The New York Botanical Garden: Archive

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Feb 24th

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I forgot yesterday...

ferdjax: I am really crushing on the feel of this iPhone photo of the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. ~AR

Feb 24th

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Feb 23rd

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How to Play A Tree

Apparently I was not the only person inside the Garden who was as taken with the video of an LP player making music from a tree cookie. Mia D’Avanza, Reference Librarian/Exhibitions Coordinator for the LuEsther T. Mertz Library was curious enough to call in the scientific big guns, in this case, James P. Ascher, Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and “techy...

Feb 23rd

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Feb 22nd

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Botanical World Stars Are Coming to Taft School... →

The New York Botanical Garden is going on a field trip. Or, rather, its scientists are. In a partnership with the Taft School in Watertown, CT, the finest botanical minds in the northeast will come forward to present a lecture series of epic proportions. And the subject matter could scarcely be more significant. As the Nathaniel Lord Britton Curator of Botany at the NYBG, Dr. Scott A....

Feb 22nd

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Feb 21st

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Feb 19th

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Carex aggregata Rediscovered in New York →

What could possibly make Manhattanites more excited than to know that they’re the proud keepers of an endangered plant? Really, this one is stumping me. The New York Flora Association reports that a rediscovered sedge known as Carex aggregata has been uncovered in a few locations around New York, including a colony in Inwood Park at the northern tip of Manhattan Island. It has the...

Feb 19th

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Feb 13th

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Hi NYBG Tumblr, My family and I just recently move to NYC from Australia and enjoyed the beautiful gardens of NYBG so much that we became members. I learned that on this Tumblr I maybe able to get information on gardening etc. My question is: We live in Weschester County, and I am attempting to manage my garden myself, as opposed to hiring gardeners. Our area occasionally gets flooded which...

Feb 13th

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Feb 12th

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From the Library: King George V

From the Garden & Lawn seed catalog, published by James Carter & Co., Boston, 1913. Source: The LuEsther T. Mertz Library’s Seed and Nursery Catalog Collection.

Feb 12th

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Feb 11th

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Mood-Boosting Bacteria Found in Dirt →

Two-fold happiness from gardening? Sure, why not? Researchers have found that a particular bacteria found in dirt may actually boost feelings of “emotional health, vitality, and general cognitive function.” For people who already get their smiles out of greenthumbing it through the yard, having yet another healthy justification for digging in the soil is the proverbial icing on the...

Feb 11th

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