Inside The New York Botanical Garden
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on July 15 2012, by Matt Newman
In the immortal words of Jurassic Park’s Dr. Ian Malcolm, “Life finds a way.” …Not that anything has much of a struggle setting down roots in our 250 acres of greenery!
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography, Programs and Events on July 14 2012, by Matt Newman
Wishing a wonderful July 14 to every one of our French friends! And everyone who’s just being French for the weekend, for that matter. Don’t forget that the NYBG will be on 60th street in Manhattan for the Bastille Day NY festivities tomorrow, from 12 to 5 p.m. There won’t be any storming of fortresses to my knowledge, but I figure food, music, and celebration will suffice. Vive le 14 juillet!
Hemerocallis ‘Siloam French Doll’ — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on July 13 2012, by Matt Newman
After I posted the relieving conclusion of the ‘Ray Davies’ saga, commenter Gene mentioned that another pond-dweller, this time a lotus, shared its name with yet another rock star–Scottish singer Maggie Bell. For those who didn’t catch the exchange, I dove in and found what I could of Nelumbo ‘Maggie Bell Slocum’, dubbed not for a rocker, but someone far more horticultural.
‘Maggie Bell Slocum’ was so named for the second wife of prolific water lily and lotus hybridizer Perry D. Slocum, a New Yorker and a long-lived icon in the pond plant world. This one still has stage presence, though, with or without the rock pedigree.
Nelumbo ‘Maggie Belle Slocum’ — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on July 11 2012, by Matt Newman
I was visiting the Conservatory while these planters–one after the next–were being filled in with summer flowers. Monet’s Garden continues to grow and change as the months pass, meaning what you see come October will be entirely different from what you find blooming now. It’s a nice change of palette from one week to the next.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on July 10 2012, by Matt Newman
Quercus rubra — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on July 9 2012, by Matt Newman
Ahem. Just wanted to chime in with a small reminder: this is happening all along Daylily Walk. Right now.
Hemerocallis ‘Red Joy’ — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on July 8 2012, by Matt Newman
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden on July 6 2012, by Matt Newman
Here’s wishing a happy (if belated) Fourth of July to anyone who was too busy with cook-outs and pyrotechnics on Wednesday! It sort of feels like we had two Fridays this round, didn’t it? And I suppose that also means two Mondays, if you want to be a pessimist. In any case, the fireworks continue into this weekend with color of a less combustible sort. So jump into something summer-appropriate and be liberal with the sunscreen: these flowers like it hot!
Seeing as the scene along Daylily Walk is so ripe with painted color, we thought we’d do a little more to highlight the hands-on horticulture behind the daylily. Visit the Home Gardening Center at 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday for a gardening demonstration with one of our staff experts, all set to fill you in on the growing techniques behind this hardy summer perennial. We’ll also share some pointers on many of the latest and greatest Hemerocallis cultivars–with over 45,000 of them to choose from, a daylily obsession can easily become a lifelong passion. (Trust us: our NYBG scientists all but created the craze.)
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on July 6 2012, by Matt Newman
Finally Friday. If you couldn’t find the time to get outside on the Fourth, be sure to prepare for this weekend: sunglasses, sunscreen, a few bottles of water. And do they still make parasols? Maybe one of those, too. Not everyone has the benefit of built-in shades, butterflies excluded.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on July 5 2012, by Matt Newman
If Daylily Walk is our Yellow Brick Road, that would make the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory the Emerald City, right?
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen