Rafael Pi Roman hosts a half-hour look at a major exhibition at The New York Botanical Garden chronicling Charles Darwin’s lifelong fascination with plants and flowers. It’s called “Darwin’s Garden: a Evolutionary Adventure,” and it’s up through June 15, 2008.

The NYBG, located in the Bronx, opened it’s Pfizer Plant Research Lab in the spring of 2006. Soon after, NY Voices did an episode on the lab, interviewing three researchers about the goals, projects and archives of the lab and gardens. Watch entire episode.

Nova aired this special about the origins of flowers a few months ago; an exploration of what they found is available online.

See a slideshow of Chinese exports–flowers, …

From New York’s crown jewel, Central Park, to the nation’s first county park, take a tour of New York and the surrounding area’s noteworthy parks.

In 2002, Marianna Koval and her colleagues at the Brooklyn Bridge Park Coalition organized an effort to plant 25,000 daffodil bulbs in the shape of two towers on the Brooklyn waterfront. A tribute to those lost on September 11, the memorial garden was part of a citywide undertaking that turned into the largest volunteer horticulture project in New York history. Watch the video.