Inside The New York Botanical Garden
Posted in What's Beautiful Now on October 25 2019, by Matt Newman
Kiku is back—starting today.
The ‘Ozukuri’ style of kiku is the apex of this Japanese craft, transforming a single-stemmed chrysanthemum into a mountain of individually trained flowers that truly justifies the translation of its name: “Thousand Bloom.” See how our expert horticulturists spend 11 months each year creating this living spectacle.
Posted in Photography on November 11 2015, by Matt Newman
With the unseasonably warm fall we’ve been having, the Japanese chrysanthemums on display in the Bourke-Sullivan Display House of the Nolen Greenhouses are content to stretch out their bloom schedule. Naturally, we’re all for it—Kiku: Spotlight on Tradition has been extended through November 29!
Cascade-style kiku in the Bourke-Sullivan Display House – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on November 9 2015, by Matt Newman
This year’s Japanese chrysanthemum exhibition takes place in the Bourke-Sullivan Display House of our famed Nolen Greenhouses for Living Collections. And after so many months of effort on the part of our horticulturists to bring this incredible display to life, it’s worth visiting!
Kiku: Spotlight on Tradition in the Bourke-Sullivan Display House – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Learning Experiences on October 5 2015, by Claire Sabel
Claire Sabel is a Junior Fellow at the Humanities Institute of The New York Botanical Garden.
The Humanities Institute at The New York Botanical Garden was launched in the spring of 2014 to support interdisciplinary research between the arts and sciences. The Institute brings scholars to the Mertz Library to research relationships between humanity and nature, landscapes, and the built environment. This summer, several Fellows joined the Institute to pursue research projects that focus on the Library’s collections, which are some of the best in the world for the history and practice of horticulture, botany, and landscape design. In this series, they explore how visiting living plant collections in the Nolen Greenhouse has informed their work.
As Humanities Fellows, we work primarily with inert objects: a printed page, handwritten letters, sketches from field notebooks, an occasional herbarium sheet. Between our various research projects, which you can read more about here, we cover centuries and continents, and almost everything we need to do so is contained within the rich collections of the LuEsther T. Mertz Library (with the occasional help of the Internet).
Part of what makes the Humanities Institute so special, however, is its position within a much larger and varied research institution and living museum. Although humanists typically make use of archives and museum repositories, the Botanical Garden has a unique set of special collections housed in the Nolen Greenhouses.
Posted in Photography on August 25 2015, by Matt Newman
This year’s kiku display is on the move—primarily upwards. These rapidly growing plants are anxious for fall, when they’ll be flowering fully in the Bourke-Sullivan Display House starting October 31.
Young kiku (chrysanthemums) in the Nolen Greenhouses for Living Collections – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on January 5 2015, by Matt Newman
The first signs of 2015’s coming Orchid Show are cropping up in the greenhouses of late. There’ll only be more from here!
Lady’s slipper in the Nolen Greenhouses for Living Collections – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on January 2 2015, by Matt Newman
Minute cactus specimens cover tables in the Nolen Greenhouses for Living Collections. I wonder how many of them will make it into our summer exhibition, FRIDA KAHLO: Art, Garden, Life.
Cacti in the Nolen Greenhouses – Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on December 14 2014, by Lansing Moore
This Echeveria is looking simply, well… succulent.
Echeveria ‘Golden Glow’ in the Nolen Greenhouses – Photo by Ivo M Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on January 20 2014, by Ann Rafalko
Something about this beautiful South African succulent makes me think of water balloons. Or maybe bubble wrap*?
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Haworthia cymbiformis var. cymbiformis f. planifolia variegata
In the Nolen Greenhouses for Living Collections
* Please remember to never touch (or climb!) any of our plants. Many of them are very sensitive, fragile, or old. Thank you!
Posted in Photography on January 18 2014, by Ann Rafalko
Shades of green.
Epidendrum coriifolium
In the Nolen Greenhouses for Living Collections