Sneak Peek: The First Rose!
Posted in Around the Garden on April 17 2012, by Ann Rafalko
This just in: The first rose of the year has bloomed in the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden. Let’s hear a round of applause for Rosa blanda!
Inside The New York Botanical Garden
Posted in Around the Garden on April 17 2012, by Ann Rafalko
This just in: The first rose of the year has bloomed in the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden. Let’s hear a round of applause for Rosa blanda!
Posted in Gardening Tips on April 17 2012, by Sonia Uyterhoeven
I walked by a restaurant in my neighborhood and realized it was closing down. Large industrial-sized pots, pans, and trays were piled up on display in the window to be sold off for a bargain the next morning. My eye caught a colander in the midst. I stared longingly at the colander and sighed, knowing that I wouldn’t be around when the doors opened for the sale.
I love collecting good, sturdy cookware for my own kitchen, but my motives that night were different. The large colander would have made a perfect planting container–perhaps as a hanging basket or a round, squat container that would have added an elegant touch to an intimate terrace garden. Unlike the small ones that I buy at retail stores for draining my pasta, this industrial colander was about 16 to 18 inches in diameter. It was crying out for a collection of herbs, sedums, hens and chicks, strawberries or colorful cascading annuals. It even could have become a home to mesclun mix.
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on April 17 2012, by Matt Newman
We now continue our impromptu series on recently-flowering tulip cultivars styled after chatty tropical birds.
Tulipa ‘Silver Parrot’ — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen