Job Opportunity - Work for the Queen

Head Gardener

The successful applicant will be expected to supervise the maintenance of all garden areas at Balmoral Castle.

Applicants should be experienced in all aspects of gardening and be capable of meeting the high standards required at this important property.

Vanishing of the Bees

I was just noticing how many bees there are in the New York Botanical Garden.

Global Plants Initiative - JSTOR

As part of the Global Plants Initiative, The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium is submitting high resolution scans of type specimens to JSTOR.


These scans are made with Epson 10000 scanners and create images that are about 200MB a piece. In addition to sending these images to Jstor, we are keeping copies of them ourselves. We currently have about 80,000 images stored on our servers. That takes up about 15 TB of space.

I am considering converting these TIFF images to DNG. I estimate that it would allow me to recover about 7.5 TB of server space. I have to look to see if others have converted TIFFs to DNG to see if this is a wise course.

 (Wise or not, I will probably do it because I need the space and the TIFFs are already being stored by Jstor)

NYBG Herbarium - Kohlmeyer Collection

A great behind the scenes look at the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium.



Produced by Jessi Allen, Liz Kiernan, and Charlie Zimmerman.

Free Wallpaper: the highly anticipated Lignum Vitea

That's right. It's time for more free wallpaper from the Virtual Herbarium at The New York Botanical Garden.

Today's free wallpaper is Guaoacum officinale, also known as Lignum Vitea, Latin for "wood of life".

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Photography by Charles Zimmerman