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Plant Health

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The Garden’s tree collections and natural landscapes are home to a bewildering array of insects and diseases. Read More

Garden News

Mature Tree Care

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With so many trees a century old or older growing across the landscape, Garden arborists have been implementing a wide array of tree-care techniques specifically ... Read More

Garden News

Proper Planting and Post-Planting Care

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If choosing the right tree for the right place is the all-important first step in successful tree planting, planting properly and providing excellent post-planting care ... Read More

Garden News

Planting New Trees

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NYBG curators plant dozens of new trees in the Living Collections and hundreds in the Thain Family Forest every year. Some of these new trees ... Read More

Garden News

Stewarding a Sylvan Landscape

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The New York Botanical Garden has always been dedicated to keeping its trees healthy. Read More

Inside our Collections

Digital Seed Sharing

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Although the LuEsther T. Mertz Library is not among the collections that will be physically accessible during the Garden’s initial phase of reopening that begins ... Read More

Garden News

New Food Initiative: The Bronx Canasta

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The New York Botanical Garden’s Bronx Green-Up is excited to be part of an exciting new food initiative, The Bronx Canasta. Read More

Inside our Collections, Plant Science

Historical Species & Ecosystems Study: LuEsther T. Mertz Library Collections

Posted in Inside our Collections, Plant Science

Materials held in the LuEsther T. Mertz Library are extremely important resources for research related to climate change, especially those related to species distribution and ... Read More

Garden News, Inside our Collections, Plant Science

Pressed for Time: Herbaria & Environmental Threats Assessment

Posted in Garden News, Inside our Collections, Plant Science

Herbarium specimens are one of the very few tangible sources of information about how plants and fungi lived before industrialization, and during each successive period ... Read More

Behind the Scenes, Plant Science

Digitizing Herbarium Specimens

Posted in Behind the Scenes, Plant Science

In our Steere Herbarium, a combination of capturing ultra high-resolution images of specimens and entering detailed information about each specimen in a searchable database is ... Read More

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