May 22, 2013
yearofgratitude2013: Day 114 (May 4th) - Having spent four wonderful years at Rosedale…it was my last day today :( - Saturdays in general Photo: One of my favorite spots ever in the Botans, New York Botanical Garden, May 2013 Reblogging this because: 1) The Azalea Garden hit its fluorescent peak a week or two ago, meaning it’s winding down into its lush summer greenery from here (don’t miss the spring display!)  2) We love our nickname. Seriously. Thanks, Fordham students, and best of luck to the class of 2013! We’ll miss you guys over the summer. —MN

yearofgratitude2013:

Day 114 (May 4th)

- Having spent four wonderful years at Rosedale…it was my last day today :(

- Saturdays in general

Photo: One of my favorite spots ever in the Botans, New York Botanical Garden, May 2013

Reblogging this because: 1) The Azalea Garden hit its fluorescent peak a week or two ago, meaning it’s winding down into its lush summer greenery from here (don’t miss the spring display!)  2) We love our nickname. Seriously. Thanks, Fordham students, and best of luck to the class of 2013! We’ll miss you guys over the summer. —MN

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May 16, 2013

We’re mostly moving away from specific plants this week, in terms of what’s beautiful now, in favor of landscapes. Bright, pulsating, incredibly dramatic, gorgeous, stunningly beautiful landscapes, to be specific.

That said, there are a few standout flowers that you should look for, including that peachy peony and her friends, lily of the valley, and ‘Hinomayo,’ one of the most outstanding shrubs on our grounds.

So what about those landscapes? First there’s our new exhibition, Wild Medicine: Healing Plants Around the World, Featuring The Italian Renaissance Garden in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. Nearby in the Conservatory Courtyards (also home to The Four Seasons) you’ll find the hardy waterlilies bursting open in these first warm days of spring.

In the Perennial Garden tulips are making way for charming garden plants like bleeding heart and irises. Walk up the path for the charmingly idyllic Rock Garden, then walk around the bend for the wild beauty of the new Native Plant Garden, and then just a little further to the bombastic pinks and reds of the Azalea Garden.

Everywhere you turn there’s a sight to behold and a perfume on the breeze (just watch out for the Davidia). The lilacs are holding strong, the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden is slowly coming along, and the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden looks like a patchwork quilt of greens and earthtones.

Things are definitely settling into a pattern here in terms of what’s beautiful. If you check last week’s report, and even the report from two weeks ago, many of the same gardens are holding strong. What can we say? It’s been an extraordinary spring!

So come visit us in the Bronx! You can plan your visit here. For day-to-day updates on what we’re seeing around grounds, be sure to follow us on Instagram and Twitter where we post daily updates from our staff and visitors. Also, need help getting around? Our iPhone app can help out there. It’s free and available in the App Store. ~AR

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May 9, 2013
Have you ever dreamed of paddling down the Bronx River, New York City’s only freshwater river? Then come out this Saturday, May 11th and support the Bronx River Alliance at the new Starlight Park! There will be festival fun, canoe rides and all proceeds go to the on-water programming to over 1,000 children and families this season! The Bronx River Alliance is one of the Garden’s vital partners in caring for this important waterway and the land surrounding it. Please support them in this incredibly fun way if you can! ~AR (via 2013 Amazing Bronx River Flotilla, Introducing … the Starlight 5k Canoe Challenge! - Bronx River Alliance)

Have you ever dreamed of paddling down the Bronx River, New York City’s only freshwater river? Then come out this Saturday, May 11th and support the Bronx River Alliance at the new Starlight Park! There will be festival fun, canoe rides and all proceeds go to the on-water programming to over 1,000 children and families this season! The Bronx River Alliance is one of the Garden’s vital partners in caring for this important waterway and the land surrounding it. Please support them in this incredibly fun way if you can! ~AR

(via 2013 Amazing Bronx River Flotilla, Introducing … the Starlight 5k Canoe Challenge! - Bronx River Alliance)

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May 8, 2013

cindykrikawa:

Tulips & Pansies at the New York Botanical Garden, NYC.

Yup, yup, yup. Uh-huh. This. —MN

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May 5, 2013
nycgov: City Hall Park in bloom Do you know the history of City Hall Park?  From 1653 to 1699, the area that is now the park was known as the Commons and served as a communal pasture ground for livestock.  The park’s western boundary was a Native American trail that later became Broadway. For more visit http://on.nyc.gov/11BUTVH. New York City history with a side of blossoming trees is always appropriate reblogging material. ~AR

nycgov:

City Hall Park in bloom

Do you know the history of City Hall Park?  From 1653 to 1699, the area that is now the park was known as the Commons and served as a communal pasture ground for livestock.  The park’s western boundary was a Native American trail that later became Broadway.

For more visit http://on.nyc.gov/11BUTVH.

New York City history with a side of blossoming trees is always appropriate reblogging material. ~AR

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May 3, 2013

ceceliaisgray:

The Zoo for Plants

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Filed under: The New York Botanical Garden Visitor-Generated Content Spring Cherry Blossoms New York City Tulips Crabapples The Bronx 
May 2, 2013
A New Perspective - Click and Drag This Photo

To fully understand this post, you’ll need to click through on the image.

Seems like everyone wants to get their hands on the Lytro camera. This spectacular shot was taken by Amy Weiss, Curatorial Assistant at the William and Lynda Steere Herabrium. Click on the image to re-focus on the cherry blossoms - click and drag on the image to change your perspective.

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Filed under: Lytro Depth of Field Enid A. Haupt Conservatory Steere Herbarium Digital Imaging The New York Botanical Garden Cherry Blossoms Spring submission 
May 2, 2013

May is here, and the list of What’s Beautiful Now is longer than ever.

It is thrilling how the early flowers continue to persist thanks to this wonderful, gradual spring that has been free of those pretty normal, intense hot days that are so common in New York City in April (and last year in March).

Daffodils are still around in some spots, and there are a few magnolias still holding on, but mostly we’re beginning to see the flowers that signify the heart of spring: lilacs, azaleas, dogwoods, crab apples, tree peonies, and, the very earliest roses!

This weekend marks the grand opening of our newest garden, the Native Plant Garden! Native wildflowers tend to be a little smaller, a little less showy than their cultivated brethren, so we have been making time to introduce you to some of them on our blog Plant Talk.

There’s really not a bum spot in the Garden right now. Every place you turn, it’s beautiful! And the weather is supposed to be spectacular this weekend, so come hang out with us and enjoy the amazing plants across our 250-acres.

What’s still beautiful? Last week’s tulips, for sure, though most of the flowering cherries of two weeks ago are now just a memory. I should point out, however, that there are many different kinds of flowering cherries, and the most classic, robust ones are in full bloom right now (for proof, check out the photo up top that looks like a fluffy pink Tribble).

Ready to plan your journey to the Bronx? Here’s everything you need to know. For day-to-day updates on what we’re seeing around grounds, be sure to follow us on Instagram and Twitter where we post daily updates from our staff and visitors. Also, need help getting around? Our iPhone app can help out there. It’s free and available in the App Store. ~AR

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May 1, 2013

The tree peonies above the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden are just beginning to bloom and they are amazing!

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May 1, 2013

rhesastorms:

Our family membership to the New York Botanical Garden wins best purchase of the year!

Not humblebragging or anything. Just, y’know, keeping pretty pictures around for the gap between the close of this cherry bloom and the start of the next. Definitely just that. —MN

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April 25, 2013

It’s time for tulips to take a stand! What’s beautiful now? Oh boy, are you tired of hearing everything yet? Yeah, I thought so, so let’s be specific. The Perennial Garden has once again become the lunchtime lounging spot for me and my colleagues (that is if there’s a spare bench, you guys always get first dibs!).

While you’re in the Perennial Garden, you will likely be stopped dead in your tracks by an absolutely stunning bush sporting pompoms of nearly neon red flowers. That would be Rhododendron ‘Taurus’ which was described to me yesterday by our Manager of Plant Records Jon Peter as a “totally incredible plant!!!!” (not lying about the number of exclamation points there, that’s how awesome ‘Taurus’ is).

Along Seasonal Walk you’ll see tulips, tulips, and more tulips. While on Daffodil Hill you’ll see daffodils, daffodils, and more daffodils. Cherry Valley is home to, you guessed it, cherries, cherries and more cherries, while the Azalea Garden is featuring … meh, a few azaleas. Let’s just say it’s not her time yet.

If lilacs are your thing, they’re coming soon. If I could liken our lilac collection to a bag of microwave popcorn I would say we’ve probably heard about one or two pops. Not sure when the volley of fireworks will come, but probably next week, but with this cool weather, who can really tell?

And speaking of cool weather, you can still see lots of the beauties I was talking about last week and the week before, but most of the blooms of three-weeks ago have finally given up the ghost (sadface for the magnolias). Ready to plan your journey to the Bronx? Here’s everything you need to know.

For day-to-day updates on what we’re seeing around grounds, be sure to follow us on Instagram and Twitter where we post daily updates from our staff and visitors. Also, need help getting around? Our iPhone app can help out there. It’s free and available in the App Store. ~AR

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April 20, 2013

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April 19, 2013

tinktastichana:

The heart is a The thousand-stringed instrument That can only be tuned with Love.

-Hafiz

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April 18, 2013
We love our tulip trees. They tower over either side of the Grand Allée, greening in spring and shading the paths that lead up to the Library Building. We consider them old by some standards—they were planted as young trees around 1911, and by none other than Nathaniel Lord Britton, at that. But scientists have discovered something far more ancient about these elegant giants: their genome. This brief article might prove a bit heady for the non-science-geek, but it tackles a tree that, in some ways, has hardly changed since dinosaurs called the shots. Click through for more. —MN

We love our tulip trees. They tower over either side of the Grand Allée, greening in spring and shading the paths that lead up to the Library Building. We consider them old by some standards—they were planted as young trees around 1911, and by none other than Nathaniel Lord Britton, at that. But scientists have discovered something far more ancient about these elegant giants: their genome.

This brief article might prove a bit heady for the non-science-geek, but it tackles a tree that, in some ways, has hardly changed since dinosaurs called the shots. Click through for more. —MN

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April 18, 2013

yentinghuang asked: Does cherry bloom already? what's their stage currently? Do you have cherry-watch page the same as Brooklyn Botanical Garden??

The cherries are in bloom and then some! We don’t have a watch page, as our cherries are simply too spread out across our 250 acres (and too many in variety) to track on such a minute level, but I did some reconnaissance and found that the trees are playing round robin depending on where you go.

The Okame cherries near the Library Building were some of the first to open up, and have since passed their peak. Meanwhile, the Higan and Yoshino cherries are at or near peak around Mosholu Gate, the Ross Conifer Arboretum, the Visitor Center, and elsewhere throughout the Garden. These bright, mostly cloud-white blossoms are practically shouting for attention—hard to miss, in other words.

Over in Cherry Valley, near the Rose Garden, the Sato-Zakura group cherries are still looking sleepy, and the weeping cherries are varying at between 30% and 50% bloom as of this morning. But there’s such a kaleidoscope of other flowering tree species to see in between that it makes visiting each of these spots well worth it. The magnolias in particular are—and I can say this as a witness—literally stopping people in their tracks.

Hope this helps!

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