Inside The New York Botanical Garden
Posted in Photography on November 20 2010, by Plant Talk
It’s the last weekend to experience that spectacular beauty of Japanese Chrysanthemums in the Nolen Greenhouses. Instead of closing today, this amazing exhibition will remain open until November 29!
Mellow Yellow (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Holiday Train Show on November 19 2010, by Plant Talk
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My nephews, like millions of other peoples’ nephews, are obsessed with trains. Obviously, I cannot wait to bring them here to the Garden this year for the Holiday Train Show, and I’m promising them a full-on train adventure.
Posted in Photography on November 19 2010, by Plant Talk
Happy Friday! It’s nearly the weekend, which means we’re just one day away from the opening of the Holiday Train Show. Here’s a little heart puddle to brighten your day.
The Bright Side of a Rainy Day (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Holiday Train Show on November 18 2010, by Plant Talk
Sure, we know it’s not even Thanksgiving yet (somebody better tell Ms. Turkey here to go into hiding for the next few days), but that doesn’t mean we can’t start getting festive here at The New York Botanical Garden!
Friday marks the unofficial start of the season here at the Botanical Gardens when members are invited to take a sneak peek at the amazing Holiday Train Show.
Posted in Shop/Book Reviews on November 18 2010, by Plant Talk
Hannah Elliott, lifestyle writer and blogger for Forbes, has one of the more enviable beats we can imagine; she is tasked with writing about cars, fashion, luxury, and books in a way that doesn’t make “the muscle-heads hate the fashionistas in the process.”
If anyone can do it, Hannah can (Sample tweet: Do not buy the R8 Spyder if you’re shy or unfriendly. People love this car & want to know all about it, all the time. Huge attention getter). She’s stylish without being style conscious, intelligent without being nerdy, and can hang at the test track with even the most die hard gearheads.
And as might be expected, this breadth of interests and versatility of understanding surfaces in Hannah’s list of her “Favorite Things” for holiday gifts from the Shop in the Garden.
Posted in Photography on November 18 2010, by Plant Talk
The Holiday Train Show is almost here! We had a press day on Tuesday and the Member’s Preview is Friday, but you, our loyal readers, get an exclusive sneak peak. Please help us welcome Eero Saarinen’s iconic Trans World Airlines Terminal (now known as JetBlue Terminal 5) at John F. Kennedy International Airport to the Palm Gallery in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory!
TWA Terminal and Jet (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Around the Garden on November 17 2010, by Plant Talk
| Travis Beck, Landscape and Gardens Project Manager, The New York Botanical Garden |
Native plants have always been at the heart of The New York Botanical Garden. The site where the Garden now sits was, in large part, chosen by founding director Nathaniel L. Britton in 1895 because of the site’s 50-acre old growth Forest and its vibrant population of native plants. Britton‘s wife Elizabeth was a passionate advocate for native plants and a founding member of the Wildflower Society, one of the earliest groups dedicated to the conservation of the native plants of North America.
The new Native Plant Garden reached a milestone today. Learn more below.
Posted in NYBG in the News on November 17 2010, by Plant Talk
The New York Botanical Garden has been named one of 10 recipients of the 2010 National Medal for Museum and Library Science Service, the highest honor for museums and libraries in the United States. The annual award, made by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) since 1994, recognizes institutions for outstanding social, educational, environmental, or economic contributions to their communities. The Botanical Garden will receive the National Medal at a ceremony held later in Washington, D.C., and a $10,000 award in recognition of its extraordinary contributions.
Posted in Exhibitions, Holiday Train Show on November 17 2010, by Plant Talk
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Rustin Dwyer is Visual Media Production Specialist at The New York Botanical Garden. |
Thanksgiving is almost upon us and that means one thing at The New York Botanical Garden: The Holiday Train Show is coming!
The artists and craftsmen from Applied Imagination made their annual journey from Kentucky to set up and decorate an array amazing botanical creations and model trains. Right now, they’re busy inside the recently renovated Enid A. Haupt Conservatory They’re putting the finishing touches on in time for opening day this Saturday!
Join director of exhibitions Karen Daubmann for a quick tour of the making of the Holiday Train Show.
Posted in Programs and Events on November 17 2010, by Plant Talk
Poet Seminarian Finds Spirituality, Inspiration in Nature
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Spencer Reece is one of three poets who will read classic favorites as well as their own work during A Season in Poetry, at the Garden on November 20, co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America. Photo by Ruth Salvatore |
I have never been to The New York Botanical Garden; I look forward to being there Saturday for A Season in Poetry. Nature inspires me. I find God in nature. If you think about it, much of the revelations in the Bible all happen outdoors, in nature—Moses coming down from Mount Sinai, Paul falling off his horse on the road to Damascus—very little happens indoors. The outdoors with its plants is rather churchy in its own right.
For the program, I will read the work of others poets of my choosing. I’ll also read one or two of my own poems from among those I’m working on for my second book, “The Upper Room,” which is due out with Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2014. The title refers to my room at the seminary in New Haven where I have lived in the process of Holy Orders for the Episcopal church. There is a small flower bed I can see out my window; it contains purple cornflowers.
Five seminarians live in the house, along with the Dean of the Divinity School, his wife, their child, and their Burmese Mountain Dog. One of our tasks as seminarians is to prepare a meal for the community once a week. It is a dinner for 100 to 150 people. Part of that duty requires cutting some of the cornflowers for the dinner parties. The cornflower is a delicate, easily broken flower, the petals shedding as rapidly as you pick them; something about their fragility speaks to me. The cornflowers look forlorn in their vase surrounded by all the food and people.
November 20th promises the reverse: three poets placed in a crowd of plants.