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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 -
Recipe: Chile Pepper Sambal
Chile peppers grow readily in NYC, and preserving them is easy. Making homemade hot sauce is one of my favorite techniques.
By Ariel Nadelberg -
Escaping Spider Plant?
One of my spider plants is trying to “escape” its pot! Can it be rescued?
By BBG Staff -
Working for Watersheds
As the climate warms, BBG scientists are working in area watersheds to evaluate and understand the condition of these forests.
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 -
Sarracenia: Native Pitcher Plants
Grow these fascinating carnivorous plants in an outdoor container, and watch how they capture prey.
By Cayleb Long -
A Once-in-a-Lifetime, One-in-a-Million Chance…
Almost 600,000 trees have been planted so far as part of MillionTreesNYC—23,000 (four percent) of them lining the streets of Brooklyn.
By Sarah Dougherty -
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 -
Creating a Rain Garden
Do you want a garden that’s easy to install, looks good year-round, requires little maintenance, and helps prevent water pollution? Learn how to create a rain garden.
By Brooklyn Botanic Garden Staff
