The New York Botanical Garden’s annual Collectors’ Plant Auction had to be cancelled – obviously and respectfully – due to the Covid crisis. But the good news is that the Garden sprites and plucky New York Garden team found a way to still offer you their incredible, rare plants.
As readers of Garden Glamour, I don’t need to remind you how happy our plants make us.
Nor how plants heal us.
We need plants more than ever now …
So I’m so thrilled to share with you that even though I am missing my garden art and plant and horticulture friends more than ever at this very special NYBG event — the 2020 Collectors’ Plant Auction includes an exciting variety of plants that – according to the Gardens’ brilliant team who filled me in on the Plant Auction details:
“Would be quite difficult, or even impossible, for gardeners to find elsewhere because they were propagated from NYBG’s own collections. While many of these offerings have a particularly exciting provenance or are not commonly available in the trade, they are all certainly a living piece of the Garden’s 129-year history of plant collection and care.
Summer container gardeners or glasshouse plant enthusiasts should look for palms propagated from palm dome specimens within the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, and even a corpse flower! For the city apartment dweller and plant hunter, there will be unusual aroid and philodendron cuttings from the Garden’s diverse glasshouse collections, as well as an array of specialty garden auricula collections, which can be grown inside given summer air-conditioning.
For outdoor gardeners, the Auction features over 20 herbaceous peonies divided from NYBG’s own Matelich Anniversary Peony Collection, as well as cherry trees and irises propagated from the living collections. Other highlights garden curators are most excited to offer include large specimens of giant philodendron, organically grown dogwood and apple trees, and favorite varieties of garden classics like witch-hazel and epicedium.”
“Collectors will be sure to find a host of botanical curiosities and many great garden performers online at this year’s Collectors’ Plant Auction.”
NYBG will send a link via email when the auction is live on Friday. You’ll be able to access it from NYBG.org at this page
The auction features an exciting array of plants and other unique garden items, beginning on April 17 at 10 a.m. and running through April 23.
I have to add that it just tickled me that when looking into the details of this year’s Plant Auction and what was the other element of the event – the Antique Garden Furniture – I researched the Garden’s website and saw the page with news of this year’s event – and among other highlights, saw they had posted news features from last year in order to give guests a preview.
And there was my Garden Glamour post from last year’s event review.
Garden Glamour was in good company: The NY Times, Antiques and the Arts Weekly, and listed just above Martha: Up Close and Personal.
Thank you, Garden Glamour readers and followers! And NYBG.
Please enjoy reading about the glamour of last year’s event to get you in the garden mood. Then, get ready to purchase your plant passions online.
And do share what you “won” at the NYBG Plant Auction. I always say that the next best thing to being in the garden is seeing images of the plants and gardens. And well, to be perfectly honest, reading books about gardens and plants. And perusing magazines for garden art. And seed catalogs… You get the shared passion. Good luck at the Plant Auction!
