Laurel Hill Road closed for repairs between Coker Drive and NCBG service entrance. Map shows closed (dead-end) road leading to our education center.
The top of Laurel Hill Road blocked off by red "Danger" tape
⚠️ Laurel Hill Road in is closed until further notice between Coker Drive and our service entrance in #ChapelHill. This section of road sustained significant damage during this week's storms and requires major repairs to be safe for vehicles. Follow our updates: ncbg.unc.edu/2025/07/08/s...
10.07.2025 18:40 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A blue-gray gnatcatcher sings on a branch against a blue sky. Inset photo: Jill Soha outdoors wearing a hat with headphones around her neck. Text repeats post info.
Tomorrow (6/26) at noon ET: join us in-person or on Zoom for a Hybrid Lunchbox Talk: Information in Bird Song with Jill Soha, visiting scholar at Duke.
Free! Register to save your spot: reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_pa...
25.06.2025 18:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The meaning behind a millstone - North Carolina Botanical Garden
The final owners of King's Mill weren't the Kings: they were the Oldhams, an African American couple who had been sharecroppers at Mason Farm.
The final owners of King’s Mill weren’t the Kings: they were an African American couple named Henderson and Cornelia Oldham who had once been sharecroppers at Mason Farm.
Read about their story (and about how we came to have their mill's grinding stone): ncbg.unc.edu/2025/06/19/t...
19.06.2025 21:02 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
America's favorite bloodthirsty plant
The exotic plant only grows wild in a single place on the planet: a sliver of dirty in a small corner of the Carolinas.
The most recent episode of @wunc.org's The Broadside features our director of conservation programs, Mike Kunz! Host Anisa Khalifa visited the Garden to speak with Mike and see Venus flytraps up close.
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: www.wunc.org/podcast/the-...
16.06.2025 19:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hybrid Lunchbox Talk: Carolina Ghosts, Synchronous Shows and Foxfire Lights: The Bioluminescent Insects of North Carolina. Image is of Clyde Sorenson with an insect net at night and an inset of a glowing insect. Thursday, May 12, 12 p.m. ET.
Have you seen your first firefly of the season yet? 🔆 This Thursday at noon, we'll be joined by NC State professor Clyde Sorenson for a Hybrid Lunchbox talk exploring fireflies and other bioluminescent insects of NC.
Free! In-person and Zoom. Register: reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_pa...
20.05.2025 17:35 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
The surprisingly tricky art of seed banking
To safeguard threatened plants, science must unravel the hidden biology of often-persnickety seeds as they age, sleep and awaken
Preserving rare species through seed banking isn't easy. Learn about some of this practice's challenges and success stories in this article, which features our director of conservation programs, Mike Kunz!
23.04.2025 13:22 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
L-R, top to bottom:
1: Little sweet Betsy and eastern blue phlox
2: Bird's-foot violet and bluets
3: Eastern red columbine and golden ragwort
4: Green-and-gold and violet
01.04.2025 21:19 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Little sweet Betsy and eastern blue phlox
Bird’s foot violet and bluets
Eastern red columbine and golden ragwort
Green and gold with violets in the background
Not April Fools’ — just some magical native wildflower combos that have popped up in our main garden today. 🌸💖
01.04.2025 21:19 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
We're hiring! go.unc.edu/ncbgjobs. Background is our mountain habitat in spring, with columbine, golden ragwort, and phlox blooming.
Are you an enthusiastic leader and community builder who's passionate about connecting people with nature? Join our team as the Director of Learning and Community Engagement!
Learn more and apply by April 18: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/298...
31.03.2025 19:23 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Trout lilies in bloom in our daily plant sale
Rows of southeastern native plants in containers in our daily plant sale area
Our Daily Plant Sale reopens for the season tomorrow (Tuesday, March 18)! 🎉 It features a rotating selection of southeastern native plants grown here at the NCBG nursery.
Plant list (subject to change): go.unc.edu/dailyplantsale.
Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesday to Sunday.
17.03.2025 21:42 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Frogs and Toads
They're related, but they're different species – both are common around here! (And sometimes people call these peepers, anyway.)
A good site for learning more (and hearing their different calls) is herpsofnc.org/frogs-and-to...!
11.03.2025 21:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
A gray catbird eating elderberry fruits. Hybrid Lunchbox Talk: Eating Like a Bird: Native Fruits We Can Enjoy at Our Tables. With Mary Jac Brennan. Thursday, March 13, 12 p.m. ET.
Interested in growing or eating southeastern native fruits? Join us on Thursday for an in-depth and practical introduction to 12 native fruiting plants you can grow at home, including how to harvest and use their fruits.
Free! In-person & Zoom. Register: reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_pa...
11.03.2025 16:27 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Meanwhile at Coker Arboretum 💕 A few paths and garden areas are closed for arbor construction (finally underway!), but all of these blooms are in open and accessible areas. Come enjoy!
ncbg.unc.edu/visit/coker-arboretum
06.03.2025 18:18 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Two dimpled trout lily flowers seen from above, with alternating maroon and yellow tepals
Two trout lilies from the side, showing how bare and brown the landscape around them is
The dimpled trout lilies (Erythronium umbilicatum) are blooming in our Mountain Habitat. And coincidentally, these native ephemeral wildflowers are the colors of #MardiGras! 💛💜💚
04.03.2025 21:50 — 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Harbinger of spring: upland chorus frogs singing in our Herb Garden. These guys are only about an inch long! ❤️
25.02.2025 19:05 — 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1
Final update for now: Our main garden will *reopen* at 12 p.m. today (Friday 2/21)! ☀️🌱
21.02.2025 13:48 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New update: We'll be closed all day Thursday (2/20). Friday schedule still TBD. Stay safe!
20.02.2025 13:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
❄️ Weather Update: ❄️ Per UNC's adverse weather guidance, we'll be closed all day Wednesday (2/19) through at least 12 p.m. on Thursday (2/20).
Check back here for updates on our reopening schedule, and stay safe out there!
19.02.2025 02:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Photos to common winter birds at the garden posted to the inside of a bird blind, which has seats in front of feeders that enable people to watch birds without scaring them off.
Our bird blind is ready for the #NCBirdCount this weekend with an updated guide to common winter birds you’re likely to see around the Garden!
#ScienceAcrossNC is organizing this event, which runs from 2/14 to 2/17: learn how to get involved (and earn an embroidered patch!) at scienceacrossnc.org.
13.02.2025 22:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Free public programs in February: Darwin Day lecture on 2/12 and a Lunchbox Talk about creating biodiversity in your yard on 2/13 are first up. See the full listing at go.unc.edu/gardenprograms. Image is a bluebird eating a winterberry fruit.
Upcoming Youth + Family programs, including a free Nature Tales program on 2/14 and EcoKids: Winter Backyard Birds on 2/15. See the full program listing at go.unc.edu/gardenprograms. Image shows kids by a vernal pool.
We've got lots of education programs coming up, from art workshops to free lectures to kids' adventures. Here are a few of them, including our annual #DarwinDay lecture on Wednesday evening!
🔗 Register and find MORE upcoming events at go.unc.edu/gardenprograms.
10.02.2025 21:14 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by NC Botanical Garden
Announcing Our New Mission and Vision
We're excited to announce that the Garden has a new mission – one that reflects not just the importance of plant biodiversity but also of people and our relationship with the natural world.
📽️ Hear from director Damon Waitt: www.youtube.com/shorts/G3AuU...
🔗 Read more: ncbg.unc.edu/about/missio...
06.02.2025 20:43 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A camp educator points out a rosinweed flower to a group of campers. Text reads We're Hiring! go.unc.edu/ncbgjobs
We're hiring a Camp Environmental Educator! If you're a creative teacher who's enthusiastic about sharing nature with children and thrives outdoors, we’d love to have you on our camp team.
Learn more and apply by February 28: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/296...
05.02.2025 20:56 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Looks like it's scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m.!
27.01.2025 18:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
photo of a man wearing an N95 mask standing in front of a wall of photos featuring birds. he's next to one with a pine siskin peeking out around a fence post.
selfie of two people on a carnivorous plant face cutout. the guy is a pitcher plant and the femme is a sundew. the Venus flytrap is sadly empty.
had a great time seeing @rynevank.bsky.social's photos and walking out in the beautiful sun. thanks @ncbg.bsky.social!
26.01.2025 20:40 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Flyer for our summer internships with a border of photos of past interns and cut-outs of ferns and frogs. 2025 Summer Internships: 10-week program, 35-40 hour work week, $15/hour. Positions in our horticulture, conservation, and learning & community engagement departments.
Come work with us this summer: we’re hiring interns in several departments! These paid positions are ideal for students and emerging professionals: they provide hands-on experience in fields ranging from sustainable gardening to natural areas management.
Learn more and apply at go.unc.edu/ncbgjobs.
27.01.2025 17:22 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Well, that didn't last long! Update to the update: following UNC's adverse weather guidance, our main garden will remain closed all day today (Wednesday 1/22). We now expect to open at 10 a.m. tomorrow (Thursday 1/23) but will post additional updates if that changes!
22.01.2025 15:53 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
❄️ Weather Update! ❄️ Our main garden will be closed until 12 p.m. today (Wednesday 1/22) due to last night's snowfall.
We anticipate operating as usual this afternoon (12-5 p.m.), but if that changes, we'll post updates here.
22.01.2025 12:33 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
@ncbg.bsky.social Is the best. We hung out there between errands today and one of the environmental educators found our daughter because of her age and ability to stay calm and brought us out to see a barred owl. It is one of my favorite places.
05.01.2025 01:14 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
We're hiring! go.unc.edu/ncbgjobs. Background photo is of a wooden bridge in our Piedmont Nature Trails in the fall
#3: We're hiring! We have two positions open now: Garden Assistant at the Carolina Community Garden (part-time, closes 1/29) and Natural Areas Steward in our Conservation Department (full-time, closes 2/7).
Learn more and apply at go.unc.edu/ncbgjobs.
17.01.2025 19:47 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Looking through the angled, frost-covered branches of a Japanese maple into more frost-covered trees and shrubs
A light covering of snow and ice on the paths and tree limbs, including a Japanese maple and several conifers.
Last season's perennial stalks encased in ice. This looks like a Joe-Pye weed, though it's hard to tell!
#2: Coker Arboretum looked dreamy after last Friday evening's snow, even mid-melt.
17.01.2025 19:47 — 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
