The Grand Opening of the Native Plant Garden at NYBG
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Gregory Long, NYBG CEO and President; John Berenstein, Leon Levy Foundation President and CFO; Shelby White, Leon Levy Foundation Trustee; Todd Forrest, NYBG Vice President; Elizabeth B. Moynihan, Leon Levy Foundation Trustee; Sheila Brady, OvS Partner; Joanna Payne, NYBG Director of the Native Plant Garden; Maureen K. Chilton, NYBG Board Chairman; and Hugh Hardy, H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture Partner. (Photo courtesy of NYBG)
The Native Plant Garden opened to the public with a ribbon-cutting on May 3, 2013 at the New York Botanical Garden in Bronx, New York. The Garden is a gift of the Leon Levy Foundation, and Trustee Shelby White cut the ribbon on their behalf.
The three-and-a-half-acre garden demonstrates the vital role of native plants in diverse ecosystems and highlights the beauty and diversity of native flora throughout the four seasons. The Native Plant Garden is comprised of nearly 100,000 native species are planted in meadow, woodland and wetland habitats.
Read more about the Native Plant Garden:
- The New York Times
- The Washington Post
- The New York Botanical Garden
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- OvS’ Eric Groft, Sheila Brady and Lisa Delplace
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- OvS’ Eric Groft, Hilary Oat-Judge, Sheila Brady, Marisa Scalera and Lisa Delplace
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- NYBG Project Manager Travis Beck with OvS’ Native Plant Garden Design Team: Marisa Scalera, Joe Chambers and Hilary Oat-Judge
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- NYBG Native Plant Garden Director Joanna Payne and OvS’ Sheila Brady, Principal-in-Charge of the Garden’s design
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- Garden visitors on the Promenade (Photo courtesy of NYBG)
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- Garden visitors on one of the Native Plant Garden’s paths
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- Garden visitors along the Promenade (Photo courtesy of NYBG)
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- Garden visitors adjacent to the Promenade and central water feature
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- The Garden’s Promenade and central water feature
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- The Native Woodland
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- A rock outcropping in the Native Meadow
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- The Native Woodland
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- The Native Woodland
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- The Promenade and central water feature
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- The Native Woodland
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- The central water feature, an innovative system of storm water management and biofiltration
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- One of the Native Plant Garden’s native guests
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- One of the pavilions designed by H3 Collaboration Architecture
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- A path through the Native Meadow
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- Trillium luteum (Yellow Trillium) and Phlox divaricata (Wild Blue Phlox) in the Native Woodland
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- The Promenade
Plants We Love: Liriodendron Tulipifera (Tulip Tree)
Does it get more beautiful than this? This is the flower of the Liriodendron tulipifera, more commonly known as a tulip tree.
An American native, the tulip tree caused a sensation when American Botanist John Bartram shipped the first one to England in the 18th century.
Tall and straight, Liriodendron tulipifera is one of the most magnificent trees in the mid-Atlantic.
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- Liriodendron Tulipifera
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- A tulip tree in bloom on the Campus of the Federal Reserve in Washington, DC