Travis Beck, Landscape and Gardens Project Manager, The New York Botanical Garden
Native plants have always been at the heart of The New York Botanical Garden. The site where the Garden now sits was, in large part, chosen by founding director Nathaniel L. Britton in 1895 because of the site’s 50-acre old growth Forest and its vibrant population of native plants. Britton‘s wife Elizabeth was a passionate advocate for native plants and a founding member of the Wildflower Society, one of the earliest groups dedicated to the conservation of the native plants of North America.
The Garden’s native Forest is home to two distinct populations of these small amphibians: Plethodon cinereus, the terrestrial Redback Salamander and Eurycea bislineata, the aquatic Northern Two-Lined Salamander.
Rustin Dwyer is Visual Media Production Specialist at The New York Botanical Garden.
The New York Botanical Garden is usually closed to the public on Mondays, but that doesn’t mean our groundskeepers and horticulturalists get the day off. Quite the opposite actually. Mondays are the days when the huge projects get done; projects that would interfere with guests enjoyment of the grounds or require large, heavy machinery.
Here’s a short video highlighting the move of a katsura tree (Cercidiphyllum japonicum) from this Monday. It was a pretty big job that required a lot of hands (especially when this little guy jumped out of the rootball!).
Native plants have always been at the heart of The New York Botanical Garden. The site where the Garden now sits was, in large part, chosen by founding director Nathaniel L. Britton in 1895 because of the site’s 50-acre old growth Forest and its vibrant population of native plants. Britton‘s wife Elizabeth was a passionate advocate for native plants and a founding member of the Wildflower Society, one of the earliest groups dedicated to the conservation of the native plants of North America.
The New York Botanical Garden
