Looking Back: May 2011
Posted in Photography on December 26 2011, by Ann Rafalko
Early May saw flowers return to the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden.
On May 21, Spanish Paradise: Gardens of the Alhambra opened to the public, and boy did it smell good.
First Look at Spanish Paradise
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.
![Cranberries are grown in sunken bogs that can be flooded to harvest the fruit. (photo by Vinson Doyle) Cranberries are grown in sunken bogs that can be flooded to harvest the fruit. (photo by Vinson Doyle)](https://www.nybg.org/blogs/plant-talk/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/cranberry-bog.png)
The Study of Cryptic Diversity: From Field to Lab
And while taking a walk in the warm spring sunshine, I met a Garden visitor practicing one of the earliest forms of film photography.
![Entrance to the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden - Pinhole photography by Joel Kroin Entrance to the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden - Pinhole photography by Joel Kroin](https://www.nybg.org/blogs/plant-talk/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/rose-garden-entry-1024x449.jpg)
The Rose Garden Through the Pinhole
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The Year in Review: 2011
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