Juniper Level Botanic Garden

Summer Open Nursery and Garden Days
2024-07-12 09:00 - 2024-07-14 17:00, 2024-07-19 09:00 - 2024-07-21 17:00, 2025-07-11 09:00 - 2025-07-13 17:00, 2025-07-18 09:00 - 2025-07-20 17:00 (America/New_York) | Juniper Level Botanic Garden, 9241 Sauls Rd, Raleigh, NC, 27603, United States
During our Open Nursery and Garden weekends we are open to the public and have horticultural staff available to assist you with finding plants, answer your questions and direct you around the garden as well as free educational programs to help you flourish as a gardener. No appointments are necessary and no tickets are needed during our Open Nursery & Garden Days.

August Showcase Garden Tour
2024-08-07 10:00 - 11:00 | Juniper Level Botanic Garden, 9241 Sauls Rd, Raleigh, NC, 27603, United States
Join us on the first Wednesday of the month at 10AM for an hour long guided tour through the garden showcasing best plants of the season. Get your questions answered by our experts. Free to members, $25 for non-members.

September Showcase Garden Tour
2024-09-04 10:00 - 11:00 | Juniper Level Botanic Garden, 9241 Sauls Rd, Raleigh, NC, 27603, United States

Fall Open Nursery and Garden Days
2024-09-13 09:00 - 2024-09-15 17:00, 2024-09-20 09:00 - 2024-09-22 17:00 | Juniper Level Botanic Garden, 9241 Sauls Rd, Raleigh, NC, 27603, United States

October Showcase Garden Tour
2024-10-02 10:00 - 11:00 | Juniper Level Botanic Garden, 9241 Sauls Rd, Raleigh, NC, 27603, United States

November Showcase Garden Tour
2024-11-06 10:00 - 11:00 | Juniper Level Botanic Garden, 9241 Sauls Rd, Raleigh, NC, 27603, United States

February Garden Tour
2025-02-05 10:00 - 11:00 | Juniper Level Botanic Garden, 9241 Sauls Rd, Raleigh, NC, 27603, United States

Winter Open Nursery and Garden Days
2025-02-21 09:00 - 2025-02-23 17:00, 2025-02-28 09:00 - 2025-03-02 17:00 | Juniper Level Botanic Garden, 9241 Sauls Rd, Raleigh, NC, 27603, United States

March Garden Tour
2025-03-05 10:00 - 11:00 | Juniper Level Botanic Garden, 9241 Sauls Rd, Raleigh, NC, 27603, United States

Trillium, the gateway perennial
2025-03-22 09:00 - 11:30 | Juniper Level Botanic Garden, 9241 Sauls Rd, Raleigh, NC, 27603, United States
Join staff taxonomist Zac Hill on an exploration of toadshades, the woodland genus Trillium, which was his gateway plant into the field of botany. It will begin with a PowerPoint slideshow inside and will then head out into the garden and research areas where we will see a myriad of species of Trillium, as well as a look behind the scenes at the production area, where we will see how we grow Trilliums to sell at Plant Delights. Learn about their taxonomy, how to grow them and a bit on how to identify them.

Sex in the Garden - Propagation Workshop
2025-03-22 10:00 - 16:00 | Juniper Level Botanic Garden, 9241 Sauls Rd, Raleigh, NC, 27603, United States
Come join Plant Delights Nursery production staff as they teach you how to propagate perennials via sexual propagation. This will be an entry level course that covers terminology and techniques used for producing plants via sexual reproduction. This class will be a more in depth and hands on experience into sexual plant propagation than our comprehensive plant propagation course held in spring. Many of our most popular topics like fern production, and hand pollination, will be included. All of the source plants come from our garden collections and production greenhouses so you are guaranteed to take home hundreds of dollars of freshly propagated perennials including rare plants, exotic plants and native plants. Great bargain!

Spring Ephemeral Garden Walk
2025-03-22 14:00 - 16:00 | Juniper Level Botanic Garden, 9241 Sauls Rd, Raleigh, NC, 27603, United States
Many of our native plants flower during the spring season and go dormant before the onset of summer. Join our garden staff to explore many of our fabulous spring ephemerals as we all wake back up from winter’s cold. Juniper Level Botanic Garden has one of the largest and most complete collections of spring-flowering natives so there’s no better location for learning them and the conditions that will lead to success with them in your home garden.

NC State Day of Giving
2025-03-26 00:00 - 23:59 | NC
Support Juniper Level Botanic GardenLaunched in 2019, NC State’s Day of Giving has become a proud Wolfpack tradition. The goal of this annual event is to raise funds for new programs, scholarships, and research programs at NC State. You can help support the future of JLBG by making a tax-deductible donation to the Enhancement Fund on the day of the event in any amount. Distributions from the fund will be used to support costs associated with the operation, maintenance, programs and initiatives of the Juniper Level Botanic Garden (JLBG) at the discretion of the Director, JC Raulston Arboretum. Excess funds may be transferred to the Tony & Anita Avent Endowment for the Juniper Level Botanic Garden at the JC Raulston Arboretum.

April Garden Tour
2025-04-02 10:00 - 11:00 | Juniper Level Botanic Garden, 9241 Sauls Rd, Raleigh, NC, 27603, United States

Build your own bog garden workshop
2025-04-19 10:00 - 12:00 | Juniper Level Botanic Garden, 9241 Sauls Rd, Raleigh, NC, 27603, United States
Bogs are home to many of the most bizarre species of plants on planet earth. Join assistant nursery manager and lead grower, Kevin Stephens as we participate in building our own container bogs to take home and cherish while learning the techniques used to create both in-ground and container bog gardens. Participants will also learn about successful soil mixes as well as long-term care of container and in-ground bog gardens.

Spring Open Nursery and Garden Days
2025-05-02 09:00 - 2025-05-04 17:00, 2025-05-09 09:00 - 2025-05-11 17:00, 2025-05-16 09:00 - 2025-05-18 17:00 | Juniper Level Botanic Garden, 9241 Sauls Rd, Raleigh, NC, 27603, United States

May Garden Tour
2025-05-07 10:00 - 11:00 | Juniper Level Botanic Garden, 9241 Sauls Rd, Raleigh, NC, 27603, United States

June Garden Tour
2025-06-04 10:00 - 11:00 | Juniper Level Botanic Garden, 9241 Sauls Rd, Raleigh, NC, 27603, United States

Southeastern Plant Symposium
2025-06-12 08:00 - 2025-06-13 16:30 | Hilton Raleigh North Hills, 3415 Wake Forest Road, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27609, United States
2025 Southeastern Plant Symposium

Started as a joint venture between Juniper Level Botanic Garden and the JC Raulston Arboretum in 2019, the Southeastern Plant Symposium strives to be the must attend event for plant lovers. The symposium rotates between a focus on woody plants one year and herbaceous perennials the next.

About the Event​

Join fellow plantaholics and horticulturists to rethink and reinvigorate modern landscapes. We’re talking plants outside our backdoors to plants around the world, low input but high impact performers, super-functional and beautiful, native to rare and unusual. Do not miss this two-day deep dive into what’s new and exciting in the plant world.Network with nurserymen, garden designers and fellow plant enthusiasts as you explore groundbreaking horticultural techniques and gain fresh perspectives on the plant world. With expert-led sessions and thought-provoking presentations, you’ll leave the event inspired and equipped with the knowledge to transform your landscape.The 2025 Southeastern Plant Symposium will be two days of incredible, intense programs with a focus on woody ornamentals.For registrants attending the symposium, Juniper Level Botanic Garden and Plant Delights Nursery will be open for visiting and shopping on Wednesday, June 11 from 8:00am to 5:00pm and Saturday, June 14, from 9:00am to 1:00pm, ET.

Advance registration is required. Registration is limited and is considered complete when payment is received.Program cancellations can be made up to two weeks before the program’s start date. A 15% cancellation fee applies.Please email jcraprograms@ncsu.edu for more information about this symposiumCan’t make it to Raleigh? Too busy in June to travel? This event will be live-streamed over Zoom and recordings of the presentations will be made available to all participants after the symposium. There’s no excuse to miss a moment of this spectacular symposium! Learn more and register

The basics of propagation workshop
2025-06-14 10:00 - 16:00 | Juniper Level Botanic Garden, 9241 Sauls Rd, Raleigh, NC, 27603, United States
Our interactive propagation workshop has become one of our guaranteed sellout classes each year. The day-long hands-on workshop will cover an amazing array of propagation techniques including seed, cuttings, divisions, plant breeding, and darn near everything but grafting. The focus of the workshop is perennials, but the techniques can be adapted to most plants. By the time you are finished, you’ll leave with lots of goodies and feel ready to start your own nursery. The class is held in our non-air conditioned shipping shed, so it may be quite hot during the class…dress accordingly.

July Garden Tour
2025-07-02 10:00 - 11:00 | Juniper Level Botanic Garden, 9241 Sauls Rd, Raleigh, NC, 27603, United States

August Garden Tour
2025-08-06 10:00 - 11:00 | Juniper Level Botanic Garden, 9241 Sauls Rd, Raleigh, NC, 27603, United States

Slice, dice, and divide - propagation workshop
2025-08-09 10:00 - 16:00 | Juniper Level Botanic Garden, 9241 Sauls Rd, Raleigh, NC, 27603, United States
Come join Plant Delights Nursery production staff as they teach you how to propagate perennials via asexual propagation. This class will be a more in depth and hands on experience into asexual plant propagation than our comprehensive plant propagation course held in late spring. Many of our most popular topics related to cuttings and divisions will be included. All of the source plants come from our garden collections and production greenhouses so you are guaranteed to take home hundreds of dollars of free, freshly propagated perennials including rare plants, exotic plants and native plants. What a great deal!
