Inside The New York Botanical Garden
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on September 1 2013, by Matt Newman
Of all the terrible Bogart references on all the blogs in all the world, you clicked into mine. Still, I hope this Peruvian lily makes up for it! You’ll find it brightening the Ladies’ Border on this summer Sunday.
Alstroemeria ‘Casablanca’ — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on August 31 2013, by Matt Newman
Sometimes the passions you develop come small and unexpected. I like to think our horticulturists find inspiration in subtle beauties.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on August 30 2013, by Matt Newman
It still baffles me when skeptical gardeners call native plants “weeds.”
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on August 29 2013, by Matt Newman
Magnolia virginiana ‘MVHH’ — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on August 28 2013, by Matt Newman
If you’re walking to the NYBG from the 4, B, or D subway trains, look for the bright-eyed swamp rose-mallows growing in one or two home gardens along the way. You’ll see them here, of course, but finding something so colorful thriving so casually along the city sidewalk is a treat.
Hibiscus moscheutos ‘Luna White’ — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on August 27 2013, by Matt Newman
Coaxing our kiku to life is an exercise in daily tedium, sure, but these nurturing hours add up to some of the most breathtaking chrysanthemum displays you’ll ever witness. The end result is easily greater than the sum of its parts.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on August 26 2013, by Matt Newman
They say the day is what you make of it, so you don’t necessarily have to have the moody Monday blues. This little bluestem seems destined to it, though. To which musician’s stylings does the aptly-named cultivar best relate?
Schizachyrium scoparium ‘The Blues’ — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on August 25 2013, by Matt Newman
Quercus x hawkinsiae — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on August 24 2013, by Matt Newman
Who says florid beauty has to be limited to petals? The hood (or operculum) of this carnivorous pitcher plant holds its own quite well, I think. You’ll find some in our carnivorous plant collection in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, but now is the ideal time to see North American species thriving in the Native Plant Garden.
Sarracenia x areolata — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on August 23 2013, by Matt Newman
Its common name is “sideoats grama,” because the seeds are aligned on one side of the stalk, and the explorers who first recorded it called it grass, or “grama” in Portuguese. So there you go.
Bouteloua curtipendula — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen