Eagle Camera Fundraiser at Delaware Botanic Gardens at Pepper Creek

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The following news coverage resulted from the March 5, 2024 press release entitled “EAGLE CAMERA FUNDRAISER AT DELAWARE BOTANIC GARDENS AT PEPPER CREEK”

Cape Gazette: Botanic Gardens to kick off eagle cam fundraiser March 7. Please click on the link below.

https://www.capegazette.com/article/botanic-gardens-kick-eagle-cam-fundraiser-march-7/271721

Coastal Point: Eagle camera fundraiser at Delaware Botanic Gardens at Pepper Creek. Please click on the ink below.

https://www.coastalpoint.com/lifestyle/eagle-camera-fundraiser-at-delaware-botanic-gardens-at-pepper-creek/article_3fba6cfa-db28-11ee-98b3-734d59c1ea84.html

DBG Celebrates Veteran's Day

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The following news coverage resulted from the October 29th Press Release on Veteran’s Day.

Bay to Bay News -  October 30, 2023, "Delaware Botanic Gardens celebrates Veterans Day with free admission for veterans." Please click on below link:

https://baytobaynews.com/stories/delaware-botanic-gardens-celebrates-veterans-day-with-free-admission-for-veterans,120344#

Cape Gazette - October 29, 2023, “Veterans pay no entrance fee at Delaware Botanic Gardens Nov. 11”. Please click on the below link:

https://www.capegazette.com/article/veterans-pay-no-entrance-fee-delaware-botanic-gardens-nov-11/266692?amgee-source=dh

Delaware Botanic Gardens at Pepper Creek raised $122,000 at Annual Dinner

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DBG sent out a Annual Dinner press release on Sunday, October 1st, and below is the media coverage that resulted:

BaytoBayNews/Daily State News, "Delaware Botanic Garden raised $122,000 at annual dinner." Posted Oct. 2, 2023.

Please click on below link:

https://baytobaynews.com/stories/delaware-botanic-gardens-raises-122000-at-annual-dinner,118247

Coastal Point, "Delaware Botanic Gardens at Pepper Creek raise $122,000 at annual dinner." Posted Oct. 3, 2023.

Please clink on below link.

https://www.coastalpoint.com/lifestyle/delaware-botanic-gardens-at-pepper-creek-raise-122-000-at-annual-dinner/article_3794795e-622d-11ee-b617-739825604f98.html

Cape Gazette. Chris Flood attended the annual dinner, and his article, "Botanic Gardens dinner nets more than $120K" posted on Oct 7th, is in below link.

https://www.capegazette.com/article/delaware-botanic-gardens-annual-dinner-raises-more-120000/265159

Delaware Business Times, Oct. 5. 2023, Delaware Botanic Gardens raises $122K for operational funds."

https://delawarebusinesstimes.com/news-briefs/delaware-botanic-gardens-raise-122k-for-operational-funds/

DBG is featured on "Delmarva Life"

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On Wednesday, August 16, Brent Baker and Stephen Price Lea appeared on WBOC's "Delmarva Life," interviewed by Jimmy Hoppa and Lisa Bryant.  The piece was broadcast at 5:50 p.m. that evening and the next day on Fox 21 at 8:50 a.m and was titled “We Learn What's Going On At the Delaware Botanic Gardens”.


Please click on below link to see DBG segment:

https://www.wboc.com/shows/delmarvalife/

Butterflies & Blooms Class

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A monarch butterfly feeds in the Piet Oudolf Meadow at Delaware Botanic Gardens

As a result of the July 16, 2023 DBG Press Release, the following news coverage resulted.

Cape Gazette - July 21 - July 23, 2023, "Butterflies & Blooms Classes Continue." Please click on below link:

https://www.capegazette.com/article/butterflies-blooms-classes-continue-july-27/261580

Coastal Point - July 21, 2023. "Butterflies & Blooms Class offered at DBG on Thursdays." In print issue July 27, 2023, page 34.  Not posted, so no link

Bay to Bay News -  July 17, 2023, "Butterflies & Blooms class at Delaware Botanic Gardens." Please click on below link:

https://baytobaynews.com/stories/butterflies-blooms-class-at-delaware-botanic-gardens,112647

DBG New July Friday Free Garden Craft Classes

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On Saturday July 1, DBG issued a press release on the DBG New July Friday Free Garden Craft Classes. Here is the media coverage:

On July 7, Coastal Point published, "Delaware Gardens offering free crafts for kids ," please click on below link.

https://www.coastalpoint.com/lifestyle/delaware-botanic-gardens-offering-free-crafts-classes-for-kids/article_a724fc72-1d8a-11ee-a4da-675582cfd84e.html

On July 5, Cape Gazette posted its story, "Delaware Botanic Gardens kid's classes continue July 13. please click on below link.

https://www.capegazette.com/article/delaware-botanic-gardens-kids%E2%80%99-classes-continue-july-13/260993

On July 4, Bay-to-Bay News posted its story, "Delaware Botanic Gardens offering classes for kids." Please click on below link.

https://baytobaynews.com/stories/delaware-botanic-gardens-offering-free-garden-crafts-classes-for-children,111760

A hidden oasis in Sussex: Celebrating our surroundings at the Delaware Botanic Gardens

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Coastal Point has new publication called "Explore Coastal Delaware." It was first distributed with the June 16, 2023 Coastal Point. Ray Bojarski's drone photo of Piet Oudolf Meadow was featured as well as a nice interview with Stephen Pryce Lea, Director of Horticulture and Educational Programs.

The Delaware Botanic Gardens at Pepper Creek has become an oasis of natural wonder for the entire community - offering an aesthetic and calming release from the from the grind of day-to-day life, and serving as an economic catalyst for the region in drawing people to the area. Read more.

Mother's Day Food Drive Media Coverage

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Delaware Botanic Gardens Mother’s Day Food Drive is featured in several local publications.

In Cape Gazette, May 23 to May 25, 2023. " Botanic garden marks Mother's Day with food drive. " Posted online and in hard copy on page 20 under "Garden & Farm" section of newspaper. Read more.

In Coastal Point, May 26, 2023,. Delaware Botanic Gardens collects a ton of food for Food Bank, " in newspaper. (page A26) and posted online. Read more.

WRDE-TV, On Mother's Day, Carmen Holland visited the gardens and interviewed Sheryl Swed and a local mother who was visiting the gardens from Dagsboro. Sheryl talked about food insecurity as problem that resulted in DBG teaming with Food Bank of Delaware. WRDE story link.

DBG amongst the beautiful perennial gardens of Piet Oudolf, Vogue Magazine

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The Beautiful Perennial Gardens of Piet Oudolf, the World’s Greatest Living Landscape Designer

by Elise Taylor

It is probably an exaggeration to say everyone has walked through a Piet Oudolf garden. But, hundreds of millions of people have: The Dutch landscape designer is the mastermind behind New York City’s High Line and Battery Park, Chicago’s Lurie Garden in Millennium Park, London’s Queen Elizabeth Park, the entry to Toronto’s Botanical Garden, and the Vitra Campus in Southwest Germany. (Just to name a few.) Currently, most consider him the most famous person in his field. “I always had a strong feeling that I could do something different,” Oudolf previously said. “That happened when I met plants.”

A new book Piet Oudolf: At Work, published tomorrow by Phaidon, proves how inarguable his impact is. A photographic anthology of his greatest outdoor work as well as a poetic ode to his creativity (thanks to several essays by his contemporaries), it offers a complete look at Oudolf and his legacy.

Read more.

DBG featured in Delmarva Life Segment on WBOC-TV

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On Monday, March 13th, Ray Sander, DBG President, Stephen Pryce Lea, Director of Horticulture and Educational Programs, and Jan Poli, DBG Volunteer designer, went to the WBOC-TV studios in Salsbury, MD to tape a "Delmarva Life" segment on Delaware Botanic Garden's 2023 opening the following Thursday.  The segment consisted of an interview between the hosts (Jimmy & Lisa) and Ray and Stephen and a spring plant container demonstration by Jan Poli.

Watch here.

Kudos for Erosion Control

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DBG featured in Delaware Beach Life Magazine. May 2023 issue. -- Andrew Sharp.

photograph courtesy of the Center for the Inland Bays

A rough structure resembling a split-rail fence lines the edge of Pepper Creek, but it isn’t meant for penning cattle. Instead, the wooden barrier at the Delaware Botanic Gardens is part of a project that keeps the stream bank itself from disappearing into the water.

At this particular spot near Dagsboro, the preservation of vulnerable land is earning recognition in the effort to educate visitors about what’s known as “living shoreline”.

Read more, go to page 12.

Earth Day Media Coverage

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Delaware Botanic Gardens Earth Day celebration is featured in several local publications.

In Cape Gazette, "Botanic gardens admission free with food donation April 22", posted April 19, 2023. Based on DBG Press Release of April 15th. Read more.

In Coastal Point, "Botanic gardens offering free admission with food donation for Earth Day, " posted April 18, 2023. Based on DBG Press release of April 15th. Read more.

Bay-to-Bay News, "Free Delaware Botanic Gardens mission with food donation on Earth Day," posted April 17th. Based on DBG Press Release of April 15th. Read more.

WRDE-TV, "Free Earth Day Admission to Botanic Gardens with Food Donation," posted April 17th. Based on DBG Press Release of April 15th. Read more.

An evening to Frolic in the Folly

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the folly gardens at delaware botanic gardens is the perfect spot to relax and enjoy nature

Beth Feigley photos

Delaware Botanic Gardens held Frolic in the Folly, its first fundraiser of 2023, April 9 in Dagsboro.

Carol McCloud, volunteer vice president and board member, sponsored the folly garden. She said it is near and dear to her heart as she has dedicated the folly in memory of her late husband, John. 

Guests at the event were all smiles, enjoying a pleasant spring evening with friends snd supporters of the gardens. There was live music by 5th Avenue, a variety of refreshments, artists painting at easels, and beauty all around. A planter demonstration was held by the designer and caretaker of the folly, Jan Poli. The planter caught onlookers’ eyes and was part of an auction toward the end of the event.

A folly garden is meant to be joyful and whimsical. It’s a place to simply wander and enjoy.

Read more.

Botanic Gardens celebrate new facility with ribbon-cutting

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As Raymond Sander, president of the Delaware Botanic Gardens, snipped a blue-, green-and-white ribbon, marking the official opening of new, 800-square-foot rustic cedar restroom building, complete with a 1,000-gallon rain barrel, cheers went up from those gathered to mark the occasion, with upbeat comments from several speakers.

“We don’t mind rain in a garden, right?” Sander, in a wide-brimmed hat and jacket to protect against the damp, joked. The cloudy sky over the Thursday, March 17, event in Dagsboro followed a considerable downpour the night before, with wind and droplets that had courteously stopped in time for the ribbon-cutting.

Then Sander proclaimed the day one to take a step forward by doing something special for the Gardens and for all of Delmarva, “because we love it here.”

Read more….

All those involved in the building and ribbon cutting for the new restroom facilities pose for a photo in front of the new restroom facilities during the ribbon cutting event at the Delaware Botanic Gardens.