New York Botanical Garden<\/a>, running through April 26. <\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s really different for us,\u201d said Patrick Nowak, manager of exhibition operations at the garden. Challenging an \u201curban jungle, cityscape feeling,\u201d lots of what the show incorporates are \u201cthings we experience every day,\u201d he noted. <\/p>\n
Visitors to the show in the garden\u2019s Enid A. Haupt Conservatory will find orchids and other plants and flowers adorning the exterior of a pizza shop, a newsstand and a bus stop. A brilliant yellow taxi sticks out of a car wash. Mr. Flower Fantastic, a floral artist, brought a vision to highlight \u201cthe juxtaposition of the natural world,\u201d said Nowak. \u201cThe plants we interact with every day and the things we walk past when we\u2019re walking through the city.\u201d <\/p>\n
The artist himself is a man of mystery, as is his real name (he prefers to go by MFF). He grew up in Queens, where his mother\u2019s garden inspired his love for flowers and is rarely photographed without the respirator mask he wears because he is allergic to pollen. While it might be natural to question his career choice, the artist has made a name for himself creating major floral displays for corporate clients like Nike and Louis Vuitton. <\/p>\n
Along with being open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., the gardens will also host orchid nights in April, turning the exhibition into a giant block party featuring a DJ, snacks and craft cocktails (tickets from $45 to $59). <\/p>\n
Whenever you go, Nowak recommends spending twice as long to walk through the exhibition as you think you\u2019ll need. \u201cI fear people will breeze through and miss the small details,\u201d he said. He suggests looking for wordplay and puns in graphics throughout, and watching for the little things that make it all seem real. \u201cIt\u2019s not just orchids,\u201d Nowak said. Along with other plants and grasses, he said, there are even weeds. \u201cWe grew dandelions in the greenhouse to make it feel authentic.\u201d <\/p>\n
The show is a reflection of \u201cwhat we experience,\u201d said Nowak. \u201cWe have given people a chance to feel their home in a way they never have before. It feels like a New York we wish we could walk through every day.\u201d <\/p>\n
Mr. Flower Fantastic\u2019s Concrete Jungle<\/p>\n
New York Botanical Garden; 2900 Southern Blvd., Bronx <\/p>\n
INFO Running through April 26, Tuesday-Sunday and select Monday holidays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. <\/p>\n
COST $35, $31 seniors 65 and over and students with ID, $15 children 2-12; 718-817-8700, nybg.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When\u2019s the last time you saw a cascade of orchids peeking from under the lid of a garbage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,4666,129,131,130,904,956],"class_list":["post-182631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-travel","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-things-to-do","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}