After a lecture on orchids the other evening, I went back to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to stroll around the grounds and see if I could track down their elusive and non-showy orchid collection. My mission was successful, but the orchids are unfortunately in the steamy "Aquatic" greenhouse, and my camera promptly fogged up.
However, there was plenty to see around the rest of the garden.
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| Crocuses |
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| Cherry tree at the Hill-and-Pond Garden |
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| Fortunately, I saw the sign before I strapped on my ice skates. |
The BBG boldly identifies a number of plants with specific verses in the Shakespeare Garden; the main one currently in bloom is a yellow flower, near the following sign:
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| Cuckoo-bud in the Shakespeare Garden |
However, others seem to have less confidence:
Botanical nomenclature in Early Modern English is often different from that used today, both in terms and in meanings. And even in those cases where the names of flowers, herbs, shrubs, and other plants are the same as in modern English, there is sometimes a symbolic association no longer present. The following list illustrates these differences ...
Source: http://www.shakespeareswords.com/Plants
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| Magnolia buds |
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| Bonsai! |
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| Robin in the herb garden |
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| Espaliered trees |
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| It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Super-Skier! No, it's a plane.... |
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| Flowering witch-hazel |
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| Lenten rose |
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Where there was once a blanket of snow fallen to the ground,
now springs up a blanket of crocuses on the gentle slope and around the base of the trees |
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| A palm grows in Brooklyn |
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Tree House, designed by "master tree house artist and New York resident Roderick Romero,"
as a "symbol of hope and revitalization" after Hurricane Sandy. It uses wood from 14 kinds of trees. |
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| Crabapple tree |
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| Medley of spring flowers |
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