Happy Independence Day! The Fourth of July is tomorrow, and another well-deserved long weekend is just around the corner. If you’re looking for something to do in between barbecue and fireworks, the Garden will be open to visitors this Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.. The Garden invites you to celebrate America’s history with the little ones at SousaKazooza! This musical trip through the world of John Philip Sousa will have kids making their own music to celebrate, and it only takes place over holiday weekends.
As summer rolls on, the Garden continues to grow more beautiful each day. Read on for all the ways you can explore the greatest green escape in the city this weekend!
Marcela Bonancio took a big step last summer, followed by a huge leap last winter.
A year after attending the Floral Design Summer Intensive in 2012, Bonancio decided to launch her own floral design business, The Lotus Blossom Atelier, using her business chops from her marketing degree and NYBG education as driving forces, in December 2013.
The Floral Design Summer Intensive laid the foundation for Bonancio’s successful business and floral design skills.
“In my mind, floral design foundations are very important, because without them being in place, all the beauty of flowers just falls apart,” Bonancio said.
The Summer Intensive program instructors are all working New York City-area designers themselves, with a variety of styles and skillsets that translate well to students with different reasons for signing up for Floral Design classes.
Wednesdays at the Garden have been especially appetizing with the return of the weekly NYBG Greenmarket, offering a variety of fresh, local produce and baked goods. This week’s stock includes a variety of refreshing juices and fruit butters, apples, strawberries, cherries, cider and rhubarb on the fruit front. For vegetable lovers, we’re seeing squash flowers, zucchini, cucumbers, radishes in droves, and asparagus to boot.
Baked goods are back again this year in the form of cakes, brownies, cookies, biscotti, and, of course, breads—both sweet and savory. New on the list, you’ll also find some delicious dairy, including milk, cheeses (this week we’re seeing goat and strawberry), and eggs. You can even get goat milk soap!
Among the many available fruits and vegetables at the Greenmarket this season are mustard greens, an Asian staple which can make an excellent addition to your summer culinary routine. If you’ve ever tackled the brining process in the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden during our Dig, Plant, Grow events, and you’ve got a few spare jars on hand, you’re more than ready to try this at home. Read on for the full recipe!
Much of the charm of the Conservatory’s Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden display comes from a glorious assortment of upright annuals. These make tall, statuesque, and often bold additions to any seasonal border. But while we often associate height in both perennial and annual borders with spires that guide your eyes upward—and there are certainly plenty of spires in this Groundbreakers display—what delighted me was the variety of other forms that gave height to the border.
One striking example was the monster-sized umbels of false Queen Anne’s lace, Ammi visnaga ‘Green Mist’. This opulent annual sports large Queen Anne’s lace flowers above ferny foliage. It grows to four feet tall and will create an impressive show whether placed in the middle or back of an annual border. It attracts beneficial insects into your garden and also makes a spectacular cut flower.
Happy Independence Day! The Fourth of July is tomorrow, and another well-deserved long weekend is just around the corner. If you’re looking for something to do in between barbecue and fireworks, the Garden will be open to visitors this Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.. The Garden invites you to celebrate America’s history with the little ones at SousaKazooza! This musical trip through the world of John Philip Sousa will have kids making their own music to celebrate, and it only takes place over holiday weekends.
