NYBG’s 20th annual orchid show is inspired by ancient Chinese garden design

Greg Stevens

Pictures courtesy of the New York Botanical Yard The New York Botanical Garden’s treasured orchid show returns this month for its 20th year. Designed by guest artist Lily Kwong, The Orchid Present: All-natural Heritage transforms the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory with thousands of orchids and a fantastical landscape impressed by ancient Chinese backyard design and inventive […]

natural garden design, with benjamin vogt

Greg Stevens

IT’S PROBABLY the question I’m asked most: Gardeners want to go wilder and use more native plants to create habitat, but how do they figure out which plants, since it’s not one-size-fits-all regions or even different locations within a region, and choosing, as we mostly do, by hardiness zone isn’t […]