Notes and Resources

While walking the trails today I noticed a prominent new feature and I was excited!   Well, not new to me, but new along the trails.   During our final weeks of …

July 22, 2016 Sorry, I was a little slow getting this posted, but the information is still good! Hot summer weather is not always good to our lawns, especially when …

My garden is thriving in the dog days of summer. I am watching as all the summer meadow flowers come in to bloom from week to week. Right now, the …

My crew and I were planting under the sign at the end of the driveway. We had removed the old soil and replaced it with a new mix. I had …

This year is a great year to observe the mountain laurel in our landscape.    I love the wide range of colors that this shrub comes in.   “What range of  colors?  …

I usually consider our peak bloom time to be between mid-May and mid-June, but the truth is the flowering doesn’t really stop.   Our gardens are filled with plants that bloom …

I arrived at Norcross in 1982. The trails had been expanded when the new visitor center was constructed around 1977. All of the gardens were still located down by the …

Sometimes I like to think about how this all started. Looking at our website under “Background and Beginnings” you can read that Mr. Norcross turned his lifelong interest in wildlife …

I love this story, it is one I tell again and again. I first read it in the North Carolina Native Plant Propagation Handbook which was printed by the North …

The weather this week has been wonderful! The sun is shining, it is pretty warm, the birds are singing and plants are poking their heads (and flowers) out of the …