Sarah Schmidt
Sarah Schmidt is a former editor of BBG's digital editorial content and the Guides for a Greener Planet handbook series. She has been on staff at Plenty, Budget Living, and Harper's Bazaar, and her writing has appeared in OnEarth, Health, The New York Times, and the Village Voice.
Online Articles
- BBG Gives Hort Help to the Lowline
- Early Bloomers
- BBG Babies
- Q&A with E.O. Wilson
- Summer Harvest
- Market Day in the Children’s Garden
- South African Spring
- A Fern Grows in Brooklyn
- Using Newspaper as Mulch
- Healthy Lawns
- Panda Cubs Happy To Help Take Care of Excess Bamboo
- At Last…May Flowers
- Young Hawks Learn to Fly
- Discovery Garden Sneak Peek
- Look for These Cacti and Other Plants in the Desert Pavilion
- Lovely Lotuses
- Photos Lead to Discovery of Unknown Leafhopper
- Monarch Caterpillar Goes Green (Video)
- Behind the Scenes: Planting Bulbs
- Terrarium: A New Exhibit at BBG
- Fashionable Firs
- Snowdrop Struck
- Wow, What’s That Smell?
- Magnolia-rama
- Blooming Right Along
- Notice How Each Flowering Cherry Cultivar is Different
- Rain Gardens Capture Stormwater
- Run for the Roses
- Another Reason to Green the City
- Wearable Art
- Food for Thought
- Global Worrying?
- Q&A with Darrel Morrison, Designer of BBG’s Native Flora Garden Expansion
- Native Flora Garden: A Link to Our Natural History
- Using Beneficial Parasites to Attack Garden Pests
- Street Tree Bed Care: Tales from the Trenches
- Herb Garden Harvest
- When Will Spring Finally Spring?
- Is a Potted Christmas Tree a Good Idea?
- Q&A with Onika Abraham
- Red-Tailed Hawk Thriving at BBG After Rescue
- Can You Predict When the Cherries Will Blossom?
- Last of the Million Trees Given Away at BBG
- A Japanese-Style Backyard Garden in Brooklyn
- Ambassadors Caroline Kennedy and Reiichiro Takahashi Plant a Cherry Tree at BBG
- Talking with Artist Shayne Dark
- How Did the Cherries, Magnolias, and Other Plants Handle the Snowstorm?
- An Annual Border in Mondrian’s Style
- A Sustainable School Garden in a Former Parking Spot
- Botanical Dyes
- What Is That Colored Light Coming from the Greenhouses?
- Darwin’s Orchid in Bloom
- Four Delicious Salsas Created in the Children’s Garden
- Bloom Alert: Discovery Garden
- Eastern Red Bat Roosts in the Discovery Garden
- Escaped from the Compost Bin!
- Revisiting the Plant Family Collection
- Citrus Blossoms, Jasmine, and More Fragrant Flowers in the Conservatory
- The Water Conservation Project Is Open
- Bloom Alert: Rose Garden
- Talking with Artist Adrienne Adar
- Small Gardens and Tiny Greenspaces Attract City Wildlife
- Garden Presents Crown Heights Block with Greenest Block in Brooklyn Award
- A New Machiai: A Traditional Japanese Waiting Bench
- Supporting the Global Climate Strike and Action
- Preserving Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Hybrid Oak
- Fight for Sunlight Campaign Opposes High-Rise Towers
- Bidding Farewell to Scot Medbury
- Lilacs in Bloom in Their New Home
- Children’s Garden Grows Food for the Community
- Q&A with Brooklyn Botanic Garden President Adrian Benepe
- Bloom Alert: Daffodil Divisions
- See Spring in the Garden Again
- New Trees Along Flatbush Avenue
- Return of the Water-Lilies
- Plants, Sunlight, and Buildings
- Talking with Chenae Bullock
- Lenapehoking: The Land of the Lenape
- Quiz: Which Grass Is Which?
- What Kinds of Plants Grow in the Water Garden?
- Notice How Different Daffodils Can Be
- Identifying Flowering Cherry Cultivars
- Bloom Alert: Crape-Myrtle
- Con Edison’s STEM Series Brings Students to Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image, top of page: Antonio M. Rosario