North Carolina Botanical Garden
What a Book Can Do
Morehead Planetarium Banquet Hall
Long after Rachel Carson’s early death in 1964, her seminal book Silent Spring remains an abiding landmark in both book and environmental history. Find out what is being said today, 40 years later, about Rachel Carson and her ground-breaking book.
Author and independent scholar Priscilla Coit Murphy argues that Silent Spring is the perfect case study of a book’s unique ability to enable a single citizen to place a matter of public importance into the forums of debate.
Partnering with the North Carolina Botanical Garden to host this special reception and presentation are the Carolina Alumni Association, Carolina Women’s Center, and Morehead Planetarium and Science Center.
Fee: $5 for members of the Botanical Garden, Morehead Planetarium, or the General Alumni Association; $8 for others. Students free. Please call (919) 962-0522 to register or visit ncbg.unc.edu.
Bill Burk, librarian at UNC’s John N. Couch Biology Library: From Tobacco Farm to Botany Library-Alma Holland Beers, Carolina’s First Female Botanist
North Carolina Botanical Garden’s Totten Center
Alma Leonora Holland Beers was the first female botanist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She established herself in the academic halls of science and in the social fabric of Chapel Hill in the early 1900s when many opportunities for women were closed. Learn about Beers's contributions to botany, including the role that her artistic, editorial, and foreign language skills played in her career.
Free, but please call 962-0522 to register, as space is limited, or visit ncbg.unc.edu.
Ken Moore: Why We Garden - The North Carolina Botanical Garden’s 9th Annual Evelyn McNeill Sims Native Plant Lecture
Carolina Inn
Every spring the North Carolina Botanical Garden offers a free lecture focusing on native plants and gardening. This year the Sims Lecture features Ken Moore, the Garden's first employee (1971) and long-time assistant director. Since his retirement in 2003, Ken continues to generously share his enthusiasm about gardening and native plants, most recently through his Flora columns in the Carrboro Citizen. His presentation will include reflections on the past 40 years of Botanical Garden history. Threaded through this reminiscence is a description of his own circuitous journey in pursuit of the perfect garden.
A reception follows the lecture.
Free. Call (919) 962-0522 for more information or visit ncbg.unc.edu.
Daily Native Plant Sale at the North Carolina Botanical Garden
As part of the Botanical Garden's Conservation through Propagation program, we propagate and grow many species of native plants. As a service to the public, and to help support our continuing research in propagation, we offer for sale a variety of pre-potted herbaceous and woody plants. The self-service sale generally runs from April through October, or even into November, every day during regular Garden hours.
For more information visit ncbg.unc.edu.