Notes and Resources

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 …

We have had some incredible weather and everyone is thinking spring. Then it snows. Or we have a raw, cool day. Or there is rain. Typical New England weather is …

This week I have been thinking about bees. Honey bees, bumble bees, native bees; all kinds of bees that we encounter during the summer. I am thinking that I will …

When walking through the woods I sometimes forget how important shrubs are. Here at Norcross our woods are open – you can see as far as the topography will let …

Yes, I know – it’s February, but did anyone miss the fantastic 50 degree weather that we have just experienced? To us, it feels like a taste of spring, making …