April 23, 2008

Darwin, edible lawns on May's garden-events agenda

NewYorkology contributor Jane Berger has compiled a list of selected garden-related events for May. Jane is a professional landscape designer working throughout the Northeast and is editor and publisher of Garden Design Online.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden (718) 623-7200
May 3 and 4
10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sakura Matsuri, weekend-long Cherry Blossom Festival

May 6
6 to 8 p.m.
Annual Garden Secrets, lecture by BBG Curator Nancy Seaton

May 14
10:30 a.m. to noon
Urban Gardening Workshop, author Linda Yang

May 14
9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Tour of NYC Flower Market led by floral designer Nancy Kitchen

May 31
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Japanese Pruning Techniques for Small Gardens, workshop with arborist Asher Browne & BBG curator Brian Funk

May 31
3 p.m.
Small Urban Gardens of Japan lecture with Asher Browne

NY Botanical Garden (718) 817-8747
Through June 15
Darwin’s Garden, special exhibition in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory

May 6
5 p.m. in the Ross Lecture Hall, NYBG
Darwin: Yesterday and Today, panel discussion featuring Darwin historian David Kohn, philosopher Michael Ruse and Rita Colwell, former director of the National Science Foundation.

May 8
6:30 p.m. at the Kaufman Theater, American Museum of Natural History
Human Evolution & the Complexity of Living Organisms panel discussion featuring Barbara Schaal, VP of the National Academy of Sciences; biologist & author Kenneth Miller and biochemist Gerald Edelman

May 17
10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in NYBG's Watson Bldg
Photo Workshop: The Power of Natural Light with photographer Allen Rokach

May 17
Special Gardening Saturday: Perennials
10 a.m. to noon: Native Perennials, Perennial Kitchen Garden
12:30 to 2:30 p.m.: Tough Perennials for City Gardens, Ornamental Grasses
2:45 to 4:45 p.m.: Propagating Perennials, Ground Covers

May 24 through Nov. 2
Moore in America: Monumental Sculpture at the NYBG
Largest outdoor exhibit in the United States of 20 major pieces by sculptor Henry Moore

Queens Botanical Garden (718) 886-3800
May 3
10 a.m.
TLC for Trees, planting, protecting, and pruning trees

May 15
6 to 8 p.m.
Composting in the City, the essentials of making compost from kitchen scraps, weeds & garden trimmings

Brooklyn Designs
May 10
Noon at St. Ann's Warehouse, 38 Water St.
Architect Fritz Haeg reads from his new book “Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn�

Metropolis Magazine conference, ICFF
May 19
10 a.m.
"What If You Could Eat Your Front Lawn," lecture by architect Fritz Haeg,

Central Park Conservancy (212) 310-6600
Through June 19
Mondays through Frodays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at The Arsenal, 5th Ave at E. 64th St.
Special exhibition to celebrate the park’s history, its landscape and use, and recent transformation.

Picture credit: Japanese Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Amy Langfield/NewYorkology.

April 23, 2008 9:42 AM in Architecture, Out of Manhattan, Sightsology, Tours, Upper East Side

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