Inside The New York Botanical Garden
Tree Peonies
Posted in Around the Garden, What's Beautiful Now on May 27 2016, by Lansing Moore
The Matelich Peony Collection continues to show off its bright and fragrant blooms across from the Perennial Garden. Across grounds, the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden is beginning to display its spring color in advance of next weekend’s Rose Garden Weekend. View some choice peony and rose specimens from these collections below, and follow the roses’ progress with Rose Watch!
The Rock Garden and Native Plant Garden have entered their lush summer growth already, so enjoy a stroll in the shade of our tree canopy this Memorial Day Weekend. We will be open on Monday during regular Garden Hours.
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Posted in Around the Garden, Gardens and Collections, Photography, What's Beautiful Now on April 29 2016, by Lansing Moore
Happy Arbor Day! There is no better time to show love for trees than during flowering tree season. Right now the crabapples have picked up where the cherry blossoms left off with their own colorful display—and that’s only the beginning of what’s beautiful now at NYBG!
The 25th Anniversary Antique Garden Furniture Fair opened last night with its festive Preview Party, and this weekend’s visitors can admire fine antiques and treasures for the garden and the garden room from 30 leading exhibitors in the Conservatory Tent. On grounds, spring’s progress continues across NYBG’s historic landscape. The Azalea Garden is at 75% of peak color, and the newly-reopened Lilac Collection is debuting its fragrant blossoms for the enjoyment of visitors. View highlights from across the Garden in the gallery below, and plan your visit today!
Posted in Photography on April 25 2016, by Lansing Moore
The first of the Tree Peonies are beginning to bloom near the Benenson Ornamental Conifers. Be sure to pay them a visit this weekend during the Antique Garden Furniture Fair!
Paeonia ostii ‘White Phoenix’ in the Tree Peony Collection – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on June 8 2015, by Lansing Moore
Paeonia ‘Bartzella’ in the Tree Peony Collection – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on May 8 2013, by Ann Rafalko
When the breeze blows just right, the scent of the lilacs mingles with the scent of the tree peonies, and it smells like magic.
Posted in Photography on May 6 2013, by Ann Rafalko
Whoever gets to name the tree peonies has the best job ever.
Paeonia suffruticosa ‘Lotus That Shines In the Sun’ (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Photography on May 2 2013, by Ann Rafalko
The tree peonies are just beginning to bloom. They’re still feeling a little shy.
Posted in Around the Garden on April 20 2012, by Matt Newman
Moss covered paths between scarlet peonies,
Pale jade mountains fill your rustic windows.
I envy you, drunk with flowers;
Butterflies swirling in your dreams.
— Qian Qi, Tang Dynasty
In the words of poet Billy Collins, the lyricists of Imperial China had “nothing up their ample sleeves” as they scribbled down the world around them. There’s a candid linearity to the early Chinese wordsmiths. Never dawdling in the roundabout of ten dollar adjectives or subtlety, they explain what they see with directness and clarity, and in doing so pull the reader into a rich history of images.
Today, standing on the hill overlooking the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden among prim rows of rounded tree peony shrubs, I found the same honest verse in each flower. It’s right there in the names. From time to time I would crouch to part the branches in an effort to see the cultivar titles on the small signs below each plant. Behind the leaves I discovered shaped words, often as straightforward as dynastic verse, at other times more like flash fiction–short stories in a staccato of concrete nouns. Our tree peonies are a lyrical bunch, blooming as they are in this early spring.
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Posted in Photography on May 13 2011, by Ann Rafalko
One of the most common questions we get at the Garden is, “What should I see?” Apparently the answer, “Everything!” is a little too broad for some people. So we try to let you know through this blog, through our What’s Beautiful Now feature, through Flickr, Twitter, and Tumblr what we’re seeing that is astoundingly beautiful right now. And right now, we have two words for you: Tree peonies.
Photos by Ivo M. Vermeulen
The Matelich Peony Collection continues to show off its bright and fragrant blooms across from the Perennial Garden. Across grounds, the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden is beginning to display its spring color in advance of next weekend’s Rose Garden Weekend. View some choice peony and rose specimens from these collections below, and follow the roses’ progress with Rose Watch!
