Inside The New York Botanical Garden
Posted in Gardens and Collections, Video on August 13 2008, by Plant Talk
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Rustin Dwyer is Visual Media Production Specialist at The New York Botanical Garden. |
Waterlilies and Lotus in the Conservatory Pools from The New York Botanical Garden on Vimeo.
Posted in Gardens and Collections, Video on August 6 2008, by Plant Talk
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Rustin Dwyer is Visual Media Production Specialist at The New York Botanical Garden. |
Posted in Gardens and Collections, Video on July 31 2008, by Plant Talk
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Genna Federico, a senior at St. John’s University, is an intern working in the Communications Department this summer. |
Before the Waterlilies and Lotus Aquatic Exhibition in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory Courtyard pools opened, I wanted to find out how these flowers floating in water are kept bright and perky. To get to the bottom of this, so to speak, I watched one day as Foreman of Gardeners Gary Bendykowski gave the tropical pool (one of two pools in the courtyard) a cleaning. It was quite a sight to see. Donning brown waders Gary entered the pool with great enthusiasm, saying “It’s the best; you get to be in the water and away from the crowd.”
The weekly cleaning is generally done for aesthetic purposes, to remove leaves that are discolored or have been torn. It also serves to get rid of the abundance of elodea, aquatic weeds that are not needed in these hot summer months, although in colder months they help provide oxygen.
See the video below and read about the rest of Genna’s day at the pool after the jump.
Conservatory pool cleaning at The New York Botanical Garden on Vimeo.
Posted in Gardens and Collections, Video on July 24 2008, by Plant Talk
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Nick Leshi is Associate Director of Public Relations and Electronic Media. |
With Olafur Eliasson’s ambitious New York City Waterfalls project receiving so much attention, it’s worth mentioning our own cascading waterfalls that visitors can see at The New York Botanical Garden. Not to detract from the multi-million dollar display along the East River presented by the Public Art Fund in collaboration with the City of New York, the four waterfalls here at the Botanical Garden are just as captivating and mesmerizing in their beautiful settings.
Glenn Collins wrote in The New York Times about the many other aquatic falls located throughout the city, including the ones here at NYBG. In his follow-up the next day on the “City Room” blog, readers also identified the Garden’s falls as sites to see.
Read about what you’re seeing below in the video after the jump, in Nick’s rundown of the four falls that flow at the Botanical Garden:
The Waterfalls of The New York Botanical Garden from The New York Botanical Garden on Vimeo.