Inside The New York Botanical Garden
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on February 13 2012, by Matt Newman
I can’t remember the last time I had a sudden craving for ribbon candy, but there it is. More plants await the big move to exhibitions around the Garden in the Nolen Greenhouses for Living Collections.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on February 12 2012, by Matt Newman
Campanula medium ‘Champion Blue’ — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on February 11 2012, by Matt Newman
The stars of this year’s Orchid Show are taking their places in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, creating flashes of tropical color on all manner of vertical surfaces. This is the year of the “Vertical Garden,” after all. Take a note–the show starts on March 3!
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Exhibitions on February 10 2012, by Matt Newman
It almost felt like winter this week. Almost. With a breezy evening of light flurries in the city (I actually had to use my ice scraper for once) the temperatures dropped just enough for us to pretend we weren’t leapfrogging one of the year’s most obvious seasons. And this weekend’s weather report suggests more of the same.
Now going into our third week of the photography contest, the competition is picking up the tempo. The first week’s competitors were joined by several more talented shutterbugs this time around, and all together the group produced a stack of fantastic pictures that had us poring over the results for some time. Turns out that the more brilliant pictures you have to shuffle through, the longer it takes to come to conclusions on who won–it’s worse when the judges can’t seem to entirely agree! It was like Twelve Angry Men in here. But we came up with a fresh batch of eye candy we think will inspire you to try for yourself.
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on February 10 2012, by Matt Newman
The Nolen Greenhouses are a little like Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory when it comes to the fanciful, sans that whole “tunnel of mortifying imagery soundtracked with the mad singing of Gene Wilder” aspect. You can see for yourself whenever we hold the occasional Members Only tour.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on February 9 2012, by Matt Newman
You don’t actually need to bushwhack your way through the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. If that were the case, we probably wouldn’t be holding salsa classes there.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Window Garden Wednesday on February 8 2012, by Matt Newman
There are perks to working in a hive of brilliant botanical minds, all of them within stone’s throw (or email’s hassle) of your desk and generally willing to spill a measure of earthy wisdom for hopeful horticulturists. For those of us who can’t spend every last moment under the gleam of the Conservatory dome, it makes all the difference to color our cubicles with whatever growing things will tolerate an office.
That stands only for those of us who don’t have death’s touch when it comes to leafy things, of course.
This week we’re continuing the long lost Window Garden Wednesday series with a look at the collection of Dr. Jamie Boyer, our Director of Children’s Education and a man with a heap of rocks on his desk (plant fossils, actually). Will this be a dedicated weekly event? Probably not. But I’ll at least try to keep it going until my colleagues in the Library Building start deadbolting their office doors.
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on February 8 2012, by Matt Newman
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on February 7 2012, by Matt Newman
Loropetalum chinense f. rubrum ‘Zhuzhou Fuchsia’ — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on February 6 2012, by Matt Newman
Snowdrops are springing up in abundance at the Perennial Garden, though you wouldn’t guess from their humble white petals that such an unassuming species is the subject of a newfound global obsession. “Galanthophiles” around the world are gearing up for snowdrop conventions that will draw thousands of fanciers from all corners this year. Maybe you’ll empathize with their enthusiasm.
Galanthus — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen