Shrub Rose ‘Sophy’s Rose’ (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)

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When they’re just beginning to unfurl their beguiling petals?

Shrub Rose ‘Sophy’s Rose’ (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)

The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden is very near peak bloom. Keep an eye on it with Rose Watch 2012!

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Monet’s Garden opens this weekend!
Plants, paintings, photographs, and poetry, we’ve got them all! A seasonally evolving recreation of Claude Monet’s garden at Giverny is in the Conservatory. Two original paintings are on display in the Rondina Gallery of the Mertz Library. Photographs of modern-day Giverny are on display in the Ross Gallery in the Herbarium Building. Poems by French Symbolist poets (contemporaries of Monet) are displayed in the Perennial Garden. And there’s more! See it all here. Want deeper insight? Here’s a great article from the Wall Street Journal.

The Roses are Popping!
The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden is bursting into peak bloom a few weeks ahead of schedule. Don’t want to miss a single perfect bloom in this incredible, environmentally friendly rose paradise? Check out Rose Watch 2012, updated each morning by the Rose Garden’s curator Peter Kukielski, who is predicting near-peak this weekend, timed perfectly by Mother Nature to coincide with your visit to Monet’s Garden!

Hops are Hopping
The Garden’s community gardening program, Bronx Green-Up, together with the Bronx Brewery and Cornell Cooperative Extension, are bringing hops production back to New York City. The hops will be grown in community gardens around the Bronx, and will the be used to create a special summer brew by the Bronx Brewery, with all proceeds going back into the community gardens. Now there’s a project I can raise a glass to!

Vote Early, Vote Often!
The Garden is in the running to win a $250,000 preservation grant from Partners in Preservation to help us restore the WPA-built cascade in the beautiful Rock Garden. But we need your help. In order to win our requested grant, we need to finish in the top four. While we are holding steady at number three, we cannot afford to slip. Please vote daily for the next five days, and please ask everyone you know to do the same!

App Happy
If you have an iPhone, then you should download our new app, NYBG in Bloom, before your next visit to the Garden! The app features walking tours of our 250-acres that can be used year ’round, as well as a special walking tour of the sites that makeup Monet’s Garden. In addition, the Monet’s Garden portion of the app also includes ‘Paintings Plants’–a special collaboration between the Garden and the Metropolitan Museum of Art–and the ‘Impressionist Lens’ feature which allows you to “Impressionify” your photographs and share them with friends.

Online, All in One Place
There’s a way to stay on top of all the amazing happenings at the Garden that’s right for everyone. Check out all our online resources and choose the one that’s right for you. Each one is updated throughout the day, including weekends. Do you have something to share? We love hearing from our visitors! Tweet us, mention us on a Pin, hashtag us on Instagram, submit content to our Tumblr, join our Flickr group, or send us a note on Facebook. We’re always happy to hear from you!

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I’m personally not much of a jet setter; lighting off for Europe on a whim doesn’t stir the pot of my daily routine that often, and the occasional craving for a fresh baguette seldom boils over. Maybe the local option is a better bet. The father of Impressionism is here in New York, after all!

With three years in careful planning, and months spent coaxing each plant from seed, Monet’s Garden is now opening its doors on the most elegant collection of art–both living and preserved–that you’ll see this spring. Walk the Conservatory’s “Grand Allée” from the artist’s country home, through a particolored menagerie peppered with delphiniums and poppies, over the pastoral Japanese bridge and back again. In the galleries of the Library Building you’ll find letters, photographs, and a pair of original Monet paintings shining a light on the artist’s prolific life in Giverny. Films, workshops, events for the kids–our museum of plants is so much more.

Get your tickets online, then get yourself to the NYBG. Indoors or out, it’s looking to be a gorgeous weekend!

Saturday, May 19

Bird Walk – 11 a.m.
Meet at the Reflecting Pool

The diverse habitats of the Botanical Garden offer visitors a chance to see dozens of species of birds throughout the year. Bring your binoculars and walk the Garden grounds with our expert, Debbie Becker, searching for the birds of the season and learning about bird-friendly plants that provide food, shelter, and nesting sites. Rumor has it that several rare species have been spotted at the Garden in recent weeks, making now–with the perfect spring sun–the best time to get your birdwatching wings.

Azalea Garden Tour with ASL Interpreter – 12:30 p.m.
Meet at the Reflecting Pool in the Leon Levy Visitor Center

Join a Garden Docent for a guided tour of the 11-acre Azalea Garden, which offers an encyclopedic collection of the world’s azaleas planted along a broad hillside punctuated by rock outcrops and shaded by mature native trees.

Film Screening: Monet Double Feature
In Ross Hall

The Impressionists: Monet – 12:30 p.m.
This film is a look at the life and art of Claude Monet, the originator of “Impressionism.” Examine several paintings, location footage, and expert analysis. Also featured is footage from L’Orangerie and from Monet’s house and gardens at Giverny, plus special film shot at London’s Savoy Hotel, where Monet painted his famous views of London.

Monet’s Palate – 3:30 p.m.
Embark on a culinary tour of Claude Monet’s beloved Normandy, a region of France just north of Paris along the Seine River. This region inspired Monet’s passion for art and his passion for fine cuisine. Both of Monet’s palates met at this home in Giverny, surrounded by his beautiful gardens. This film, connecting the painter’s love of art, gardens, and his profound appreciation for food is introduced by Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep and features commentary from Alice Waters, Daniel Boulud, Michel Richard, and other renowned chefs. Screening of Monet’s Palate made possible by MonetsPalate.com.

Lecture Book Signing with Elizabeth Murray – 2 p.m.
In Ross Hall

Elizabeth Murray is a garden designer, artist, and author who is well known for her work helping to restore Monet’s garden in Giverny and photographing it for 25 years. Join us as she shares historical photos of Monet, his paintings, and horticultural information, along with gorgeous photographs featured in her book, Monet’s Passion: Ideas, Inspiration and Insights from the Painter’s Gardens. The book will be available for purchase and signing following the lecture.

Home Gardening Demonstration: Monet’s Garden Through the Artist’s Eye – 2 p.m.
In the Perennial Garden

French painter Paul Cezanne described Claude Monet as “just an eye,” and exclaimed, ”but oh, what an eye!” Join Gardener for Public Education Sonia Uyterhoeven as she teaches you how to view your garden through the lenses of an Impressionist painter, mastering light and color on this opening weekend of the landmark exhibition, Monet’s Garden. This French-themed home gardening demonstration is part of Monet’s Garden, a stunning tribute to French Impressionist Claude Monet showcasing a seasonally changing interpretation of the gardens that inspired his art.

Monet’s Garden Tour – 2:30 p.m.
Meet at the entrance to the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory

Join one of the Garden’s docents for a tour inside the galleries of the historic Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, where horticulturists of The New York Botanical Garden bring to life stunning re-creations of Monet’s most iconic gardens at Giverny. In the Conservatory courtyard, the focus on the artistry of the great Impressionist continues with a display of water lilies.

Salon Series: Monet to Mallarme – 4 p.m.
In the Perennial Garden

Hear American poets reading their favorite French poets including Stephane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, and Paul Verlaine, while discussing the poet’s influence on their own work in this special Monet’s Garden series. Co-presented by the Poetry Society of America. These programs are made possible by a gift from the Leon Lowenstein Foundation, Inc.

May 19: The French Impressionist Poets: Introduction – Rosanna Warren, Bill Zavatsky, Mark Polizzotti, and Metta Sama

Sunday, May 20

Film Screening: Monet Double Feature
In Ross Hall

The Impressionists: Monet – 12 p.m.
This film is a look at the life and art of Claude Monet, the originator of “Impressionism.” Examine several paintings, location footage, and expert analysis. Also featured is footage from L’Orangerie and from Monet’s house and gardens at Giverny, plus special film shot at London’s Savoy Hotel, where Monet painted his famous views of London.

Monet’s Palate – 1 p.m.
Embark on a culinary tour of Claude Monet’s beloved Normandy, a region of France just north of Paris along the Seine River. This region inspired Monet’s passion for art and his passion for fine cuisine. Both of Monet’s palates met at this home in Giverny, surrounded by his beautiful gardens. This film, connecting the painter’s love of art, gardens, and his profound appreciation for food is introduced by Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep and features commentary from Alice Waters, Daniel Boulud, Michel Richard, and other renowned chefs. Screening of Monet’s Palate made possible by MonetsPalate.com.

Home Gardening Demonstration: Monet’s Garden Through the Artist’s Eye – 2 p.m.
In the Perennial Garden

French painter Paul Cezanne described Claude Monet as “just an eye,” and exclaimed, “but oh, what an eye!” Join Gardener for Public Education Sonia Uyterhoeven as she teaches you how to view your garden through the lenses of an Impressionist painter, mastering light and color on the opening weekend of our landmark exhibition. This French-themed home gardening demonstration is part of Monet’s Garden, a stunning tribute to French Impressionist Claude Monet showcasing a seasonally changing interpretation of the gardens that inspired his art.

Monet’s Garden Tour – 2:30 p.m.
Meet at the entrance to the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory

Join one of the Garden’s docents for a tour inside the galleries of the historic Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, where horticulturists of The New York Botanical Garden bring to life stunning re-creations of Monet’s most iconic gardens at Giverny. In the Conservatory ccourtyard, the focus on the artistry of the great Impressionist continues with a display of water lilies.

Chamber Music Concert: Monet’s Friends Featuring the Hartford Symphony Orchestra – 4 p.m.
In the Ross Hall

Musical performances by the Hartford Symphony Orchestra feature the classical composers of Monet’s time: Claude Debussy, Albert Roussel, and Gabriel Fauré. Special ticket required.

Featured artists:
Leonid Sigal (violin), Andrius Zlabys (piano), Patricia Daly Vance (viola), and Peter Zay (cello)

Program:
Albert Roussel: String trio, Op. 58
Claude Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor, L140
Gabriel Fauré: Piano quartet No. 2 in G minor, Op 45

Ongoing Children’s Programs

Spring Fun!
Everett Children’s Adventure Garden, April 24 through May 18 — Weekdays 1:30 to 5:30 p.m.; Weekends 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Color bursts onto the scene as the season shifts to warmer temperatures. Enjoy the whimsical topiaries in their new spring outfits, pot up a seed to take home and care for, and go on a plant-part scavenger hunt through the winding paths. Wrap up your adventure at the pond, spotting frogs and turtles as they emerge from their winter rest.

Children’s Outdoor Nature Explorations: Observe and Create
Everett Children’s Adventure Garden, May 19 through September 30 — Weekdays 1:30 to 5:30 p.m.; Weekends 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Let your inner Monet run wild and be inspired by nature to create art in all its different forms. Movement, music, drawing and painting abound in this outdoor studio for children. Stop by Inspiration Station to play our outdoor marimba. Paint with water and experiment with colors in our Color Clash Studio. Step inside to experiment with the engineering behind aquatic plants. Nature is art–discover it at the Adventure Garden. Also on view: an exhibition by students from Studio in a School.

Hands-On Gardening Activities: Wild, Wiggly Worms
In the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden, April 21 through May 18 — 1:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Learn all about our slimy friends and how they are hard at work in the garden. Feed the worms in our worm farm, and then sift nutritious worm compost to take home for your garden.

Salad Days
In the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden, May 19 through June 15 — 1:30 to 5:30 p.m.

The “salad days” of the Garden year are here! The finale of spring is a bonanza of ripe roots, succulent stems, glorious greens, and a kaleidoscope of colorful–and edible–flowers. Use real plants and flowers to decorate a salad bowl collage. Learn tips on how to combine this array of plant parts into an assortment of salads and prepare a healthy dressing to take home.

Cooking demonstrations at 2 and 4 p.m. on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

Tags: Monet’s Garden, Spring, weekend

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Others of us need a little hand-holding, a kindly pep talk and a wee bit of a kick in the pants to convince us to put down the mail order catalogs and light a fire to get our creative juices flowing.

If you’re in the second category, there is no better garden DIY guru to get you started on a handmade life outdoors than Lorene Edwards Forkner, author of the newly released book Handmade Garden Projects.

Bold and beautiful author Lorene Edwards Forkner

Lorene is one of these people who just bubbles with enthusiasm. This is a woman who doesn’t fear the color orange, who hauls an old Airstream trailer into her back yard to use as a grown-up playhouse and calls it her “canned ham” and who has turned some old bedsprings into an amazingly artistic rusted outdoor statement—in the front of her home!

Several garden bloggers had the chance to visit Lorene’s garden last summer when she was putting the finishing touches on her book. We saw first-hand the results of her craftiness in her own garden. Now the book is released and everyone can see a bit of Lorene’s garden—and some clever and easy ideas for a handmade life outdoors.

Bamboo Edging – Photo by Allan Mandell

Handmade Garden Projects is as much an inspiration book  as a DIY recipe book. Before launching into the how-to portion of the book, Lorene lights the creative fire with a quick jaunt through three gardens heavy on the handmade. My only complaint is that she only gives you a peek at her “canned ham.”  (Since it’s so adorable, I’ll share you a couple of photos I took when I visited last year.)

Each project is carefully described with a list of materials, tools and other supplies needed. But the introductions don’t read like your usual how-to manual—many of which read like they were written by engineers. (Sorry, not all engineers. You know who you are.)

Featherweight Troughs – Photo by Allan Mandell

For example, when talking about her materials used to make her rugged steel trellis, she writes, “Incredibly strong, virtually indestructible, and beautiful besides, rock screen scrap is my favorite heavy metal.”

But she’s not just clever. She’s helpful too. She goes on to explain what rock screen is, sizes you can expect to find, where to look and the friendly reminder that “Unless your salvage yard can custom cut pieces to size, it’s best to keep an open mind, scouting for interesting pieces and suitable weights.”

Lorene’s Airstream – Her “canned ham”

Projects in Handmade Garden Projects include pathways, stepping stone and edging ideas, trellises and supports, decorative accents, containers and finishing touches. None of them appear very difficult and most can be accomplished in an afternoon or a weekend, depending on how many times you stop for beer.

Interior detail of Lorene’s grown-up playhouse “canned ham”

It’s a fun and useful book to set you on your path to a handmade life in the great outdoors. You can thank Lorene. She’ll be the one wearing orange, having fun and reveling in her own clever handmade garden.

Want to win this copy of the book? Leave me a comment by Wednesday, May 23, and I’ll select a winner through a random drawing!

Want to see other blog posts about Lorene’s book on the virtual book tour? You can visit them here where there are more giveaways.

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Timber Press, publisher of Handmade Garden Projects, provided a free copy of this book for review.

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Most New Yorkers don’t realize that there is bona fide nature to be found throughout the five boroughs. Believe it or not, New York City has more open space than any other city in North America, including towering forests, vibrant marshes, and grassy meadows. That adds up to over 53,000 acres of natural landscape!

NYC Wildflower Week is an opportunity to celebrate and appreciate the native flora that calls The Big Apple home, bringing together thousands of New Yorkers to experience an extraordinary range of activities. Here at The New York Botanical Garden we are proud to host a far-reaching tour of native flora on Friday, May 18. Aside from being free with the price of admission to the Garden (and led by three of our most brilliant botanical minds), the tour will also give you a sneak peek at our as-yet-unopened Native Plant Garden.

For their fifth year, NYCWW is expanding to include all of NYC nature, including salamanders, birds, and mushrooms–and it’s all happening between now and Sunday, May 20. Free events include guided nature walks, garden tours, and children’s interactive fairs. For more information visit the NYC Wildflower Week’s website, and get to know the nature near you!

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How do plants in the rain forest survive? This was the question on the minds of Prospect Hill Elementary School students as they explored the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. It was here at the NYBG that they became first-hand field scientists for a day, embarking on their own botanical expedition through the diverse tropical rooms of our glasshouse.

While they did not have to get on a plane to visit these rain forests, these third graders did have to travel through extreme biomes before they could reach them. This is a museum of plants, after all. Their journey began when they got off the bus, where they were not only greeted by GreenSchool educator Pilar Okeson, but by a fantastic Zelkova tree (Zelkova serrata). Hailing all the way from Japan, this deciduous tree does equally well in the temperate climate of New York City, and can reach 100 feet tall. It was only the first of many exotic plants the children would encounter.

Shortly after, they approached the classic Victorian glasshouse and–looking from the outside in–the Prospect Hill students suspected that their landscape was about to change. They could see a world of green through the Conservatory glass, but how were those plants different from the ones they see each day in their own neighborhoods, and why were they protected inside this extraordinary building?

They entered through the glass door and into an African desert of ancient plants, where euphorbia and succulents abound; soon after, the students found themselves among tall cacti representing the deserts of the Americas. This was not a rain forest by any means, though their fascination grew with each strange plant introduced. Passing through the mouth of a long, dark tunnel beneath the desert collections, they were prepared to enter their chosen field of study. But a botanical expedition is only as good as the careful record a scientist keeps, making a field journal a botanist’s number one necessity. Pilar distributed clipboards with paper and pencils for students to make sketches and write down their findings.

In the Conservatory, the many faces of curiosity.

The idea that tropical forests could only be hot and humid places was quickly dispelled as the students immersed themselves in the Upland Rain Forest house, similar to rain forests found in the high mountains of Latin America. There they discovered that rain forests could be cool–even cold–as they learned that these high-altitude biomes (above 3,000 feet!) are actually referred to as cloud forests; rather than constant rainfall, the cooler temperatures and wind bring heavy mists.

Still pondering the question of how these rain forest plants survive, the students began their observations, drawing and collecting information about the plants around them–mosses, ferns, and bromeliads, each with a special shape and method of gathering nutrients. Pencils scribbled down information as they answered questions about epiphytes, or plants that capture their nourishment from the moisture in the air.

The next destination was the tropical Lowland Rain Forest. With its storied skywalk, each third grader climbed through the layers of a forest they had only read about in books, reaching the canopy and looking down to observe and collect information of what lay below–the broad leaves of understory plants, the lianas winding their way through the building, and the tangled buttress roots supporting a giant kapok tree. This hot and humid rain forest with its climbing vines, towering palms, and economy plants–like cinnamon and cocoa–provided the basis for serious conversations on the importance of these environments.

However, the NYBG GreenSchool is more than a Conservatory tour. Hidden between the deserts and rain forests are classrooms where school groups often convene at the end of their expedition. Call it a field station if you will. In these classrooms, Prospect Hill kids had the chance to engage in even more hands-on learning and small-group discussions. They worked together, shared information, and compiled what they had discovered about plant adaptations, organizing all of their material on table top science journals. To culminate their day of learning, each student got to pot up a Coleus “Wizard Mix” plant to take home for further observation, and maybe even some experimentation with leaf propagation.

But after such an expedition, how do plants in the rain forest survive? Buttress roots, drip tips, thick, waxy cuticles, and fancy leaf arrangements are all good hints. Climbing through the layers of the rain forest for yourself might help you reach your own conclusion. Still, you could just ask a third grader from Prospect Hill Elementary School.

Tags: Conservatory, GreenSchool, Pelham Manor, Prospect Hill, rain forest

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Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there.

Sophie with peonies and wisteria

Sophie, the Papillon

Peonies and wisteria

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Calling the Boys Girls Clubs of America attendees inspirational community leaders, SafeLawns founder Paul Tukey challenged the organization to help keep communities across the nation pesticide free wherever children play.

“I want you to know about the Child Safe Playing Fields Act that keeps toxic weed and insect killers off playgrounds and playing fields statewide in New York,” said Tukey, who was selected as a keynote presenter, along with co-author Victoria Rowell, at the Boys Girls Clubs 106th annual convention held in San Diego last Wednesday through Friday. “Connecticut and New York are the only two states to have that sort of protection in place. With your help, we can — and should — extend that protection to the other 48 states.”

Tukey and Rowell’s primary message to the audience of club directors and staff focused on their new book, Tag, Toss Run and SafeLawns’ new national campaign titled “Lawn Games for Life.”

Actress and co-author Victoria Rowell shared inspirational stories of her childhood in Maine and Massachusetts, much of which she said was spent outdoors playing the old-fashioned games in her book, Tag, Toss Run.

“Playing these games teaches a set of life skills that you never get from computer games,” said Rowell, who detailed her own childhood in her best-selling 2007 memoir titled The Women Who Raised Me. She credited her experiences at the Boys Girls Clubs of Massachusetts for helping build a life foundation that later led to leading roles in numerous television and movie projects, including The Young the Restless, Diagnosis: Murder and Dumb and Dumber.

Near the conclusion of their talk the authors share some of their favorite games from their book, which was released on March 27. Boys Girls Club directors enthusiastically competed in old-fashioned wheelbarrow races, as well as hoop trundling played with wooden hoops crafted by the Cooperman Company of Bellows Falls, Vt.

SafeLawns founder Paul Tukey demonstrates hoop trundling for the audience.

Boys Girls Club directors caught on quickly with hoop trundling, a racing game that dates back thousands of years.

“It was very inspirational,” said Wayne B. Moss, senior director of the Sports, Fitness Recreation Program for the Boys Girls Clubs. “It’s clear we share a lot of common ground in our message to get children playing again.”

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