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The Northern Spur is looking amazing now.  Everyone should see it.  The nicest time of the day is 7 AM, especially with the great angle of the sun across the Chelsea Grasslands.  And…what’s a container full of snow equipment unless … Continue reading →

Thousands of people walking over your head every day; constant jackhammering; bits of concrete raining down.  And now the sickening sub-woofer Whomp Whomp noise coming from “Tight Spot” by David Byrne.   That’s life under the fly-over.

Tommy is doing his fall fashion show at park tonight…they started setting up for a 14 minute show at 2 am last night. I heard that we also set a trap for our pet raccoon that lives under the containers … Continue reading →

Yesterday I went on a 12 hour tagging trip to Rivendell Nurseries & to Pleasant Run. Looked for Acer triflorum and a couple of other woodies, then back to rainy NYC.

From the New York Observer article about the benefits of Hurricane Irene: 12. The High Line Gets Taken Down A Notch. Aren’t you sick of people telling you how great that ridiculous fifteen-foot wide park is? Well, in a hurricane, … Continue reading →

Today as we were being filmed for the Great Museums TV show, we came across three topless women on the sun porch. Never a dull day at The High Line.

We loaded our tea into a 50 gal. sprayer and did a foliar application of tea to Knautia and soil drenched the birch at 30th street. Also put down nematodes and released M. longpipes, N. californicus, Galendromus occidentals and Chrysoperia … Continue reading →

The billboard in the photo was installed at 8 AM this morning.  Quite a nice touch…this is a favorite photo area, since you can see the Empire State Building in the background.  Other photo is little blue stem. I started … Continue reading →