
{"id":7022,"date":"2009-09-10T10:28:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T18:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=7022"},"modified":"2009-09-10T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T19:14:09","slug":"busy-weekend-at-n-c-botanical-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/09\/10\/busy-weekend-at-n-c-botanical-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy weekend at N.C. Botanical Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7036\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7036\" style=\"width: 84px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/front.P90731541.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/front.P90731541-84x112.jpg\" title=\"front.P9073154\" width=\"84\" height=\"112\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/front.P90731541-84x112.jpg 84w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/front.P90731541-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/front.P90731541.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 84px) 100vw, 84px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lady in Yellow,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Hillsborough artist Tinka Jordy<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThese are busy times at the North Carolina Botanical Garden with much of the activity focused on getting ready for the dedication garden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new Visitor Education Center next month on University Day (Oct. 12).<\/p>\n<p>This weekend the center will host Orange County\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s environmental summit, which will feature the release of the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new State of the Environment report along with a discussion of the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s environmental challenges. The focus of the summit is sustainable ground and surface water resources with a discussion of the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s watershed by geography professor Lary Bland, director of the UNC Institute for the Environment. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the garden starts its annual Sculpture in the Garden show with more than 50 works on the theme \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Celebrating Life Forces\u00e2\u20ac\u009d nestled among the garden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s native plan habitats. The show runs from Sept. 12 to Nov 15.<\/p>\n<p>Also in store this weekend is one of the garden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual native plant sale. The fundraiser features thousands of plants potted up and ready for transport to your native habitat. The sale runs from 9 a.m. to noon.<\/p>\n<p>Garden members are invited to drop by Friday evening from 5-7 p.m. for first-pick at the sale, light refreshments, and a preview of the Sculpture in the Garden exhibition<br \/>\nHours, information, membership details and more are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/ncbg.unc.edu\">ncbg.unc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are busy times at the North Carolina Botanical Garden with much of the activity focused on getting ready for the dedication garden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new Visitor Education Center next month on University Day (Oct. 12). This weekend the center will host Orange County\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s environmental summit, which will feature the release of the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new State of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-land-and-table"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7022"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7044,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7022\/revisions\/7044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}