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Garden Journal

Ready to dig a little deeper? Our Garden Journal offers portraits of individual plants in season, together with a broader perspective that helps illuminate the aesthetics that underlays everything that grows in the gardens.

Horticultural Interpretation

Provided over time by Wave Hill's Horticultural Interpreters, the content in this section is constantly evolving even as the gardens themselves change.

All Plant Posts

Stylophorum diphyllum close up 2

Stylophorum diphyllum (Celandine poppy)

Spring  |  April 25, 2019

Taxodium dstichum the branches

Taxodium distichum (Bald, or swamp, cypress)

Autumn  |  November 17, 2016

Tilia cordata close up

Tilia cordata (Small-leaved linden)

Summer  |  June 15, 2018

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Tilia cordata (Small-leaved linden)

Summer  |  June 17, 2020

Sunflower close up

Tithonia rotundifolia ‘Torch’ (Mexican sunflower cultivar)

Autumn  |  October 4, 2018

Veltheimia close up

Veltheimia capensis (Sand lily)

Autumn  |  November 21, 2018

Vitex IMG 4021

Vitex agnus-castus (Chaste tree)

Summer  |  July 22, 2020

Watsonia close up

Watsonia vanderspuyiae (Watsonia species)

Spring  |  March 8, 2019