Inside The New York Botanical Garden
Posted in Photography on April 20 2016, by Matt Newman
Impressionism: American Gardens on Canvas is already shaping up to be a picturesque summer exhibition with all the right touches of classic horticulture—just ask the poppies.
Papaver nudicaule ‘Champagne Bubbles’ in the Nolen Greenhouses – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on January 26 2016, by Matt Newman
Renanthera ‘Twin Star’ in the Nolen Greenhouses – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on December 8 2015, by Matt Newman
The leaves of the orchids in the Nolen Greenhouses see a warm and misty morning while the temperature drops outside.
Orchids in the Nolen Greenhouses for Living Collections – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on December 3 2015, by Matt Newman
Senecio ballyi in the Nolen Greenhouses for Living Collections – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on November 19 2015, by Matt Newman
While the Holiday Train Show is the hot ticket for this weekend, opening Saturday, November 21, don’t forget that Kiku: Spotlight on Tradition is still blooming away in the Nolen Greenhouses for Living Collections through November 29. If anything, these chrysanthemums are bigger and brighter than ever, and the ozukuri, or “thousand-bloom” design, makes for an incredible centerpiece.
Ozukuri (“thousand-bloom”) kiku in the Bourke-Sullivan Display House – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on August 19 2014, by Matt Newman
While our yearly display of kiku—or Japanese chrysanthemums—presents some of the most elegant and delicate floral forms you’ll ever see, the process of raising them occasionally calls for some real muscle. Here, several of our Nolen Greenhouse staffers haul a protective tarp over a batch of young kiku in preparation for this fall’s exhibition.
Posted in Photography on April 4 2014, by Matt Newman
The future leaders of our upcoming exhibitions are growing up in the Nolen Greenhouses for Living Collections at this very moment. To say we’re proud of their efforts is an understatement.
In the Nolen Greenhouses – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Programs and Events on February 25 2014, by Lansing Moore
The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory is bustling with final preparations for the debut of The Orchid Show: Key West Contemporary this Saturday, March 1. Right now, rows and rows of orchids are patiently awaiting their final installation into our carefully arranged island landscape, a theme inspired by the designs of Key West’s own Raymond Jungles. While we wait, you can enjoy a peek behind the scenes in the Nolen Greenhouses, our staging area for nearly every NYBG exhibition.
Karen Daubmann, our Associate Vice President for Exhibitions, gives an overview of the orchids, as well as the myriad companion species that together will help transform the Conservatory into a modernist, Florida-style garden. It should be the sunny vacation we all need right about now!
Posted in Photography on February 21 2014, by Matt Newman
I’m resigning myself, happily, to the flood of orchid photos we’ll be seeing from Ivo over the next couple of months. Everything from the boisterous moth orchids you know so well to elegant jewelry like this, an epiphytic orchid that grows on mossy trees in the Philippines.
Dendrochilum cobbianum – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on February 19 2014, by Matt Newman
Members, if you ever have a chance to join us for one of our occasional tours of the Nolen Greenhouses, think of it as your golden ticket to a fantastical plant paradise.
In the Nolen Greenhouses for Living Collections – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen