Contacted by member of the production team , Juniper Level Botanic Garden and Plant Delights Nursery supplied forty - five specifically requested plants for The Starling , an approaching Netflix flick starring Melissa McCarthy , Chris O’Dowd , Kevin Kline , and Timothy Olyphant . A comedy - dramatic play , The Starling explores how nature can help us get through our most challenging times . Lilly ( McCarthy ) , already dealing with grief , rigor , and guilt , becomes comically obsessed with killing a starling that has nested near her backyard garden and begins to harass and aggress her . turn to a local vet , Larry ( Kline ) , the pair strike up an unlikely friendly relationship and work through their own problems together . The movie , directed by Theodore Melfi , is base on a Matt Harris screenplay . The Starling world premiere will be at the Toronto Film Festival in September and is expected on the Netflix docket this surrender . “ I hope our plants made the cut , ” said Tony Avent , founder and owner of Juniper Level Botanic Garden . “ I ’ll be looking for them in the movie . ”
Juniper Level Botanic Garden , a $ 7.5 million gift from Anita and Tony Avent to NC State University , will open two weekends in September for public viewing and plant purchases . “ Each time of year , we schedule two capable garden and greenhouse weekends , ” said Avent .
drop visitation weekend will be September 17 - 19 and 24 - 26 . These are the last public visitation weekend until February 2022 . Admission is free , and hours are Fridays and Saturdays from 8 AM until 5 PM and Sundays 1 - 5 promethium . Nursery sales agreement provide usable funding for the garden .
Established in 1988 on a two - acre tract 12 - miles south of business district Raleigh , not - for - profit Juniper Level Botanic Garden has grown into a 28 - Accho educational , enquiry , and showing garden . Avent has participated in 13 extraneous and 60 domestic plant expeditions over the retiring 25 old age , pile up one of the world ’s most various plant collecting .
“ presently , we have just over 27,000 different kinds of plant , ” explained Avent . “ That makes our botanic garden one of the top five solicitation in the United States . It ’s essential for human society to partake in plants ; it ’s critical that we not allow plants to go extinct . The rarer a plant is , the more it should be share . We trust in start out plants where they will thrive and become abundant . Every plant has a place , and every industrial plant has a purpose . ”
“ We set up an endowment through NC State University . When fully funded , the Juniper Level Botanic Garden endowment will allow us to open full - time as a public garden and a sister to JC Raulston Arboretum , ” said Avent .
Fundraising crusade for Juniper Level Botanic Garden ( tax ID 56 - 6000756 ) operate under the auspices of The Endowment Fund of North Carolina State University , a 501(c)3 non - profits . Donors meet an prescribed receipt for contributions to the stock . For more entropy : Juniper Level Botanic Garden[email protected]www.lbg.org/
