{"id":28053,"date":"2012-08-23T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=28053"},"modified":"2012-08-22T10:01:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T14:01:46","slug":"morning-eye-candy-diy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/08\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-diy\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: DIY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We geek out pretty regularly over the photos snapped in the <a title=\"Home Gardening Center\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/home-gardening\/\">Home Gardening Center<\/a>, but I can&#8217;t tell you how many times I&#8217;ve overheard visitors asking &#8220;What&#8217;s that?&#8221; as they pass by this humble (or not-so-humble, depending on what&#8217;s in bloom) corner of the <a title=\"The New York Botanical Garden\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\">NYBG<\/a>. For those not in the know, this is where we show off our practical chops&#8211;where the home horticulturist can come for some back yard inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>Not only does the HGC house the Pauline Gillespie Gossett Plant Trials Garden and a composting demonstration area, but it&#8217;s also where we host our weekend gardening demonstrations. So if you&#8217;re here on a Saturday or Sunday, get a glance at the schedule before you hoof it into the Garden. &#8220;Free&#8221; and &#8220;super helpful&#8221; are usually the best ways to describe our learning sessions, meaning they&#8217;re worth making time for.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MEC-Home-Gardening-Center-5.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"28054\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/08\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-diy\/attachment\/mec-home-gardening-center-5\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MEC-Home-Gardening-Center-5.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2500,1667\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1345087434&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0015625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Home Gardening Center\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MEC-Home-Gardening-Center-5-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MEC-Home-Gardening-Center-5-1024x682.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-28054\" title=\"Home Gardening Center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MEC-Home-Gardening-Center-5-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MEC-Home-Gardening-Center-5-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MEC-Home-Gardening-Center-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MEC-Home-Gardening-Center-5.jpg 2500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s where we show off our practical chops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":28054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[952,146],"tags":[4669,1512,4640],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MEC-Home-Gardening-Center-5.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-7it","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28056,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28053\/revisions\/28056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}