Tulips in Full Glory
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- April
- 25
If you love tulips, get yourself to the New York Botanical Garden this weekend.
I stopped by this morning to catch the opening day of the annual Garden Antiques Show and Sale (will do a separate post on that) …
… and was knocked out by this bed of tulips alongside the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory.
Wow, can you say riot of color?
I love how they use the tightly packed small-petaled purple pansies to set off the tulips.
Somebody with a great eye did some serious planning last fall to create this display.
I was at Henriette Suhr’s garden in Chappaqua yesterday and she was complaining that all of her tulips (early-, mid- and late-blooming varieties) were coming into flower at the same time …
… which is bad news if you’re trying to get your tulip bloom to last a few weeks…
… but what a concentrated show of color, all at once.
Here’s a link to the Botanical Garden’s Web site, with complete info on current shows, directions etc.
The “Darwin’s Garden” exhibit also opens today at the Botanical Garden. Here’s a link to an earlier blog post with more info on that show. I got too caught up in the tulips and ran out of time — I’ll have to go back.
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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
Hi!
Thanks for your beautiful pictures and very kind comments! That’s our work.
I’m glad you enjoyed it so much, we are too!
Best regards
Mobee Weinstein
Foreman of Outdoor Gardens, NYBG
Good show Mobee! And thanks for writing to identify yourselves.