Columbus Botanical Garden

🦋 Our first monarch and pipevine swallowtail butterflies of the season have emerged from their chrysalis!

Our education team takes care of caterpillars to use them for some of our educational programs and releases them as butterflies to live in the Garden.

Learn more about our future educational events on our upcoming events page: https://www.columbusbotanicalgarden.org/upcoming-events

Our Seed to Salsa was a BLAST! 🌶️ Little gardeners and chefs had a wonderful time making salsa from the Garden’s vegetable harvest.

Missed this Seed to Salsa? We have another one coming up on July 23rd, 9am - 11am! You don’t want to miss learning about the care of our vegetable garden and making homemade salsa!

Learn more and register here: https://altru64039.sky.blackbaud.com/64039/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=d484040f-292f-40c5-bf4c-12b9f701ed59

Let's congratulate Lauren Klinger in her new role as director of events at the Garden! We are thrilled to have her in this role and look forward to all the amazing things she will do for this department.

Follow Columbus Botanical Garden Weddings and Events to stay up to date with our events team.

And visit our private events page for information on everything we offer: https://www.columbusbotanicalgarden.org/private-events

Congratulations to Lauren Klingler on her recent appointment as the new Director of Events at Columbus Botanical Garden! We are thrilled for her and wish her the best in her new role. Klingler has a Master’s degree in Environmental Science and began her career at the Columbus Botanical Garden by building and leading the Garden’s Education Department.

Read more: https://members.publicgardens.org/columbus-botanical-garden-names-lauren-klingler-director-of-events/

Looking closely at one of the very interesting plants in the Garden for this Macro Monday!

This fruiting shrub features tiny, edible flowers, as seen here. The flowers are said to have a sweet and moderately fruity taste, and the fruit tastes like a blend of pineapple and guava (a really big hint!).

Can you guess this flower from up close?

Photo by Donna East Thornell.