The New York Botanical Garden: Archive

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Word of the Day: horticultural... →

The New York Times’ Learning Network blog uses a piece about Marc Hachadourian’s early introduction to horticulture via avocado seeds. Hachadourian is the Manager of the Garden’s Nolen Greenhouses for Living Collections.

Jan 31st

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Jan 30th

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From the Library: Britton in the Field

Here is Nathaniel Lord Britton, the first Director-in-Chief of The New York Botanical Garden, in a photograph taken in February 1905, in the Bahamas. Britton was accompanied on this expedition by his wife Elizabeth Britton and Marshall Howe. They returned with about ten thousand specimens, as reported in the Notes, News and Comment section of the Journal of the New York Botanical Garden, March...

Jan 29th

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Jan 28th

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Find Joy in Learning Latin Names for Your Plants →

Wisconsin master gardener Bonnie Orr (or should I say Orrous bonnia) has written a very pleasant primer on why you should learn botanical Latin, and I couldn’t agree more. ~AR

Jan 28th

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Jan 27th

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Jan 27th

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A Growing Divide On the Gardening Front →

This is such an amusing piece from the Twin Cities’ Star Tribune on the divide that separates the “Middle-Aged Woman Gardener” (aka MAWG) from the “Hipster Organic Vege Evangelist” (aka HOVE). Gardening is good for everyone, can’t we all just get along? ~AR

Jan 27th

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Jan 27th

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Jan 26th

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Watch

Duck … Duck … Duck … er … isn’t there supposed to be goose in there? Thanks to James Vickers, the Garden’s Manager of Volunteer Services who filmed this feathery video on the Portage Trail along the Bronx River in the Forest.

Jan 26th

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Jan 25th

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Jan 25th

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Jan 25th

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Jan 25th

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Jan 25th

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Jan 24th

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Jan 24th

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Jan 24th

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Urban Farming Essentials: Authors Tell All →

This interview by Grist gives a pretty soup-to-nuts account of what it’s like to run an urban farm from one day to the next. If growing your own produce in bulk or slaughtering your own chickens is on your bucket list, and you’re hard-working/not squeamish in the slightest, it sounds like their definitive guide to the city dirt game will have you well on your way to putting food on...

Jan 23rd

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Who Doesn't Love A Milestone?

We are just seven followers away from 8,000! Who wants to push us over the edge? We’ll post a special flower picture once we hit it.

Jan 23rd

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Jan 23rd

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Jan 22nd

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Jan 22nd

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Jan 22nd

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Jan 22nd

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Jan 21st

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Jan 21st

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Jan 21st

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Jan 20th

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New York City Population by Borough

We love serving the second-most populous borough (and all the others, too) in New York City! nycedc: Take a look at our demographic data, available at http://www.nycedc.com/economic-data/demographics

Jan 20th

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