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So far Abby Kalinowski has created 20 blog entries.

The Sun, the Moon, and the team that brought them to the Garden: How Night Lights: Starry Skies came to life

2023-12-05T15:12:53+00:00

By Liz Nye December 2023  Of the many important activities involved in a horticulture job at a botanic garden, tackling miles of string lightsand puzzling out the electrical connections needed to illuminate acres of garden spaces might sound out of the ordinary. Until you experience Night Lights. Envisioned and built by the Garden’s horticulture [...]

The Sun, the Moon, and the team that brought them to the Garden: How Night Lights: Starry Skies came to life2023-12-05T15:12:53+00:00

Restoring Giants to the Forest

2023-12-02T14:55:18+00:00

By Liz Nye, New England Botanic Garden Staff November 2023  On a cool morning in October, a small group of Garden staff and two volunteers, Lois Breault-Melican and her husband Denis Melican of Spencer, MA, set out up a short, steep trail on the north side of the Garden’s property. Led by land steward, [...]

Restoring Giants to the Forest2023-12-02T14:55:18+00:00

Perspectives from the Garden: The Joys of Native Plants

2024-09-19T15:11:18+00:00

New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae) By Leslie Duthie, New England Botanic Garden Volunteer November 2023 Fall is my favorite time of the year. The mornings are cool and crisp, and afternoons are warm and usually pretty sunny. Although the days are getting shorter, the gardens are still full of flowers and fruit [...]

Perspectives from the Garden: The Joys of Native Plants2024-09-19T15:11:18+00:00

Surprise! You’ve got mushrooms in your houseplants

2023-11-30T15:54:21+00:00

By Brooke Harris, New England Botanic Garden Staff October 2023 As fall is in full swing, most people are winding down the gardening season, bringing their potted plants inside and gearing up for colder weather. With this introduction of the outdoors into your cozy space, you may notice some strange hitchhikers in your pots [...]

Surprise! You’ve got mushrooms in your houseplants2023-11-30T15:54:21+00:00

Spooky Plants: Nature’s Opportunists

2023-12-04T17:03:42+00:00

By Liz Nye, New England Botanic Garden Staff October 2023 Plants are the ultimate pros at turning problems into opportunities. Since they can’t move on their own, they’ve evolved seemingly endless adaptations to get what they need from their surroundings. Over millennia, plants have honed survival strategies that stretch the imagination, inspiring wonder, awe, [...]

Spooky Plants: Nature’s Opportunists2023-12-04T17:03:42+00:00

Fingerprinting apples: The Garden learns more about apple collection through genome project

2024-08-28T19:36:33+00:00

By Liz Nye, New England Botanic Garden Staff September 2023 Apple season is in full swing, but visitors won’t find any growing at the Garden—at least not yet. This fall marks four years since the Garden cut down its historic apple orchard, razing the mature trees in order to save its rare collection of [...]

Fingerprinting apples: The Garden learns more about apple collection through genome project2024-08-28T19:36:33+00:00

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