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The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is a botanical garden at Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York City.Established in 1891, it is located on a 250-acre (100 ha) site that contains a landscape with over one million living plants; the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, a greenhouse containing several habitats; and the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, which contains one of the world's largest collections of ...
The LuEsther T. Mertz Library is located at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) in the Bronx, New York City.Founded in 1899 and renamed in the 1990s for LuEsther Mertz, it is the United States' largest botanical research library, and the first library whose collection focused exclusively on botany.
The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) was inspired when Nathaniel Lord Britton and his wife Elizabeth Gertrude Britton visited the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1888. [7] The NYBG was established in 1891 by act of the New York State Legislature, which among other things, established a board of directors whose job was to raise money for the garden. [8]
A beloved tradition since 1992, the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx has once again set up its annual Holiday Train Show for the season. The grand display — which is located in the Enid A ...
The Thain Family Forest is a 50-acre (20 ha) section of old-growth forest along the Bronx River in the New York Botanical Garden, for a time known as the Native Forest and historically as the Hemlock Grove. [1] [2] Its heritage dates in part to pre-colonial Lenapehoking. New York City acquired 4,000 acres (~1620 ha) as parkland in 1888, and in ...
The New York Botanical Garden is set to debut a “The Nightmare Before Christmas” themed light trail, inspired by Tim Burton’s 1993 film, on Sept 27. The experience will run through Nov. 30 ...
For New York Botanical Garden's 20th annual orchid show, landscape artist Lily Kwong pays homage to her heritage by referencing classic paintings of Chinese mountainscapes passed down through her ...
New York City 40°40′7.32″N 73°57′52.92″W / 40.6687000°N 73.9647000°W / 40.6687000; -73.9647000 Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens