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We’ve got Wollemi pine in the conservatory at Matthaei Botanical Gardens!By now you’ve seen the stories about the Wollemi pines in Australia that were threatened by and then saved from the bushfires there by a team of Australian firefighters. The Wollemi...

A matching grant from the U.S Fish & Wildlife Service’s Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program will help us restore native ecosystems at Matthaei-Nichols this winter. The program works with landowners and conservation partners to restore wetland,...

Thanks to a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the conservatory at Matthaei Botanical Gardens will be getting some significant upgrades and renovations this year. The photo above shows the area under the "bridge" in...

Large-scale photographs offer an up-close look at the rare plants and habitats of the Great Lakes Gardens at Matthaei The full story of the Great Lakes goes beyond the storied lakes themselves to include the area’s habitats, ecosystems, and plants. The...

Photographer John Metzler spends a lot of time at Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum searching for nature scenes to capture with his camera. Take a look at these winter scenes of the botanical gardens that John sent us from November...

Matthaei-Nichols Bonsai Collection Specialist Carmen Leskoviansky (left), works with the Tom and Zach as part of the Crataegus Bonsai seasonal team. Here they're cutting off old needles on the stronger shoots of a ponderosa pine they were working on....

Everyone’s heard of ginseng. But it’s getting harder to find in the wild. And it’s a bit tricky to grow. Those are two reasons why in 2015, Steve Parrish, Matthaei-Nichols natural areas manager, decided to try and propagate plants from seeds collected from...

Our twice-a-year artist markets bring great art from local artists to Matthaei Botanical Gardens for a one-day show. Shop from a curated assortment of artists, featuring a broad array of nature-inspired and garden-centric pieces in many media such as...

For this exhibit, the artists explore alternative perspectives from human eyes, dialing the focus in on elements of the natural world that we consider “small.” See below for a list of participating artists and a gallery of their work (not all...

By Joseph MooneyEvery garden is a kind of nature-in-miniature. That’s true of the Marie Azary Rock Garden at Matthaei, where a transformation is taking place this fall. The space, tucked between the Gateway and Great Lakes gardens at Matthaei, is named...