One Step Closer to A New Native Plant Garden
Posted in Around the Garden on November 17 2010, by Plant Talk
| Travis Beck, Landscape and Gardens Project Manager, The New York Botanical Garden |
Native plants have always been at the heart of The New York Botanical Garden. The site where the Garden now sits was, in large part, chosen by founding director Nathaniel L. Britton in 1895 because of the site’s 50-acre old growth Forest and its vibrant population of native plants. Britton‘s wife Elizabeth was a passionate advocate for native plants and a founding member of the Wildflower Society, one of the earliest groups dedicated to the conservation of the native plants of North America.
The new Native Plant Garden reached a milestone today. Learn more below.