""Honey Harvest: Stay Sweet"" -Throughout the year, Project PLANTS has been learning about apiculture—the science of keeping bees. After a long winter, our bees will be busy collecting pollen from all of the new blooms! It will be time to harvest honey, and to appreciate all of the delicious and useful reasons to celebrate bee…
Presented by Andrew Pais, JCRA Plant Records. Learn how scientists prepare DNA samples for DNA barcoding and use the resulting data to determine a plants identity in this hands-on class and demonstration. Andrew Pais will introduce how DNA samples are prepared from plants. Workshop participants will then have the opportunity to analyze sequence data previously…
It's that time of year again! The Birdhouse Competition returns to the JC Raulston Arboretum as part of Raulston Blooms! Birdhouse builders will receive a free ticket to attend Raulston Blooms! If making birdhouses is not your thing, then looking at them should be. The creations range from barrels of laughs to studies in craftsmanship…
Ready for spring planting?
Learn, shop for your garden, get great ideas, and enjoy gourmet treats.
Tour led by Mark Weathington, Director of the JCRA. Free for members, $5.00 for nonmembers. Advance registration is not necessary. Tour begins at the Visitor Center at the JC Raulston Arboretum at NC State University, 4415 Beryl Road, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Come out to our Seventh Annual Spring Egg Hunt, and stop by the yurt for Potato Madness! Bring your children by for a morning filled with potatoes. We will be making potato stamps, creating silly potato faces, and planting potatoes. Bring your sense of humor and be prepared to get silly. Activities are open from 10:00…
Come out to our Seventh Annual Spring Egg Hunt, and join us for a special Garden Storytime! We will find a beautiful spring garden to explore together, spread our picnic blankets, and enjoy a good story. Participants will also get to create a fun spring craft to take home and enjoy in their gardens. This…
Welcome spring this year with the Seventh Annual Spring Egg Hunt! The fun starts on Tuesday, March 27 and stays until Saturday, March 31 and is FREE. This isn't your typical egg hunt! In case you haven't participated before, here is how it works. There are brightly painted wooden eggs hidden throughout the Arboretum gardens. Begin your hunt by…
Presented by Kevin Parris who is a horticultural instructor and the curator at Spartanburg Community College, Spartanburg, South Carolina. He recently completed a research project with magnolias and received his M.S. from Clemson University, where he is currently working on a doctorate.Magnolias are among the oldest living flowering plants on the planet. So how do…
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