Housing over 900 species of plants, Appalachian State’s Biology Greenhouse has spent over a year growing some of the plants that will be at the semi-annual plant sale Aug. 27 through 29.
“Here, the whole building is my responsibility,” greenhouse manager Jerry Meyer said. “My love, of course, is actually working with plants.”
The greenhouse is full of plants that span from eight feet to less than an inch tall. Plants hang from branches and the carnivorous plants sit in pots near an archway with vines weaving through it.
“I spend half of my time actually caring and maintaining our collection of plants and while I’m doing that, I teach volunteers,” Meyer said. “Which is my favorite thing, probably, student volunteers.”
Rebecca Waller, a 2014 Appalachian sustainable development major and biology minor alumnus, said she began volunteering at the greenhouse in the fall of 2013 after taking a botany class and having a lab at the greenhouse.
