News & Updates
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...
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...
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...
Drought 2023: Observations and Mitigations
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....
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...
Garden Discoveries: Cordyceps militaris
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...
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...
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...
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...