these plush critters. Pick up an accom-panying
book while you are here. Or some
of our new magnifiers to explore the
natural world around you…up close!
Wildflower of the Year 2013
shirts have arrived (modeled here by
student Caroline Pate). Limited stock.
Don’t miss out—get yours now!
­Details
about Ceanothus americanus,
New Jersey-tea, are in the 2013 Seed
List, enclosed in this newsletter.
The Making of a Pollinator Garden
On November 14, students in the Young Ecoscapers environmental education
program celebrated the installation of a pollinator garden they designed and created
under the guidance of Garden educators Grant Parkins and Elisha Taylor. The pollinator
garden is a new section of the Children’s Wonder Garden and will provide visitors an
opportunity to learn about the role of native pollinators and plants in our environment.
Young Ecoscapers offered children a unique opportunity to learn about the ecology
and value of native habitat and then apply their knowledge to create an eco-friendly land-scape
from begin-ning
to end. Seven-teen
home-educated
children between
the ages of 9 and 12
participated in the
two-part, 12-session
course. Students were
leaders in every as-pect
of the creation
of the garden, learn-ing
about pollination,
creating a field guide
to native pollinators
and plants, analyz-ing
site conditions,
selecting and propa-gating
plants, designing and installing pathways and habitat features, and planting more
than 250 plants and 60,000 seeds from 73 species.
Visit the growing pollinator garden this spring: a garden designed by kids, for kids!
(Note: the Garden received a $1,000 GreenWorks! grant from Project Learning Tree and a $250 Lorrie
Otto Seeds for Education Fund grant from Wild Ones to purchase native plants and seed.)
A “scattering of seed” ceremony at the November 14 celebration of the
new Pollinator Garden created by the Young Ecoscapers class.
Botanical Garden Foundation, Inc.
Board of Directors 2013
Officers
Anne H. Lindsey, President
Jonathan B. Howes, Vice President
Harriet Wall Martin, Vice President
Stephen A. Rich, Treasurer
Sandra Brooks-Mathers, Secretary
Directors
Ann B. Alexander
Cotton Bryan
Becky Cobey
Jan Dean
Tom Earnhardt
Robert W. Eaves Jr.
David R. Godschalk
Marcella T. Grendler
Debbie Hill
David Coker Joslin
Nell Devereux Joslin
Mary Bowler Miller
Scottie Neill
Florence F. Peacock
Nancy S. Preston
Missy Rankin
Linda Rimer
Tom K. Scott
Charles V. Taft
Alexander F. “Sandy” Thompson III
Lysandra Gibbs Weber
Barbara K. Wendell
Richard T. Williams
John Wilson
Honorary Directors
Claire Christopher
Gretchen Cozart
Arthur S. DeBerry
Muriel Easterling
Mary Coker Joslin
Nancy Stronach
Sally Couch Vilas
Student Directors
Peter Carr
Suzanne Fleishmann
Living Past Presidents
William H. Bracey
Arthur S. DeBerry
Jonathan B. Howes
Sally Couch Vilas
Mae Woods Bell
R. B. Fitch
The Botanical Garden Foundation is a
501(c)3 membership organization that
supports the North Carolina Botanical Garden
and holds land for conservation.
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C o n s i d e r T h i s
The Carbon Equation
by Johnny Randall, Director of Conservation Programs
Climate change is upon us and our gov-ernment
and citizenry seem begrudg-ingly
reluctant to move toward a reduction
in greenhouse gas emissions. Vehicle
emissions and our car-dependent society
haven’t changed much since the 1980s.
Energy-efficient building practices are well
ahead of vehicles, but nearly three-fourths
of our power plants are fossil fuel based.
Real improvements are on the horizon for
more fuel-efficient vehicles and alternative
energy sources, but it will be a long time
before significant atmospheric CO2 reduc-tions
occur even with new standards and
technologies.
On the flip side, energy efficiency is a
long-standing practice for many who rec-ognize
the importance of reducing fossil
fuel abuse. And I count the Garden as a
leader in this arena, both historically and in
our continuing Conservation Garden prac-tices.
Most readers probably know that our
Education Center is a shining (Platinum)
star in environmental design and energy
efficiency, but many might not know that
UNC-Chapel Hill has made great strides
toward reducing its carbon footprint, to the
extent of pledging “carbon neutrality” by
2050 and hiring a greenhouse gas specialist
to guide this effort. See climate.unc.edu/ for a
comprehensive look at the UNC Climate
Action Program.
Becoming carbon neutral doesn’t mean
zero emissions, but rather that reduced
emissions through renewable energy, alter-native
transportation, and energy-efficient
building practices will be coupled with
carbon offsets. And offsets for UNC are
principally available through the uptake
and sequestration/storage of CO2 by the
university’s forested lands!
In an effort to estimate just how much
the UNC forested lands contribute to car-bon
sequestration, a student “Capstone”
project was designed to answer this ques-tion.
Capstone projects are experiential
semester-long upper-level undergraduate
courses required of all environmental
sciences, environmental studies, and envi-ronmental
health sciences majors, and for
sustainability minors.
The “carbon teams” established a total
of 80 sample plots in forested areas on
the Main Campus (729 acres), the Caro-lina
North Forest (750 acres), and on 743
acres of the Botanical Garden’s 1,000 acres
of natural areas. Teams calculated forest
carbon storage capacity by estimating tree
biomass per plot. Biomass is essentially the
total tree bulk (i.e., carbon-based wood) and
is determined by measuring tree diameter,
height, and spread. Carbon teams then used
the i-Tree Eco software program, devel-oped
by the U.S. Forest Service, to quantify
the carbon storage capacity of all tree spe-cies
within each plot and then extrapolate
to the campus and target forests.
According to UNC Energy Services,
campus greenhouse gas emissions (primar-ily
in the form of CO2) were approximately
531,000 metric tons in 2011. From i-Tree
the students determined that our campus
forests sequestered 6,120 metric tons of
this carbon in new woody plant growth
(as branches and the most recent growth
ring). They also calculated that the total
carbon stored in the estimated 748,000
UNC forest trees, based on total biomass,
is about 216,000 metric tons. (The complete
Capstone project, an interesting read, is
available on the Climate Action Program
website: climate.unc.edu/GreenhouseGasInventory/Emis-sionsBreakdown).
The Capstone report shows that UNC
needs to continue greenhouse gas emission
reductions and that current UNC forested
areas cannot offset emissions at current
levels. But let me quickly add that that’s
precisely why UNC hired a greenhouse
gas specialist, who updates and maintains
greenhouse gas emissions data and manages
the university climate action plan. (Check
out the UNC “Energy Dashboard” itsapps.
unc.edu/energy/ that provides real time data
on campus-wide energy use, including the
Garden’s Education Center!)
The Capstone report also clearly dem-onstrates
the indispensable importance of
forested areas and that these need to be pro-tected,
properly managed, and increased. It
was also nice to see in the report that the
largest trees, greatest forest density, and
greatest tree species diversity were found
on Botanical Garden lands!
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Join us for this week of events inspired by spring!
Springtime on Nature Trail Hill
Sunday, March 17, 2:00–4:00 pm
Explore a Piedmont hardwood forest with Carol Ann McCor-mick
and find signs of spring including our earliest spring wild-flowers,
such as spring ­beauties,
wild ginger, and trout lily. Easy
pace; some steps and uphill walking. Children welcome; please
leave pets at home. Fee: $5 per family (free for ncbg members).
Robert Frost – Full Day of Spring
Wednesday, March 20, 7:00–8:00 pm
We begin the Spring Week Celebration by bringing back a popular
presentation by Garden Director Peter White on the natural
history of Robert Frost’s poetry. This March marks the 140th an-niversary
of Frost’s birth. In honor of that, Dr. White combines
three threads from his own childhood—his mother’s love of
poetry, summers on a Maine lake, and a love of nature. You’ll be
introduced to Robert Frost the natural historian, who recognized
many species of plants and animals on his daily walks, under-stood
plant families, observed nature in detail, and wrote of the
need for wilderness and conservation. Free, but please register online!
Spring in the Garden Walk
Saturday, March 23, 10:00–11:00 am
Join us for a special tour of the North Carolina Botanical Garden.
On this 60-minute walk, you will experience spring and the beauty
of plants native to North Carolina. Discover a longleaf pine forest,
a wet savanna, and a mountain bog in our different Habitat Gardens.
Learn about native wildflowers for the home landscape in our Peren-nial
Border, and finish up with a look at some of NC’s most unique
plants in our Carnivorous Plant Collection—Venus flytraps, pitcher
plants, sundews, native orchids. Tour begins in the Pegg Exhibit Hall
of the Education Center. Free, but please register online!
Spring Haiku Workshop
Saturday, March 23, 11:30 am–12:30 pm
Plan your morning at the Garden! After the Spring in the Garden
Walk (see above), join the NC Haiku Society (www.nc-haiku.org) for
a springtime haiku experience. We’ll begin with simple approaches
to writing haiku, then compose haiku-like poems based on words
and images from the audience. There is so much more to haiku
than the famous 5-7-5 syllable count: come find out what these
little poems have to offer! Bring your lunch and picnic after. Free,
but please register online!
Sustainable Solutions to Your Landscape Challenges
Saturday, March 23, 2:00–4:00 pm
Is your landscape plan working? Are you challenged by pathways
that aren’t functioning as intended? Are your garden beds what
you expected, and your plantings healthy and thriving? Often,
even a well-conceived plan, once installed, confronts the chal-lenges
of real life. Understanding and
working with your particular site’s
microclimates is key to garden success.
Using the new garden spaces of the
Education Center as examples, Amanda
Mixon, ncbg Curator of the Education Center Gardens provides
practical, ecological and maintainable landscape design solutions
for the home-owner, emphasizing the importance of the land-scape
site conditions. Topics covered are appropriate soil-plant
combinations, drainage and stormwater issues, and native plant
choices. Fee: $40 ($35 ncbg members)
Signs of Spring Family Hike
(for ages 5 & up w/ adult)
Saturday, March 23; 1:30–3:00 pm
Who’s singing in the pond? What’s blooming up from under fallen
leaves? Celebrate the Spring Equinox with a leisurely hike through
the gardens and trails with Garden Educator Elisha Taylor,
searching for signs that the natural world is waking from its winter
slumber. We’ll learn some facts and folklore while exploring for
frogs, bursting buds, early birds, and other spring surprises. Parents/
caregivers must remain with their child at all times. Dress for the outdoors!
Fee, per child: $8 ($6 ncbg members)
Bird Walk at Mason Farm
Sunday, March 24, 8:00 am
Join Cynthia Fox, bird expert and owner of Chapel Hill’s Wild Bird
Center, for an early morning springtime walk at our Mason Farm
Biological Reserve. The 367-acre reserve encompasses a combina-tion
of forests and old fields that support approximately 800 species
of plants and 216 species of birds. A greater number of different
species of animals have been recorded at Mason Farm than in any
other comparably-sized area in the entire Piedmont! Participants will
learn to recognize birds by song and sight. Bring your binoculars.
Meeting place will be confirmed at time of registration. Fee: $10
($5 ncbg members)
Eat Wild Spring: Edible Greens
Sunday, March 24, 1:30–4:30 pm
Learn how to make friends and food with the weeds in your home
“yarden” as we meet and eat some of the abundant wild edibles
of the NC Piedmont. In this hands-on field study for folks of all
experience levels, we’ll celebrate the arrival of spring as we wander
the Garden in search of common weeds that create delicious wild
greens pesto. In the process we’ll cover identification, safe and ethi-cal
gathering, preparation, nutrition, and the joy of foraged food.
Handout with recipes included. A native of NC with life-long roots
in Chatham County, your guide Kim Calhoun joyfully shares the
time-honored healing tools of herbalism, wild foods, massage, and
yoga through AbunDance Healing Arts. Fee: $40 ($35 ncbg members)
Spring Week Celebration . . . (register online—see instructions next page)
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S p r i n g S e m e s t e r C e r t i f i c a t e C o u r s e s
Native Plant Studies
Plant Ecology 
Steph Jeffries, Forest Ecologist
Tuesdays, Feb 12, 19, 26, Mar 5(field trip);
9:30 am–12:30 pm
Book Review: On the Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin (Short Course) 
Peter White, ncbg Director
Thursday, Feb 7 (incl. weather: Feb 28), 7:00 –9:00 pm
Botany 
Olivia Lenahan, Horticultural Scientist
Saturday, Mar 2, 9, 16, 23; 9:15 am–1:15 pm
Spring Flora
Milo Pyne, Plant Ecologist
Saturdays, Mar 9, 16, Apr 13, 20; 1:30–4:30 pm
Plant Communities of North Carolina 
Alan Weakley, Director, unc Herbarium
Tuesdays, Apr 2, 9, 16, 23; 9:00 am–12:00 pm
Piedmont Savanna Ecology 
Nicki Cagle, Plant Ecologist
Saturdays, Apr 6, 13, 20 27; 9:15 am–12:15 pm
Controlling Invasive Plants (Short Course)
Jeff Stewart, Ecologist
Saturday, Apr 6, 1:30–4:30 pm
Principals of Conservation Biology
Peter White, ncbg Director
Mondays, Apr 8, 15, 22, 29, May 6, 13, 20, June 3;
12:00–1:00 pm
Local Trees (Short Course) 
Steph Jeffries, Forest Ecologist
Thursdays, May 2, 9; 9:30 am–12:30 pm
Plant Taxonomy
Milo Pyne, Plant Ecologist
Fridays, May 3, 10, 17, 24; 1:00–4:00 pm
Flowering Plant Families
Olivia Lenahan, Horticultural Scientist
Saturdays, May 4, 11, 18, June 1; 1:00–4:00 pm
Full descriptions of these Certificate Courses on our website (ncbg.unc.edu/classes-workshops/) = No prerequisites—open to all!
Native Southeastern Medicinal Plants 
Ricky Bratz, Herbalist (Short Course)
Saturday, May 18, 1:30– 4:30 pm
Plant Propagation (Short Course) 
Matt Gocke, ncbg Nursery/Greenhouse Mgr.
Saturday, June 8, 9:30 am–12:30 pm
Summer Flora 
Milo Pyne, Plant Ecologist
Saturdays, June 15, 22, July 13, 20; 9:30 am–
12:30 pm
Botanical Art & Illustration
Portfolio/Graduation Preparation:
What You Need to Know (Short Course)
Emma Skurnick, Professional Artist 
Tuesdays, Feb 12, 26 (incl. weather: Monday,
Apr 1); 9:30 am–12:30 pm
Nature Journaling (Short Course) 
Jeannine Reese, Artist
Saturday, Feb 23, 1:00–4:30 pm
Portfolio/Graduation Preparation:
Business Practices for Illustrators
(Short Course) 
Emma Skurnick, Professional Artist
Tuesdays Mar 5, 12; 9:30 am–12:30 pm
Intermediate Watercolor for Illustrators
Maryann Roper, Professional Artist
Tuesdays, Mar 5, 12, 19, 26; 1:00–4:30 pm
Intermediate Drawing
Emma Skurnick, Professional Artist
Wednesdays, Mar 6, 13, 20, 27 (incl. weather:
Monday, Apr 1);10:00 am–1:30 pm
Copperplate Calligraphy—
Basic ­Letter
Forms (Short Course) 
Maryann Roper, Professional Artist
Thursday, Mar 14, 1:00–4:30 pm
Ephemerals (Short Course) 
Linda Koffenberger, Professional Artist
Saturday, Mar 16; 1:00–4:30 pm
Registration Procedure!
Register online through our website:
ncbg.unc.edu. Use the dropdown menu
under the Education & Events tab.
The yellow Register Now button
posted with all programs will take you
to our secure registration site. Advance
registration is required for all programs unless
otherwise indicated.
Advanced Watercolor Techniques
Emma Skurnick, Professional Artist
Wednesdays, Apr 3, 10, 17, 24; 10:00 am–1:30 pm
Acrylic and Gouache
Kate Lagaly, Professional Artist
Sundays, Apr 7, 21, 28, May 5; 1:15–4:45 pm
Mixed Media
Linda Koffenberger, Professional Artist
Wednesdays, May 1, 8, 15, 22; 1:00–4:30 pm
Light on Form (Short Course) 
Patricia Savage, Professional Artist
Saturday, May 4, 1:15–4:45 pm
Pen and Ink: Media Exploration
Kathy Schermer-Gramm, Professional Artist
Thursdays, May 9, 16, 23, 30; 1:00–4:30 pm
How to Paint a Cast Shadow
(Short Course) 
Patricia Savage, Professional Artist
Saturday, May 11, 1:15–4:45 pm
Integrating Color Theory & Compostion
Patricia Savage, Professional Artist
Sundays, May 19, Jun 2, 16, 23; 1:15–4:45 pm
Butterflies in Colored Pencil
(Short Course)
Linda Koffenberger, Professional Artist
Saturday, Jun 15; 1:00–4:30 pm
Earth Partnership for Schools to be Offered in Summer
The 2013 Earth Partnership for Schools Teacher Institute will be offered July 15–19.
­Applications
for the 2013 workshop are available starting February 1 on the Garden’s website:
ncbg.unc.edu/education-for-schools-and-teachers/ For more information, please contact Grant Parkins,
Natural Science Educator: parkins@unc.edu, 919-962-2887.
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W a l k s / H i k e s
See description of these walks & hikes
on our website: ncbg.unc.edu/nature-hikes
Springtime on Nature Trail Hill
Sunday, March 17, 2:00–4:00 pm
Carol Ann McCormick, Botanist
Fee $5 (Free for ncbg members), description p. 5
Mother’s Day Walk at Mason Farm
Sunday, May 12, 2:00–4:30 pm
Ed Harrison, Naturalist
Fee $10 ($5 ncbg members).
Penny’s Bend Wild Blue Indigo Hike
May 18, 9:30 am–1:00 pm
Ed Harrison, Naturalist
Fee: $10 ($5 ncbg members).
An Aldo Leopold Celebration
Considered by many to be the father of wildlife management and of the U.S. wilderness
system, Aldo Leopold was a conservationist, forester, philosopher, educator, writer, and
outdoor enthusiast. This spring we are honoring his legacy with several special programs . . .
Book Review: A Sand County Almanac
Thursday, Feb 21, 7:00–9:00 pm Peter White, ncbg Director
Independently read Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac, consid-ered
by the American Nature Study Society to be one of the two
most significant environmental books of the 20th Century. Then
meet on Feb 21 to discuss Leopold’s “land ethic.” Fee: $30 ($25
ncbg members) [¼ credit for Certificate in Native Plant Studies.]
Teacher Workshop: Aldo Leopold Education Project
Saturday, Feb 23, 9:00 am–3:00 pm
Robert Hawk, State Coordinator for the Leopold Education
Project and Haywood County Cooperative Extension Agent
The Leopold Education Project is an innovative, interdisciplinary educational program
based on the classic writings of renowned conservationist, Aldo Leopold. Targeted for
Grade 6 and above, the curriculum teaches about humanity’s ties to the natural world. This
workshop provides materials and techniques for teaching outdoors, where students can
be stimulated by authentic learning experiences. Appropriate for Grades 5–12 educators
(science, language arts, math, art, history), non-formal educators, naturalists, interpreters,
natural resource professionals, 4-H & Scout leaders, conservation leaders, and others. Fee:
$35 [Criteria I Instructional Workshop for North Carolina EE Certification]
Nature Journaling
Saturday, Feb 23, 12:30–3:30 pm Jeannine Reese, Artist
Aldo Leopold was a skilled nature writer, and winter is the perfect time to start a nature
journal, when thoughts are more reflective and details of nature are not so showy/com-plicated.
No art or writing experience is necessary for this workshop; all levels of ability
are welcome. Learn simple techniques and materials for starting a nature journal as a
way to record thoughts, ideas, garden notes, and everyday wonders. Bring a blank journal
(unlined preferred) and an attitude of discovery. Fee: $40 ($35 ncbg members) [¼ credit
for the both Certificates]
At the Movies: “Green Fire— Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time”
Saturday, Feb 23, 3:30–4:45 pm
Join us for this viewing of an extraordinary film that highlights Aldo Leopold’s extraor-dinary
career, tracing how he shaped and influenced the modern environmental move-ment.
Leopold remains relevant today, inspiring projects all over the country that connect
people and land. Popcorn and drinks provided! Stanley Temple, Senior Fellow and
Science Advisor, Aldo Leopold Foundation, and Beers-Bascom Professor Emeritus in
Conservation at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will lead the discussion after the
film. Fee: $10 ($5 ncbg members)
Leopold Bench Building Workshop
Sunday Feb 24, 2:00–4:00 pm Jim Fickle, ncbg Volunteer
In 1935, Aldo Leopold and his family initiated their
own ecological restoration experiment on a worn-out
farm along the Wisconsin River outside of Baraboo,
WI. There he used scrap wood or whatever materials
he had on hand to build a series of benches. Build
your own Leopold Bench to take home! This simple,
yet classic bench works in any landscape. Wood and
hardware provided, and in the spirit of Leopold,
if possible we will use reclaimed wood. Tools will be
provided, but if you have a portable drill/screwdriver, please
bring it along. Leopold’s legacy will live on in your garden and inspire you to see the natural
world “as a community to which we belong.” $35 ($30 ncbg members)
M i n d f u l M o v e m e n t
Yoga at the Garden
Saturdays, April 13, 20, 27,
May 4; 10–11am
Dani Strauss, Yoga Instructor
A 4-week experience. Enjoy
the benefits of an all-levels
yoga practice emphasiz-ing
meditation, breathing, and movement in a
tranquil Garden setting. Bring your yoga mat
if you have one; a limited number of mats will
be available. Held indoors or outside, weather
depending. $45 for series ($40 ncbg members)
Tai Chi at the Garden
Sundays, April 14, 21, 28, May 5: 3–4 pm
Lisa Marcusson, Tai Chi Instructor
A 4-week experience. Class starts with a gentle
warm up, new movement instruction, and then
practice and review. Isabel takes you through the
first third of a classical Tai Chi form—simple,
low-impact movement appropriate for all abili-ties.
Class will be held outdoors, when possible.
Wear loose, comfortable clothing and flat, thin-soled
shoes. $60 for series ($55 ncbg members)
Exploring Tree Food & Medicine:
Making Tree Teas
Sunday, April 28, 1:30–4:30 pm
Kim Calhoun, Herbalist
Learn some of the traditional medicinal uses
and food gifts of our common trees and how to
bring them into your daily life through delight-ful
teas. In this field study, suitable for all levels,
we’ll explore the woodland trails and garden,
covering tree identifica-tion,
safe and sustainable
harvesting, preparation, and
uses. Includes handout with
recipes (and inspiration for
peaceful tree tea parties).
Fee: $40 ($35 ncbg mem-bers).
Learn more about the
instructor at www.abundance-healingarts.
com
W o r k s h o p
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L e c t u r e s , B o o k S i g n i n g s & O t h e r S p e c i a l P r o g r a m s
A r t a t t h e G a r d e n
Registration Procedure
Advance registration is required for all
programs unless otherwise indicated!
See page 6.
A Darwin Day Presentation . . .
What Bird Songs & Bird Beaks Can Tell Us About Evolution
Tuesday, February 12, 7:30 pm
Steve Nowicki, Bass Fellow and Dean and Vice Provost for
Undergraduate Education at Duke University, studies the evolution of animal
communication, primarily in birds. He will present his studies on behavioral
ecology and neuroethology, especially questions about the function, structure, and evolution
of bird signaling systems. Free, but please register online.
In the DeBerry Gallery . . .
through February 27, 2013
Reconfiguration
drawings by Jenny Eggleston
March 2–April 28, 2013
Time Suspended:
Moments in Nature
photographs by
Jean Anne Leuchtenburg
Artist’s Reception
Sunday March 10, 2–4 pm
The American Chestnut
April 26, noon–1:00 pm (Arbor Day)
Once there were over four billion American
Chestnut trees in the United States, with
one out of every four trees in the Appala-chian
forests a chestnut. Foresters called the
American Chestnut “the most useful tree
in the woods.” By the 1930s, most of the
mature chestnut trees in the Carolinas were
dying back to their roots due to chestnut
blight disease. Kenneth Summerville, Ret.
NC Forest Service, talks about the Ameri-can
Chestnut Foundation’s work to revive
this great King of the Forest. Free, but
please register online.
Celebrating Earth Day:
a lecture & book-signing . . .
Crossroads of the Natural World
Sunday, April 21, 2:30–4:00 pm
Crossroads of the Natural World is a richly
illustrated love letter to the wild places and
natural wonders of North Carolina. Join
us as Tom Earnhardt, writer and host of
unc-tv’s “Exploring North Carolina” and
lifelong conservationist, seamlessly ties
deep geological time and forgotten species
from our distant past to the unparalleled
biodiversity of today. Sharing his own
journey of more than sixty years, Earnhardt
entices North Carolinians of every age to
explore the natural diversity of our state.
Free, but please register online.
13th Annual Evelyn McNeill Sims Lecture Sunday, April 14, 2:00–3:30 pm
Seeing Trees
In “Seeing Trees,” writer Nancy Ross Hugo
shares some of the secrets discovered in her
intense, two-year investigation of the seeds,
catkins, cones, flowers, resting buds, emerging
leaves, and other small phenomena usually
overlooked on backyard trees. She shares
strategies to help observers see more, and
profiles several common species using the
stunning photography of Robert Llewellyn.
Nancy argues these intimate details are as
exciting to watch and worthy of viewing as roses or peonies, and that by becoming more
familiar with them, observers will better appreciate both the genius of tree engineering and
the importance of trees and all plants in the landscape. Read more about Nancy and her work on
our website. Free, but please register online.
Native American Medicinal Herbs Thursday March 21, 2:00–4:00 pm
Co-sponsored by the NC Unit of the Herb Society of America
The 2013 Herb of the Year, Sambucus nigra, elderberry, reminds us to honor our elders.
Pat Kenny, retired medical and botanical illustrator, shows us what we can learn from
our predecessors on this land. Kenney has worked at the National Institute of Health, the
National Library of Medicine’s herb garden, and at the Dr. James Duke medicinal garden.
Stay after the program to meet Pat and enjoy refreshments provided by the NC Unit of the
Herb Society of America. Fee: $15 (free to ncbg & hsa members). Please register online.
Michaux Gardens
Thursday March 7, noon–1:00 pm
French botanist André Michaux, born March
8, 1746, spent 11 years studying the plants of
North America when George Washington
was president. Michaux also developed
gardens in New Jersey and South Carolina,
now “lost.” Michaux scholar Charlie
Williams uses Michaux’s journal and letters,
and other scholarly studies to tell the story
behind these gardens. Free, but please
register online.
Lunchtime Series . . . bring your lunch and join us for a lecture!
February 2013 NCBG Newsletter 9
C h i l d r e n ' s P r o g r a m s
Blazing-Stars: Afterschool Nature Club (ages 6–8)
Tuesdays, Mar 5–Apr 30 (8 sessions, no class 4/2); 3:30–5:00 pm
Elisha Taylor, ncbg Environmental Educator
Did you know that 1 out of every 3 bites of
food we eat depends on bees? Or that drag-onflies
begin their lives underwater? Explore
the incredible world of butterflies, beetles,
ants, and slugs and their relationships to plants
and people. Students will sharpen observation
skills and develop an understanding of the
important role “bugs” play in nature. Hands-on
activities, environmental games, and crafts
make learning fun and engaging. Fee: $100
($90 ncbg members)
Bluets: Preschoolers Exploring
Nature (ages 4–5)
Mondays, Mar 18–April 29
(6 sessions, no class 4/1); 1:30–3:30 pm
Elisha Taylor, ncbg Environmental Educator
Learning comes naturally for 4- and 5-year-olds during this popular, fun-filled
series that fosters a sense of wonder for the natural world through
hands-on activities, outdoor exploration, stories, crafts, and group play.
Preschoolers will “dig in” to the vegetable garden, dip in the pond for tad-poles,
observe birds up-close at feeders, and more. Healthy snack provided.
Fee: $100 ($90 ncbg members)
NEW for Homeschoolers!
Nature Illustration through the Seasons, Part I: Spring!
(ages 8–12)
Wednesdays, Mar 20–April 24 (6 sessions), 1:30–4:00 pm
Bob Palmatier, Artist/Educator & Elisha Taylor, ncbg Environmental Educator
Explore the art and science of sea-sonal
change in the gardens, forests,
and wetlands at the Garden during this
unique and exciting class that com-bines
nature illustration techniques and
hands-on science learning. Participants
will learn studio techniques and use
materials of professional nature il-lustrators.
We will spend time outdoors
sketching, observing, and learning
about spring ecosystems, including
migration, bud burst, wildflowers, and
more. Matted illustrations completed
during the course will be displayed at a
Spring Nature Art Show at the Garden
with an artists’ reception for friends
and family! Fee: $175 ($160 ncbg
members), includes student art kit and use of professional supplies
Nature Painting with Watercolor (ages 7–11)
Saturdays, Apr 27–May 18 (4 sessions); 10:00 am–12:00 pm
Annie Nashold, Artist/Educator
Nature’s wonders inspire artists of all
ages. Join us as we explore sketching in the
garden and producing watercolor paintings
of our discoveries. Several nature themes
will be focused on as we learn to transfer
our sketches to watercolor paper, compose
our images, and add color with watercolor.
A collaborative project will be included in
our work together and will be hung at the
Garden for all to enjoy. Fee: $80 ($72 ncbg
members), includes all supplies.
Nature Explorers Summer Camp 2013
Registration begins February 11
Nature Explorers Summer Camps offer children ages
4–10 an exciting opportunity for outdoor learning and fun
on 10+ acres at the North Carolina Botanical Garden.
 Discover NC’s native gardens, forests, & wetlands
 Environmental education in a natural setting
 Hands-on activities, hikes, games, puppet shows, crafts
 Small group sizes with experienced & trained educators
Check out the camp brochure for more information:
ncbg.unc.edu/nature-explorers-summer-camp/
F a m i l y P r o g r a m s
The following activities are designed for children ages 5 & up
accompanied by an adult. Classes are limited to 12 children.
Fees are per child; no charge for adults. Dress for the outdoors!
For the Birds Family Workshop (ages 5 & up w/ adult)
Saturday, Feb 16; 10:00–11:30 am
Elisha Taylor, ncbg Environmental Educator
From yellow-bellied sapsuckers to Carolina chickadees, learn to identify
common winter birds by sight and sound first-hand at our bird-feeding
station, and then make some feeders to take home. Find out how to attract
birds to your backyard and participate as a “citizen scientist” in Project
FeederWatch. Fee, per child: $10 ($8 ncbg members)
Frogs, Fairies, and Sallies: Vernal Pool Wonders Family
Workshop (ages 5 & up w/adult)
Saturday, Mar 9; 1:00–3:00 pm
Elisha Taylor, ncbg Environmental Educator
Chorus frogs, fairy shrimp, and
spotted salamanders . . . oh
my! Nature is waking up in the
garden’s vernal pools. These
spring nurseries are swimming
with life in early spring. Peek
into the ponds, meet live critters,
and learn about the wonders and
mysteries of life in a vernal pool.
Fee, per child: $10 ($8 ncbg
members)
Signs of Spring Family Hike (ages 5 & up w/ adult)
Saturday, Mar 23; 1:30 – 3:00 pm
Elisha Taylor, ncbg Environmental Educator
Celebrate the Spring Equinox with a leisurely hike through the gardens and
trails searching for signs that the natural world is waking from its winter
slumber. We’ll learn some facts and folklore while exploring for frogs,
bursting buds, early birds, and other spring surprises. Fee, per child: $8 ($6
ncbg members)
Nature Tales: Storytime in the Garden (ages 3–5 w/ adult)
Thursdays, May 2 – Aug 8; 10:00 - 10:45 am
Join us Thursday mornings to listen to nature-themed books and enjoy
hands-on explorations in the gardens. Program is held rain or shine. Fee,
per child, per session: $3.50 ($3 ncbg members). Please see our website for
themes for each Thursday session.
more programs on next page . . . >>
10 NCBG Newsletter February 2013
The Homeowners Guide to Designing & Building Your
Residential Garden
Saturdays, Feb 9 & 16 (Inclement weather date: 2/23); 9:30am–12:30 pm
Katherine Gill, Landscape Architect & co-owner, Tributary Land Design + Build
This two-session workshop teaches basic principles of sustainable residen-tial
landscape design, from site analysis through construction, and provides
hands-on experience for designing and building one’s own garden. Using
each participant’s home as the project, class 1 leads you through the design
basics—scale, site analysis, principles of plant design using natives and
edibles, site design of pathways and outdoor rooms, and discuss types and
uses of landscape materials. In class 2 we will apply what we have learned
and each create a scaled schematic site plan for a home landscape. Partici-pants
will take home the beginnings of a design for their own yard. Bring a
plot of your property to first class. Fee: $70 ($60 ncbg members).
Organic Rose Gardening
Saturday, Feb 2, 2:00–4:00 pm
Dilip Barman, Organic Gardener
Interested in growing roses but have stayed away because it’s too challeng-ing?
Perhaps the idea of pruning sounds difficult. Or maybe you don’t
want to purchase and use strange-sounding chemicals. In this 2-hour
workshop, students will dismiss myths and learn that growing roses organi-cally
is fairly easy. February is a great time to plant bare-root roses and to
prepare for spring pruning of exisiting roses. Students gain information on
how to select roses for the home garden; how and when to plant; issues of
bare-root, potted, grafted, and own-root; pruning; and maintenance. Dilip
Barman, organic gardener, has grown roses of many types organically and
won awards for his roses. $37 ($32 ncbg members)
Soil is Everything: A Vegetable Garden Workshop
Sunday, Mar 3 (Inclement weather date: 3/17), 2:00–3:00 pm
Greta Lee, Permaculture Designer and Organic Gardener
Claire Lorch, Carolina Campus Community Garden Educator
A hands-on, outdoor experience for beginners and those who want to learn
more, this workshop will be held at the Carolina Campus Community Gar-den
(CCCG) (http://uncgarden.web.unc.edu). We’ll cover soil testing and sampling,
comparing soil types, building your soil, pros and cons of raised beds, effects
of tillage on soils, edging, soil amendments, and more. Following the work-shop,
join CCCG volunteers for their Sunday workday and learn more about
this garden, which aims to provide the space and support to grow vegetables
and fruit so that all UNC employees have access to fresh produce. Fee: $15
($10 ncbg members)
Perennial Vegetables
Sunday, Apr 21 (Inclement weather date: 5/5), 2:00–3:00 pm
Greta Lee, Permaculture Designer and Organic Gardener
Claire Lorch, Carolina Campus Community Garden Educator
This workshop will be held at the Carolina Campus Community Gar-den
(CCCG) (http://uncgarden.web.unc.edu).Vegetable perennials are often
undervalued by gardeners and include a wide variety beyond the traditional
rhubarb and asparagus. We will cover the growing and harvesting of leafy
greens (such as sorrel and tree collard), onions (such as perennial green
onions and chives), tubers (such as sun choke and ground nut), and much
more. You will have an opportunity to sample some of these vegetables
and take home plants for your own garden! Fee: $15 ($10 ncbg members)
H o m e G a r d e n i n g W o r k s h o p s S t a f f N o t e s
We welcome Heather Summer,
the new Seed Program Coordinator
at the Garden. Some of you may
remember her from several years
back when she worked in the seed
program before leaving to have two
beautiful daughters. Heather has an
undergraduate degree in Biology
from Florida State University and
a Masters in Ecology from the Uni-versity
of Georgia. “My role here
at the Garden will be collecting,
cleaning, storing, and documenting native seed from around the
Garden and beyond, as well as coordinating both the Seed Distri-bution
and Wildflower of the Year Programs. I am very excited to
be back and am looking forward to a busy year of seed collecting
and becoming familiar with the new landscapes.
A hearty welcome also to ­Rebecca
Dotterer, the new Garden
Shop Manager. Rebecca has worked in natural science and cul-tural
museums for over
25 years in both eastern
NC and Canada. Most
recently, she returned to
the Chapel Hill area from
Wilmington, NC, where
she was the education and
visitor services manager
at Cape Fear Museum
of History and Science.
Originally trained as a
plant taxonomist, Re-becca’s
love of the natural
world and interest in its
many fascinating details also led her to join the Guild of Natural
Science Illustrators. Rebecca has been a volunteer at the Coker
Arboretum and more recently the Herb Garden. “I am excited
to be part of the NCBG team and aim to have the Garden Shop
reflect both the Garden’s mission and beauty.”
We hope you will join us in wishing all the best for our colleague
Christine Piscitello. Chris began working with the Garden’s
Development Department more than a decade ago as a tempo-rary
employee. In 2004 she became the Membership Assistant.
Until last August, she was in charge of tracking of all Garden
memberships and donations, creating mailing lists, writing let-ters
of acknowledgment, helping with events, and much more
for the Garden. She worked closely with UNC’s Development
February 2013 NCBG Newsletter 11
Office, which records gifts and
acknowledges the Garden’s donors,
and she represented the Garden
in planning for a new system of
donor information management
for the University. We miss Chris’s
warm smile, dedication, and many
contributions to our team and to
all who support the Garden, and
we wish her health and happiness
in her retirement.
In November Director Peter White gave the talk “Turn the Poet
Out-of-Doors: A Natural History of Robert Frost” at Claremont
McKenna College’s Cook Athenaeum. He visited with Scott
LeFleur, director of horticulture, and Lucinda McDade, acting
director, at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, a conservation-focused
botanical garden also in Claremont, CA. In January he
launched into teaching Conservation Biology at UNC with some
80 undergraduate and graduate students. He attended the Board
Meeting of the Center for Plant Conservation in St. Louis in
January 25. Two papers written by Peter were recently accepted
for publication by Conservation Biology.
In October, Conservation Ecologist Mike Kunz traveled to On-slow
Beach at Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base to collect seeds
of the federally threatened Amaranthus pumilus (seabeach amaranth).
This work is part of an ongoing funding from the Department
of Defense (DOD) to the Center for Plant Conservation and it’s
participating institutions (NCBG!) to safeguard rare species found
on military bases. While there, Mike also worked with the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to make additional seabeach
amaranth collections from Pender County beaches. In November,
a milestone was reached in our restoration project at Ft. Bragg (see
November 2012 Newsletter, “Consider This” column). Mike led
the effort to plant Amorpha georgiana, Astragalus michauxii, Lilium
pyrophilum, and Lysimachia asperulifolia in November, with support
from Director of Conservation Programs Johnny Randall. The
effort involved working with partners at the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers, DOD, USFWS, North CarolinaNatural Heritage
Program, and N.C. State Parks. “Special thanks to Garden staff
who participated, including Chris Liloia, Amanda Mixon, Matt
Daley, Heather Summer, Andy Walker, Russell Nash, and
Alena Steen,” says Mike. “With these expert crews we were able
to plants thousands of individuals over the course of eight days.”
In November Herbarium Director Alan Weakley published the
naming of a new, and imperiled, species of Barbara’sbuttons, Mar-shallia
legrandii—a species endemic to NC and VA. The Marshallia
is named for Harry LeGrand, N.C. Natural Heritage Program bi-ologist,
who “first found and recognized the unusual morphology
and importance of the population [in Granville County], leading
ultimately to this re-evaluation.” Read more about the new spe-cies
on our website: ncbg.unc.edu/news-and-press/ . The Garden, with
Alan Weakley as host, was the site of a meeting of the Ecological
Society of America’s Vegetation Classification Panel in January.
In early October Johnny Randall, Director of Conservation
Programs, attended and presented at the 8th Eastern Native Grass
Symposium in Charlottesville, VA. His talk was titled, “Resistance
and Resilience to Climate Change in the Piedmont Savanna.”
Johnny also presented about the Garden’s conservation programs
to the NatureServe Science Panel, on which Garden Director Peter
White serves, in September, and at the Seeds of Success national
meeting in late January—both hosted by and at the Garden.
The Development Department is very grateful to have the superb
help of two new part-time staff members. Tobias Perrino, who
started work just before the Fall Plant Sale, is a student at UNC-CH
and lives in Raleigh. He has worked in research offices at
UNC and at the University of Chicago,
as well as in development for the Test
Positive Aware Network, a community
organization in Chicago. Tobias says his
favorite part of the garden is the Herb
Garden. “My only garden at home is a
potted herb garden on a balcony! I feel
very lucky to be working in such a beau-tiful
setting.” Allison Essen was raised
in Raleigh, lived in Chatham County 30
years ago, and has only recently returned
to the area. She graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill majoring in
Chemistry and English. While there,
she performed in the Wind Ensemble
with Alan Weakley! Before raising her
three sons she ran a marketing depart-ment
for an international science and
medical publishing company in New
York City. She spent many years in
the Bay Area, where she was an ac-tive
volunteer and fund raiser for the
San Francisco Symphony, Mill Valley
Little League, and the Boy Scouts of
America. Allison has always had an interest in native plants: “I often
hiked the headlands of Marin County outside of San Francisco
with my wildflower guide in hand.”
S t a f f N o t e s c o n t ’ d .
12 NCBG Newsletter February 2013
A New Flora for the Old Dominion—and not a century too soon!
H e r b a r i u m R e p o r t
The 3,164 plant species native to or naturalized in Virginia are
the focus of the much-awaited Flora of Virginia, a 1,554-page
manual of the plants of the state published in December 2012 by
the Foundation of the Flora of Virginia (Richmond, VA) and the
Botanical Research Institute of Texas Press (Fort Worth).
This is Virginia’s first flora since the “Flora Virginica” was
published in Holland in 1762!
The flora is a tool for botanical and ecological research, educa-tion
and conservation. It was produced by the Flora of Virginia
Project, with important partnership support from the Virginia
Department of Conservation and Recreation. The manual was
written by Alan S. Weakley (Director of the UNC Herbarium,
a division of the North Carolina Botanical Garden, and adjunct
professor of biology at UNC–Chapel Hill), J. Christopher Ludwig
(chief biologist with the Natural Heritage Program of the Virginia
Department of Conservation Resources [DCR]), and John F.
Townsend (staff botanist with the Natural Heritage Program of
the Virginia DCR).
The term “flora” can refer to the plant life of a region or to
a book that describes the region’s plant life. The original “Flora
Virginica” was written in Latin with a single illustration—a map
of Virginia. It was based in large part on plant specimens collected
and descriptions written by John Clayton, a naturalist who was clerk
of Gloucester County, Va.
“The essential purpose of the ‘Flora of Virginia’ is to en-able
identification of plants in the commonwealth,” says Ludwig.
“Each species is described in fine detail, and other information is
presented, such as flowering and fruiting times, the plant’s status in
the state and the characteristics
of its habitat.”
The new flora features
1,400 pen-and-ink plant il-lustrations,
commissioned for
the book, by botanical artists
Lara Gastinger, Michael Terry,
and Roy Fuller. Plants are or-ganized
by family (such as the
grasses, the orchids, the pines,
the mints, the asters). Users
are guided through the task of
identifying a plant by the flora’s
keys, which help them winnow
down the possibilities through
a stepwise process.
“Virginia has a richer plant
life than most other states,”
comments Ludwig. “There are many reasons for this—the diver-sity
of topography from the coast to the Appalachian Plateau, the
patchwork of soil and rock types that are the basis of plant habitats,
and the fact that many northern plants reach their southern limits
in Virginia, and many southern ones reach their northern limits
here.”
Special chapters present the history of botanical exploration
in Virginia, the processes by which the state’s plant communities
have developed over time, and 50 “botanizing hotspots” featuring
the best areas to explore and learn about Virginia’s plant life.
Production of the flora took 11 years and was made possible
by the support of individual donors, grants, and flora partners:
the Virginia DCR, the Virginia Native Plant Society, the Virginia
Botanical Associates, the Virginia Academy of Science, and the
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden.
The flora was published by the Botanical Research Institute
of Texas Press in Fort Worth. “We are proud to see this product
come to fruition and to have been able to realize it with an eye to
conservation,” says Tom Smith, DCR’s natural heritage director
and a member of the Flora of Vriginia Project’s board. “The flora
is going to be important to botanists, ecologists, planners and
environmental consultants in finding, managing, conserving and
restoring our native plant communities for generations to come.”
It already has been designated the official textbook for this spring’s
plant taxonomy course at James Madison University.
Weakley points out that “the book will be very useful in ad-jacent
states, including North Carolina. Only in the pinelands of
the southeastern part of North Carolina, will the Flora of Virginia
be significantly incomplete,
because of the many southern
species at their northern range
limit there. I’ll be adopting it
for my Local Flora classes”
(UNC-CH’s Biology 272).
To order a copy of the “Flora
of Virginia,” visit the Flo-ra
Project’s website, www.
floraofvirginia.org, and click
the red button. The price is
$79.99, plus $6.50 shipping.
Copies will also be available at
the Garden Shop at the North
Carolina Botanical Garden.
Barney Lipscomb (publisher), Bland Crowder (editor), Alan Weakley, Johnny Townsend, Chris
Ludwig (co-authors), at official release of the Flora at Meadowlark Botanical Garden, Vienna, Va.
February 2013 NCBG Newsletter 13
A Developing Garden notes from Charlotte Jones-Roe, Director of Development
The end of 2012 did not bring snow—in fact, beautiful purple
asters are still blooming near the entrance to the Education
Center! However, the last few months have brought much needed
financial support from our members. Florence Peacock and Peg
Parker both made very generous gifts to help support staff and
build the Garden’s capacity. We depend on private gifts for an in-creasingly
large percentage of our income and staff support, and
their special gifts will help for the months and years to come. Our
former president, the late William Joslin, understood this need.
Last week we received the final distribution from his estate, with
half of the amount unrestricted. We are
forever indebted to our former president
and friend for the many ways he helped
our conservation Garden.
Many of you paid your dues or gave
memberships to others during the fall and
holiday seasons. We are especially grateful
to David Joslin, Paul LaPoint, Karla
Reed, Mary and Paul MacDougal,
Frances and Gary Whaley and the
Whaley Family Foundation, Larry
Howard, Muriel Easterling, Jonathan
and Mary Howes, Tunkie and Pat Miller, Carmen Hooker
Odom, Cary Richardson Paynter, Richard Stillman, Janice
Stratton, Larry Blanton and Candace Haigler, Debbie Hill, Joel
Mattox, Mac McLendon, Cyrus Miller, Don Schnell, Preston
Stockton, and John and Ashley Wilson.
Most weeks, Jim Schmidt drives from Greensboro to volun-teer
in the Garden’s nursery. Once again, Jim’s former employer,
Sherwin-Williams, has not only matched his personal check but
made a generous gift to the Garden in honor of Jim’s service in
retirement. Among the other generous contributors since the last
Newsletter are Dana Quade, Bruce Carney, Ruth Humphry,
Diana and Bob Lafferty, Diane Linfors, Carrie Porterfield,
Linda and Al Rimer, John Staelin, Woody Burns Elizabeth
Foreman, Virginia French, Judy Hallman, Brian Kileff, Jo-seph
Rodriquez, Gloria and James Rolls, Donna and Mark
Simon, Susan Strine, and Clarence Whitefield. Hundreds of
others have renewed their memberships and made gifts to be used
“where the need is greatest,” and we appreciate each and every one.
Barbara Hiestand designated her gift for the General Operating
Fund Endowment; earnings on her gift and those of others who
contribute to this fund will help the Garden in years to come.
Many Garden members make gifts to particular projects in
addition to their membership dues for general support. Mar-cella
Grendler made another very generous contribution for the
construction of the structure that will shade participants in the
Horticultural Therapy program. Richard Heiney and Catherine
Bollinger and Tom Scheitlin are among our recent contributors
to the Horticultural Therapy Program. We are delighted to report
that Tom and Margaret Scott and their friends and family have
competed gifts and pledges to support the new Plant Sale Pavilion.
Bill and Jean Leuchtenberg made a gift for Mason Farm Biologi-cal
Reserve, and Lynn Richardson, Kat Mordecai, and Patricia
Murphy were among those contributing to build the Mason Farm
Biological Reserve Endowment. Healing and Hope Through Sci-ence,
the Garden’s program to take science and nature education to
children who are hospitalized, recently received wonderful funding
news (see p. 1). In addition, the UNC
Hospitals Volunteer Association and
individuals like Eleanor Bisbee have
made generous contributions for this
innovative outreach effort.
Karla Reed, Jane and Mark
Ritchie, William Watts, Cathy and
Turner Whitted, James Joslin, and
Tanya Luminati gave generously
to help build the Coker Arboretum
Endowment. And, as we were going
to press, a check from the estate of
William Joslin arrived to add to this fund that will help make sure
the Arboretum always has the support it needs.
Stephanie Simon’s generous gift for the Children’s Garden
and Educational Outreach will be matched by her company, CA
Technologies. Among the other donors who recently designated
their gifts for this purpose were Logan Mauney, Frances and
Gary Whaley, and Wardlaw Lamar.
The Garden’s Conservation Fund received a number of gifts
since the last Newsletter, including those from Marion and Victor
Schoenback, Catherine Bollinger and Tom Scheitlin, Bar-bara
and Lee Pedersen, Dorothy Allard and Bill Martin. The
Morgan Creek Alliance received a contribution from local outdoor
outfitter Townsend Bertram & Company.
Battle Park received an outpouring of gifts at the end of the
year, and these will add to the growing endowment that will ensure a
permanent source of funds for our unique campus forest. Among
the contributors were Elston and Mike Miles, Brad and Cheryl
Briner, Carol Hogue, Sandy and Bet McClamroch, Gifford
Scott, Joseph Kalo, Linda Passman, Aubrey and Jeannette
Tolley, Evelyn Daniel, Sydney Elstran, Eleanor and Robert
Broadus, Doug and Roberta Tilden, Mack and Susan Little,
Barbara Stiles, Priscilla Taylor, and Joan Guilkey designated
their gifts for Battle Park as immediately expendable, and these
funds will be put to work right away. Charles and Karen Goss
and “Love Chapel Hill” designated their gifts for the restoration
of Forest Theatre.
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Charlotte Jones-Roe
919-962-9458 jonesroe@unc.edu
GENERAL SUPPORT
Aerotek Aviation
Alan Johnson Landscape
Services
Anne Albright
Rebecca E. Alderman
Dorothy Allard & Bill Martin
Anthony Amitrano Jr.
Natalie Ammarell
Andrew and Jan Ammons
Betsey Anderson
Ralph Anderson
Judy Andrews
Michael & Mary Andrews
Ross Andrews
Marcia Angle & Mark Trustin
Anonymous (8)
Charles & Margaret Antle
Arbor Realty
Alice Archambault
Mary Arnold
Tami Atkins
Auto Logic
Laurence G. Avery
Marilyn Smith Avis
Joe & Linda Baehr
James & Sally Baird
Ralph Balzac &
Eva Harrington
Myrtis A. Barker
Coyla Bell Barry
Julia Bartlett
Karen Bartley
Paul Bassette
The Alben F. Bates &
Clara G. Bates Fdn
Carson & Martha Baur
Barbara Beaman
Angelia G. Beasley
Emma Morris Beckham
Toby Beckman
Eva M. Beischer
Scott Belan
Aerin Benavides
Betsy & Walter Bennett
Charlene & Jack Bennett
Elodie Bentley
Jan Beresford
Paul Betz
Diane Birkemo
Patricia Blanton &
Robert McConnoughey
Larry Blanton &
Candace Haigler
Bob Blum
Agna Boass
Brian Boehlecke
Suzie Bolotin
Calhoun Bond Jr.
Audrey Booth
Wayne Bosman &
Linda Cooper
Sandra Bowden
Betsy & Fred Bowman
Christopher Boyce
Jayne Boyer &
William Kaufmann
Bill Bracey
Kirk Bradley
Alethea Bragg
Ellen Brandmeyer
Tish Bratton
Vicky Brawley
Kathleen Brennen &
Matthias Konig
G i f t s
Thank you to all who support the ­Garden,
especially to the many whose membership dues
and gifts were received in the period October 1, 2012–December 31, 2012.
Jane Brinkley
Mary Ann Brittain
Kathryn & Edward Britton
Robert & Eleanor Broadus
Brenda B. Brodie
Patricia Perkins Brooks
Ken and Marjorie Broun
Helen Brown & Julie Kahn
James L. Brown
Martha B. Brown
Paul Brown
James & Lynne Browne
Cotton & May Bryan
Jim & Betsy Bryan
Joy Bryde
Sarah W. Buchanan
Norman Budnitz
Barri L. Burch
Grady Burgin &
Charlotte Offerdahl
John & Lale Burk
William R. Burk
Graham &
Sophie Burkheimer
William V. Burlingame
Allen W. Bush
Margaret A. Bush
Marilyn Butler &
Robert Nichols
Rosemary Byrnes &
Dan Stern
Anthony & Lena Caison
Julia Calliano
Beulah B. Cameron
Donald & Traute Cameron
Molly Trimble Cameron
Pam & William Camp
Linda Campbell &
Art Feingold
Lori S. Campbell
Lucille & Kip Campbell
Sue Campbell
Ed & Margy Campion
Carol Candler
Rebecca Carle
Bruce Carney &
Ruth Humphry
Bessie M. Carrington
Bonnie L. Carson
Patricia Carstensen &
Ed Harrison
Charles & Valerie Carter
Kathryn & Reece Chambers
Parker Chesson
Nancy & Tom Chewning
Trine Christensen
Gillie Church
Betty D. Clark
Janet Clark & Janice Pope
Melissa Mason Clark
Ross Carlton Clark
Connie & Jesse Cleary
Louise M. Clifford
Bill & Margaret Cloud
Elizabeth P. Cochrane
Cathy Smith Cole
Charity Cole
Thomas Ballard Cole
Frances A. Collichio
Nina Comiskey
Community Foundation of
Louisville
Patrick Conley
Helen Harney Conrad
Peggy Cornett
Alan Weakley, curator of the Herbarium, has
accomplished an extraordinatry project in the pub-lication
of the Flora of ­Virginia
(see p. 12). Among
Garden members are many Friends of the UNC
Herbarium; we received recent contributions from
Reid Bahnson Jr., Christine Levesque, Charlie
Williams, Jean Weakley, Alan Weakley, Ginger
Travis, and Dorothy Allard and Bill Martin, and
many others.
Katsuhiko Kondo and Catherine Bollinger
and Tom Scheitlin were among those contributing
to the Living Plant Fund, to make sure the Garden
staff has money with which to purchase specimen
plants and the materials to install them in the Garden
landscape.
This past summer, the Garden benefitted
from the work of our first Fred and Virginia Houk
Sustainability Intern. Virginia Houk, Vespa
Carolinas, Inc., and Epsilon Eta Environmental
Honors Fraternity (see p. 3) were among the con-tributors
who are building the endowment to fund
this program that honors Virginia Houck and her
husband, the late Fred Houk.
The Carolina Campus Community Garden
continues to benefit from contributions, including
those from the Fox Family Foundation, Pandora
Brooke, Anne Cabell, and others. We are grate-ful
to Chancellor Holden Thorp for his efforts to
commit University funding for this program that
provides gardening experience for students and
fresh produce for low-income University employees.
Several Garden members who prefer not to be
named at this time have let us know that their estate
plans include the Garden. Planned gifts have allowed
the North Carolina Botanical Garden to grow in
ways we could scarcely have imagined a year ago.
For information about methods of giving that will
help the Garden and may save you on taxes, please
call 919- 962-9458 or Gift Planning specialists at
UNC for a free consultation (1-800-994-8803).
With gratitude to all of you who contribute time
and money to support the mission of the North
Carolina Botanical Garden, and with best wishes
for the year ahead,
Belinda & John Corpening
Marie A. Coucoulas
E.B. Cox
Anna Craft
Diana Crawford &
Hugh Wrigley
Seth Crockett
Timothy Crouse
Caroline Smith Culpepper
Cure Nursery
Linda & Lawrence Curcio
Jennifer Cure
Joanne Custer
Custom Landscapes Inc.
Lois J. Cutter
Jo Ann Czar
Kathleen Dalton
Patricia Dancy
Jeff Dangl & Sarah Grant
Evelyn Daniel
Elizabeth Bramlett Davis
Lisa Day
John & Mardell De Carlo
Jan & Jim Dean
Maria DeBruyn
Bert & Molly Dempsey
Amy Denham &
Jonathan Simmons
Amy Diamond &
Robert Whitton
Martha Diehl &
Francois Neilsen
Becky Dodge
John E. Dodge
Rebecca Dotterer
Almond & Lori Drake
Max Drake
Helen Drivas &
Thomas O’Neal
Judy Drost
Mack & Lynne DuBose
Margaret & William Dunson
Ralph Earle
Lawrence Earley &
Renee Gledhill-Earley
Tom Earnhardt
Muriel Easterling
Laura Logan Edmundson
Suzanne S. Edney
Christine & Thomas Ellestad
Carmen Elliott
Wendy Elliott
Sydney Elstran
Allison Essen
Mary Eubanks
John & Pat Evans
Laura & Vann Isley Evans
Rebecca Ann Evans
Anne Pruitt Everett
Barbara & Phillip Ewing
Kim Fahs
John F. Falconer
John M. Falletta
Shauna & Thomas Farmer
Carver A. Farrar
Marty Fehsenfeld
Julie A. Fenton-Glass
Mary Jo Fickle
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Jessie L. Fiedler
Elizabeth & Robert Flewelling
Dianne Ford
Elizabeth M. Foreman
Antoinette &
Robert Fornshell
February 2013 NCBG Newsletter 15 James Coker Fort
Foundation for the Carolinas
Dona Fountoukidis
Sharon K. Fowler
Vonda Frantz
Nancy Frazier
Virginia French
Rachel J. Frew
Caryl Fulcher
Kathleen & John Gallagher
Sheri Gant
Patricia G. Gensel
Susan Reece Giles
Lisa Armsrees Gillespie
Hillel & Honré Gitelman
Ann Terrell Glassman
Geoffrey E. Gledhill
Gary & Mary Glish
Thomas Golding & Valakas
Lisa Goldstein
Lynn Goodpasture &
Alan Jacobs
Thomas Wentworth Graham
Judy Grant
Mary & Russell Graves
The Greater New Orleans
Foundation
Catherine M. Green
Susan Greenberg
Arlene Grew
Mac Griffiss
Katherine Smith Gunter
Carol Gunther-Mohr
Bill & Leesie Guthridge
Elizabeth Guzynski
Betsy & Joe Hackney
Casey & Gillian Jones Hadden
Carol & Nortin Hadler
Jon & Miriam
Clara A. Hagan
Stacy W. Hagerty
Chris & Vida Hakkenberg
Diana Ransom Hall
Jackie Hall & Roger Korstad
Katherine A. Hall
Jan S. Halle
Judy Hallman
Katherine Hamil
Terry Hammersley
Elizabeth Hamon
Heidi & Andy Hannapel
Christine R. Harland
Sharon Harmon
Albert & Elizabeth Harris
Sally Haskett
John Wesley Hatch Jr.
Nancy Hays
Carol Hazard & Winston Liao
Tyson Hedrick
Bob Hellwig
Eric Hendrickson
Mary Hendrickson
Scott Hennes
Marilyn & Bill Henshaw
Mary Herring
Virginia E. Hester
Debbie Hill
Mary L. Hill
Nancy R. Hinrichs
Rosemary Ellen Hoban &
Stephen Tell
Elizabeth H. Hobbs
Linda Whitney Hobson
Barbara & Larry Hodges
Paul Hofferbert
Dana S. Holden
Olivia Britton Holding
Alan Scudder Hollister
Eleanor M. Holloway
Betty & Don Holman
Bitty & Bill Holton
Louise Foushee Horney
Michael Horney
Chip & Richie Howard
Larry & Lu Howard
Jonathan & Mary Howes
Joyce & Eugene Huguelet
Harry H. Hunt
Joan Cornoni Huntley
Joan & Robert Huntley
Charitable Foundation
Gretta Hurwitz
Shepard Hurwitz
Carolyn & Lynn Ikenberry
David & Susan Jackson
Lisa Jackson
Sylvia Jeans
Karen P. Jermyn
Harold & Kristina Johnson
Nancy L. Johnson
Nancy Revelle Johnson
Glenda Parker Jones
Randy Jones
Charlotte Jones-Roe & Chuck
Roe
David Joslin
Nell D. Joslin
Mary Coker Joslin
Ed Joyner
Pem Kahler
Sally A. Kahler
Julie Kahn
Edward Kaiser
Bree Kalb
Mary Anne Kane
Alfred Kang & Anna Miller
Emily S. Kass &
Chuck Weinraub
Ann Kendall &
Carolyn Sikorsky
Frances Kerr
William Kier & Kathleen Smith
Patricia Kiffney
Brian & Moyra Kileff
Paul Killough
Sandra Kim
Mary Kinard
Donna King
John & Betty King
June C. Kirby
Jane H. Kirsh
Helen M. Knapp
Linda Koffenberger
Kara Kooken
Keith Kooken
Sean Kortovich
Katherine Kovach
Timothy A. Kuhn
Marian Lacy
Diana & Bob Lafferty
Martha Lahana
Linda Lampe
Joyce A. Langevin
Paula LaPoint
Geri & Bob Laport
Ned Leager
Benjamin Leder
Greta Lee
Helen H. Lee
Mary Lehman
Heather Lenahan
Jo Ann Levo
Diana & Stan Levy
Charie & Martha Lewis
Rebecca Lewis-Congdon
Wendy Liebling &
Paul Stang
Allan & Page Life
Christy C. Lilley
Edmonia B. Lindsey
Diane B. Linfors
Elaine Stroud Lipson
Mack & Susan Little
William Loftis
Sheilah K. Lombardo
Stephanie J. London
Colleen S. Loree
Anna & Matthew Lorenz
Anne Loustau
Cynthia Laurann Lutz
Jessie Gregory Lutz
Robin Lyons
Paul & Mary MacDougal
Ann H. Mack
Cynthia Madden
Thomas J. Madden
Rita M. Madrazo-Peterson
Nobuyo Maeda
Nancy P. Mangum
Kathy & Ken Manns
Sunny Marlow
Stephen Marshall &
Anna Waller
Grier & Louise Martin
David Lance Martin
Perry S. Martin
Roy Eugene Martin
Stan & Barbara Martinkosky
Cindy & Donald Mason
Roberta Masse
Peggy Masterson
Deborah J. Matthews
Joel Mattox & Karen Perizzolo
Kathy Mauney
Michelle Maynard &
David Warshauer
Albert & Jane Barron McAdoo
Elizabeth McArthur-Hui
George & Helen McCall
Karen McCall
Carol Ann McCormick &
Mark Peifer
George McCoy &
Phil Poovey
Ann C. McDade
Bill McDiarmid &
Robin Rogers
Geraldine A. McDowell
Deborah D. McEver
Janis E. McFarland &
Richard McLaughlin
Janet R. McGinnis
Holly B. McKinney
Carol Lynn McKnight
Elizabeth McLachlan
Shirley S. McLean
Mac McLendon
John A. McLendon Revocable
Trust
Carol & Richard McNeel
David & Gladys McNelis
Martha & Mike Medford
Larry Mellichamp
Ann & Eugen Merzbacher
Jeffrey Meyer
Marian M. Meyer
Cyrus L. Miller
H. Clay Miller III
Pat & Tunkie Miller
Michael & Tonya Miller
Theresa Miller
Marcia Mills
Sandy Mills
Jane & Donald Misch
Jo Sheehan Mitchell
Will Mitchell & Dilys Bowman
R. G. Moleski
Paul & Rose Monahan
Thad & Jane Monroe
Gustavo & Joan Montana
Renee & Sean Montgomery
Liz Moore
Ken Moore & Kathy Buck
William Clark Moore
Barbara & Joseph Moran
David & Polly Moreau
Bonnie Brown Morell
Judy Morgan-Davis
Sherry Morrison
Alexander & Ann Motten
Mary Jo Muzzey
Sharon A. Myers
J. Victor Nadler
David and Mary Neal
Neisler Foundation Inc.
Leann Nelson & Glenn Martin
Niche Gardens
Carolyn Elizabeth Norris
Elaine & Joseph Norwood
Tom & Jean Nuzum
Meg O’Brien
Carmen Hooker Odom
Joseph O’Kelley
Bonnie & Dale Olbrich
Ed & Kari Olefirowicz
Elise Olsen
Angela & Michael O’Rand
Oliver Orr
Margaret O’Shaughnessy
Marcia W. Ostendorff
David Allen Otto
Frances Outhwaite
Carolyn A. Owen
Candace Owens
Kathleen Palmer
Sarah Palmer
Eve Pappas
John & Lynette Parker
Peg Parker
Frances & Hal Patterson
Wylie Paxton
Cary & David Paynter
Florence & Jim Peacock
Stanley and Carolyn Peele
John W. Pelosi
Ramona Penland
Carol Perry
Merrill Petrow
Diane & Jeff Pettus
Margaret S. Pfeuffer
Robert & Jean Phay
Kristen Phend
Charlie Phillips
Emily M. Piland
Barbara & Michael D. Pipkin
Karen R. Piplani
Christine & Bill Piscitello
Mary L. Piscitello
Gordon & Janice Plumblee
Daniel Plyler
David Poer Jr.
Lillian M. Poole
Pat Poret
Carrie Porterfield
Martha L. Pridgen
John and Betsy Pringle
Martha Ann Propst
Patricia J. Pukkila
Dana Quade
David & Jean Radford
The Randolph Foundation
Missy & Sam Rankin
Zeno Olen Ratcliff III
David A. Reed
Lynne & Warren Reed
Margaret & Philip Rees
Rachel Rempel &
Bruce Sullenger
Bob & Tammi Remsburg
Laurie Renz
Christie & James Rice
Lynn Richardson
Page Richardson
Gary Richman & Gail Wood
Alan & Linda Rimer
John & Betty Rintoul
Sylvianne Roberge
Eric Michael Roberts
Sandy Roberts
Deborah Robertson
Wyndham Robertson
Betsy Robinson
Nancy Howes Robinson
Hank & Renate Rodenburg
Joe Rodriguez
Sally Rohrdanz
Gloria & James Rolls
Marty & Angie Rosenberg
Barbara Roth
David & Rebecca Rouse
Bill Rouse
Barbara & Lawrence Rowan
Joe Roycroft
Abbie J. Royster
Douglas Ruhren
Bruce & Cynthia Runberg
Donald Barnard Russ
Michael Salemi
Lorraine S. Salois-Deane
Mary Samouelian
Gene & Gail Sandler
Katherine D. Savage
Lois Perry Sawyer
Susan Greulach Scharff
Nidia T. Scharlock
Jerree Scheitlin
Tom Scheitlin &
Catherine Bollinger
James E. Schmidt
Donald & Brenda Schnell
Schwab Fund for Charitable
Giving
The School of Government
Foundation, Inc.
Joseph & Marjorie Schradie
Robert Charles Schreiner
John Harris Schwab
Iris Schwintzer
Brenda Scott
Gifford Scott
Vicki Scott
Judy Scurry
Thomas & Sara Sears
Marion H. Sekerak
Samuel Selden
Tyrrell Sharp
Patricia J. Shaw
16 NCBG Newsletter February 2013
Will Sheftall
Neal Shepherd
Bunny Shillito
Headley Shouse
Donna & Mark Simon
Evelyn McNeill Sims
Siskin Inc.
Susan Slatkoff & Ron Strauss
Clyde Smith Jr.
Mary & Timothy Smith
Holmes B. Smoot
Phyllis & Lee Sockwell
Linnea Sodergren
Jeff & Eileen K. Soo
Mickey Sorrell
Joseph & Marilyn Sparling
Theodore Spaulding
Pat & Bob Spearman
Teala Spitzbarth
Linda L. Spremulli
Dirk J. Spruyt
John R. Staelin
Sylvia C. Stanat
Nancy Steinberg
Linda Stender
Barbara Stenross
Vin Steponaitis
Fred Stevens &
Ramelle Waters
Ann Stewart
Judy Stierand
Richard J. Stillman
Josie Stipe
Preston Stockton
Janice D. Stratton
Susan B. Strickland
Susan Strine
Nancy Stronach
Nancy & Michael Strong
Kylie & Stephen Strother
Kim & Robert Sullivan
Heather Summer
Amy Sutter
Ed & Janice Coffey Swab
David & Terri Swanson
Terri Swanson
William Swindaman
T Rowe Price Program for
Charitable Giving
Margaret T. Thomas
Philip A. Thomas
Helen Donnell Thompson
Judy & Bob Thorne
Pamela Timmons &
Perry Haaland
Jane B. Tomberlin
Carol Tresolini &
Thomas Al Fiori
Triangle Community
Foundation
Julia Kinney Trimmer
Anna & Craig Troutman
Charlotte Wilson Troxell
Jack & Jane Underhill
Barbara S. Underwood
Caroline & George Unick
Gale Unterberg
Nancy M. Valencia
Laura C. Van Sant
Gils Van Staveren
Barney & Vivian Varner
Fred J. Vatter
Douglas McGuire Vick
Todd J. Vision
Osvaldo & Yolanda Viveros
Anahid Kavookjian Vrana
Sandra Ann Waggoner
Bobby Wagoner
Torey & Eric Wahlstrom
Lynda B. Waldrep
Jane Carter Walker
Joan Walker
Margaret & William Walker
Nina Gray Wallace
Mary Louise Waller
Ruth Anderson Walters
Harriet I. Warner
Steven Alan Warner
Barbara & Ralph Warren
Carol Warren
Ralph Mayo Warren
Elizabeth Jones Waters
Celeste Black Watts
Alan S. Weakley
Jean Weakley
Barbara & Frank Weiner
James & Elizabeth Wells
Freddy & Paul Welty
Sally Werner
Lynn Elise Wesson
Frances & Gary Whaley
and the Whaley Family
Foundation, Inc.
Brooke Ellen Wheeler
Peter & Carolyn White
Clarence Earl Whitefield
Steven J. Whyman
Diane E. Wickland
Donna & Mark Wightman
Haven & Minna Wiley
Jean & William Wilkins
Catherine Berryhill Williams
Gary C. Williams
D. J. Wilson
John & Ashley Wilson
Mary Wilson
Winston-Salem Foundation
Susan & Robert Wolff
Thomas Hayes Woollen Jr.
Robert Ellis Wray
Bob Wright
Virginia Wu
Sandra Phillips Yaggy
JoAnn Yates
Harry & Jean Yeatman
Susan Zarutskie
GENERAL ENDOWMENT
Frances Meadows Allen
Elizabeth Ann Davis
Barbara B. Hiestand
Barbara T. Hughes
Liz Moore
DESIGNATED GIFTS
Battle Park
Joan Davis Guilkey
Priscilla Patterson Taylor
Battle Park Endowment
Delight & Jim Allen
Frances Meadows Allen
Luther Bradford Black III
Scott & Victoria Bouldin
Maryellen Bowers
Brad & Cheryl Briner
Evelin & Paul Brinich
Eleanor & Robert Broadus
Cotton & May Martin Bryan
Linda Keith Chadwick
Diana Crawford &
Hugh Wrigley
Evelyn Hope Daniel
Sydney Dahlen Elstran
Peter & Kate Enchelmayer
Pamela S. Fitzpatrick &
Charles Lorelli
Judith Gale
Kip & Susan Gerard
Danny Glover
David & Lallie Godschalk
Nancy Haigwood &
Andy McNiece
Carol Clarke Hogue
Frances Drane Inglis
Adam & Susan Jones
Charlotte Jones-Roe & Chuck
Roe
Nell D. Joslin
Mary Coker Joslin
Joseph & Monica Kalo
Stephen Keith & Lisa Glover
Patricia Kiffney
Timothy A. Kuhn
Mack & Susan Little
Sandy & Bet McClamroch
Elston & Mike Miles
Liz Moore
Ken Moore & Kathy Buck
Steve Moore
Linda Passman
Lars Gustav Schoultz
Gifford Scott
Emy & Richard Scoville
Samuel T. Selden
Daniel Stern & Rosemary
Byrnes
Barbara L. Stiles
Douglas & Roberta Tilden
Alexander & Courtney Toledo
Aubrey & Jeannette Tolley
Judy Warren
Carolina Campus
Community Garden
Dorothy Allard & Bill Martin
Pandora H. Brooke
Anne M. Cabell
Joanna Massey Lelekacs
Martha Propst
Fox Family Foundation
Cat Care Fund
Larry Blanton &
Candace Haigler
Susan Shevach
Lynda B. Waldrep
Children’s Wonder Garden
Jan & Jim Dean Wardlaw
Lamar
John & Mildred Long
Stephanie Simon
Frances & Gary Whaley and the
Whaley Family Foundation
Inc.
Lyn Wilson
Coker Arboretum
David L. Robert
Coker Arboretum
Endowment
Frances Meadows Allen
Rosemary Byrnes &
Daniel Stern
Mary W. Eubanks
Lallie & David Godschalk
James Devereux Joslin
Tanya Kennedy Luminati
Jay Manalo
Marcia & Michael Mayo
David & Elizabeth Meador
Ken Moore
Janet O’Neal
Daniel Plyler
Peter Redfield &
Silvia Tomaskova
Karla Reed
Mark & Jane May Ritchie
Hank & Renate Rodenburg
Wendy Schreiber Rose
John Bryan Simmons
Clyde Smith Jr.
Ted Teague
William Bryant Watts III
Cathy & Turner Whitted
Conservation Fund
Dorothy Allard & Bill Martin
Catherine Bollinger &
Tom Scheitlin
Cathy Smith Cole
Barbara & Paul Nettesheim
Barbara & Lee Pedersen
Marion & Victor Schoenbach
Christoph E. Schweitzer
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
NC Prescribed Fire Council
Education Center
Joe & Karen Bearden
Vonda Frantz
Lisa Glover & Stephen Keith
Diane Heisig
Linda Koffenberger
Timothy A. Kuhn
Ellen Lambeth
Betsy & H. R. Malpass
Nancy Howes Robinson
John Robert Staelin
Ginger R. Travis
Educational Outreach
Donald E. Elliott
Robert & Sarah Isaacs
Logan Chambers Mauney
Stephanie Simon
Forest Theatre
Saianand Balu
Paul Finkel
Charles & Karen Goss
Caryl T. Price
Heather N. Ramsey
Forest Theatre Restoration
Tanner & Sumeetha Goli Hock
Love Chapel Hill
Fred & Virginia Houk
Sustainability Internship
Virginia Stewart Houk
Epsilon Eta Enviromental
Honors Fraternity
Vespa Carolinas Inc
Healing & Hope
Through Science
Eleanor Bisbee
Burroughs Wellcome
Fund
Keith & Mia Gardiner
GSK Foundation
Damian & Shawn Hoffman
Jennifer & Robert Lee
UNC Hospitals Volunteer
Association
Herb Garden Endowment
Ann Buzenberg
Marie A. Coucoulas
Horticultural Therapy
Catherine Bollinger &
Tom Scheitlin
Marie A. Coucoulas
Marcella Grendler
Richard Heiney
Barbara & Larry Hodges
Janet M. Krakauer
Endowment for
Botanical Illustration
Tom Krakauer
Library
Jonathon & Rachel Cummings
Dianne Ford
Dianne Jones
Living Plant Fund
Barbara & Thomas Driscoll
Katsuhiko Kondo
Thomas Scheitlin & Catherine
Bollinger
D. J. Wilson
Mason Farm
Biological Reserve
William & Jean Leuchtenburg
Richard Vance Wolfenden
Mason Farm Biological
Reserve Endowment
Frances Meadows Allen
Coyla Bell Barry
Audrey Booth
William V. Burlingame
Noel & Shelby Dunivant
Beverly Overby Dyer
Shauna & Thomas Farmer
Albert K. Harris Jr.
Ellen Lambeth
Margaret Varley Markham
Kat Mordecai
Patricia Murphy
Donna Newman
Lynn Richardson
Morgan Creek
Valley Alliance
Townsend Bertram & Co.
UNC Herbarium
Operating Fund
Mark Abee
Dorothy Allard & Bill Martin
Frances Meadows Allen
E. Reid Bahnson Jr.
A.J. Bullard
Anne Fleishel Harris
Stephen Nicholas Johnson
Christine Levesque
Elizabeth Larson Ley
James F. Matthews
Michael & Julia McVaugh
J. Kenneth Moore
Inge Antonie Rader
Eric Michael Roberts
Ed & Janice Coffee Swab
Ginger R. Travis
Alan S. Weakley
Jean Weakley
Charlie & Lydia Williams
UNC Herbarium
Endowment
Ross C. Clark
Michael & Julia McVaugh
February 2013 NCBG Newsletter 17
Leave a Legacy . . .
If you would
like to speak
with someone
about making
a special gift to
the Garden, call
Charlotte Jones-Roe at 919-962-9458 or
UNC’s gift planning experts at 800-994-8803.
Wildflower of the Year
Garden Club of North
Carolina, Inc.
GARDEN CLUBS
Garden Club Coucil of
Winston-Salem & Forsyth
County
Lake Forest Garden Club of
Chapel Hill
Lake Trace Garden Club
IN HONOR OF
Frances Meadows Allen
North Carolina Botanical
Garden Staff, for the
Education Center
Lilian and Olivia Bisbee
Eleanor Bisbee, for Healing &
Hope Through Science
Catherine Bollinger
Jerree Scheitlin
Hazel Craige
June Kirby
Jane and Richard Dale
Jane & Joseph McEvoy
Joan Duffield
Charles & Karen Goss
Bob Eaves and
Beverly Eaves Perdue
Charlotte Jones-Roe, for the
Education Center
Gimghoul Neighborhood
Diana Crawford &
Hugh Wrigley
Matt Gocke
Ken Moore, for nursery projects
Mary Coker Joslin
Nell D. Joslin
The Joslin Family
Ken Moore, for Battle Park
Linda K. Chadwick, for Battle
Park
Susan Strickland, for Battle
Park
Stephen Keith &
Battle Park Volunteers
Ken Moore, for Battle Park
Linda K. Chadwick, for Battle
Park
Susan Strickland, for Battle Park
Colleen Lee
Robert & Jennifer Lee, for
Healing & Hope Through
Science
Mr. and Mrs. Harold F.
Lindergreen
Lori Campbell
Jim Massey
Ginger Travis, for the UNC
Herbarium
Sam and Arden McCleskey
Charlotte A. Jones-Roe, for the
Education Center
Carol Ann McCormick
Ken Moore, for UNC
Herbarium
Margo McIntyre & Coker
Arboretum Volunteers
Ken Moore, for Coker
Arboretum
Nell Hartley Morton
Jim & Libba Wells
David Pulman
GlaxoSmithKline
Elisabeth L. Russo
Nidia T. Scharlock
Shaun, Maggie, Zlata,
and Ivan Sandor
Charlotte A. Jones-Roe, for the
Education Center
Tom and Margaret Scott
Larry Blanton &
Candace Haigler
Mary E. Bultemeier
Florence & Richard Glasser
Curtis McLaughlin &
Barbara Nettles-Carlson
Abbie J. Royster
Claire Elizabeth Scott
Cynthia Keck Scott
Tom & Margaret Ray Scott
Sean Scott
Susan and Blaine Short
Anne Loustau
Barbara Stenross
Marilyn Wyrick
Alan S. Weakley
Ken Moore, for UNC
Herbarium
Jean Weakley
Alan S. Weakley, for UNC
Herbarium
IN MEMORY OF
Olliver Allen
Frances Meadows Allen
Deborah Barnett
Beverly & Samuel Dyer, for
Mason Farm Endowment
Thomas Barnett
Helen H. Perlmutt
Wayne Bowers
Maryellen Bowers, for Battle
Park
Mary Jane Burns
Jane Beck
W. Woodrow Burns, Jr.
Kara Lynn Kooken Cochran
Caroline Smith Culpepper
Rebecca Ann Evans
Mia & Keith Gardiner, for
Healing & Hope Through
Sciences
Gay Rakes Garden Club
Deborah Lamberton Hill
Jonathan & Mary Howes
Caroline Haigler Ikenberry
Marian & Dudley Lacy
Diana & Stanley Levy
Ann & Bob McDade
Elizabeth & John Pringle
Wyndham Gay Robertson
Nancy Howes Robinson
Katherine & Tobin Savage
Jack & Jane Underhill
Jean & William Wilkins
Thomas Hayes Wollen, Jr.
Glenna Chapin
Charlotte Jones-Roe, for the
Education Center
Mary A. Varner
Francis “Nash” Collier Jr.
Dell H. Little
Chris & Caroline Martens
Elizabeth L. Moore
Glenda & Robert Steel
William Hugh Craft Sr.
Anna Rebecca Craft
Marilou Fay Barns Curtis
Elana Leithold
Deborah Dyer
Beverly & Samuel Dyer, for
Mason Farm Endowment
Etta Eatman
Mary Etta Moore
William Clark Moore
Kevin Charles “K.C.” Eberle
Charlotte Jones-Roe, for the
Education Center
Alice and Jack Essen
Allison L. Essen, for the
Education Center
Lucille Gerriets Fidler
Stacy W. Hagerty
School of Government
Foundation
Mary and Walter Foerster
Christine & Bill Piscitello
William Friday
Kimberly W. Fahs
Mary Coker Joslin
Robert K. Gardner
Laura & Vann Evans, for
Mason Farm Endowment
Amy Margot Gitelman
Hillel & Honré Gitelman
Ruby Barrett Graham
Thomas Wentworth Graham
Mary Ann Gross
Bessie M. Carrington
Mary Ann Gross
Bessie M. Carrington
Richard Hegele
Pandora Brooke, for Carolina
Campus Community Garden
Virginia Hill
Shayna Ann Hill
Lisabeth Holloway
Linnea A. Sodergren
Chancellor Michael Hooker
Carmen Hooker Odom
Fred Houk
Nancy Chewning
William Joslin
Mary Coker Joslin, for Battle
Park
Nell D. Joslin, for Battle Park
David LaTowsky
Auto Logic, Inc
Linda & Joe Baehr
Margaret A. Bush
Barri L. Burch
Frances & Robert Collichio
Antoinette & Robert Fornshell
Julie A. Fenton-Glass
Elizabeth Hamon
Bill & Marilyn Henshaw
Damian & Shawn Hoffman,
for Healing & Hope Through
Science
Sandra Sylvia Kim
Rita Madrazo-Peterson
Donald & Cindy Mason
Leann Nelson
Martha Diehl &
Francois Nielsen
Barbara Stenross
Michelle Maynard &
David Warshauer
The Witcher Family
Joshua Meador
Liz & David Meador, for Coker
Arboretum
Carol L. Miller
Cyrus L. Miller
H. Clay Miller III
Pat Morrison
Pandora Brooke, for Carolina
Campus Community Garden
Joanne, Andrew, Bryan &
Chuck Custer
Arline Olsen
Elise Olsen
Catherine Mangum Phelps
Nancy P. Mangum
Nancy Pruden
Shirley S. McLean
John & Lynette Parker
Albert E. Radford
James & Sally Baird
Laurie S. Radford
David & Jean Radford
Frances Wallace Rankin
Nina Gray Wallace
Nancy Powel
Renate Rodenburg
Hank Rodenburg
Frances Scudder
Susan and Alan Hollister
Thomas A. Sharp
Tyrell C. Sharp
Gladys Slater
Richard J. Stillman III
Anne McBride Smith
Tim & Mary Sue Smith
Lisa Soong
Martha Ann Propst, for
Carolina Campus Community
Garden
Pearson Stewart
Oliver H. Orr Jr.
Walter Stumpf
Cole-Levinson Family
Barbara & Paul Nettlesheim,
for Conservation Fund
Dana & Ernie Quade
Richard & Sue Richardson
Marion & Victor Schoenbach
Christopher Schweitzer, for
Conservation fund
Linda & Daniel Textoris
Kay Tatsis
Eve Fragakis Pappas
Patricia Towne
Willard and Lucille Campbell
Ellen Harkey
Donald & Eleanor Holloway
Brian Kileff
Helen M. Knapp
William S. Towne
Helen Jane Wettach
Ginger Travis, for the Education
Center
David Whittington
Kathryn &
Peter Enchelmayer
Anna Habersham Wilson
Margaret & Edmund
Campion
MATCHING GIFTS
CA Technologies—matching
the gift of Suzanne Simon
for the Children’s Wonder
Garden
Sherwin Williams—matching
the gift by James Schmidt for
nursery projects
IN-KIND GIFTS
Margie Baldwin—books for
Library
Linda Curcio—native plant
arrangement for holiday
party
Marcella Grendler—botanical
fabric and supplies
Charlotte Jones-Roe—dryer
belt and kitchen items
Ken Moore—redbay wreath
for holiday party
Peg Parker—botanical and
horticultural books
Ed Preston—Stihl weed
trimmer
Lynn Savitzky—vintage
botanical manuals
Jim Ward—basket for holiday
party
Peter White—original Carolina
Moonlight quilt by artist
Muriel Easterling
MONTHLY SUSTAINERS
Michael Aitken
Saianand Balu, for Forest
Theatre
Emma M. Beckham
Linda Convissor
Diane Frazier
Libby Grey, for Coker
Arboretum
Harold Hill
Stephen N. Johnson, for Friends
of UNC Herbarium
Eszter S. Karvazy
Jim Kirkman
Susan Linn
Joseph R. Moran
Karla Reed
Monica R. Samsky
Richard V. Wolfenden
Alice Zawadzki
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Open Houses for Friends
This past fall, the Garden hosted two “Open House” event for
our neighbors, the families staying at the Ronald McDonald
House of Chapel Hill and SECU Family House, both across the
street on Old Mason Farm Road. Twenty-seven people visited on
the beautiful evening of September 19 to bird watch, decorate
bird feeders, eat sundaes, and enjoy the fall garden. All surveyed
remarked that the event helped their family cope with the stress of
being away from home and spending lots of time in the hospital,
and that they enjoyed the event very much. We had a small group
of fantastic volunteers who helped make it all possible and look
forward to future Open Houses for these neighbors this spring
and summer. Please contact Katie Stoudemire (sciencekatie@unc.
edu) if you are interested in volunteering to help with these very
special events.
Wildflower of the Year
Meet the 2013 Wildflower of the
Year: New Jersey-tea (Ceanothus
americanus). Photo to left taken
in the garden. The beautiful t-shirt
design on the right is by artist
Dot Wilbur-Brooks. Read about
New Jersey-tea in the “2013
Southeastern Native Plant Seed
List,” which is enclosed in this
newsletter.
Plants and Pints
UNC Student organization and Environmental Honor Frater-nity
Epsilon Eta coordinated a benefit event on ­November
15,
2012, to raise funds for student internships at the North Carolina
Botanical Garden. Called “Plants and Pints,” the event was hosted
at The Library, a pub on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill.
“We designate these funds to support the Fred and Virginia
Houk Sustainability Internship Fund,” explained Chapter President
Travis Courtney. “The Sustainability internship matches closely
with the mission of Epsilon Eta and we want to support our fellow
students pursuing and enhancing sustainability at UNC and the
North Carolina Botanical Garden.”
Epsilon Eta’s event was a networking and social time for stu-dents,
faculty, staff, and community supporters of sustainability.
Epsilon Eta was founded by students at UNC Chapel Hill in
2007 in order to recognize and connect outstanding students whose
primary academic focus is the environment, and to provide them
with a network of support and opportunities during and after
their academic career. Garden Director Peter White and Battle
Park Curator Stephen Keith serve as faculty and staff advisors,
respectively, to the fraternity.
The men and women of Epsilon Eta regularly volunteer at the
Garden, in the community, and in other areas around the state.
February 2013 NCBG Newsletter 19
National Invasive Species Awareness Week
www.nisaw.org
During the week of March 3–8, the nation recognizes the conse-quences
of introducing species outside of the ecosystems within
which they evolved. For the most part foreign introductions are
innocuous, but havoc is wrought when the imported organism
bullies its way into natural areas. See the Garden’s website for
invasive species information, including ways to help prevent new
invasions. Consider attending the NC-Exotic Pest Plant Council
annual meeting, this year at Carolina Beach State Park and the
NC Aquarium, February 19–20. See nceppc.weebly.com for program
and registration information. In recognition of your invasive
species awareness, why not remove an invasive plant from
your landscape and replace it with a native plant?
The North Carolina Botanical Garden
publishes this news­letter
four times a year.
Editor & Layout Laura Cotterman
Photography Laura Cotterman, Mike Kunz, Janet Liloia,
Chris Liloia, Johnny Randall, Julie Tuttle
Illustrations Sandra Brooks-Mathers, Dot Wilbur-Brooks,
Irena Brubaker, and antique illustrations
Printed on 100% post-consumer recycled paper. Please recycle.
We Need You—be a Volunteer!
Are you an avid gardener who would like to help beginning
gardeners get started or to answer questions from gardeners
who have recently moved to NC? Consider becoming a Green
Gardener Volunteer with us. We will offer training soon for this
special group of volunteers (date & time TBA). Training involves
weekly sessions (5–6 weeks) with experts who share their expertise
and familiarize you with current resources to use in answering
gardening questions. After completing training, Green Gardener
Volunteers take turns working at the Green Gardener Reference
Desk in our Education Center, from 12:00–2:00 pm on weekdays
during the growing season.
Or . . . how about joining the Volunteer Ambassador team?
If you are looking for a volunteer opportunity where you can learn
all about the Garden and meet and greet visitors, we’d love to have
you join our team.
We have other opportunities too. Please contact Barbara
Wendell, Volunteer Coordinator: volunteerncbg@unc.edu (919-
962-0522). And take a look at: ncbg.unc.edu/become-a-volunteer/
Volunteers: Save the Date!
Appreciating Our Greatest Green Team of Volunteers!
Thursday April 18, 4:30–6:30
Celebrate with us as we recognize YOU. Please join us for dinner,
friendship, and entertainment as we honor your service with the
North Carolina Botanical Garden. Please RSVP online by April 11.
Welcome Spring!
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North Carolina Botanical Garden
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Campus Box 3375
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3375
Phone 919-962-0522 Fax 919-962-3531
Web ncbg.unc.edu E-mail ncbg@unc.edu
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Weekends through May 2013   Weekends June–August 2013
Saturdays 9 am – 5 pm Saturdays 9 am – 6 pm
Sundays 1 pm – 5 pm Sundays 1 pm – 6 pm
Consult our website for holiday closings
How to tell if your Dues are Due . . .
Please check your membership renewal date, posted
above your name & address. Use the enclosed envelope
to renew! It costs $ + time for us to send reminder
postcards. Thanks!
Rosemary for Remembrance
Thursdays, April 11, 18, 25 & May 9; 10:30 am–12 pm
Our Horticultural Therapy Program is offering a special program
for couples: people with early stage Alzheimer’s Disease and a care-giver
(relative, companion, or aide). Participants will learn innova-tive
strategies for health and wellness through working with plants
and gardening. Sessions will address the needs of each individual
in the caregiving relationship. The benefits of horticultural therapy
include mild physical activity, social interaction, sensory stimula-tion,
creative expression, connection to nature, and relaxation and
renewal. Fee: $100 ($90 ncbg members). For more information and
to register, please contact Sally Haskett, haskett@email.unc.
edu (or call 919-962-0522), who will arrange a phone interview.
Inside this issue . . .
Lots of exciting new programs,
including an Aldo Leopold
Celebration
The carbon equation
A new flora for the Old Dominion
The 14th Annual Evelyn McNeill
Sims Native Plant Lecture on
Seeing Trees
Nature Explorers
Summer Camp!
And much more!