By Liz Nye, New England Botanic Garden Staff July 2023 Bumblebee (Bombus spp.) sipping nectar at a beebalm (Monarda 'Raspberry Wine') flower at the Lincoln St rotary; Photo by Ashley Gatongo Wildlife sightings in busy cities can sometimes be surprising. Just take the recent images of a bobcat padding through the yard [...]
Article by Liz Nye & Video by Megan Stouffer, New England Botanic Garden Staff June 2023 Terri Chiao and Adam Frezza, the creative duo known as CHIAOZZA, envisioned their new exhibition at New England Botanic Garden as an art walk experience. Their sculptural work would be nestled into the Garden’s plant collection in such [...]
By Liz Nye, New England Botanic Garden Staff May 2023 “It’s the moment of truth,” Seth Libby says to Jackie Harris as he sets down his shovel and grabs hold of the trunk of a small eastern redbud tree. He turns the tree so Jackie can view it from all angles. “Which side do [...]
Article by Liz Nye & Video by Megan Stouffer, New England Botanic Garden Staff April 2023 It’s a brisk spring morning. Sunlight beams onto the leaf litter lining the forest floor as gardener Ellen Scheid leads the way through New England Botanic Garden’s Inner Park. This naturalistic garden space is devoted to native plants—trees, understory [...]
By Liz Nye, New England Botanic Garden Staff April 2023 When Leslie Duthie’s two daughters were young, spring meant a trip to Hartford’s wholesale garden market. Leslie would give the girls, Stephanie and Monica, free reign to explore whatever they liked among the countless trees, shrubs, annuals, perennials, and hanging baskets available at the [...]
By Liz Nye, New England Botanic Garden Staff April 2023 There’s nothing quite as cheer-inducing as finding the sunny blooms of winter aconite (Eranthis hyemalis) suddenly dotting an otherwise dreary late winter garden. Well into March, these buttercup relatives in the Ranunculaceae family continue to pop up and, if allowed to spread, form a colony of happy looking [...]
