{"id":46856,"date":"2014-08-22T11:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=46856"},"modified":"2014-08-22T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T14:16:00","slug":"this-weekend-a-highlight-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2014\/08\/garden-programming\/this-weekend-a-highlight-of-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"This Weekend: A Highlight of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"0814-purple-blossom-thumbnail-PT-250x280\"<\/a>Happy Friday! After today’s rain, we have two days of sunny, mild weather to look forward to here at NYBG. Come admire the splendor of summer before August passes us by completely.<\/p>\n

This weekend features a very special Garden Highlights tour focusing on poisonous plants! A Garden guide will lead two tours of fascinating plant species that with healing\u2014or harmful\u2014properties. When it comes to plants, the line between medicine and poison can be a narrow one indeed, and the myths and facts circulating in popular culture could always use a little more clarification. Learn more about plants’ effects on the body year-round with our award-winning Wild Medicine<\/em><\/a> app.<\/p>\n

Read on for this weekend’s complete schedule of programs at NYBG, including a whole new season of Dig! Plant! Grow!<\/a>\u2014this time focusing on those beloved and vital friends of any garden: pollinators.
\n
\nSaturday, August 23<\/strong><\/span>
\n\"0814-PT-red-flower-banner-570x200\"<\/p>\n

Garden Highlights: Poisonous Plants \u2013 12:30 & 2:30 p.m.<\/strong>
\nMeet at the Reflecting Pool at the Leon Levy Visitor Center<\/em>
\nThe sights and scents of the season flourish across the 250 acres of the Botanical Garden. Join us for a walking tour featuring intriguing plant species with healing and poisonous capabilities.<\/p>\n

From Ragtime to Jazz: The Roots of Pop \u2013 1 & 3:30 p.m.<\/strong>
\n In the Ross Hall<\/em>
\nMusic from the period of Groundbreakers<\/em><\/a>\u2014ragtime, jazz, Broadway, and beyond to Hollywood\u2014had a great impact on American culture. Enjoy a variery of styles in live performances by a trio of artists, including musical producer, pianist, and historian Terry Waldo, featuring the works of Scott Joplin, Eubie Blake, Irving Berlin, and Tin Pan Alley composers such as George Gershwin, George M. Cohan, and Dorothy Fields.<\/p>\n

Film Screening: Yours for a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley<\/em> \u2013 2 p.m.<\/strong>
\n In the Ross Hall<\/em>
\nMany popular music standards of the Tin Pan Alley era (1920\u201349) were written by women, including Dorothy Fields, Kay Swift, Dana Suesse, and Ann Ronell, who were among the most influential songwriters of the time. This PBS documentary includes archival footage, motion picture clips, and rarely seen photographs, as well as performance clips of Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Perry Como.<\/p>\n

Sunday, August 24<\/strong><\/span>
\n\"lily<\/a><\/p>\n

Perennial Garden Tour \u2013 12:30 p.m.<\/strong>
\nMeet at the Reflecting Pool at the Leon Levy Visitor Center<\/em>
\nJoin a Garden Guide for a tour of the Jane Watson Irwin Perennial Garden, which combines a vast palette of colors, textures, flowers, and foliage to create interest in every season.<\/p>\n

From Ragtime to Jazz: The Roots of Pop \u2013 1 & 3:30 p.m.<\/strong>
\nIn the Ross Hall<\/em>
\nMusic from the period of Groundbreakers<\/em><\/a>\u2014ragtime, jazz, Broadway, and beyond to Hollywood\u2014had a great impact on American culture. Enjoy a variery of styles in live performances by a trio of artists, including musical producer, pianist, and historian Terry Waldo, featuring the works of Scott Joplin, Eubie Blake, Irving Berlin, and Tin Pan Alley composers such as George Gershwin, George M. Cohan, and Dorothy Fields.<\/p>\n

Film Screening: Yours for a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley<\/em> \u2013 2 p.m.<\/strong>
\n In the Ross Hall<\/em>
\nMany popular music standards of the Tin Pan Alley era (1920\u201349) were written by women, including Dorothy Fields, Kay Swift, Dana Suesse, and Ann Ronell, who were among the most influential songwriters of the time. This PBS documentary includes archival footage, motion picture clips, and rarely seen photographs, as well as performance clips of Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Perry Como.<\/p>\n

Forest Tour \u2013 2:30 p.m.<\/strong>
\nMeet at the Reflecting Pool at the Leon Levy Visitor Center<\/em>
\nExperience the beauty of the Garden’s 50-acre Thain Family Forest on this one-hour walking tour with an expertly trained Guide. You’ll learn facts about the trees, history, geology, and ecology of this original, uncut woodland.<\/p>\n

Ongoing Children\u2019s Programs<\/strong><\/span>
\n\"Seasonal<\/a><\/p>\n

Family Adventures: Focusing on Nature \u2013 10 a.m.\u20135:30 p.m.<\/strong>
\n In the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden<\/em>
\nChildren will explore the art of garden photography and will even have the opportunity to become garden photographers themselves. Through a series of stops within the Garden, they will see the world through a new lens as they learn how observations in science and nature have been recorded throughout time. They will also receive tips about perspective, scale, and framing when taking photographs.<\/p>\n

Dig! Plant! Grow!: Pollinator Palls: Bees and Butterflies<\/strong>
\nIn the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden<\/em>
\nThe Family Garden is buzzing in late summer! Join us to learn about important pollinators: our honeybees and the monarch butterflies passing us by on their way to Mexico.<\/p>\n

Mario Batali’s Kitchen Gardens \u2013 1:30 p.m. \u2013 6 p.m.<\/strong>
\n Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden<\/em>
\nKids can explore with Mario’s Menu Mystery game, featuring favorite vegetables and herbs from nine of his restaurants’ kitchens, including Otto and Del Posto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weekend is your only chance to catch a special NYBG tour of poisonous plant species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":46863,"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":[17],"tags":[3795,4639,4160,3599,2164],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/0814-purple-blossom-thumbnail-PT-250x280.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-cbK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46856"}],"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\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46856"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46880,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46856\/revisions\/46880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}