Botanical Field Drawing at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
June 2016
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Successes in the Garden for Native Plants: the Monarch and the American Lady, in Brooklyn!
A Monarch caterpillar feeding on a Milkweed in our treebed in Bed Stuy. Two caterpillars ate almost the entire plant in a couple days. So I moved them to another milkweed in an empty lot […]
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You wanna do something for the birds and the bees? Native Plants in October at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
These are snapshots I took a few days ago which Uli Lorimer, Curator of the Native Flora Garden, kindly identifies and explains how they fit into the ecosystem. Yes, even in New York City we […]
What Meets the Eye
In Which I Visit Two of the “Gardens on Orchard”
The reason I’m such an optimist about this whole climate change business is that at a particularly low point, I took “Botany for Horticulturalists” at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (and the rest of […]