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Are the Cherries Blooming?
Around this time of year, inevitably I’ll be out in the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden and someone will ask, “When will the cherry trees blossom?”
By Brian Funk -
Native Flora Garden: A Link to Our Natural History
A stroll through BBG’s recently expanded Native Flora Garden provides a glimpse of the natural world that existed here hundreds of years ago.
By Sarah Schmidt -
South African Spring
Most spring bulbs may be weeks from blooming outdoors here, but their South African counterparts are in all their glory in the Warm Temperate Pavilion.
By Sarah Schmidt -
New Native Flora Garden Grows Local
When it comes to living and eating more sustainably, we’ve all heard, “Go local.” Brooklyn Botanic Garden will embody this edict when the Native Flora Garden expansion opens later this spring.
By Nina Browne -
What Gives Leaves Their Fall Color?
As the days get shorter and the nights get cooler, leaves are losing their green and turning shades of gold and yellow, orange, red, and purple.
By Kerry Barringer -
Food for Thought
What’s red and green, eats bugs, and lives at BBG? The carnivorous plant display that curator Cayleb Long has recently placed on Lily Pool Terrace.
By Sarah Schmidt -
WNYC Investigates Amaranth
Amaranth has been cultivated for thousands of years and could be a major player in food security, but few Americans are familiar with it. BBG experts recently sang its praises on WNYC.
By Kate Blumm -
Lovely Lotuses
Those beautiful blossoms in the Lily Pools must mean it's water-lily time, right? Not quite.
By Sarah Schmidt -
Summer Harvest
Herb Garden curator Caleb Leech harvested potatoes this morning for donation a local food pantry. The artichokes are also ready to pick, and cardoons (a close relative) will soon follow.
By Sarah Schmidt -
Children’s Garden Honored
BBG’s Children’s Garden has won the American Horticultural Society's Jane L. Taylor Award for its work in nurturing future horticulturalists.
By BBG Staff
