May 2012
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NYC Digital: New York City Department of Parks &... →
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New York City Department of Parks & Recreation just unveiled a new view of our city. The interactive map displays markers for each time a visitor checks in to one of over 1,250 NYC Parks locations using the foursquare mobile app. These visitors can get tips of fun and interesting…
The Garden is not on this map (which I think is really cool), because as a botanical...
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No matter where you are, you can now enjoy Monet’s gardens with the Monet’s Garden free app tour, created by the New York Botanical Garden in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum. The tour is part of the NYBG in Bloom app. Discover beautiful photos and paintings, learn more about the connections between Monet’s art and his gardens, and if you’re feeling inspired, use the app’s...
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Why Don’t Woodpeckers Get Brain Damage? →
This is awesome! I have always wondered whether woodpeckers get headaches or brain damage from all their insistent pecking. Turns out, they don’t, and it also turns out that some of my own half-baked reasoning (usually dreamed up while trying to get back to sleep after being awoken by one banging away on the bedroom’s external walls) including bone density and anatomical buttressing,...
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Ask the Garden
It’s been awhile since we opened the question line, so I figured when better than ahead of a three-day weekend when you might visit the Garden, spend time in your own garden, or just indulge in a little time outdoors. So you ask away, and we’ll do our best to get you a good answer from our staff! What are your burning Garden/gardening/plant questions?
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Pollination With Precision: How Flowers Do It →
Plant reproduction is fascinating. No, really! It is! In all of its forms, from beautiful flowers that become delicious fruits, to fungi that smell like roadkill, stationary plants have come up with a myriad of ways to ensure their genetic survival into the next generation. Now, a new study has found that this process isn’t just fascinating, it’s also precise and a ” model of...
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Hip Hops →
The Bronx Brewery partners with The New York Botanical Garden and Bronx community to form The Urban Hop Project
Raise a (virtual) glass with us in welcoming this sudsy delicious collaboration! ~AR
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“The first step in is a stunner.”
– The most frequent comment I have heard between the staff preview, the press preview, and the Member preview of Monet’s Garden is that walking into first gallery of the exhibition is “like walking into Oz.” You think you know what color is, and then you walk through those doors, and...
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