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AOL’s Rainbow City is now gone from The Lot, and in its place we have roller skating.  At the opening event, I saw Susan Sarandon talking with the President of Uni Qlo.  My little diary of star sightings is getting … Continue reading →

@Wave Hill using Leafsnap app and identifying oaks I don’t know.

Sunday had 53,030 visitors (High Line record). Week of  June 13-19th:  196,653 people.  That’s a lot of people.  I was also called a High Line Nazi on Sunday for kicking someone out of a planting bed.  

We opened section 2 yesterday at around 1:30 PM.  Crowds weren’t too bad today, but it is very strange to have people up there where I’ve been working alone for 2 months.

I attended the graduation ceremony for the Landscape Design program at NYBG this past weekend and received my certificaate.  After spending some 300 hours of class time and boatloads of money, all NYBG could manage was a certificate printed on … Continue reading →

We had a BBQ today for the volunteers who helped do the grass cut-back.  It made for a strange day; work in the morning and setup in the afternoon.  Another gardener and I wandered around the meatpacking district looking for … Continue reading →

There are a few grubs that are eating Molinia, and after looking at raster patterns we’ve identified them as Exomala orientalis (Oriental beetle) – basically, you look at the grub’s butt to determine what it is. Other than that, I’ve … Continue reading →

It is always a little amazing when I see magazine articles about the High Line.  How many people work in a  garden that actually creates a real estate market around it? From NY Mag (April 11, 2011):  http://nymag.com/realestate/features/microneighborhoods/higher-line-2011-4/

I completely failed an ID the other day…walked past a corydalis, and thought it was maybe a dicentra or something.  I’m not sure we learned Corydalis solida ‘George Baker’, so maybe I don’t feel quite so bad.