News & Updates

Gardener’s Corner — Winter 2024

Gardener’s Corner — Winter 2024

With Director of Horticulture Eric Kimbrel As winter sets in, SHR staff and volunteers are cleaning seeds like a bunch of squirrels as snow falls with temperatures...

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Gardener’s Corner — Fall 2023

Gardener’s Corner — Fall 2023

With Director of Horticulture Eric Kimbrel With groundbreaking for our new greenhouse scheduled this fall, we are emptying out the hoop houses and planting everything...

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Winter Adaptations

Winter Adaptations

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...

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2023 Volunteer of the Year

2023 Volunteer of the Year

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...

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Bumble Bees in Your Back Yard

Bumble Bees in Your Back Yard

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...

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Meet Rowan Nygard

Meet Rowan Nygard

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...

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Green-light the Greenhouse

Green-light the Greenhouse

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...

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