NYBG in the News — 5/12/2008

Posted in NYBG in the News on May 12 2008, by Plant Talk

Millions and Billions of Trees. . .

The Associated Press covered the Garden’s TreeBOL project to collect DNA samples of every tree on the planet. The article featured a photo of Dr. James Miller, Dean and Vice President for Science at The New York Botanical Garden, and quotes by Garden scientist Dr. Damon Little and Board Member Thomas Lovejoy.

The New York Times’  City Room Blog referenced Jessica Arcate, the Garden’s Curator of Woody Plants, in a discussion about the Million TreesNYC program that the Garden is participating in. Last month, the Garden, with help from 250 volunteers from St. John’s University, planted 500 trees as part of the program, designed to create the first environmentally sustainable, 21st-century city on Earth.

Antiques and Arts Weekly is getting excited about the next major exhibition at the Garden, Moore in America. The weekly publication, covering the antiques and arts trade, discusses the upcoming sculpture exhibition and features three nice photographs.

The New York Times Science Q&A reached out to the Garden’s Marc Hachadourian, Curator of Glasshouse Collections, to ask him a question about the longevity of amaryllis orchids. Marc offered some easy orchid care tips as well as recommendations on which type of amaryllis is for you.

Bellewood Gardens, the Web site of Garden consultant and popular instructor Judy Glattstein, featured Darwin’s Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure on the site. In a lush, photo-laden post, Judy detailed the blossoming cherry trees and tulips as well as the Darwin exhibition. Described as The New York Botanical Garden’s maven of geophytes (the rubric that encompasses “bulbous, tuberous, cormous, and rhizomatous plants”), she is an award-winning author on water gardening, shade gardening, bulbs, and more. Her latest garden book is Bulbs for Garden Habitats, published by Timber Press in 2005.