{"id":8576,"date":"2010-12-28T16:32:04","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T20:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=8576"},"modified":"2010-12-28T16:33:12","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T20:33:12","slug":"the-boxing-day-blizzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2010\/12\/photography\/the-boxing-day-blizzard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boxing Day Blizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
Ann Rafalko is Director of Online Content.<\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\"The<\/a>In England, the day after Christmas is called Boxing Day. In New York City, at least in 2010, it was Blizzard Day. The city was socked-in by a massive storm that brought not only several feet of light, fluffy, powder snow; but also thunder, lightning, hurricane-force winds, and five-foot high snow drifts.<\/p>\n

The Garden<\/a> was supposed to be open for a rare holiday Monday, but due to the conditions and the dangers they posed to both visitors and staff, the decision was made to close. (If you had tickets to visit the Holiday Train Show<\/em><\/a> on December 26, see exchange details here<\/a>.) Despite the closure, some staff did come to work for the day, including intrepid photographer Ivo M. Vermeulen.\u00a0 See some of the stunning images Ivo captured in the photo essay below.<\/p>\n

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Around the Grounds<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>What looks like mist is, in fact, blowing snow.<\/p>\n

\"Snow<\/a>Our stable of golf carts were rendered completely useless.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>There used to be a parterre there.<\/p>\n

\"Perennial<\/a>Snow had fallen and drifted on Perennial Garden Way–which leads past the Conservatory to the Garden Cafe–nearly as high as the hedges running the length of the path.<\/p>\n

\"Clearing<\/a>Clearing the walkway in front of the Fountain of Life and the Museum Building.<\/p>\n

The Abstraction of Snow<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Tree<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Seed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Hydrangea\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Grasses<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Conifers<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Conifer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Conifter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Ross<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Conifers\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Under<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

We hope you enjoyed this short tour of our own winter wonderland. But, why just daydream about it? Getting to the Garden is easy<\/a>, even in winter weather. Just take MetroNorth<\/a>‘s Harlem Line<\/a> from Grand Central Station<\/a> to our very own Botanical Garden Station<\/a> and experience the beauty of winter for yourself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Boxing Day Blizzard at The New York Botanical Gardens: a photo essay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[146],"tags":[1141,1140,4628,925,38,4633,4629,4648],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-2ek","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8576"}],"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\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8576"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8597,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8576\/revisions\/8597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}