Inside The New York Botanical Garden
Posted in Photography on January 24 2014, by Ann Rafalko
The cacti of our desert houses, when looked at in the right way, can present a sort of cityscape in miniature.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
In the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory
If you love taking photographs of plants like this, don’t forget to enter our Tropical Paradise Photography Contest!
Posted in Photography on January 23 2014, by Ann Rafalko
Walking into the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory can be a shock to the system, in a good way.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Fuchsia microphylla
In the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory
If you love taking photographs of flowers like this, don’t forget to enter our Tropical Paradise Photography Contest!
Posted in Photography on January 22 2014, by Ann Rafalko
It’s a black and white world.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on January 21 2014, by Ann Rafalko
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Passiflora ‘Grace Ann’
In the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory
Posted in Photography on January 20 2014, by Ann Rafalko
Something about this beautiful South African succulent makes me think of water balloons. Or maybe bubble wrap*?
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Haworthia cymbiformis var. cymbiformis f. planifolia variegata
In the Nolen Greenhouses for Living Collections
* Please remember to never touch (or climb!) any of our plants. Many of them are very sensitive, fragile, or old. Thank you!
Posted in Photography on January 19 2014, by Ann Rafalko
Need a break from winter? You’re in luck. Tropical Paradise–with all its sultry warmth and hot colors–is back!
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Gloxinia sylvatica
Posted in Photography on January 18 2014, by Ann Rafalko
Shades of green.
Epidendrum coriifolium
In the Nolen Greenhouses for Living Collections
Posted in Photography on January 17 2014, by Ann Rafalko
You’ve seen them before, holes in an otherwise solid sheet of ice, formed by moving water, either from a spring or an aerator. But did you know they have a name? Welcome to your new favorite piece of trivia: They’re called Symmes Holes (see the bottom of this story for an explanation).
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
In the Native Plant Garden
Posted in Photography on January 16 2014, by Ann Rafalko
It took me a few minutes to figure out what this photograph was. It turns out, you have to kind of shift perspective. At first I though it was frost trapped in tire tracks made in mud. Then I realized it was frost on a much grander scale, like on the scale of a gorge and a river.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
The Bronx River Gorge
Posted in Photography on January 15 2014, by Ann Rafalko
There’s something about this photograph that reminds me of the kind of old botanical print you can find hidden at the back of a good thrift store. It looks as if it was printed originally in black and white, and then the colors were filled in by hand with watercolor. This is a very long winded way of saying, I really like this one!
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Sansevieria kirkii var. pulchra, a type of ‘snake plant’
In the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory