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Abby Aldrich Rockefeller garden, Seal Harbor, Maine,

Landscaping by Beatrix Farrand,

Photo: Larry Lederman/Courtesy of the Monacelli press

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Above II

Alexander Liberman’s Above II was installed at the Rockefeller garden at Kykuit in the copper beech grove by Nelson Rockefeller. Here the tree trunks and sculpture glisten after an afternoon rain.

Photograph by Larry Lederman from his book The Rockefeller Family Gardens: An American Legacy. Purchase a copy from a retailer of your choice.

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Central Lawn

Originally planned as a cutting garden, the central lawn in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden gives the eye a place to rest amid the polychromatic tumult of the flower beds.

Photograph by Larry Lederman from his book The Rockefeller Family Gardens: An American Legacy. Purchase a copy from a retailer of your choice.

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Spirit Path

Lining the Spirit Path at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden are fourteenth/fifteenth-century Korean tomb figures. A Chinese Buddhist votive stele terminates the path.

Photograph by Larry Lederman from his book The Rockefeller Family Gardens: An American Legacy. Purchase a copy from a retailer of your choice.

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Few understand the nuances of nature like Larry Lederman, whose masterful photography captures the colors of the NYBG throughout each of the four seasons. In Magnificent Trees of The New York Botanical Garden, the towering oaks, sweetgums, and tulip trees of our landscape take center stage for a visual study of light and life.

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Trees are marvels of nature. They invest any landscape with a sense of permanence and character. There are trees living today that are older than recorded human history, recording yearly their own life histories in concentric rings. In The New York Botanical Garden, there are huge and magnificent trees that were standing before the Pilgrims first came ashore. A landscape without trees is bleak, a desert. Their presence is always a comfort for they are beautiful and essential for life as we know it. (via 10.15.12: A country escape | New York Social Diary)