Cape Fear Botanical Garden

11/12/2025

🎄✨ Be Part of the Magic at Holiday Lights! ✨🎄

Cape Fear Botanical Garden is looking for cheerful, reliable volunteers to help bring Holiday Lights at the Garden to life! From greeting guests to assisting with activities and creating a welcoming atmosphere, volunteers help make this beloved tradition shine.

If you love the holidays, twinkle lights, and spreading joy, we’d love to have you on our team.

🌟 Learn more and fill out our Volunteer Interest Form online: https://forms.gle/buPUnXTCMNJWsChu7

Come share the season with us — and help make this year’s event brighter than ever!

11/10/2025

Cape Fear Botanical Garden is proud to offer a daily military discount for active-duty service members, veterans, and their families. Just show a valid military ID at entry and enjoy General Admission to the Garden’s trails, river views, and play areas—any day of the year.

This Veterans Day week, we extend our heartfelt thanks for your service and sacrifice. We’re honored to be a place of peace, connection, and nature for our military community.

CFBG will be open 9a-5p on Tuesday, November 11.

Learn more about visiting the Garden: capefearbg.org/plan-visit

11/10/2025

Join us for a creative escape in our Harmony Haven: Pressed Leaf Art workshop. In this hands-on session, you’ll learn how to showcase the natural beauty of leaves through pressing and artistic arrangement.

* Thursday, Nov 13 * 6-7:30pm

Please preregister at capefearbg.org/event/harmony-haven-pressed-leaf-art-workshop/

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Also Happening in the Garden This Week:
* Monday, Nov 10: Homeschool Folk Art Painting: Butterflies & Moths
* Tuesday, Nov 11: Tai Chi
* Thursday, Nov 13: Mushrooms & Microbes Seminar
* Thursday, Nov 13: Yoga
* Saturday, Nov 15: Lantern Making Workshop
* Saturday, Nov 15: Family Program - Recycled Robots

Learn more about all Garden activities at capefearbg.org/events

11/06/2025

11/06/2025

Dear Santa,

This year, I’ve been mostly good. I’ve watered my plants (most of them), recycled, and stopped to smell the flowers—literally.

So instead of more socks or another coffee mug, I’m wishing for something a little greener… a Cape Fear Botanical Garden Membership! 🌿

It’s the gift that keeps on giving—beautiful gardens, peaceful walks, and a full calendar of events all year long.

P.S. You can grab my membership at capefearbg.org/memberships/. 🎁

11/05/2025

Workshop at CFBG: Air Plant Jelly Fish Terrarium

Discover the fascinating world of air plants and the clever ways they thrive without soil. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll explore their unique adaptations and then create your very own air plant jellyfish — a stunning blend of nature and art!

Using sea urchins, shells, driftwood, and live air plants, you’ll design a piece that looks as if it floated right out of the ocean.

Guided by our expert environmental educator, you’ll learn:
🌱 How to choose and care for air plant varieties
🎨 Design techniques for creating eye-catching terrariums
💧 Tips to keep your air plant thriving all year long

You’ll leave with a custom air plant jellyfish terrarium and new inspiration for bringing nature indoors.

📍 Saturday, Nov 8 * 2-4p
🪴 All materials included
🎟️ Please Preregister: capefearbg.org/event/air-plant-jelly-fish-workshop/

It’s part science, part art — and 100% beautiful.

11/04/2025

Kid’s Night Out: Moon Mission at the Garden! This month, we’re blasting off for a moon adventure! 🚀

Kids ages 8–12 will explore craters, moon phases, and even the mysterious “dark side of the moon” through hands-on science, stargazing, and an after-dark exploration of the Garden.

We’ll wrap up the night around the campfire with s’mores — because every good space mission deserves a sweet landing.

📅 Friday, Nov 7. 6-9p
📍 Meet at the Classroom (main entrance & Gift Shop closed during event)

This program is part of our Kid’s Night Out in the Garden Series — a monthly chance for parents to enjoy a night off while kids dive into nature’s coolest mysteries.

No same-day registration is available, so plan your spacewalk soon!

capefearbg.org/event/kids-night-out-moon-walk/

11/03/2025

A big round of applause to all the ghosts, ghouls, and garden creatures who showed off their creativity at Halloween at the BOOtanical Garden — you made this year’s event unforgettable!

And special congratulations to our KidzFirstPediatrics Costume Contest winners:

🏆 Overall Winner: The Wednesdays
🎃 Kids Costume Winner: Gremlin Baby

You brought the spooky, the silly, and the spectacular — and we loved every minute of it!

If this is you, please reach out to our Guest Services Team to claim your prize:
🎟️ Two tickets to Holiday Lights at the Garden 2025!

Thank you to everyone who joined the fun — and to Kidz First Pediatrics for helping us celebrate the magic of Halloween in true BOOtanical style!

11/02/2025

November is packed with exciting events at Cape Fear Botanical Garden! 

From hands-on workshops and family art nights to painting classes and self-exploration of the fall foliage, there’s something for everyone to enjoy.  Whether you're looking to relax, get creative, or explore history, you’ll find plenty of reasons to visit the Garden this month!

See the full calendar of event at capefearbg.org/events

Nov 5: Wreath Making Workshop
Nov 6: Family Art Night - FULL
Nov 7: Kids Night Out
Nov 8: Air Plant Jelly Fish Craft
Nov 10: Folk Art Painting
Nov 13: Mushrooms & Microbes
Nov 13: Pressed Leaf Art
Nov 15: Lantern Making
Nov 15: Family Program: Robots
Nov 19: Seed Savers Workshop
Nov 20: Sip & Paint
Nov 21: Poinsettia Seminar
Nov 22: Adult Night Hike

Also check out our weekly Yoga & Tai Chi classes, plus regular Preschool Workshops, Nature Tales Storytime & More

11/01/2025

🧸✨ Don’t Miss Your Chance to Win a Webkinz®! ✨🧸

The Garden Gift Shop’s Webkinz® collection has been flying off the shelves — but there’s still one more way to bring one home!

Enter our Webkinz Raffle for just a $5 donation per entry (unlimited entries). Each entry gives you a chance to win one random plush from the 20th Anniversary release!

📅 Raffle runs through November 28 at 4 PM
🎉 Winner announced December 1
📍 Enter in person at the Garden Gift Shop
☎️ Email & phone number required to win
No shipping — winner will pick up their prize during business hours.

These plush friends are limited, so don’t miss your chance to join the fun!

The Garden Gift Shop is Open Monday-Saturday 9a-5p and Sunday 12n-5p.

10/31/2025

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Thank you to everyone who joined us last weekend for Halloween at the BOOtanical Garden. Your laughter, creativity, and spirit made it our favorite kind of celebration.

And don't forget to keep voting for the Costume Contest until Monday morning! Gallery Link is in the comments.