Inside The New York Botanical Garden
Enid A. Haupt Conservatory
Posted in Photography on February 1 2011, by Plant Talk
It’s been a few weeks since we announced a Photo Contest as part of Caribbean Garden, a reinterpretation of the permanent collection inside the historic Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. We’ve hit a few bumps along the way logistically, but that hasn’t effected the quality of the photos that you have entered! There are several weeks left in the contest, and another winter storm has barreled into the city to welcome February, so come enjoy the warmth of the Conservatory and snap a few pictures while you’re here!
To get you excited about participating, here are a few of the winners from the previous weeks’ contests.
Head below the jump to see the winners from the past two weeks of the contest!
Posted in Photography on January 19 2011, by Plant Talk
It’s not just flowers and foliage inside the Conservatory. We’ve got fruit too!
Citrus limon ‘Ponderosa’ (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Photography on January 18 2011, by Plant Talk
This flame vine sure is beautiful, but is known for being quite aggressive. Grow with care.
Pyrostegia venusta Flame Vine (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Photography on January 17 2011, by Plant Talk
Even the flowers on this jade plant look as if they might be carved in the beautiful stone.
Crassula ovata Jade Plant (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Photography on January 15 2011, by Plant Talk
Our newest exhibition opens today, complete with a photography contest! Here’s a snapshot to get you in the mood.
In the Conservatory: Caribbean Garden (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Photography on January 14 2011, by Plant Talk
The Holiday Train Show is over for another year. But trains and plants wait for no man. Up next? Caribbean Garden!
Breaking down the Holiday Train Show in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Photography on January 11 2011, by Plant Talk
It’s obvious that we love photography here at the Garden. We love our Morning Eye Candy and photo essays. But best of all, we love the photos that you, the visitor, share with us!
So to show you how much we love you and your photos, we’re offering half-off admission for a limited time, holding Saturday afternoon photography tutorials, and we’re throwing a photography contest in honor of our latest exhibition, Caribbean Garden which opens on Saturday. The contest will have two categories: Macro and Sense of Place, and the winner in each category (two total) will get a seat in a spring semester photography class! (See all the details here).
There’s just a few things to remember:
- Tripods are not allowed inside the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory.
- To be eligible a photograph must have been taken during the course of the Caribbean Garden.
- Photographs entered into the contest should have Caribbean Garden as their main theme.
- We’ll be using Flickr for the contest, so you have to be a member of our Group Pool (learn more about our Group Pool).
- To vote, you do not need to be a member of the Flickr community, but you will need a free Yahoo or Google account.
- In case of a tie, we’ll convene a panel of NYBG experts to pick a final winner!
So get your shutter finger warmed up, dust off your lenses, charge up your batteries, and get ready to snap some pictures! And please, if anything is unclear, let us know in the comments below. We hope you’re as excited as we are!
Posted in Photography on January 9 2011, by Plant Talk
It’s the last day of the Holiday Train Show. When you’re in the Palm Gallery checking out this year’s new building, the famous TWA Terminal at JFK Airport, be sure to look up. It’s pretty amazing up there, too.
The dome of the Palm House in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Photography on December 28 2010, by Plant Talk
When you visit the Holiday Train Show, be sure to visit the other houses. There’s so much to see.
Papyrus in the Aquatic Plants House, Enid A. Haupt Conservatory (photo by Ann Rafalko)
Posted in Emily Dickinson, Exhibitions on May 4 2010, by Plant Talk
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Jessica Blohm is Interpretive Specialist for Public Education. |
Scholars have long speculated about Emily Dickinson’s interest in plants. She was, in fact, an avid gardener and nature enthusiast. Many of her poems and letters allude to wildflowers and traditional herbaceous garden plants.
Emily Dickinson’s Garden: The Poetry of Flowers features in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory a re-creation of Dickinson’s own mid-19th-century New England garden, an interpretation Garden curators have been able to craft from extensive research and careful reading of her poems and letters. On display are Dickinson’s favorites, including daisies, daylilies, tulips, roses, lilies, and others that inspired so much of her poetry. Not only did she grow plants, she also collected flowers from neighboring meadows and the surrounding landscape.
Flowers were one of her favorite metaphors; she used them as images in her poems and as subjects for her letters. Following is a selection of flowers that Dickinson was particularly fond of.
Today we spotlight the peony (Paeonia). Dickinson’s niece, Martha “Mattie” Dickinson Bianchi described “ribbons of peony hedges” growing along the edges of her aunt’s flower garden. Dickinson grew peonies in pink, white, and red. She often compared the pointed tips of the young shoots as they emerged from the ground in spring to red noses.
In a letter dated late April 1859 Dickinson says, “Tell Vinnie [her sister] I counted three peony noses, red as Sammie Matthews’s, just out of the ground.”
I hide Myself within my flower,
That fading from your Vase,
You, unsuspecting, feel for me –
Almost a loneliness.
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