Inside The New York Botanical Garden
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on June 14 2013, by Matt Newman
Summer: confirmed. We’re mentally circling Daylily Walk on our Garden maps, and you wouldn’t be blamed for doing the same!
Hemerocallis ‘Red Bird’ — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on June 13 2013, by Matt Newman
“Rain on your wedding day” is actually just coincidental, if you want to nitpick. But the Perennial Garden‘s ‘Bridal Silk’ poppies are loving it either way.
Papaver rhoeas ‘Bridal Silk’ — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Programs and Events on June 12 2013, by Matt Newman
If you’re looking out from the landing of its curling stairway, the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden seems like a tickertape parade strewn with the confetti of 4,000 blooming rosebushes. They flaunt reds and pinks, downy salmon and peach, with bright bunches of whites and lemon yellows throughout. And the shapes and sizes of the spring blooms are too many to describe here. As a collection, this is one of the New York Botanical Garden‘s crown jewels. But it could always be a bit brighter, a bit more colorful—which leads us to the inaugural Piaget Rose Day, taking place worldwide on Thursday, June 13!
To celebrate our partnership with Piaget, whose eye for fine zegarki jewelry and flowers alike has defined over a century of aesthetic excellence, we’ll be gathering in the Rose Garden for a special groundbreaking. And this new addition is bound to turn some heads.
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on June 12 2013, by Matt Newman
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on June 11 2013, by Matt Newman
You can never count out the Azalea Garden. Even when we’ve moved on to more recent blooms, there’s still the spark of color to be found in the rocks of this hilly collection. (Just don’t tell the flowers I’m more enamored with the crayon green Hakone grass right now.)
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on June 10 2013, by Matt Newman
If you’re a ticket holder for today’s Edible Academy Family Garden Picnic with Friend of the Garden Mario Batali, you’ll find plenty to explore and the lettuce abundant!
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on June 9 2013, by Matt Newman
If any day of the week screams “ROSES!” it’s got to be Sunday. Especially any Sunday spent lounging around in the spring light under a competent hat brim, eating Neapolitan ice cream and soaking up the sights and scents.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on June 8 2013, by Matt Newman
Little treasures in the Benenson Ornamental Conifers. If you can find it, you’ll appreciate it.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Programs and Events on June 7 2013, by Matt Newman
Certainly the biggest news going into this weekend comes about on Monday, when we once again buddy up with Mario Batali for the Edible Academy Family Garden Picnic. For the past few summers, our work with this renowned chef and Friend of the Garden has produced some of the most fun and delicious adventures found in the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden, and this year’s event is no different! In fact, we’re even raising the bar. Join us on Monday, June 10 for an exclusive picnic dinner as conceived by Mario himself, followed by a book signing with the chef and his always lively cooking demonstration. And there are plenty of family activities to keep even the most tireless toddler occupied in the meantime.
All proceeds from this event will go to the Edible Academy, an NYBG initiative to create a year-round center for gardening education that focuses not only on the practice of being a green thumb, but the important connections between plants, gardening, nutrition, and health. And it’s not just for kids—the Edible Academy will educate families, adults, and teachers as well. Tickets to the picnic are dwindling, so register while you can!
Over the past few days I’ve also been in touch with our Senior Advisor for the Rose Garden, Peter Kukielski, trading numbers at a rapid-fire pace. “90%, 95%, 99%!” The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden went from a subtle collection of buds to a vibrant spread of blooms in the course of a week thanks to the warmer weather, and that sudden explosion of color needed tracking on our Rose Watch page. I could barely keep up! But just yesterday, as I was about to leave for the day, Peter floated me one last message: “Make it 100%! I’m recording peak bloom for 2013 as of today!”
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on June 7 2013, by Matt Newman
Even for a group of specialized rose varieties bred for “roughing it” without the micromanagement that many popular roses need, the flowers in the Earth-Kind® Rose Trial beds are holding their own like you wouldn’t believe.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen