Inside The New York Botanical Garden
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on June 2 2012, by Matt Newman
This is what the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden looks like at its best! Can you believe those climbers scrambling over the pergola? And the white and pink clouds of shrub roses filling out the beds between every bordering path. The weather’s looking to be easy-going this weekend, and this kind of pomp and circumstance won’t stretch out forever–just a heads up, New York.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on June 1 2012, by Matt Newman
A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.
And I thought I’d never get to quote Bilbo Baggins on this blog.
Sawtooth Stewartia (Stewartia serrata) — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography, Wildlife on May 31 2012, by Matt Newman
Look to have a bird-brained afternoon as we set aside this beautiful Thursday to celebrate the treetop tweeters of The New York Botanical Garden! We’re flora people, yes, but there’s a majesty (and, at times, comedy) to the diverse fauna of the Garden. Nothing speaks of elegance and grace quite like a juvenile Red-tailed Hawk fumbling its lunch all over Tulip Tree Allée.
If you’re looking to get better acquainted with our feathered friends, stop by on Saturday mornings for the weekly Bird Walk with resident expert Debbie Becker! Binoculars, cameras, and gasps of awe welcome.
Photo by Pat Gonzalez
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on May 30 2012, by Matt Newman
I have to wonder why we don’t have a spring groundhog popping up to predict six more weeks of chilly mornings and refreshing afternoons. Anyone who spent the Memorial Day afternoon in the boroughs will commiserate (at one point I felt compelled to fashion my jeans into capris–only the lack of scissors stopped me). But there’s relief beyond the swamp that is your conveniently central air-free apartment!
Get to the NYBG, find a patch of shade (there’s plenty), and note that an easy Forest breeze beats that rickety floor fan in your bedroom any day.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on May 27 2012, by Matt Newman
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on May 26 2012, by Matt Newman
Loitering in the Rose Garden? Not a crime (during open hours, anyway). In fact, there may be no better place to dawdle. Now’s the time, too–the roses are reaching their peak this weekend!
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on May 25 2012, by Matt Newman
Monet’s Grand Allée — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on May 24 2012, by Matt Newman
I’m making the solemn vow hereafter that not a single, tongue-in-cheek Wizard of Oz reference will make it into this update. I just felt the poppies, with all their resplendent reds, deserved a gallery show of their own.
Papaver rhoeas ‘Shirley’ group
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on May 22 2012, by Matt Newman
Japanese shrub mint. Not what you’re used to seeing crushed at the bottom of your Mojito glass, is it?
Leucosceptrum japonicum ‘Variegatum’ — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on May 10 2012, by Matt Newman
Euphorbia characias ssp. wulfenii ‘Shorty’ — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen