News & Updates

By Terry Ashley You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to conclude that plants are different from animals. Animals travel: they swim, fly, crawl, climb, run. Plants...

By Mary Miller We who call Transylvania County home know it can be a very wet place. It is the Land of Waterfalls, after all, and much of it is a temperate rainforest....

Volunteers play a critical role in helping us achieve our mission at Southern Highlands Reserve. Since launching a formal volunteer program in 2019, we have grown...

By Rowan Nygard Often, fungi are overlooked when we consider the rich biodiversity of the world around us. By design it’s easy to miss them. As a result, there are...

By Nancy Anderson The story of bumble bees visiting blossoms provides a beautiful example of insect and flowering plant coevolution for mutual benefit. In the fall when...

Rowan Nygard joined our team in September as an intern and will be helping with horticulture tasks as well as cataloging discoveries and rare finds in the garden. Rowan...

Southern Highlands Reserve is thrilled to announce the launch of our capital campaign, “Green-light the Greenhouse." At our kickoff fundraising event on a magnificent...

With Director of Horticulture Eric Kimbrel   Here on the mountain, we've watched another spring emerge and drift slowly into summer. Ephemerals (plants that only...

In May, through our SASRI partnership, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service biologist Sue Cameron and her team collected 327 of our two-year-old red spruce trees for...