News & Updates

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...

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...