Marni Berger’s essay about Jon Cotner’s temporary poetry installation in the Garden’s Forest—Poem Forest—if full of deep, deep thoughts, and raw emotions.
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Garden staff and collaborating researchers will be presenting a session at this week’s Northeast Natural History Conference in Albany: “Natural History of The New York Botanical Garden: Interpreting an Urban Old Growth Forest”.
Click here to learn more about the Natural History project and stay tuned for the Garden’s new Forest website.
Check out this great video of a Red-Tailed Hawk taking a bath. The video is by friend of the Garden, Naturecam HD. We’re amazed by how unfazed the hawk is by everything going on around him.
After some extensive renovations, the Spicebush Trail has reopened in the Garden’s Native Forest. If you’ve never taken a wander through the Forest, you really should! It’s lovely. The Forest is, at 50-acres, the largest remaining tract of the primeval woods that once covered New York City. Here’s a little story we did focusing on the Forest in fall, but it should pique your interest for a beautiful, post-Train Show winter wander down this newly renovated trail.
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Rosemary (in NYBG pot) and friend
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Love you, Mom <3
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Happy National Public Gardens Day! A female carpenter bee visiting the pea vines yesterday. She’s California’s largest bee.
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HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY
This Mother’s Day don’t just go local—go native: Fill your weekend with flowers and garden parties at the city’s botanical...
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Be the change you want to see in the world.
-Gandhi
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Lovely tree peonies at the NY Botanical Garden
