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Posted By Dja Horry
Kiku in the Japanese Autumn Garden
through November 15, 2009
The New York Botanical Garden
200th street and Kazimiroff Boulevard
Events: 718-817-8777
Directions: 718-817-8779
nybg.org
This marks the third and final year of the Botanical Garden’s elaborate presentation of kiku (Japanese for chrysanthemum).
Celebrate the ancient horticultural traditions and brilliant autumn color of chrysanthemums and Japanese garden plants. The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory Courtyards are transformed into a setting that evokes the designed landscape gardens of Kyoto, Japan. Scarlet Japanese maples glow against Japanese black pines, and golden bamboos flash against other emerald conifers. Undulating masses of ferns and perennials echo the complex topography that is a hallmark of Japan’s classic gardens, while beautifully handcrafted pavilions, known as uwaya, constructed of Douglas fir, bamboo, and reeds and evocative of Japanese garden gates and tea houses, showcase kiku meticulously trained into amazing floral sculptures.
Kiku in the Japanese Autumn Garden beckons visitors to indulge in fall’s fleeting beauty. The combination of maples, ranging from scarlet to electric orange, and pink, yellow, and white chrysanthem ums in spectacular flower transport viewers to the magnificent autumn gardens of Japan.
New Features
- Installations of contemporary kiku display styles such as cones, columns, and spheres
- A Kiku and Maple Garden featuring the intense fall hues of Japanese maples and the refined elegance of Japanese perennials, grasses, and ferns
Back and Better than Ever
- Four traditional kiku styles— shino-tsukuri (“driving rain”), ozukuri (“thousand bloom”), ogiku (“single-stem”), and kengai (“cascade”)—on display in the Courtyards of the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory
- Bonsai in the Counservatory’s Seasonal Galleries (through November 1) and in the Conservatory Courtyards (through November 15)
- A stone and kiku garden, designed by Marc Peter Keane, in a contemporary interpretation of the dry gardens of Japan
- Japanese Autumn Adventures, hands-on activities for families, including a child-size tea house, in the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
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