Back to NYC and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Part 1

No, sadly I'm not back in NYC. This is a leftover post from our trip last October. I wrote about Little Island, the High Line, New York Botanical Garden and Wave Hill, but somehow never got around to sharing my visit to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, which was the first garden I visited on that trip...

Inside the gates I first encountered the semi-formal Osborne Garden.

The garden map indicated that sitting on the grass was allowed. This gets a big "thumbs up" from me. Public gardens that don't allow visitors to sit on, or even walk across, the lawn are way too caught up in some archaic idea of what a garden is.

Walking along the overlook in route to the Steinberg Visitors Center...

...and it's green roof.

There was a great interactive display just outside the restrooms.

I kind of wanted this t-shirt in the gift shop. If you only knew how many times I mean to type "plans" but it comes out "plants"...

I really loved this container grouping on the patio outside the visitors center.

Araucaria araucana (monkey puzzle) trees with Salvia discolor.

Aka Andean silver-leaf sage.

And chocolate cosmos, Cosmos atrosanguineus. Perfectly dreamy...

I ever-so-briefly detoured through the Japanese garden.

Enroute to the Shakespeare Garden and the Fragrance Garden.

Things were obviously being cleared out, I was here at the end of October.

This Furcraea foetida 'Mediopicta' was next in line.

The largest Oxydendrum arboreum (sourwood) I've ever seen.

Ah, the conservatories...

And lily pool...

There were four of those water-spewing verdigris fish heads.

The first door I tried. It was locked. As near as I can tell (post visit online research) this beautiful space is only used for events.

The second door I came too, also locked. At least there was an explanation as to why.

And agaves, strappy ones.

So the buildings weren't very welcoming, but the pool was lovely.

Finally! Buildings I could get inside.

There was an Aquatic House, Desert Pavilion, Tropical Pavilion, and a Warm Temperate Pavilion—but first, The Trail of Plant Evolution.

Drynaria quercifolia/Aglaomorpha quercifolia 

Selaginella braunii and S. moellendorffii

Cycas edentata

Into the Aquatic House we go...

Platycerium coronarium (I think... I tried to keep the ID on all these fabulous ferns correct but may have messed up).

Platycerium grande

Platycerium alcicorne

Platycerium angolense

Pretty fabulous, right? Friday we return to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and start in the Desert House...

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One final project before the Great Migration began

I've owned this looped piece of wire for years. I always kind of saw it covered with plants, but hadn't ever gotten around to actually doing anything about it. Mid-September—about the time I needed to be thinking about leaving town for the Philly Fling—I decided it was finally going to happen.

Further evidence that I'd been scheming on this for awhile, last April I signed up for an online class from Atelir TE on living wreath making.

I ended up going a slightly different route with what I made, but still learned a lot from the class.

Here I've worked my ingredients (Pyrrosia linqua, a NOID cryptanthus, a pair of Fascicularia pitcairniifolia divisions, and soon to be added, bits of an orchid—Bulbophyllum sp. mini rambling laxiflorum type—that used to be mounted on a piece of wood) into the wire shape along with some soil and moss.

I also had this piece of driftwood handy in case I felt more stability was needed at the base.

Turns out it was.

The finished product...

It makes me very happy.

The backside is mostly moss but with time I think the pyrrosia will start to grow out that way, and hopefully the orchid will too—you can see a few bits of it under the fascicularia.

More orchid bits above the driftwood.

I was hoping to get an early morning sunny shot and lucked out. This hanging is still outside as I write this post on Saturday, the 21st Oct—however it will need to come in soon as our nights are cooling to the low 30's by the end of the week. 

The Great Migration kicked off back on October 3rd, when I paused to take this shot of my two different variegated Agave victoriae-reginae babies in their pick-axe planters.

The first prisoners to make their way indoors...

Cactus rounds on top of cactus rounds—Echinocereus grusonii.

Agave schidigera ‘Royal Flush’

So many plants! (and I'd only just begun...)

Here's what it looks like now. Part A...

And Part B...

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