Books by The New York Botanical Garden

Cacti and Succulents: New York Botanical Garden Large and Small Journals

by The New York Botanical Garden

Two beautifuly designed blank(one graph and one dotted paper) notebooks-one large hardcover for journaling and doodling, one small paperback for note-taking on the go, both covered in brilliant botanical illustrations of cacti and succulents for lovers of botanical art, gardeners, and cacti and succulents collectors.

New York Botanical Garden Mushroom Identification Flashcards: 100 Common Mushrooms of North America

by The New York Botanical Garden

A compact, colorful, and informative deck of 103 flashcards for newly minted mushroom lovers, featuring illustrations from the renowned archives of the New York Botanical Garden and text from the Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms

Can you tell a Morel from an Inky Cap, or a Puffball from a Lion’s Mane? If you, like millions of others, are mushroom-curious, these flashcards will be your perfect knowledge builder and outdoor companion. On each card you'll find:

a detailed illustration of a common North American mushroom key identifiers, such as the mushroom's gills, spore, bulb, and cap the mushroom’s popular and Latin name information on size, color, spore print, season, habitat, and range drawn from The National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms and National Audubon Society Mushrooms of North America.
Whether you’re a new explorer or a seasoned mushroom hunter, New York Botanical Garden Mushroom Identification Flashcards will make it easy to identify your fungi findings—and the laminated cards easily wipe clean after a trip through the woods. An additional card also offers authoritative online and print resources for any aspiring forager. This deck is not a resource for identifying mushrooms to eat.

Take these cards on a country walk or camping trip as you spot mushrooms in the wild—or enjoy learning with the colorful images from the New York Botanical Garden archives from the comfort of home.

New York Botanical Garden Herb Identification Flashcards: 100 Common Herbs of North America

by The New York Botanical Garden

A beautiful and practical flashcard deck for identifying and using 100 herbs that can be foraged or cultivated, featuring illustrations from the renowned archives of the New York Botanical Garden.

Do you know how to use epazote and California bay in the kitchen? Do you love a cup of chamomile tea but never thought to harvest it yourself? And did you know that calendula can be a soothing tonic for your skin as well as a colorful addition to your back garden? If you, like millions of others, want to incorporate more herbal goodness into your cooking, wellness, and garden, these 100 flashcards are the ideal companion. On each card you'll find:

a detailed illustration of an herb that can be foraged or cultivated in North America the herb’s popular and Latin name, as well as the other names it might be known by information on habitat, season, and uses
Whether you’re a curious home cook or a seasoned forager, New York Botanical Garden Herb Identification Flashcards makes it easy to identify your botanical findings and decide how they can best be used. The deck also includes a title card showing key features on each flashcard as well as a checklist of all the herbs in the deck. The laminated cards easily wipe clean after a romp through the meadows or a day in the kitchen, and the convenient size makes it easy to bring one or two to if you're shopping for herbs or toss the whole deck into a daypack for a hike. You can also use the cards to help plan your herb garden or just enjoy the exquisite artwork from the archives of the New York Botanical Garden.

New York Botanical Garden: In Full Bloom Postcards: 100 Postcards from the Archives of the New York Botanical Garden

by The New York Botanical Garden

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Wall of Orchids: 20 Rare Botanical Prints to Frame (New York Botanical Garden)

by The New York Botanical Garden

Twenty beautiful, brilliantly colored prints of rare orchids from the New York Botanical Garden collection housed in a keepsake box to be published in time for the wildly popular annual Orchid Show at the NYBG

This elegant box of prints features 20 magnificent reproductions of rare orchid paintings from the NYBG's world-renowned collection. They can be mounted together for a dramatic wall statement or singly for wider range and for gifting. Irresistible for fans of botanical art and orchid lovers in particular and printed on luxurious card stock, they fit both a10 x 12 inch frame or an 11 x 14-inch frame with mat.

Seeds and Pods: 24 Postcards (New York Botanical Garden)

by The New York Botanical Garden

This beautifully designed book of 24 postcards showcases the exquisite colors, textures, and shapes of seeds through rare botanical art. Gardeners, artists, and lovers of the natural world will delight in this collection of rare botanical portraits of seeds: their elegantly designed pods, patterns, packings, husks, shells, and stems. Each of the 24 cards features a different seed, and can be sent, saved or framed.

Roses in Bloom Puzzle: A 1000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle Featuring Rare Art from the New York Botanical Garden: Jigsaw Puzzles for Adults

by The New York Botanical Garden

A glorious 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle featuring botanical art of roses in bloom from the renowned archives of the New York Botanical Garden.

This elegant, 1000-piece puzzle portrays a magnificent collection of roses, the flower world's most iconic bloom. As you piece the puzzle together you will see fabled roses in hues of crimson, peach, lemon and ivory blossom under your hands.

Herbal Handbook: 50 Profiles in Words and Art from the Rare Book Collections of The New York Botanical Garden

by The New York Botanical Garden

Herbal Handbook is a charming, information-packed guide to 51 herbs and their uses illustrated with rare botanical art from the renowned archives of The New York Botanical Garden.

Did you know that woodruff was used as a room freshener in the Middle Ages; that crushed bergamot leaves can soothe bee stings; and that dried fenugreek seeds were found in the tomb of King Tutankhamen?

Herbs are magical, and their uses myriad. Inside Herbal Handbook are fifty-one herbs portrayed in words and rare botanical art curated by experts at The New York Botanical Garden. Some, like saffron, are treasured and rare; others, like purslane, grow by the roadside. They all have a place—in the garden, in the kitchen, in the bed or the bath. Use Herbal Handbook to explore their history, how to grow them, and how they were used in the past and present. Then bring them into your daily life; each herb’s profile offers a recipe or project that highlights its unique properties.

So cleanse your face with calendula when you wake up, sip a bergamot tea at breakfast, have a lovage tuna sandwich for lunch, and mix a caraway cocktail at the end of the day. Let Herbal Handbook delight your senses as they have done to others for thousands of years.

Gardener's Log Book:2019 A 5-Year Planner (New York Botanical Garden)

by The New York Botanical Garden

This waterproof log book is the perfect place for recording your work in the garden. Use this journal throughout the seasons, from building catalog wish lists early in the year, to noting the first signs of spring, to recording what vegetable crops you planted and their yield, to organizing yourself for bulb planting in fall, to, finally, putting the garden to bed for the winter. A five year grid at the beginning of each month offers space to note annual garden cycles over time, and journal entry pages are lined for notes or graphed for diagramming plantings. Whether you tend a window box, a cutting garden, or many raised vegetable beds, this is the perfect write-in companion to your gardening.

This weatherproof five-year log book includes the following features:
·Sturdy waterproof cover to protect pages from rain and muddy soil
·Lined pages and gridded paper for plotting beds
·Five years of 12-month bloom and harvest grids for recording what you planted and when
·Authoritative appendices on composting, pruning, pest and disease control, and container gardening
·Useful reminders by season on fertilizing, mulching, and transplanting
·Space for listing your favorite sources and suppliers.

The Mindful Gardener: A Journal (New York Botanical Garden)

by The New York Botanical Garden, Rachel Federman

Through writing exercises, inspirational quotes, and simple tutorials, this guided journal for gardeners helps users transform terms like "living in the moment," "meditation," and "mindfulness" from mere buzzwords into helpful everyday practices that will help them de-stress, reconnect, and handle whatever challenges the day brings.

Meditations for Gardeners provides the user with a series of simple journaling prompts designed to nurture a positive, calming framework to approach the day. Each of the writing prompts provides is grounded in nature and the garden, offering the user space to examine one's garden and one’s self and to ponder some of the basic tenets of mindfulness. The journal can be completed at whatever pace the user prefers to work at (daily, weekly, etc) and features inspirational quotes sprinkled throughout, as well as introductory material on the practice of mindfulness and a list of resources for further reading.

Winter Botanicals Note Cards Note Cards and Envelopes: Set Of 12

by The New York Botanical Garden

A box of 12 elegant, wintry note cards and envelopes illustrated with rare botanical art from the NYBG collection for holiday that doesn't shout Christmas or Santa or Happy Hanukkah.

This gorgeous box of note cards features different rare botanical portraits of winter plants drawn from The New York Botanical Garden's extensive archives. The art is vividly colored and the sturdy box is printed with four-color art and can be used as a keepsake when empty.

Botanicals: 100 Postcards from the Archives of the New York Botanical Garden

by The New York Botanical Garden

100 rare and brilliantly colored botanical artworks from the archives of the New York Botanical Garden, perfect for mailing, framing, or using as gift tags

The images on these beautiful postcards include 100 rare portraits of exotic flowers, cacti, and succulents from the world-renowned collection of the New York Botanical Garden. Printed on lush, uncoated stock to mimic the original paintings, these brilliantly colored postcards can be mailed, gifted, framed or used in craft projects.

The New York Botanical Garden 2026 Planner Calendar

by The New York Botanical Garden

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The New York Botanical Garden 2026 Wall Calendar

by The New York Botanical Garden

Beautiful reproductions of rare and little-seen botanical illustrations from America’s premier urban garden: The New York Botanical Garden.

A national historic landmark, NYBG is the largest botanical garden in any U.S. city, with a 250-acre site with fifty specialty gardens and collections comprising more than one million plants. The New York Botanical Garden 2026 Wall Calendar features twelve botanical illustrations from vintage botanical volumes. Your purchase supports NYBG's work in plant research, conservation, horticulture, and education Includes moon phases Bonus spread for September–December 2025 Generous grids for adding appointments and reminders Includes major official world holidays Opens to 12 inches x 24 inches

New York Botanical Garden Wildflower Identification Flashcards 100 Common Wildflowers of North America

by The New York Botanical Garden

A compact, colorful, and informative deck of 102 flashcards for identifying 100 different wildflowers, featuring illustrations from the renowned archives of the New York Botanical Garden and authoritative text from The National Audubon Society.

Do you know when to look for the first blooms of Wild Columbine? Can you tell a yucca from an agave based on their flowers? If you, like millions of others, love to seek out new flowers in the wild, these flashcards will be your perfect knowledge builder and outdoor companion. On each card you'll find-

• a detailed illustration of a common North American wildflower
• the flower's popular and Latin name
• information on habitat, flowering season, range, and conservation.

Whether you're a new explorer or a perennial wildflower hunter, New York Botanical Garden Wildflower Identification Flashcards will make it easy to identify your floral findings. The laminated cards easily wipe clean after a romp through the meadows and the convenient size makes it easy to slip a few into a pocket or toss the whole deck into a daypack. You can also use the cards to sharpen your skills before the flowers start blooming or just enjoy the exquisite artwork from the archives of the New York Botanical Gardens.