Inside The New York Botanical Garden
Posted in Photography on February 18 2014, by Matt Newman
I know everything beyond your window is likely a wash of winter’s best efforts right now, but the color will find its way back soon.
In the Nolen Greenhouses for Living Collections — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on December 10 2013, by Ann Rafalko
If the Perennial Garden were a symphony, this planting would be the “orange movement,” if you will.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on October 28 2013, by Ann Rafalko
Japanese Maple (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on August 8 2013, by Matt Newman
Because I figured yesterday’s helping of lollipop-colored milkweed wasn’t enough for our collective visual appetite. Have some orange milkweed to start what I hope will be a lovely Thursday.
Asclepias tuberosa — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on November 16 2012, by Matt Newman
I spent about an hour wandering yesterday, half of that in the Forest and the collections surrounding. It’s impressive–how insulated and peaceful the place is when you have a late afternoon to while away there.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in What's Beautiful Now on October 25 2012, by Matt Newman
We gush over green for so much of the year that a quick break from the norm is more than welcome. So this week, I’m shifting focus for something a little more in line with the exuberance of the Halloween season, a hue that our resident photographer, Ivo Vermeulen, is all too willing to champion–at least if his favorite pair of garish pants has anything to say about it. I’d show you a picture but I’m under the impression we had to put a ban in writing to keep him from blinding visitors (though it certainly doesn’t stifle this Dutchman’s nationalism). In any case, it’s tough to live year-round in the northeast and not have at least the shadow of a soft spot for the fiery orange of autumn.
The changes around the NYBG are not always subtle. The tulip trees have slipped into their lemon yellows, and the boughs fringing the Forest follow suit with a citrus spectrum of their own. In the Home Gardening Center, neon orange chrysanthemums carry the torch for the flowers. It won’t be long now before we’re walking the Garden trails beneath an entirely different canopy, one splashed with all the painted warmth that winter tends to be so stingy with. But for now, we’ll take in all this early orange wonder while the weather’s still playing nice enough to leave our galoshes and down coats stuffed in the closet.
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on August 29 2012, by Matt Newman
Orange to the point that it almost seems to siphon off the color from the foliage around it. Wishing you a happy Wednesday from the Seasonal Border.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on November 9 2011, by Ann Rafalko
Celebrating the subdued hues of fall at the Garden, one color at at time.
Posted in Photography on July 12 2011, by Ann Rafalko
Celebrating the explosion of color that is the summer garden, one hue at a time.
Photos by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on January 4 2011, by Plant Talk
A burst of color to enliven your winter morning.
Lindera erythrocarpa Japanese spicebush in the Azalea Garden (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)