Morning Eye Candy: A Very Rare View
Posted in Photography on August 2 2011, by Ann Rafalko
Here is a view of the Waterlily Pool that you will never get, no matter how many times you visit the Garden.

Under the Lotus (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Inside The New York Botanical Garden
Posted in Photography on August 2 2011, by Ann Rafalko
Here is a view of the Waterlily Pool that you will never get, no matter how many times you visit the Garden.
Under the Lotus (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Photography on August 1 2011, by Ann Rafalko
Some flowers are so incredible, they simply require portraits.
Passionflower (Passiflora) photos by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on July 31 2011, by Ann Rafalko
Brimming the trees with song
they flood July, spill over into
August pulsing lovecries,
cicadas here …
In the Changing Light ~ Carter Revard
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on July 30 2011, by Ann Rafalko
Mandevilla sanderi ‘Red Riding Hood’ (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Photography on July 28 2011, by Ann Rafalko
The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory Courtyard Pool (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Photography on July 27 2011, by Ann Rafalko
Hibiscus ‘Kopper King’ (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Photography on July 25 2011, by Ann Rafalko
Not the Rockies. Not the Adirondacks. Not the Appalachians. This is the Bronx.
Wilderness (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
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Posted in Around the Garden on July 24 2011, by Ann Rafalko
What’s macro Hemerocallis? Nope, not a superhero. It’s some really cool macro shots of daylilies.
Hemerocallis ‘Chateau Defleur’
Hemerocallis ‘Greta’
Hemerocallis ‘Erin Praire’
Photos by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on July 23 2011, by Ann Rafalko
The rosy-hued beauties didn’t get the memo that Summer Color Week was last week!
Echinacea purpurea ‘Vintage Wine’
Coreopsis ‘Garnet’
Hibiscus ‘Sweet Caroline’
Photos by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on July 22 2011, by Ann Rafalko
And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?
Bed in Summer ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Sky Over the Conservatory (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Special thank you to Twitter user @oregonclematis, aka Linda Beutler, for the poem suggestion!