Monet, Roses, Hops, and More!
Posted in Around the Garden on May 17th, 2012 by Ann Rafalko – Be the first to comment| Ann Rafalko is Director of Online Content. |
There is so much going on at the Garden right now, I can barely keep track of it all! The sense of excitement is palpable around our 250-acres, so to ensure you don’t miss a single one, here is a quick digest of all the amazing things happening up in the Bronx.
Monet’s Garden opens this weekend!
Plants, paintings, photographs, and poetry, we’ve got them all! A seasonally evolving recreation of Claude Monet’s garden at Giverny is in the Conservatory. Two original paintings are on display in the Rondina Gallery of the Mertz Library. Photographs of modern-day Giverny are on display in the Ross Gallery in the Herbarium Building. Poems by French Symbolist poets (contemporaries of Monet) are displayed in the Perennial Garden. And there’s more! See it all here. Want deeper insight? Here’s a great article from the Wall Street Journal.
The Roses are Popping!
The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden is bursting into peak bloom a few weeks ahead of schedule. Don’t want to miss a single perfect bloom in this incredible, environmentally friendly rose paradise? Check out Rose Watch 2012, updated each morning by the Rose Garden’s curator Peter Kukielski, who is predicting near-peak this weekend, timed perfectly by Mother Nature to coincide with your visit to Monet’s Garden!
