Inside The New York Botanical Garden
Posted in Photography on August 11 2011, by Ann Rafalko
Some plants have such boastful names. If you’re calling a plant as humble as the bean ‘King of the Garden’ it had best be a great bean!
Phaseolus lunatus ‘King of the Garden’ (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Around the Garden on August 10 2011, by Ann Rafalko
It’s a beautiful day to buy seasonal, farm-fresh produce from our fantastic vendors at the Botanical Garden Greenmarket. The Greenmarket is open today until 3 p.m. Come by to pick up eggplants, cantaloupe, peaches, cherries, and blackberries and visit Spanish Paradise: Gardens of the Alhambra before it closes on August 21!
Gajeski Produce has bunches of sunflowers to decorate your dinner table, corn, zucchini, cucumbers, squash, and field grown tomatoes in all colors. Greens also abound– lettuce, broccoli, and scallions along with fresh herbs basil and cilantro. Don’t forget to pick up some eggs they brought fresh from Feather Ridge Farm.
Migliorelli Farm has carrots, beets, radishes, fennel, and turnips–good kitchen standards to stock up on. More interesting greens like dandelion, collards, escarole, fennel, kale, chard, mustard, and bok choy are available, too. Apples and corn are beginning to become a regular presence.
Local honey can be purchased from The Little Bake Shop. Pies of all sorts-cherry, blueberry, apple, and raspberry in the Linzer tart and other sweets are perfect for sharing.
Bread Alone has sourdough, multigrain, and foccacia breads ready for sandwich fillings. Raisin nut, ciabatta, and peasant rolls are a compliment to any meal. Muffins, tarts, danishes, cookies, and scones make for nice treats.
Red Jacket Orchard has delicious sweet red cherries, small apricots, sugar plums, apples, jams, and ice cold refreshing juices.
You can learn more about Greenmarket, part of the Council on the Environment of New York City–one of the largest open-air farmers market programs in the United States–at their booth. Taste what’s fresh at the weekly cooking demonstrations–this week features blackberry-basil syrup.
Posted in Photography on August 10 2011, by Ann Rafalko
This mama duck decided that one of the beds in the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden would be a perfect place to start a new family, so she built a nest right in the middle of one!
Mama Duck says “Quack!” (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Photography on August 9 2011, by Ann Rafalko
The dramatic curves of the genus Lilium.
Photos by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on August 8 2011, by Ann Rafalko
The dahlia may be ‘Bashful,’ but the bee–hard at work–is anything but.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on August 7 2011, by Ann Rafalko
On the Seasonal Walk (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Photography on August 6 2011, by Ann Rafalko
The Rock Garden in Summer (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Photography on August 5 2011, by Ann Rafalko
The seed of the London plane tree is anything but plain.
Platanus x acerifolia ‘Pyramidalis’ (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Photography on August 4 2011, by Ann Rafalko
Like the wide open prairie, or Texas Hill Country, except it’s the Bronx!
The Everett Children’s Adventure Garden (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
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Posted in Photography on August 3 2011, by Ann Rafalko
The kids in the Garden’s Summer Children’s Gardening Program in the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden learn a plethora of lessons about gardening, food, health, and teamwork. Go kids!
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen