Take a Seasonal Walk
Website documents evolution over four seasons along a new garden path at The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx.
July 10, 2009
Courtesy Sally Ferguson, Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Center
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Designer Jacqueline van der Kloet distributes tulip bulbs along the Seasonal Walk at The New York Botanical Garden.
courtesy Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Center
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Want to team up with Piet Oudolf? Train with Jacqueline van der Kloet? Now, via a new website, you can join these Dutch landscape design superstars in an online rollout of their landmark collaborative Seasonal Walk installation at The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. The designers' highly naturalistic concept, sophisticated plant mixes and artistic interplay of form and color are causing real excitement at the garden, where many are referring to the design as “pure genius.”
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The Seasonal Walk Chronicles website offers a first-ever online opportunity to track a conceptual landscape design as it matures and evolves over a full growing season. The website is a teaching tool, featuring how-to sections detailing the design team’s innovative planting techniques and their stellar plant combinations. Visitors should find abundant ideas there, large and small.
Via bi-weekly Chronicles and Picture Galleries, the site allows visitors to focus on “what’s happening now” in the garden, while revisiting the evolution of different plant combinations and sequences over the seasons.
Documenting the site are two award-winning gardening professionals, writer Tovah Martin and photographer Rob Cardillo. Martin captures the plant and design interplay via evocative on-the-scene report. Her chronicles also incorporate design observations from the two designers and hands-on execution notes from the New York Botanical Garden’s crack team of gardeners. Cardillo contributes lush photography that visually documents the sophisticated design as it unfolds, including occasional unexpected contributions from Mother Nature.
Already posted are the November planting, and the spring and early summer seasons. Next comes the intricate dance of flowers, foliage and form over summer, into fall and winter. Visitors may want to bookmark the site for repeat visits as new Chronicles, Plant Combinations and Picture Galleries will be posted every few weeks from now through November.