Inside The New York Botanical Garden
Posted in Photography on March 18 2011, by Plant Talk
Intrepid Garden photographer Mark Pfeffer climbed into a cherry picker and was hoisted 80 feet into the air to capture this shot. And what a shot it is!
The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory From Above (photo by Mark Pfeffer)
Posted in Photography on February 23 2011, by Plant Talk
It may look soft and fuzzy, and maybe even a wee bit cute, but this little cactus in the Deserts of the Americas house in the Conservatory is none of the things. Except maybe a little cute.
(photo by Ann Rafalko)
Posted in Photography on February 9 2011, by Plant Talk
Like a chorus of laughing faces, the Arpophyllum spicatum, is covered in miniscule, nearly-neon pink flowers.
Arpophyllum spicatum in the Conservatory (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Photography on February 8 2011, by Plant Talk
What a tongue-twister of a name for such a dainty flower.
Rosenbergiodendron longiflorum in the Conservatory (Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Photography on February 5 2011, by Plant Talk
In the desert, inside the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory.
(photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Photography on January 23 2011, by Plant Talk
”The time has come,” the Walrus said,
”To talk of many things:
Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax–
Of cabbages–and kings–
And why the sea is boiling hot–
And whether pigs have wings.”
Lewis Carroll – The Walrus and the Carpenter
Cyrtostachys renda Sealing Wax Palm (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Photography on January 22 2011, by Plant Talk
A popular common name for this flower is “Powderpuff.” Very little explanation needed as to why!
Calliandra emarginata (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Photography on January 21 2011, by Plant Talk
In the Conservatory.
Palm fronds (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Photography on January 20 2011, by Plant Talk
In the Conservatory.
Calathea zebrina ‘Humilior’ (Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Photography on January 16 2011, by Plant Talk
A camellia worthy of the French master.
Camellia japonica ‘Imbricata Rubra’ (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)