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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.
I received the Lytro camera yesterday at the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium. I am interested in using it for photographing plant specimens that require broad depth of field, but I could not resist giving it a test drive at the 2013 Orchid Show.
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Submitted by Michael Bevens, Information Manager for Digitization, Herbarium
This is a blog post I wrote about my trip to the Garden. I thought you may like it.
Boy do we! Thanks so much for taking the time to visit us and to write about it, too! It may sound corny, but it’s true; I love seeing how you, our visitors, see the Garden. You always spot something I have missed, or see something in a completely new way. You guys are so inspiring! Thank you and keep them coming! ~AR
Finally! A gardening-themed dog shaming! What tactics do you use for keeping your pets and plants living in harmony? ~AR
I like to kill plants that flourish (former bougainvillea bush).
(Source: dogshaming)
We got this excellent submission from the Parks Department, so we’re publishing it in honor of the return of the Garden’s Greenmarket on June 13. ~AR
The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation is pleased to host A Window on Nature: Art of Asuka Hishiki, an exhibition of over 35 watercolors illustrating a poetic and detailed observation of plants and insects. Her portraits of vegetables from New York City’s celebrated Greenmarkets and her imaginative plant-like insects from her Association of Type B metamorphosis Entomologists (ATBE) series are on view April 26 through June 6, 2012.
Influenced by a childhood reference book of insects, plants and animals, as well as her fascination with the work of 18th century naturalist and scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian, Hishiki’s paintings are painstakingly detailed and exacting—individual hairs are visible on her renderings of life-sized ants. Offering a visually nourishing treat, Hishiki faithfully captures crisp, ripe colors of locally grown vegetables, as well as the sensuous formations of heirloom tomatoes, which resemble Edward Weston’s peppers. In her fanciful ABTE series, plants grow butterflies instead of flowers and brilliantly patterned caterpillars sprout mushrooms on their backs. Though a stickler for details, she also forms personal relationships with her subjects, naming each of her tomatoes based on their shape (Mr. Big Nose and Yakuza Brothers) and creating intricate histories for her whimsical insects.
Photography and video have since become the norm in nature documentation—recording species faster and more accurately than painters. However, Hishiki wonders if they record her subjects as she sees them. Cameras have one fixed, instantaneous vision, yet she notes that people need time to see an object. Painters have multiple viewpoints and time to study and reflect on their subjects, selectively capturing details. Hishiki displays her paintings on stark white paper that suggest the form of collection boxes with the hope that others will see as much beauty and invest the time in her specimens as she does.
The Arsenal Gallery is dedicated to examining themes of nature, urban space, wildlife, New York City parks, and park history. It is located on the third floor of the NYC Parks & Recreation headquarters, in Central Park, on Fifth Avenue at 64th Street. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. except for holidays. Admission is free. For more information, visit www.nyc.gov/parks/art or call 212-360-8163.
Here is Nathaniel Lord Britton, the first Director-in-Chief of The New York Botanical Garden, in a photograph taken in February 1905, in the Bahamas.
Britton was accompanied on this expedition by his wife Elizabeth Britton and Marshall Howe. They returned with about ten thousand specimens, as reported in the Notes, News and Comment section of the Journal of the New York Botanical Garden, March 1905, page 52.
Charles Millspaugh, Britton’s co-author on The Bahama Flora (1920), was also on the trip.
Source: The New York Botanical Garden’s historical photographs, in the collections of The LuEsther T. Mertz Library.
There were far fewer trains in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory 71 years ago!
Photograph taken on December 23, 1940.
Source: The New York Botanical Garden’s historical photographs, in the collections of The LuEsther T. Mertz Library.
November 8, 1912: The pergola while still under construction.
November 8, 2011: A lot has changed.
Source: The New York Botanical Garden’s historical photographs, in the collections of The LuEsther T. Mertz Library; Paul Silverman.
Madrid, Spain
Submitted by lalitab.
Vertical gardening has become increasingly popular in urban areas. Ever wondered how it’s possible? Read a little more about how it works here.
(Source: flight001, via flowerfood)
Ed. note: Thanks to Marielle Anzelone for this submission of a work she has undertaken on behalf of the New York Times’ City Room blog. Marielle is tracking the onset of autumn in a patch of forest in Manhattan’s northernmost tip.
This 13-part series for the New York Times’ City Room tracks the progress of autumn in an urban woodland. I’ve conceived it as a way to create a narrative of a phenomenon we frequently overlook in our daily lives and to help cultivate an intimacy with native places in New York City. I invite you to share your own stories of connection.
Welcome to your urban forest.
We are just loving these shots that photographer Ashley Kelemen took on a visit to the Garden this past summer. We’re honored to be second in your heart after Kew. After all, it was Kew that inspired Nathaniel Lord Britton and his wife Elizabeth to petition the great men of New York to build NYBG in the first place!
Thank you for sharing your photos with us Ashley!
A note on the back of this photo reads: “Economic Botany Museum at the New York Botanical Garden 1905. (H.H. Rusby, Honorary Curator, Economic Botany)”.
Source: The New York Botanical Garden’s historical photographs, in the collections of The LuEsther T. Mertz Library.
This is a baby on a water lily (Victoria amazonica), but there is no other information—names, year?—in the archives about this photograph.
Any suggestions?
Source: The New York Botanical Garden’s historical photographs, in the collections of The LuEsther T. Mertz Library.
1921.
1940.
1961.
Source: The New York Botanical Garden’s historical photographs, in the collections of The LuEsther T. Mertz Library.
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People just accept that I love the New York Botanical Garden and look at the pictures of the pretty things.
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Love you, Mom <3
Happy National Public Gardens Day! A female carpenter bee visiting the pea vines yesterday. She’s California’s largest bee.
