Inside The New York Botanical Garden
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on February 11 2012, by Matt Newman
The stars of this year’s Orchid Show are taking their places in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, creating flashes of tropical color on all manner of vertical surfaces. This is the year of the “Vertical Garden,” after all. Take a note–the show starts on March 3!
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on December 6 2011, by Matt Newman
Many of our tropical blooms wait out the cold in the Nolen Greenhouses, carefully tended until they take center stage for the 2012 Orchid Show.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Behind the Scenes, Exhibitions, The Orchid Show on February 23 2011, by Plant Talk
Opening night for The Orchid Show: On Broadway is getting closer by the day, and that means that Garden staff are hard at work wrangling orchids inside the historic Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. We thought you might like a sneak peek before the curtain comes up on this flower show full of showstoppers, star turns, and old favorites.
But that’s not all! The Orchid Show: On Broadway will also feature live music on weekends at the Broadway Cabaret; the opportunity to view rarely seen works by the don of Broadway, Al Hirschfeld, during Hirschfeld’s Broadway Scrapbook; and to attend classes, talks, and tours that will help demystify the art of caring for orchids at home.
Catch the first glimpse of The Orchid Show: On Broadway below!
Posted in Exhibitions, The Orchid Show on January 28 2010, by Plant Talk
Massive Palms Arrive from Florida for Cuba-Themed Installation
Twenty-one Sabal palmetto palms, each over 1,200 pounds and about 15 feet tall, were loaded in Deland, Florida (top photos by John Lubischer), for a two-day trip to New York to be included in The Orchid Show: Cuba in Flower, which opens February 27. On arrival at the Garden last week (three bottom photos), they were unloaded to be planted in the seasonal galleries of the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, where they will create a dramatic canopy effect, surrounded by a stunning display of orchids designed by Cuban-reared landscape architect Jorge Sánchez.
