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Morning Eye Candy: Rock Garden

Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on March 17 2012, by Matt Newman

Recognize the Rock Garden? For the past several months it’s been closed for the winter. But come April, we’ll fling open the gates to this 80-year-old sanctuary of all things eye-catching. (The spot is worthy of flinging, or any other momentous verb–it’s just that dramatic and unique.)

Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen

Life on the Ledge: Red-Tailed Hawks at the NYBG

Posted in Adult Education, Around the Garden, Learning Experiences, Photography, Wildlife on March 15 2012, by Joyce Newman

Joyce H. Newman is the editor of Consumer Reports’ GreenerChoices.org, and has been a Garden Tour Guide with The New York Botanical Garden for the past six years.

Walking by the NYBG Library Building yesterday, we spotted a huge Red-tailed Hawk as it swooped across the trees and sailed to the top of a giant oak. During the daytime, these hawks are the top avian predators in our area and very impressive to behold (at night, the Great-horned Owls reign supreme). A group of bird watchers on the path gazed upward with large binoculars and telescopes.

Maybe this bird is a distant cousin of Pale Male, the famous Red-tailed Hawk who settled in Manhattan in the 1990s, defying hazardous urban living conditions and continuing to produce young hawks to this day. Or it could be a cousin of last year’s celebrity Red-tailed Hawk, Violet, who enchanted the residents of Washington Square Park in Manhattan before succumbing to a heart condition. Or perhaps it is one of the Garden’s own celebrity hawks, Rose and Vince, or one of their many, many offspring.

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Morning Eye Candy: Healthy Narcissism

Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on March 15 2012, by Matt Newman

There may be no sign of spring more qualified to herald new buds and blooms than the dewy face of a yellow daffodil. They’re poking up here and there throughout the Garden, where they might as well be waving picket signs announcing that “WINTER IS SPENT.”

Narcissus ‘Maria’ — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen

And the Winners Are … The Caribbean Garden Photography Contest

Posted in Photography on March 14 2012, by Ann Rafalko

Drum roll please, because after six weeks of gorgeous photographs taken during the Caribbean Garden Photography Contest, we finally have our two Grand Prize winners. So without further ado I give you:

The Sense of Place Grand Prize Winner: Mika Sato’s serene shot of the Aquatic Plants Gallery

NYBG Caribbean Garden
NYBG Caribbean Garden by Mika Sato

The Macro Grand Prize Winner: Barbara Reiner’s technicolor shot of a Passionflower

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