Botanical Garden
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Cremanthodium.....a Personal Experience in Growing this Himalayan Daisy
Dave's Garden &bull Jan 28, 2012
Check out the DG homepage for a brief overview of what you'll find in this gardening mega-site. This article was originally published on August 29, 2009. Most gardeners have never heard of the genus Cremanthodium. They are a group of rather obscure composites that hail from the Himalayas. I was first introduced to them when our local rock garden society hosted a guest speaker named Finn Haugli, the Director from the Tromso Botanical Garden in Norway. That botanical garden is located well above the Arctic circle. I found it hard to imagine much of anything growing… Full Story »
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For Sale: One Botanical Garden
Garden Rant &bull Jan 25, 2012
That's right: if you have a few million bucks, you can actually own this place. The university needs the money, and they... Full Story »
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Garden Watchdog: Your loyal companion in the world of mail order gardening
Dave's Garden &bull Jan 21, 2012
Check out the DG homepage for a brief overview of what you'll find in this gardening mega-site. In the world of mail order gardening, there have always been thorns among the roses. Our gardening forebears had to learn through trial-and-error which companies were reputable and which catalogs should be put to immediate use lining the birdcage. Before the Internet, a mail order gardener's sphere of influence was limited to sharing his or her experiences with family, friends, neighbors and perhaps the local garden club. Gardening magazines were the only way to discover new plant, seed and bulb sources. As recently… Full Story »
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A Tropical Fix
New York Times - New York Botanical Garden &bull Jan 20, 2012
New York Botanical Garden opens Caribbean Garden exhibition. Full Story »
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Half-Off Discounts on UC Botanical Garden Memberships
An Alameda Garden &bull Jan 19, 2012
Last year I took advantage of a great bargain on Groupon: a huge discount on memberships to the UC Botanical Garden. Now the offer has come around again and you shouldn't miss it. You can get a one-year individual membership… Full Story »
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History blooms in botanical collections
NJ.com - Garden &bull Jan 19, 2012
If you were asked to name some distinguished botanical gardens in our region, you might well come up with the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (in Brooklyn, of course) and Longwood Gardens in Kennett... Full Story »
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Sadie Seymour Botanical Gardens
My Back 40 (Feet) &bull Jan 6, 2012
I enjoyed this small, tropical terrace garden (free admission) at the intersection of Queen Kaahumanu and Kuakini highways, established by the Kona Outdoor Circle. Usually I respond to plants first and design second, but I particularly liked the design here.… Full Story »
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California Native Monterey Pine is a Southern Hemisphere Gold Strike
Dave's Garden &bull Jan 4, 2012
The trees were much more widespread during the Pleistocene, but as the climate warmed and dried after the last Ice Age, the natural range of the trees shrank. The California groves are in a mediterranean climate zone, that is, they experience wet winters (typically) and rainless summers. However, the summers are not totally… Full Story »
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Looking Back: September 2011
New York Botanical Gardens - Plant Talk &bull Dec 30, 2011
In September, The New York Botanical Garden welcomed back much-loved chef and champion of orange Crocs, Mario Batali, for the rewards of his Edible Garden planted back in April. Mario's recipes went up on Plant Talk throughout the following weeks,… Full Story »
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Looking Back: August 2011
New York Botanical Gardens - Plant Talk &bull Dec 29, 2011
In the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, Ana Boi?evi? It's not too late to help support The New York Botanical Garden in efforts like these before the year is out. Your gift contributes to the preservation, education, and cultivation of the… Full Story »
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Garden choices that tolerate Dallas heat and drought
Dallas News - Home Gardening &bull Dec 29, 2011
Texas-born Turner knows this hostile climate in painful detail because he must defeat it every year to produce the extraordinary horticultural displays that make the arboretum famous. When Turner joined the botanical garden in 2003, he drew on his decades of experience to create a rigorous plant-trials program. The scheme is an annual systematic effort to cultivate and evaluate the performance of more than 6,000 types of… Full Story »
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NYBG Confidential: Florist Emily Thompson, Fresh from The White House
New York Botanical Gardens - Plant Talk &bull Dec 28, 2011
Joyce H. Newman is the editor of Consumer Reports GreenerChoices.org, and has been a Docent with The New York Botanical Garden for the past six years. Fresh off her exciting holiday decor project for the First Family, floral designer Emily Thompson will be making time in 2012 to stop by The New… Full Story »
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Looking Back: July 2011
New York Botanical Gardens - Plant Talk &bull Dec 28, 2011
July at the Garden was hot. Very hot. And the animals that call NYBG home suffered-and coped-right alongside us humans and the plants we care for. Some had an easier time of it than others, like these cheery muskrats! Strolling… Full Story »
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Looking Back: June 2011
New York Botanical Gardens - Plant Talk &bull Dec 27, 2011
The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden is a symphony of color, aroma, and texture in June, so we sent our intrepid Visual Specialists way high up into the air to capture all the beauty. One of early summer's most perplexing natural… Full Story »
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Observations from a Strange Year
New York Botanical Gardens - Plant Talk &bull Dec 27, 2011
The other day in Manhattan I passed a man wearing a t-shirt. It has been unseasonably warm this year and this was the confirmation. Throughout the fall and winter, The New York Botanical Garden has been showing similar signs of seasonal displacement and confusion. I would like to spend the next few weeks… Full Story »
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Looking Back: May 2011
New York Botanical Gardens - Plant Talk &bull Dec 26, 2011
Vinson Doyle, a graduate student in plant genomics, took us on journey from bog to lab in search of a sneaky fungus that that is capable of shifting its place on the continuum between harmless and pathogenic to cranberries. It's… Full Story »
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Looking Back: April 2011
New York Botanical Gardens - Plant Talk &bull Dec 25, 2011
We also explored the Garden's Pfizer Plant Research Laboratory with Amy Litt, Director of Plant Genomics and Cullman Curator, and graduate students Natalia Pabon-Mora (Judith and Andrew Economos Fellow) and Rachel Meyer. Prothonotary Warbler photography by NYBG Member Laura Meyers.… Full Story »
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Looking Back: March 2011
New York Botanical Gardens - Plant Talk &bull Dec 24, 2011
While in the Forest, a trio of tiny little fluffballs-aka three Great-Horned Owl chicks-hatched much to the delight of New York City's avid birding community. It's not too late to help support The New York Botanical Garden in efforts like… Full Story »
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Looking Back: February 2011
New York Botanical Gardens - Plant Talk &bull Dec 23, 2011
In the depths of winter, sometimes all I want to do is hunker down in a warm place and read poetry. In February 2011, I took refuge in one particular poem by William Carlos Williams, that helped me find new… Full Story »
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Looking Back: January 2011
New York Botanical Gardens - Plant Talk &bull Dec 22, 2011
And in the Garden's 120th year, one of our scientists, the bryologist Bill Buck traveled to one of the literal ends of the earth, Cape Horn, to carry one of NYBG's founding missions; plant research. It's not too late to… Full Story »
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