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Late fall outside, summer in the tropics inside. As if cued by the swirls of frosty breath, our red jade vine is opening in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, countering December’s chill with a flush of vibrant flowers.
Mucuna bennettii — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
And still the grass holds the fort against winter.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Because I adore lithops, and because it’s not often you get to see these little guys in flower, we break with the fall scenery for one more visual trip over to our Nolen Greenhouses for Living Collections.
Argyroderma patens — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Don’t forget to stop in at our Shop in the Garden today between 3 and 4 p.m. Larry Lederman will be in attendance to sign copies of his brand new photography book, Magnificent Trees of the New York Botanical Garden, highlighting the many world-class specimens that we have here–throughout the four seasons.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
There are still so many picturesque elements to the Home Gardening Center after the last fall flowers have faded. Not pictured: the hundreds of bulbs being planted here for spring’s explosion of florescence.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
The Rock Garden — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
I feel like fall is the ideal time for sitting and observing–for taking it in without having to fill the empty space with idle chatter. Which leads me to today’s mission: find a bench somewhere in the Garden, and spend at least 20 minutes sitting quietly. As my high school guitar teacher used to call it, see if you can “lift” the individual components of nature’s soundtrack; that is, isolate a single bird’s song, or one tree’s creaking branches among the rest. Listen to the wind a while.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen