Morning Eye Candy: Glow
Posted in Photography on October 23 2013, by Ann Rafalko
Photo by Rafael Moricete Jr.
Inside The New York Botanical Garden
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This Week at the Greenmarket: The Big Crunch
Posted in Around the Garden on October 22 2013, by Ann Rafalko
It’s time for the big crunch! No, not in time (the holidays are still only a blip on the horizon). Nope, it’s time to join with your fellow New Yorkers in the Big Apple Crunch!
This Wednesday, the NYBG Greenmarket is celebrating Food Day one day early. Food Day is a celebration, held annually on October 24, of healthy, affordable, and sustainable food. Since we can’t just move the Greenmarket to Thursday, we’ll be celebrating the Big Apple Crunch in spirit with our own apple crunching fun. Crunch an assortment of apples and choose your favorite local variety (it ain’t called the Big Apple for nothin’), learn apple facts, and indulge in apple fun.
Almost all of our farmers bring apples or apple-based products to the Greenmarket, including heirloom varieties from Migliorelli Farm; amazing ciders, juices, and fruit from Red Jacket Orchards; and apple pies from Meredith’s Bread. And while our friends at Gajeski Produce tend to stick to seasonal produce of the non-apple variety, I’m sure they’ll get into the apple crunching spirit!
Morning Eye Candy: Tiny Skyscrapers
Posted in Photography on October 22 2013, by Ann Rafalko
Orostachys furusei (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Morning Eye Candy: Creeping
Posted in Photography on October 21 2013, by Ann Rafalko
Virginia creeper, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, lends an autumnal air to the Steere Herbarium building.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Morning Eye Candy: Constellation Kiku
Posted in Photography on October 20 2013, by Ann Rafalko
Amid all the pumpkin hubub we mustn’t forget about the phenomenal exhibition Kiku: The Art of the Japanese Garden on now through October 27 in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Morning Eye Candy: Florid Fall
Posted in Photography on October 19 2013, by Ann Rafalko
The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden apparently didn’t get “the memo” about the color of fall flowers.
Floribunda rose Rosa ‘Ebb Tide’ (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Morning Eye Candy: Dew, Dew, Dew
Posted in Photography on October 17 2013, by Ann Rafalko
Morning dew turns fall asters into jewels in the Native Plant Garden.
Symphyotrichum ericoides forma prostratus ‘Snow Flurry’ (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Morning Eye Candy: Pink Saucer
Posted in Photography on October 16 2013, by Ann Rafalko
Anemone hupehensis var. japonica ‘Pink Saucer’ (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
This Week at the Greenmarket: Soup Season is Here!
Posted in Programs and Events on October 15 2013, by Ann Rafalko
Warm days, cool nights. This weather screams for soup! And the Garden’s free, weekly Wednesday Greenmarket has everything you need to cobble together a quick soup for dinner or for a long-simmered stock this weekend.
You can find everything you need to make the best soup ever at the Greenmarket. Produce aplenty is available from Gajeski Produce and Migliorelli Farm. Red Jacket Orchards has apples, pears, and ciders that are an exciting addition to your dinner table. And Meredith’s Bread has rolls for serving alongside your soup, and dessert, too.
How to Track Fall In the Bronx From Your Couch
Posted in Around the Garden on October 15 2013, by Ann Rafalko
In some parts of New York State, autumn has already come and gone. But here in the Bronx? The best is yet to come! How will you know when it’s time to pay us a visit to see the Garden’s 250-acres dressed up in the prettiest oranges, reds, and yellows of fall? With our new Fall Foliage Tracker of course!
The Garden has a multitude of places for you to enjoy the beauty of fall, but if I had to pick just one place you must visit for fall foliage enjoyment, it would be the Thain Family Forest. This 50-acre old growth forest is the largest remaining tract of the woodlands that once covered all five boroughs of New York City. The Bronx River, New York City’s only freshwater river, cuts through it in a dramatic gorge complete with a waterfall. Stand above the river on the Hester Bridge for one of the Garden’s great fall foliage vistas.