News & Updates

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...

Peace was hard to find in the late 1960s in Baltimore. But as a young boy growing up there, Brent Antrim found it in his grandfather’s greenhouse. Brent joined our team...

Winter at our wildflower labyrinth requires the eyes of a poet — or a thoughtful gardener. It’s not easy to see the beauty of so many shades of brown, the dry and...

With Director of Horticulture Eric Kimbrel When winter begins, we hope we are already well prepared for it. The speed at which the weather can change on the mountain is...

Lichens are like the teenage boys of the plant world — they can live pretty much anywhere under any conditions. They make their home on rocks, trees, soil, houses,...