Inside The New York Botanical Garden
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on March 11 2012, by Matt Newman
No, not the cherries you’re accustomed to. Cornelian cherries, rather. The Japanese cornel, brightly colored in its spot above the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, not only gives us these flirtatious blooms in early spring, but cheerful red fruits later in the year.
Cornus officinalis — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on March 10 2012, by Matt Newman
So, what are you up to this morning?
The Orchid Show — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on March 9 2012, by Matt Newman
Something tells me our remaining odds of snow have dwindled to a scant few percentage points. Not that I’m trying to jinx us, or anything.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography, The Orchid Show on March 8 2012, by Matt Newman
It might not be structurally feasible, but aside from that tiny concern I can’t see why we’re not building everything with explosions of flowers.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on March 7 2012, by Ann Rafalko
Boy, you guys were really saving up your most tropical shots for the last week, weren’t you? There was so much color and drama in this week’s entries, it was really difficult to pick. But pick we did. So without further ado; the last weekly winners in the Caribbean Garden Photography Contest!
Sense of Place Winner, Week Six
Posted in Around the Garden, People, Photography on March 7 2012, by Matt Newman
The blog staff first happened upon Joel Kroin crouched at the entrance to the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, a coffee pot in hand, cutting a peculiar figure as he went about his work so intently. Not only an NYBG Member but a horticulturist and artist, Joel’s interests carry him often between the greenhouse and the studio. He recently reconnected with us to share some of his latest photography.
His coffee pot (actually a makeshift pinhole camera) has since been replaced with a purpose-built wooden model, one that resembles an old-fashioned camera well enough to avoid any suspicion. “Certainly, the Garden staff have been less curious about what I am doing!” Joel says.
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on March 7 2012, by Matt Newman
Viburnum x bodnantense ‘Dawn’ — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography, The Orchid Show on March 6 2012, by Matt Newman
Outside, the chill factor is dawdling somewhere around “I can still see my breath.” Step into the Conservatory, however, and you’ll find yourself closer to the equator. The Orchid Show is our little slice of summer in the tropics.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on March 5 2012, by Matt Newman
As we get down to brass tacks in the Caribbean Garden photography contest, our partners across the pond are already stumping for their next round of entries. And with the caliber of winning participants recently unveiled, those looking to become the next International Garden Photographer of the Year find themselves up against stiff and startlingly talented competition.
2011’s IGPOTY proceedings pulled skillful nature photographers out of the woodwork. Be it through painstaking preparation or the luck of being in the right place at just the right moment, many of the images captured by the multinational list of participants are almost unconscionable in their beauty. Gritty, ethereal, preternaturally real–the winning selections call up these descriptors among others. It’s a smorgasbord of aesthetic eye candy reaching toward the peak of the artform.
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on March 5 2012, by Matt Newman
The paper bush’s common name belies its spring colors.
Edgeworthia chrysantha — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen