May 19, 2013
seeingsunshineforthefirsttime: blooming books by virginhoney on Flickr. Our Library’s display cases are now kitted out for The Renaissance Herbal, showcasing a collection of rare medieval and Renaissance manuscripts highlighting the complex history of botanical science and medicine. The books in attendance may not be literal flower tomes, as seen here, but the classical illustrations (one of our older books was produced on blue paper, with gold and silver ink—c’mon) are striking enough on their own. This is just one the many facets of Wild Medicine, open as of May 18 and running throughout the summer. —MN

seeingsunshineforthefirsttime:

blooming books by virginhoney on Flickr.

Our Library’s display cases are now kitted out for The Renaissance Herbal, showcasing a collection of rare medieval and Renaissance manuscripts highlighting the complex history of botanical science and medicine. The books in attendance may not be literal flower tomes, as seen here, but the classical illustrations (one of our older books was produced on blue paper, with gold and silver ink—c’mon) are striking enough on their own.

This is just one the many facets of Wild Medicine, open as of May 18 and running throughout the summer. —MN

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March 28, 2013
You Love Poets and We Know It

April is National Poetry Month! There’s nothing that pleases me more than to pair up one of the awesome photographs by our resident shutterbug Ivo with an excerpt from an equally awesome poem for our Morning Eye Candy features.

But I’m running low on poems. Help me out people!!

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Submit a poem or answer below and you might see your favorite poem featured on our blog, Plant Talk! I’m looking for unusual suggestions, “I wandered lonely as a cloud,” and most Robert Frost works are already on our radar. Hit me with something from left field, I know you can. Tumblr is one erudite place! ~AR

So let’s hear it: What is your favorite nature/gardening/flower/tree/spring/science/cloud/sky/weather themed poem?

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March 7, 2013
Travis Beck Interview | The Metropolitan Field Guide

Travis Beck is NYBG’s Landscape and Gardens Project Manager and the author of the new book Principles of Ecological Landscape Design. Travis’ book has been getting rave reviews from landscape design blogs and magazines all over the U.S. Learn more about his inspiration in writing this useful and timely new work in this great interview with The Metropolitan Field Guide. ~AR

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January 8, 2013

Do you love old botanical prints? The digital collections of NYBG’s Mertz Library has thousands that you can browse online. The grandaddy resource for prints of this sort is  the BHL or Biodiversity Heritage Library and their excellent Flickr sets. The BHL is an official digital partner of ours and you will find tons of images from our collections amongst theirs. These prints are perfect for the short days of winter when all you can do is daydream about next spring’s beautiful blooms. ~AR

fablehill:

Hand-colored prints from the Minneapolis Institute of Art, 18th-20th century.

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January 5, 2013

Few understand the nuances of nature like Larry Lederman, whose masterful photography captures the colors of the NYBG throughout each of the four seasons. In Magnificent Trees of The New York Botanical Garden, the towering oaks, sweetgums, and tulip trees of our landscape take center stage for a visual study of light and life.

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September 17, 2012
andrewox: The Jardin de la connaissance was installed in June 2010. Since then, the garden has been interacting with the forest. The book structures have decayed in the natural setting, but have also provided various micro-environments for a range of local creatures. Seedlings and insects have activated the walls, carpets and benches. Mushrooms - those cultivated and those who have come by themselves - have made the garden their home. Many of the originally bright colours of the books have faded. Culture is fading back into nature. Text from Jardins de Metis. via Dezeen. If you click through and look at the gallery, you’ll see that this installation is actually a series of outdoor, wall-like structures built from stacks of books. But as it’s only been two years, I’m curious to see how well the installation holds together as the plants—and elements at large—make themselves cozy. —MN

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The Jardin de la connaissance was installed in June 2010. Since then, the garden has been interacting with the forest. The book structures have decayed in the natural setting, but have also provided various micro-environments for a range of local creatures. Seedlings and insects have activated the walls, carpets and benches. Mushrooms - those cultivated and those who have come by themselves - have made the garden their home. Many of the originally bright colours of the books have faded. Culture is fading back into nature.

Text from Jardins de Metis. via Dezeen.

If you click through and look at the gallery, you’ll see that this installation is actually a series of outdoor, wall-like structures built from stacks of books. But as it’s only been two years, I’m curious to see how well the installation holds together as the plants—and elements at large—make themselves cozy. —MN

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June 12, 2012
Absolutely loving this story of Genevieve Jones—and subsequently her family after her untimely death—who set out to write the “missing” companion to Audubon’s Birds of America. Genevieve and the Jones family set out to illustrate a volume documenting the nests and eggs that Audubon had omitted from his epic work. In the end they only were able to document one state, Ohio, but their multi-generational book has now been turned into a biography, America’s Other Audubon. Via Design*Sponge.

Absolutely loving this story of Genevieve Jones—and subsequently her family after her untimely death—who set out to write the “missing” companion to Audubon’s Birds of America. Genevieve and the Jones family set out to illustrate a volume documenting the nests and eggs that Audubon had omitted from his epic work. In the end they only were able to document one state, Ohio, but their multi-generational book has now been turned into a biography, America’s Other Audubon. Via Design*Sponge.

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June 10, 2012
A nice blog post from Charlotte, the blogger behind My Pixie Blog, tying our exhibition, Monet’s Garden to a childrens’ book called Linnea in Monet’s Garden. I have never heard of this book before, but it sounds a little bit like an art-themed Eloise. Have you read Linnea in Monet’s Garden? Tell us about it! ~AR

A nice blog post from Charlotte, the blogger behind My Pixie Blog, tying our exhibition, Monet’s Garden to a childrens’ book called Linnea in Monet’s Garden. I have never heard of this book before, but it sounds a little bit like an art-themed Eloise. Have you read Linnea in Monet’s Garden? Tell us about it! ~AR

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April 21, 2012

doubledaybooks:

Why do old books smell? The science behind that sweet pungency.

Books are made from trees. The Garden has a Library. Organic chemistry is cool. That’s all the justification I need in order to reblog this fascinating little video. ~AR

(Source: abebooks.com, via housingworksbookstore)

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October 1, 2011
In my Library: Mario Batali

Mario Batali’s Edible Garden may be over for 2011, but that doesn’t mean we have to stop talking about Mario. We’re crazy for the guy, and totally impressed by his reading list. Check it out on the New York Post.

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August 3, 2011
Check out this nice essay on weeds, weeding, nature, and sanity from Alabama garden writer Brett Buckner. Their willingness to grow in the most hostile environments — a bombed city, a crack in the wall — means that they insinuate the idea of wild nature into places otherwise quite shorn of it. Read more: Anniston Star - Brett Buckner While they are the root of all evil to most gardeners according to a new book weeds are nature’s misunderstood gift

Check out this nice essay on weeds, weeding, nature, and sanity from Alabama garden writer Brett Buckner.

Their willingness to grow in the most hostile environments — a bombed city, a crack in the wall — means that they insinuate the idea of wild nature into places otherwise quite shorn of it.


Read more: Anniston Star - Brett Buckner While they are the root of all evil to most gardeners according to a new book weeds are nature’s misunderstood gift

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June 15, 2011
From pleasure gardens to neutral grounds, author Lake Douglas reveals New Orleans' 300-year romance with its landscape

A look at the fascinating-sounding, Public Spaces, Private Gardens: A History of Designed Landscapes in New Orleans, by Lake Douglas. This new book. published by the LSU Press, chronicles the history of race, politics, society, and class that helped shaped New Orleans’ gorgeous public and private gardens.

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June 13, 2011
Summer Reading: Gardening Books

Friend of the Garden, Dominique Browning, gives us a good list in The New York Times of gardening books to pore over. What is on your summer reading list?

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June 12, 2011
"Most people today, however, don’t regard gardening as an overtly political act, as it was for the Founding Fathers. But it can empower people and local communities."

— Andrea Wulf, author of Founding Gardeners, on the near simultaneous birth of the United States, and of the environmental movement, in the Los Angeles Times.

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May 18, 2011

We’re currently reading Founding Gardeners by Andrea Wulf, and loving every page of it. What are you reading that is gardening-related, right now?

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