{"id":41977,"date":"2013-11-27T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=41977"},"modified":"2013-11-27T09:58:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T14:58:07","slug":"this-weekend-post-turkey-promenade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/11\/around-the-garden\/this-weekend-post-turkey-promenade\/","title":{"rendered":"This Weekend: Post-Turkey Promenade"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>While we won’t be open on Thanksgiving Day, a fact the Garden’s turkeys are all too fond of, there’s still the entire holiday weekend to go! We’ll be taking advantage of it with the ongoing Holiday Train Show<\/em><\/a>, several tours of specific collections and seasonally fascinating autumn plants, and some fun for the kids in the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s also a perfect opportunity to get a head start on working off those Thanksgiving and Hanukkah carbs before any incoming December feasts you have planned. Of course, there’s no better place to do this than our Forest<\/a> trails. While most of the leaves have already fallen, there’s a certain elegance to the netting of branches that overlays the trails in our 50-acre old growth woodland, and I doubt you’ll find many places in this bustling city quite so insulated from the urban world outside.<\/p>\n

Check out our relaxed schedule below for detailed information on the tours we’ll be having throughout the weekend, and if you’re leaving town for the holidays, here’s to safe and stress-free travels!
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Friday, November 29<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\"The<\/a>\n

Conservatory Tour \u2013 12:30 & 2:30 p.m.<\/b>
\nMeet at the entrance to the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory<\/a><\/em>
\nExplore the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, an acre of plants under glass, with one of the Garden’s Guides. Take an ecotour around the world through 11 distinct habitats, including two types of rain forest, deserts of the Americas and of Africa, and aquatic and carnivorous plant displays.<\/p>\n

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Saturday, November 30<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\"The<\/a>\n

No Bird Walk<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

Native Plant Garden Tour \u2013 12:30 p.m.<\/b>
\nMeet at the Reflecting Pool at the Leon Levy Visitor Center<\/em>
\nJoin a tour guide for an insider’s view of the newly designed Native Plant Garden<\/a>. Enjoy a mosaic of nearly 100,000 native trees, wildflowers, ferns and grasses designed to flourish in every season.<\/p>\n

Conservatory Tour \u2013 2:30 p.m.<\/b>
\nMeet at the entrance to the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory<\/em>
\nExplore the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, an acre of plants under glass, with one of the Garden’s Guides. Take an ecotour around the world through 11 distinct habitats, including two types of rain forest, deserts of the Americas and of Africa, and aquatic and carnivorous plant displays.<\/p>\n

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Sunday, December 1<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\"The<\/a>\n

Winter Tree Tour \u2013 12:30 p.m.<\/b>
\nMeet at the Reflecting Pool at the Leon Levy Visitor Center<\/em>
\nEven in cold weather there\u2019s plenty of interest in our gardens and collections. Join one of our Tour Guides for this walking tour highlighting majestic trees in the winter landscape.<\/p>\n

Winter Bark and Berry Tour \u2013 2:30 p.m.<\/b>
\nMeet at the Reflecting Pool at the Leon Levy Visitor Center<\/em>
\nExplore trees and shrubs for colorful berries. Now that leaves are down, observe the exfoliating and the sculptural aspects of tree bark throughout the Garden.<\/p>\n

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Ongoing Children\u2019s Programs<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\"The<\/a>\n

Holiday Adventures
\n<\/em><\/b>In the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden<\/em>
\nThe Holiday Train Show<\/em>\u00ae continues in the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden, where kids can embark on a journey through a variety of activity train station stops, including an artist’s station, an engineer’s station, and a builder’s station, as well as an educational display of Holiday Train Show<\/em>\u00ae houses. Each weekend brings even more fun with Holiday Parades and Ralph Lee’s Artist Station, a craft studio for families featuring train landscapes and materials kids can use to create their own trains, people, and animals to inhabit the scene!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are worse things you could be doing than walking off your turkey guilt this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":42028,"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],"tags":[4626,449,1075,4628,499,2164,161],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Weekender-header.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-aV3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41977"}],"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=41977"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42037,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41977\/revisions\/42037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}