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Anne Wiesen is an ethnobotanist, designer, and garden coach. She is coeditor of Restorative Commons: Creating Health and Well-Being through Urban Landscapes and a founding partner of the regenerative landscape design firm Design by Plants.

Blight-resistant Chestnut Trees Come to BBG

Adventures in Fieldwork

Forest Plots in Parc des Grandes Fougère

First Day of Fieldwork in New Caledonia!

Visit to the Noumea Zoological and Botanical Garden

The plant research conducted at BBG extends beyond New York City. This blog tracks the global expeditions of BBG’s botanists.

First Days on the Island

BBG Scientist in New Caledonia

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Stephen Buchmann is an entomologist, international coordinator of the Pollinator Partnership, and author or coauthor of 13 books, including The Forgotten Pollinators , and more than 170 scientific publications.

Heather Liljengren is the supervising seed collector–taxonomist for the New York City Parks Department at the Greenbelt Native Plant Center in Staten Island, where she manages the seed collection and banking at the nursery.

Johnny Linville is the Horticulture Foreman at the High Line, a public park built on a 1.45-mile-long elevated rail structure on Manhattan’s West Side. He is a graduate of BBG’s Horticulture Certificate Program and has had extensive gardening experience on both the West and East Coasts.

Photos from Small Scale

Karla Chandler is the gardener of the Warm Temperate Pavilion in the Steinhardt Conservatory.

South African Bulbs in Bloom

Bonsai at BBG

Small Scale

Snowstorm Photos

Momo’s Japanese Tapas

First Snow of 2011

Terrariums to the Rescue

Tova Martin is a passionate gardener, writer, lecturer, and accredited organic land care professional. Her latest book is The New Terrarium (Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 2009). Learn more at tovahmartin.com .

Lilacs on the Move

Daniel Ryniec is a former gardener of the Osborne Garden and the Lilac Collection at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Quick Tips for a Greener Holiday

Information on Christmas Trees

Autumn Blooming Cherries

300-Pound Orchid Gets a New Basket (Video)

Elizabeth Scholtz Celebrates 50 Years at BBG

Huffington Post Calls BBG “Stunning”

BBG Curator Recommends Houseplants for the Inept

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Marilyn Smith is the director of Children’s Education & Family Programs at BBG.

BASE Students Earn an “A”

Extend the Growing Season

The Best Books About Growing Vegetables in Containers

Search BBG’s plant collection and learn more about plant records and accession numbers.

Peak Color in the Native Flora Garden

Learn the Tricks of Foraging

Claire Hansen is a graphic designer for BBG.

Congrats to BCAP!

Green Horizons at BBG

Medi Blum is the former editor of Plants & Garden News and Urban Habitats .

Save Your Vegetable Seeds

Philip Silva is a former program manager of Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s community greening programs.

Learn About Composting

Michael Ratliff is the Publications intern at BBG.

Rats!

Blueberry and Huckleberry Shrubs

Dave Daly is a former Children’s Garden coordinator at BBG

Harvest Season in the Children’s Garden

Red-tailed Hawk and Natural History

Karen Orlando is a horticulture intern at BBG. You can read her blog about interning at BBG at http://flippetyfloppety.blogspot.com/

BBG Supports Plants for the Planet

Garden Weathers Storm

Ashley Gamell is a freelance writer and consultant. After a decade on staff at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, she now pens her posts from the Hudson Valley.

Migration and Hibernation in the Discovery Garden

Portraits of a Garden V

A financial analyst by day, James Goldstein happily trades his spreadsheets for a pitchfork in his spare time, serving as a coordinator of the Prospect Heights Community Farm’s community composting project. Though he longs for a Brooklyn with fewer furless tails, he has never met a compost challenge that he…

Caroline Bragdon is a Research Scientist with the New York City Department of Health’s Division of Veterinary and Pest Control Services. Ms. Bragdon has a Masters of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University and is certified by the New York State DEC in structural and rodent control. She serves as…

Peppers from the Herb Garden

LLL Centennial Soiree

Natural History

Exploration and Inspiration with the Dougherty Sculpture

Water-lilies at BBG

Artist’s Talk on Wednesday, August 18

Taking a Short Break

First Section of Installation Complete

Weaving a Nest

Leslie Findlen is the vice president of Development and Membership at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

August Garden Cocktail Night

Day Five of the Dougherty Installation

Patrick Dougherty Installation in Progress

Harvesting Woody Plant Material on Staten Island

A Citrus Container Garden

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The Lilies of the Monocot Border

Repotting the Tiger Orchid

Curating a Rose Garden

Linnaean Libation League

July Garden Cocktail Night

In 2009 and 1010, Mara Gittleman surveyed NYC community gardens on a number of issues, using the data to develop maps for OASISnyc.net, GrowNYC, and GreenThumb. She is currently organizing Farming Concrete, a project to quantify food production in NYC community gardens, and is teaching a course on sustainable food…

Kerry Barringer is a former curator of the Herbarium at BBG.

Anne Walsh is a member of the Guild for Natural Science Illustrators and holds degrees in art education and art history. She has taught in public and private schools, at the Custer Institute, and at Mohonk Mountain House.

Shannon Brock, art director of Carriage House Paper, is a papermaker and artist. She has taught papermaking throughout the East, and her work has been exhibited nationally. Shannon owns Gaptoothed Studio in Williamsburg.

Lois P. Sheinfeld is an environmentalist, educator, award-winning writer, and passionate gardener. She has taught at Stanford University and at NYU and lectures for BBG, NYBG, and other garden groups. She shares her insights on gardening in her new blog, Flora Gloria .

Marcia Melendez is a floral and landscape contractor who operates Flowerworks in Brooklyn. She holds a certificate in commercial flower arranging from the New York Botanical Garden.

George Pisegna is director of horticulture at the Horticultural Society of New York. He is a landscape designer and horticulturist with a background in architecture and design and has worked for the past 15 years in historic preservation and garden design.

Robert Sullivan is the author of many books, including Rats , The Meadowlands , and, most recently, The Thoreau You Don’t Know . A contributing editor at Vogue , he lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.

Claudia Joseph is founder of the Permaculture Exchange and a member of the Garden of Union in Brooklyn. She holds two certificates and a diploma of permaculture, and has taught at various institutions throughout New York City.

Nigel Rollings is a designer and builder of gardens in the New York area and has taught classes at BBG since 1995. He won the Association of Professional Landscape Designers Silver Award for residential garden design in 2006.

Gerry Moore is a former director of Science at BBG. His research interests include local flora, invasive species, plant nomenclature, and the taxonomy of sedges. Gerry received his PhD from Vanderbilt University in 1997.

Free Discovery Workshops Launch for the Summer

Native Plant Month at BBG

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BBG’s New Herb Garden Is Open!

Meet the Curator: Sarah Owens, the Cranford Rose Garden