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Fall Foliage – Finally!

Fall came to the Garden this week.  Yes, we’ve had some cooler weather for a while and a few trees here and there had some leaves turning color, but the autumn season seemed a little lackluster.  Then,...

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Pretties in Pink

With all the rain this week, I floated down the Garden path to the Matson Garden.  From here I have a good view of the Tropical Garden across the canal.  The Matson Garden is a nice garden with a good...

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Making Sense of this Garden

After a few days, the spider lilies started to creep me out, so I left the Japanese Garden in search of a new place.  I ended up in the Sensory Garden in front of the education building.  This is a...

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A Cut Above

Have you ever done something that you know is such a bad idea or so dangerous it defies common sense, yet you are compelled to try it anyway?  I guess that’s how thrill seekers live much of their life....

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Ornamental Pepper

An annual that you might want to check out for your garden this coming season is the new Ornamental Pepper ‘Black Olive’, (Capsicum annuum ‘Black Olive’)  It went through nation-wide testing last year...

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Seeing Red

With the temperature getting hotter, we are seeing a lot of red these days. There’s more red showing in the thermometer, people walking around the garden sometimes have red faces flush from the heat...

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Video Blog – Paperwhites

Paperwhites are great bulbs for the winter garden. The post Video Blog – Paperwhites appeared first on Norfolk Botanical Garden.

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Video Blog – Annual Plant Sale

Learn more about the plants we are growing for our sale on Mother’s Day weekend. (May 10-12, 2013) The post Video Blog – Annual Plant Sale appeared first on Norfolk Botanical Garden.

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Spring Plant Sale 2014 – Les Parks and Vickie Pepper

Get a sneak peek at this year’s Spring Plant Sale.  It is fast approaching – Mother’s Day Weekend (Friday, May 9 – Sunday, May 11, 2014) To learn more about the Plant Sale click here. The post Spring...

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Fertilizing Annuals

Today’s summer flowering annuals have been bred to produce blossoms over an extended period of time. Because of this, if can be very beneficial to provide additional fertilizer throughout the growing...

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Top 5 Summer Annuals Video Blog

Watch Norfolk Botanical Garden’s Les Parks as he reveals the NBG top 5 summer annuals. These are the best of the best! Keep this list for next year. The post Top 5 Summer Annuals Video Blog appeared...

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NBG Potager Kitchen Garden

  In 2015, the Potager Kitchen Garden was unveiled as part of our Incredible Edibles Summer theme. It was a very popular go-to garden for guests to learn about vegetable gardening in any space. This...

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Top 10 summer annuals

By Les Parks Curator of Herbaceous Plants If you visit the Norfolk Botanical Garden at this time of year, you are likely to see our gardeners planting thousands of summer annuals. /// Some visitors may...

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