Morning Eye Candy: Lightning Strikes
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on January 2 2012, by Matt Newman
Figuratively speaking, of course.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Plant Talk
Inside The New York Botanical Garden
Looking Back: November 2011
Posted in Around the Garden on January 1 2012, by Matt Newman
After October’s storm and the following clean-up period, we hopped right into November’s seasonal preparations with the Holiday Train Show. Our kiku bid a fond “adieu” as they made room in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory for New York’s most cherished winter tradition. And did I mention the leaves on the trees? Fall had arrived–loud, clear, and bursting with the warmest hues.
Paul Busse and his team at Applied Imagination are nothing if they’re not diligent (and brilliantly creative). Setting up the Holiday Train Show takes no small amount of time or ingenuity, and for the last 20 years they have continued to produce one of New York’s most delightful holiday experiences. This year, we set up a time-lapse camera in the Conservatory so our readers could get a better idea of just how the whole process goes down.
Morning Eye Candy: New Year
Posted in Around the Garden on January 1 2012, by Ann Rafalko
From all of us, to all of you, our best wishes for a new year full of clarity, health, happiness, and plants!
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Looking Back: October 2011
Posted in Around the Garden on December 31 2011, by Matt Newman
October was a hectic month of stunning Japanese floral displays, pumpkin zombies, changing foliage and a holiday weekend punctuated by tragedy. But if we’re pros at anything, it’s picking ourselves up by the bootstraps! Horticulture can–after all–be an unpredictable business.
After many long months of preparation, the NYBG‘s Fall Flowers of Japan exhibition continued throughout October with a focus on kiku, a centuries-old chrysanthemum tradition requiring patience, skill, and an eye for aesthetic. Our very own Ann Rafalko even took it upon herself to explain just how the talented horticulturists behind these artful blooms do it!
Morning Eye Candy: Ball Drop
Posted in Photography on December 31 2011, by Ann Rafalko
The countdown has begun! At The New York Botanical Garden, we’ll be dropping a much smaller ball when the clock strikes midnight and we usher in 2012. Where will you be tonight when the ball drops?
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Looking Back: September 2011
Posted in Around the Garden on December 30 2011, by Matt Newman
In September, The New York Botanical Garden welcomed back much-loved chef and champion of orange Crocs, Mario Batali, for the rewards of his Edible Garden planted back in April. Mario’s recipes went up on Plant Talk throughout the following weeks, proving a delectable success!
Morning Eye Candy: Daisy Days
Posted in Photography on December 30 2011, by Ann Rafalko
No, I’m not going crazy, I do realize that it’s winter. But inside the Nolen Greenhouses our horticulturists are already getting ready for spring and summer, and that means daisies! Cheery, aren’t they?
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Looking Back: August 2011
Posted in Photography on December 29 2011, by Ann Rafalko
In August, we took a paddle-with-a-purpose down the Bronx River, New York City’s only freshwater river.
Morning Eye Candy: To The Point
Posted in Photography on December 29 2011, by Ann Rafalko
Foliage is always prettier with water drops.
NYBG Confidential: Florist Emily Thompson, Fresh from The White House
Posted in Adult Education, Programs and Events on December 28 2011, 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.
Fresh off her exciting holiday decor project for the First Family, floral designer Emily Thompson will be making time in 2012 to stop by The New York Botanical Garden and share some of her creative talents.
Thompson’s work is best known for its sculptural and naturalistic elements as inspired by her native Vermont. Her clients are not only among the internationally famous, such as the Obamas, but include her local Brooklyn friends and restaurants as well. Having studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and earned an MFA in sculpture at UCLA, Thompson eventually moved to New York, where she set up her shop–Emily Thompson Flowers–on Jay Street in Brooklyn’s DUMBO district, one of the city’s premier art havens.