Morning Eye Candy: Not So Plain Plane
Posted in Photography on August 5 2011, by Ann Rafalko
The seed of the London plane tree is anything but plain.
Platanus x acerifolia ‘Pyramidalis’ (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Plant Talk
Inside The New York Botanical Garden
Morning Eye Candy: This is New York!
Posted in Photography on August 4 2011, by Ann Rafalko
Like the wide open prairie, or Texas Hill Country, except it’s the Bronx!
The Everett Children’s Adventure Garden (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
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Fun, Fresh and Simple — Cooking in the Family Garden
Posted in How-to, Video on August 3 2011, by Rustin Dwyer
The Children’s Gardening Program at the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden gives kids ages 3-12 a chance to team-up to plant, tend and harvest their very own plot in the Garden. But that’s only half of the story — of course the most fun part is eating all of that homegrown produce!
Stop by the Family Garden to enjoy cooking demonstrations throughout the week, offering simple but delicious ideas on how to take advantage of our garden’s bounty. Our hands-on activities will help you to remember that growing, preparing and eating good food needs to be FUN!
All this month, the gardening fun in the Family Garden focuses on plants that are pickled. Enjoy the harvest of fresh cucumbers by making your own pickles to take home. For a rundown of what’s happening now, check the “plan your visit” section of our website.
Here’s a short video featuring two of the amazing staff members in the Family Garden, Rachel and Annie, showing you one of the easiest dishes around – a simple herb confetti. But as you’ll see, harvesting and preparing the dish is almost more fun than eating it!
Morning Eye Candy: Many Hands Make Light Work
Posted in Photography on August 3 2011, by Ann Rafalko
The kids in the Garden’s Summer Children’s Gardening Program in the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden learn a plethora of lessons about gardening, food, health, and teamwork. Go kids!
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Morning Eye Candy: A Very Rare View
Posted in Photography on August 2 2011, by Ann Rafalko
Here is a view of the Waterlily Pool that you will never get, no matter how many times you visit the Garden.
Under the Lotus (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Morning Eye Candy: Passiflora Portraiture
Posted in Photography on August 1 2011, by Ann Rafalko
Some flowers are so incredible, they simply require portraits.
Passionflower (Passiflora) photos by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Morning Eye Candy: In the Changing Light
Posted in Photography on July 31 2011, by Ann Rafalko
Brimming the trees with song
they flood July, spill over into
August pulsing lovecries,
cicadas here …
In the Changing Light ~ Carter Revard
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Morning Eye Candy: Flowery Furnace
Posted in Photography on July 30 2011, by Ann Rafalko
Mandevilla sanderi ‘Red Riding Hood’ (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Video Plant Profile: Buckeyes ”Buck” the Trend
Posted in Video on July 28 2011, by Rustin Dwyer
In the heat of the summer (and this one has especially been hot!), there are some beautiful blossoms to behold. From daylilies, hibiscus, waterlilies and of course roses, summer gardens everywhere are swelling with colorful buds. But the same just can’t be said for most woody plants.
That’s what makes the subject of this week’s video plant profile so special. In the summer heat, most woody plants have no showy flowers, but the genus Aesculus, more commonly known as buckeye, “buck”s that trend.
Check out the video below hosted by Plant Records Manager Jon Peter as he covers a few of the many types of Aesculus you can see at the Garden, and who knows, maybe in your own backyard?
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Morning Eye Candy: Reflective
Posted in Photography on July 28 2011, by Ann Rafalko
The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory Courtyard Pool (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)