Updated 2011-11-20 My photo of Patrick Dougherty's "Natural History" blanketed in January's snow opens Brooklyn Botanic ...

A yose (group-style) bonsai specimen of Acer palmatum , Japanese Maple, developed by Stanley Chinn currently on display at the Brooklyn Bot...

You can quantify the relative benefits of an individual tree, and project its future benefits as it grows through the years, with i-Tree Des...

Contents Bees Wasps Mimics Photographing Insect Activity Related Content Recommended Reading Links One of the great pleasures of gard...

Illumination of Earth by Sun at the northern solstice. This season's Solstice (Summer in the Northern hemisphere, Winter in the Sout...

Tomorrow, Sunday, June 12, my garden will be opened for its second tour of the season: the Victorian Flatbush House (and Garden!) Tour , to ...

This Spring has been a season of garden anniversaries for me. Six years ago, my partner and I bought our home in Flatbush. In the first mont...

Many thanks to all the great Brooklyn photographers and tree-lovers who continue to contribute to the Flickr photo pool I started a few year...

Earthrise over the moon as seen by the astronauts of Apollo 8 on December 22, 1968. This was not the first image of the isolated Earth fr...

Update 2011-04-16 : As nasty as the weather is as I update this on Saturday night, it will be beautiful tomorrow for the tour, windy, but te...