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 garden, we are not a park. But that shouldn’t keep you from checking-in at the Garden or at any of our gardens and exhibitions. ~AR
Entrance to the stunning Monet’s Garden exhibition (Taken with Instagram at New York Botanical Garden)
“These landscapes of water and reflections have become my obsession. They are quite beyond the powers of an old man, and despite everything I want to succeed on conveying what I feel.”
Claude Monet to Gustave Geffroy,1883
It’s pretty cool how the reflections play off each other in the Palm Dome pool, and you really captured it! ~AR
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, are in fact true.
What does this have to do with the Garden? Well, we have a lot of woodpeckers, including a very rare Pilleated Woodpecker which was spotted recently in the Garden for the first time in 73 years. Want a chance to see him (or her?), come along for one of our free Saturday morning Bird Walks! Bring your binoculars! ~AR
Because of you (yes you!), the Garden has won a $250,000 preservation grant to restore the beautiful little waterfall in the Rock Garden! We would be nothing without you. Seriously. Thank you so much for caring about this very special place! ~AR
A new study by researchers at Columbia University and published in the journal Tree Physiology has found that Red Oak seedlings planted in Central Park grew much faster than their siblings planted in sylvan locales like the Hudson Valley or Catskill Mountains.
Why? The researchers think it has something to do with the “urban heat island.” Cities are environmentally hotter than their surrounding countrysides because of the density of buildings which trap and store heat, and it looks like this phenomenon is having an effect on urban flora. ~AR
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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 it’s like all your senses have been fooling you your whole life. It feels like you can breathe in color. It is intoxicating. ~AR
‘Monet’s Garden’ at the New York Botanical Garden - NYTimes.com
Boogie Down Mother’s Day Ride to the Botanical Garden.
Boogie Down Rides took another ride up the Concourse, this time, we kept going, all the way to the New York Botanical Garden! We only had one mother with us, but we all rode in the spirit of our mamas.
Check out the complete set of photos on Flickr.
Check out the map of our route here.
(via boogiedownrides)
Please excuse our dust … We’re just putting together the most excellent exhibition where gardening meets art meets technology; Monet’s Garden!
What speaks to you like a sunflower? There’s a cheerfulness to them that can’t be ignored—original garden kitsch, topping plastic flamingos and gnomes any day. And Brooklyn’s urban farmers know the value of those big, bright faces all too well.
“They’re a really iconic way to make people notice that you’re trying to make a change in the community,” says Deborah Greig, coordinator at East New York Farms. Along with her fellow gardeners, she’s using sunflowers to make a vacant lot just a little more friendly. —MN
already planning my next trip
By the time you come back, the Rose Garden should be in full bloom! Can’t wait to see what beautiful images you could make with that!
It’s not everyday that I make a direct appeal to you, our Tumblr friends, but today, I’m going to do that.
As you can see from the photographs above, the Garden is a beautiful place, possibly most so in the spring. But then again, every single day, when I leave my office to do something mundane like walking to the train, I think it’s the most beautiful it can be. And then it happens again, and again. I pinch myself daily to be lucky enough to work here.
It’s easy to overlook the need for preservation of the landscape; I mean, what do plants and landscapes need to be preserved for? But, it’s not true. Plants do need to be preserved, to be protected, and the landscape needs to be tended and nurtured and cared for. It’s a tough concept to defend, but I will: The world needs beauty, and we need to preserve the Garden.
Please consider voting daily for the Garden to win part of a $3 million grant from Partners in Preservation so that we may preserve a small piece of Nature’s Showplace for many generations of future New Yorkers!
If you reblog this photo set, please consider leaving the above paragraph in place. If you do, I’ll buy you an ice cream! (Just kidding, but you will have my undying gratitude.) ~AR
Manaswinee Meesawan a local Bronx girl and friend of the Garden came to visit the Orchid Show, and she took some pretty great photos, don’t you think?
The Garden got a mention on ‘Mad Men’ Sunday night, and that got me thinking: What was NYBG like in 1966? So I asked our archivists. Turns out, just like ‘Mad Men’ has you think it would be! ~AR
The New York City Garden Photographs of Frances Benjamin Johnston
As pointed out in Thursday’s New York Times, a rare cache of photographs documenting America’s gardening past have been digitized and are now online at the website of the Library of Congress.
Taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries to accompany magazine articles, these beautiful images serve as a portal to gardening and landscaping trends of the past. The images of the gardens of New York City are especially wonderful. Take an hour this morning while you sip your coffee or tea to leisurely scroll through this wonderful new resource. ~AR
Indian woman with bindi at the New York’s Botanical Garden
She looked so beautiful enjoying the scenery, looking at the beautiful orchids, wearing a wonderful lightweight sari and a wrap, the tones of which blended so well with her surroundings and I could not resist asking her to pose for this photo.
Isn’t she beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing. ~AR
(Source: motorinn)
Wish you were here. (Taken with Instagram at Monet’s Garden at The New York Botanical Garden)
A few shots from the New York Botanical Garden’s Monet’s Garden special exhibit.
Brighten up your garden with a bright object
New York Botanical Garden, April 2012
Waiting for water lilies to bloom in the Hardy Pool #monetsgarden (Taken with Instagram at New York Botanical Garden)
What to buy at the New York’s Botanical Garden Gift Shop
Recreation of the Grande Allee in Monet’s Garden (Taken with Instagramat New York Botanical Garden)
“It is here, in this perpetual feast...
A pair of pansies 😁
#flower #beautiful #nature #newyork #nybg #NYC #photography
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