Above is Tony Avent, founder and owner of Plant Delights Nursery (PDN) in Raleigh, NC.  RBG has been a customer of PDN for over 20 years and I’ve always wanted …

After arriving in Raleigh, NC yesterday for the Perennial Plant Association (PPA) Annual Conference, we started the festivities early this morning.  I wasn’t prepared for the instant humidity at 7 …

A bit of a late post due to being busy with lots of other things but we had a fun trip to the annual Ball Customer Day held at The …

The photo directly above and the three below show the Nancy Yahr Memorial Children’s Garden plantings filling in very nicely!  The theme this year is an A-Z Pollinator Garden with …

Nice shot above of the entrance to the Parker Education Center.  Lots of folks are smitten with the wave of lavender color out there with South American verbena (Verbena bonariensis) …

Today we had a retirement party for Larry Olsen who worked at Rotary Botanical Gardens for over 20 years.  We had a great turnout of over 50 staff and volunteers …

Today was a gorgeous day and after the nice, soaking rains we had over the weekend, our summer color is really starting to peak nicely.  The photo above and the …

Our annual Home Garden Tour was a huge success this past Saturday on a day that we were very worried about rain!  The day was breezy, cool and aside from …

The chance of precipitation today was extremely high and the rain did appear around 10 am or so with a nice soaker drenching the gardens.  It never really became sunny …

Nice shot above of ‘Helen Campbell’ spider flower (Cleome hassleriana) looking great this morning!  I didn’t take many photos today as we had a busy day with lots of volunteer …