FIELD TRIP
Spring Foliage and Tree Tour of Green-Wood Cemetery
Sunday, May 20, 2018 at 10:30 a.m.
Great views, glorious flowers and foliage, and a journey into American history awaits you at our tree tour of Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. Designated a National Historic Landmark by the United States Department of the Interior, for significance in art, architecture, landscaping and history, Green-Wood contains over 8000 trees, some a hundred years old or older.
Led by knowledgeable guide Katie Archer, this approximately 2 hour ramble through the tranquil and beautiful scenery will be a trip to remember. Bring a camera and enjoy. Tell your friends, especially if they lack computer access. Look at the Green-Wood album at IGSA's Facebook page for a preview.
RAIN CANCELS.
$5 pp suggested
Info: kathleen.cecelia@gmail.com
Sponsored by the Indoor Gardening Society of New York.
Directions: 'R' train to 25th street and Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn. Walk one block to Fifth Avenue.
By car, enter and park just beyond main gate building.
Tour begins just inside the big, gothic main gate building. Walk up the drive from outer gate at 25th Street and Fifth Avenue.
Led by knowledgeable guide Katie Archer, this approximately 2 hour ramble through the tranquil and beautiful scenery will be a trip to remember. Bring a camera and enjoy. Tell your friends, especially if they lack computer access. Look at the Green-Wood album at IGSA's Facebook page for a preview.
RAIN CANCELS.
$5 pp suggested
Info: kathleen.cecelia@gmail.com
Sponsored by the Indoor Gardening Society of New York.
Directions: 'R' train to 25th street and Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn. Walk one block to Fifth Avenue.
By car, enter and park just beyond main gate building.
Tour begins just inside the big, gothic main gate building. Walk up the drive from outer gate at 25th Street and Fifth Avenue.
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March 27, 2018
Sansevierias: More than the Average Snake Plant Long-time IGSA member Karen Sternberg did an update of a talk given in 2006 on Sansevierias with the late Roger Zimmerman, sharing unique photos from her personal collection. IGSA members brought in their pups, and Karen repotted them in record time, using C&S mix and perlite. |
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February 27, 2018
IGSA's Annual Propagation Meeting explored different ways to propagate a variety of plants, including members' cuttings. There were hands-on demonstrations, and members learned expert ways on how to prune their plants to stimulate new growth. |
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January 23, 2018
Valerie Williams shared a brief history of her time with PITS (the now-defunct Rare Pit and Plant Council), where she learned how to grow beautiful plants from seeds, roots, bulbs, and vegetation often destined for the recycle bin. Valerie showed everyone how to grow fruits and vegetables with the simplest techniques of rooting in water for beginners but will also explore more complicated methods for amateur botanists. |
November 28, 2017
Zabel Meshejian Presents:
The Beautiful Hardy Euphorbia Francoisii and Euphorbia Decaryi of Madagascar.
These exotic rare plants are mostly commonly found in subtropical or tropical dry forests and dry shrubland.
Zabel brought in her own samples of this unique desert plant for everyone to admire. She explained its history and gave tips on how she has made her personal collection thrive.
Zabel Meshejian Presents:
The Beautiful Hardy Euphorbia Francoisii and Euphorbia Decaryi of Madagascar.
These exotic rare plants are mostly commonly found in subtropical or tropical dry forests and dry shrubland.
Zabel brought in her own samples of this unique desert plant for everyone to admire. She explained its history and gave tips on how she has made her personal collection thrive.
April 25, 2017
Repotting with Nick Gershberg
It's no one's favorite plant chore but it's possibly the most important.
Timing, technique and medium all figure into the outcome of whether your plant goes on with renewed strength or languishes.
This month, Nick Gershberg, curator of Columbia University's Barnard College greenhouse, gave IGSA the benefit of his general experience and that of his recent repotting spree at the greenhouse.
Repotting with Nick Gershberg
It's no one's favorite plant chore but it's possibly the most important.
Timing, technique and medium all figure into the outcome of whether your plant goes on with renewed strength or languishes.
This month, Nick Gershberg, curator of Columbia University's Barnard College greenhouse, gave IGSA the benefit of his general experience and that of his recent repotting spree at the greenhouse.
March 28th, 2017
Botanical Art
Botanical art is undergoing a renaissance in every corner the world. We explored this movement to document common and uncommon plants, focusing on plants of tropical and desert regions. After looking into how artists go about finding and documenting their quarry, we viewed some of the most interesting examples of tropical plants being depicted by artists today. From Cereus to Begonia to Lithops, Rafflesia, and Caladium, each artist brings a signature style to the subjects they choose to depict.
Specializing in rare plants in watercolor on vellum, Carol Woodin’s work has been exhibited around the world, recently at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK Museo della Grafica, Pisa, Italy, and UBS Gallery, New York. Some collections that include her work are the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, the Dr. Shirley Sherwood Collection, and the Alisa and Isaac M. Sutton Collection. Recipient of the 1998 ASBA Diane Bouchier Artist Award, a Royal Horticultural Society Gold Medal, and the 2016 Orchid Digest Medal of Honor, she served on the Board of the American Society of Botanical Artists, and is now its Director of Exhibitions.
Botanical Art
Botanical art is undergoing a renaissance in every corner the world. We explored this movement to document common and uncommon plants, focusing on plants of tropical and desert regions. After looking into how artists go about finding and documenting their quarry, we viewed some of the most interesting examples of tropical plants being depicted by artists today. From Cereus to Begonia to Lithops, Rafflesia, and Caladium, each artist brings a signature style to the subjects they choose to depict.
Specializing in rare plants in watercolor on vellum, Carol Woodin’s work has been exhibited around the world, recently at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK Museo della Grafica, Pisa, Italy, and UBS Gallery, New York. Some collections that include her work are the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, the Dr. Shirley Sherwood Collection, and the Alisa and Isaac M. Sutton Collection. Recipient of the 1998 ASBA Diane Bouchier Artist Award, a Royal Horticultural Society Gold Medal, and the 2016 Orchid Digest Medal of Honor, she served on the Board of the American Society of Botanical Artists, and is now its Director of Exhibitions.
February 28th, 2017
Kingdom of the Plants: Pt. I - Life in the Wet Zone
David Attenborough begins his journey inside the magnificent Palm House, a unique global rainforest in London. Here, he explores the extraordinary plants that are so well-adapted to wet and humid environments and unravels the intimate relationships between wet zone plants and the animals that depend on them. It was in the wet zones of the world that plants first moved on to land, and in the Waterlily House, David reveals how flowers first evolved some 140 million years ago. Watching a kaleidoscope of breathtaking time-lapses of these most primitive of flowers swelling and blooming, he is able to piece together the very first evolutionary steps that plants took to employ a wealth of insects to carry their precious pollen for the first time. David discovers clues to answer a question that even had Charles Darwin stumped: how did flowering plants evolve so fast to go on to colonize the entire planet so successfully? He marvels with his signature enthusiasm at orchids, plants at the very pinnacle of the plant tree of life. Many of these captivating flowers evolved to be pollinated by a single insect species and in doing so developed such complicated contraptions of pollination. It's hard to imagine anything more beautiful.
Kingdom of the Plants: Pt. I - Life in the Wet Zone
David Attenborough begins his journey inside the magnificent Palm House, a unique global rainforest in London. Here, he explores the extraordinary plants that are so well-adapted to wet and humid environments and unravels the intimate relationships between wet zone plants and the animals that depend on them. It was in the wet zones of the world that plants first moved on to land, and in the Waterlily House, David reveals how flowers first evolved some 140 million years ago. Watching a kaleidoscope of breathtaking time-lapses of these most primitive of flowers swelling and blooming, he is able to piece together the very first evolutionary steps that plants took to employ a wealth of insects to carry their precious pollen for the first time. David discovers clues to answer a question that even had Charles Darwin stumped: how did flowering plants evolve so fast to go on to colonize the entire planet so successfully? He marvels with his signature enthusiasm at orchids, plants at the very pinnacle of the plant tree of life. Many of these captivating flowers evolved to be pollinated by a single insect species and in doing so developed such complicated contraptions of pollination. It's hard to imagine anything more beautiful.
January 24, 2017
Bromeliads
The Bromeliaceae are a family of monocot flowering plants of 51 genera and around 3475 known species native mainly to the tropical Americas. Many of these and the hybrids made from them make excellent and very ornamental foliage and flowering houseplants. Unfortunately, not many are grown for the general houseplant market, the exceptions being Aechmea fasciata, various Tillandsias and Cryptanthus. This month, we will discover how to obtain, grow, propagate and enjoy the dozens of Bromeliads that have the potential to be outstanding parts of our collections. Herb Plever has been growing and writing about Bromeliads for longer than most of us have been around. Mainstay of the New York Bromeliad Society, author of more than 30 articles for the International Bromeliad Society, Herb was presented with an outstanding achievement award at the World Bromeliad Conference in June 2006.
Bromeliads
The Bromeliaceae are a family of monocot flowering plants of 51 genera and around 3475 known species native mainly to the tropical Americas. Many of these and the hybrids made from them make excellent and very ornamental foliage and flowering houseplants. Unfortunately, not many are grown for the general houseplant market, the exceptions being Aechmea fasciata, various Tillandsias and Cryptanthus. This month, we will discover how to obtain, grow, propagate and enjoy the dozens of Bromeliads that have the potential to be outstanding parts of our collections. Herb Plever has been growing and writing about Bromeliads for longer than most of us have been around. Mainstay of the New York Bromeliad Society, author of more than 30 articles for the International Bromeliad Society, Herb was presented with an outstanding achievement award at the World Bromeliad Conference in June 2006.
December 20, 2016
Parade of Succulents Want to grow a living work of art? Tibor Suchs says try succulents. They feature a range of colors and shapes that are unique in the world of horticulture, many so bizarre that inexperienced onlookers can’t believe they are alive. Yet they do everything ‘ordinary’ plants do – leaf out, flower, drop leaves, make seeds - and a few that they don’t - like go without water for months and form strange growths like crests and ‘monstrosities’. We saw a procession of succulent specimens, some many had never seen or even heard of and discussed those we have grown ourselves. |
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November 22, 2016
The Drunken Botanist
Author Amy Stewart reviewed some of the plants used to make alcohol for human consumption, focusing on the Agave, the source of Tequila. After a video talk that examines the brewing process in detail, we sampled the end product.
Amy Stewart is the author of many books, several about horticulture, including Wicked Plants, The Drunken Botanist, and Flower Confidential.
The Drunken Botanist
Author Amy Stewart reviewed some of the plants used to make alcohol for human consumption, focusing on the Agave, the source of Tequila. After a video talk that examines the brewing process in detail, we sampled the end product.
Amy Stewart is the author of many books, several about horticulture, including Wicked Plants, The Drunken Botanist, and Flower Confidential.
