Archive for December 20th, 2011

Jade of the South Pacific

Posted in Around the Garden on December 20th, 2011 by Marc Hachadourian – 1 Comment

Marc Hachadourian is the Manager of The New York Botanical Garden’s Nolen Greenhouses for Living Collections, a staging area for plants for all of our gardens, yearly exhibitions, and events.

Walk through the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory and you may come upon a peculiar chandelier of a plant, with a vine spiraling right up to the roof and clusters of flowers dangling from it like upturned flamingo bills. You can’t miss the rings of vibrant, coral-red blooms.

Mucuna bennettii
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Morning Eye Candy: Learning the Trees

Posted in Photography on December 20th, 2011 by Ann Rafalko – Be the first to comment

Before you can learn the trees, you have to learn
The language of the trees. That’s done indoors,
Out of a book, which now you think of it
Is one of the transformations of a tree.

Learning the Trees ~ Howard Nemerov

The Language of the Trees

The Language of the Trees (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)