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This Weekend: En Fin de Saison

Posted in Around the Garden on September 7 2012, by Matt Newman

It’s a bittersweet end of season for most home gardeners. There’s that brief interim of cool pre-autumn nights to look forward to, but the vegetable garden will probably start looking a little less like a bountiful Eden, and more like a bedraggled salad. Not that it has to be that way!

Join us this weekend for En Fin de Saison, Sonia Uyterhoeven‘s in-depth demonstration of how you can draw out your harvest just a little bit longer. As the NYBG‘s Gardener for Public Education, Sonia will offer insights into keeping your kitchen table stacked with hardy, late-season fare you might not have considered before. Even better, there’s no registration necessary, and the demonstration will run at 2 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday also highlights our latest lyric exploration in the Salon Series, delving into the oeuvre of Paul Verlaine through the interpretive recitations of three of New York’s most respected poets. Consider it a prelude to the next transition in Monet’s Garden, as we look toward moving from summer palettes to the colors of fall.

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Morning Eye Candy: A Monday by Proxy

Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on September 4 2012, by Matt Newman

And, just like that, the long weekend up and leaves without so much as a goodbye note, dumping us back into the work week with rain clouds as a consolation prize. In any case, hope everyone had a good one! Here’s some sunny summer eye candy to distract you from the puddles.

 Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen