Morning Eye Candy: Ornaments
Posted in Photography on December 9 2014, by Lansing Moore
Who needs glass baubles with berries like this?
Idesia polycarpa in the Ross Conifer Arboretum – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Inside The New York Botanical Garden
Arthur and Janet Ross Conifer Arboretum
Morning Eye Candy: Reach for the Sky
Posted in Photography on November 13 2014, by Lansing Moore
The trees are just showing off now.
In the Arthur and Janet Ross Conifer Arboretum – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Morning Eye Candy: A Squirrel’s Feast
Posted in Photography on September 29 2014, by Lansing Moore
Quercus coccinea in the Ross Conifer Arboretum – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Morning Eye Candy: Tree-chitecture
Posted in Photography on September 28 2014, by Lansing Moore
The agiri tree’s structures are visually fascinating from any angle.
Idesia polycarpa in the Ross Conifer Arboretum – Ivo M. Vermeulen
A Christmas Conifer: Norway Spruce
Posted in Around the Garden, Gardens and Collections, What's Beautiful Now on December 21 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.
In front of our Visitor Center Café is an amazing specimen of Norway spruce (Picea abies), a species often known for its annual appearance as the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.
Our Norway spruce is part of the Arthur and Janet Ross Conifer Arboretum at the NYBG and was planted around 1940. Its medium to dark green needles are four-sided, resting on branches that gracefully droop down, designed to be flexible in a heavy snowfall.
Norway spruces can grow to as high as 90 or 100 feet, with a lifespan similar to that of a human being. They are native to the mountains and foothills of Northern Europe rather than the U.S., although they have become popular screening plants here. They grow just about one foot each year, which is considered fairly quick.
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