Inside The New York Botanical Garden
Posted in Photography on October 29 2015, by Matt Newman
Our Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) festivities continue all this weekend with live music, food, dance, face painting, and all the colorful trappings of this important—and fun!—holiday. This is the closing weekend of our FRIDA KAHLO exhibition, so don’t sit home!
Face Painting in the Perennial Garden – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on October 28 2015, by Matt Newman
Would you have guessed at first glance that such a scene—the only freshwater river in New York City—could be found in the Bronx?
The Bronx River in the Thain Family Forest – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on October 23 2015, by Matt Newman
Can you spot the busy little guest making a racket in the Native Plant Garden?
A woodpecker in the Native Plant Garden – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on October 22 2015, by Matt Newman
Here’s a first look at our gargantuan record-breaker from North American grower Ron Wallace, a 2,230-lb. pumpkin from Rhode Island that you can see here now and throughout the next two weekends of our Giant Pumpkin Carving and display!
North America’s heaviest pumpkin in the Visitor Center – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on October 21 2015, by Matt Newman
The last of the giant pumpkins arrives at the Garden today, just in time for our Giant Pumpkin Carving Weekend and Día de los Muertos celebration beginning this Saturday. If you’ve never seen Ray Villafane and his crew of expert sculptors turn these monstrous fruits into works of spooky art, it’s not to be missed!
This year’s record-breaking pumpkin from the North American crop, weighing in at 2,230 pounds, is right here at the Garden—come check it out!
Giant pumpkins in the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on October 20 2015, by Matt Newman
View the Haupt Conservatory through the lens of autumn. It’s not hard to find a vantage point nowadays.
The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on October 19 2015, by Matt Newman
Waterfall in the Thain Family Forest – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on October 16 2015, by Matt Newman
In the Perennial Garden – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in People on October 14 2015, by Matt Newman
It was a glitzy evening of dinner, dancing, and fall-blooming color that brought a crowd of well-dressed attendees to the Garden on Thursday, October 8, each person there to toast our guests of honor: the unmatched actress and rosarian, Julie Andrews, and NYBG‘s own Curator of the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, Stephen Scanniello.
The 25th anniversary of the Rose Garden Dinner saw guests enjoying cocktails and exclusive tours among the autumn blooms of the Rose Garden, followed by an elegant dinner served in the Garden Terrace Room. A special presentation by Scanniello on the sustainable gardening practices that support NYBG’s rose collection was matched with the unveiling of a new display of Andrews’ favorite rose cultivar, ‘Sally Holmes’.
Guests closed out the night with mingling, drinks, and dancing, while the proceeds from the dinner went toward supporting the Fund for Horticulture and the continued preservation and development of the historic Rockefeller Rose Garden. Thanks goes out to everyone who joined us!
Posted in Photography on October 13 2015, by Matt Newman
In the Native Plant Garden – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen