The N.C. Botanical Garden will host several events for the public in August.

On Aug. 2, it will hold a workshop, “Local Flora: Summer,” from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. An instructor will give classroom lectures and lead explorations to teach about a variety of local habitats and the summer’s woody and herbaceous plants.
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A redbud floral garden carpet. Photo by Ken Moore.

By Ken Moore

The cool weather extension of the flowering of native trees and shrubs is resulting in a visual overload. The colorful images range from redbud flowers carpeting the ground, to the spectacle of whole roadside forest edges dripping with pale-violet hanging flower clusters of the deadly, non-native Chinese Wisteria, Wisteria sinensis.

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