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Annual Border

The Annual Border comes alive in early spring with its famed bulb display, including thousands of tulips, alliums, and other spectacular spring bloomers. Each summer brings a unique new design of colorful flowers and foliage plants created by the garden's curator.
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Aquatic House and Orchid Collection

The Aquatic House displays plants from Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s large orchid collection as well as a variety of tropical and subtropical aquatic and wet-environment plants from around the world.
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Bluebell Wood

More than 45,000 bluebells are planted under a mature stand of oak, birch, and beech trees just south of Cherry Esplanade. In late April, the bluebells burst into flower and create an enchanting woodland display.
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Bonsai Museum

Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s world-class bonsai collection is displayed in the C.V. Starr Bonsai Museum. Some of the trees are well over a century old, with many still cultivated in their original containers.
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Cherry Esplanade and Cherry Walk

Cherry Esplanade is a broad green lawn bordered by allées of flowering cherry and red oak trees. The double-flowering ‘Kanzan’ cherries typically bloom at the end of April, one of the highlights of spring. Cherry Walk is a meandering path east of Cherry Esplanade and behind the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden.
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Children’s Garden

Since 1914, children have been growing flowers, vegetables, and herbs and learning firsthand about the natural world in Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Children’s Garden.
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Desert Pavilion

The Desert Pavilion displays plants native to arid regions of the world. One side of the pavilion is devoted to those from North and South America, including the southwestern United States, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile. The other side includes those from Africa, Madagascar, the Canary Islands, and Australia.
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Discovery Garden

Kids of all ages can explore habitats and learn about garden wildlife in the Discovery Garden. This immersive landscape encourages children to explore nature through hands-on experiences as they investigate plants and animals in different habitat spaces.
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Fragrance Garden

Created in 1955, the Fragrance Garden was the first garden in the country designed to accommodate people with visual impairments, though its multisensory approach appeals to all visitors, particularly children.
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Herb Garden

With its small orchard and beds devoted to food and utilitarian plants from all over the world, the Herb Garden is both educational and lovely.
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Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden

The Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden is one of the oldest and most visited Japanese-inspired gardens outside Japan. It is a blend of the ancient hill-and-pond style and the more recent stroll-garden style, in which various landscape features are gradually revealed along winding paths.
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Lily Pool Terrace

Spectacular year-round, Lily Pool Terrace features two large rectangular pools bordered by the Perennial Border and Annual Border. The pools are planted with nearly 100 varieties of hardy and tropical water-lilies and sacred lotuses, creating a stunning attraction in July, August, and September.
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Magnolia Plaza

Magnolia Plaza lies in front of the beaux arts Administration Building and showcases the trees in Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s renowned magnolia collection.
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Native Flora Garden

The Native Flora Garden exhibits plants native to the New York metropolitan area arranged to represent the natural habitats that once flourished here. It includes a small forest that was established not long after BBG opened, along with a newer sunlit portion which includes meadow, bog, and pine barrens habitats.
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Osborne Garden

The semiformal Osborne Garden is the first space visitors pass through upon entering Brooklyn Botanic Garden via the Eastern Parkway entrance. This Italianate garden features an emerald lawn framed by wisteria-draped pergolas. It is at its most colorful and dynamic in spring, when cherries, wisteria, crabapples, and azaleas bloom in succession.
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Overlook

The Robert W. Wilson Overlook is an ascending garden with wonderful views of Cherry Esplanade and the Cranford Rose Garden. Its winding path, shaped by smooth walls with integrated benches, leads visitors through a landscape filled with summer-flowering crape-myrtle trees, ornamental grasses, and herbaceous perennials.
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Rock Garden

Opened in 1917, the Rock Garden was one of the first rock gardens in an American public garden. Nestled into the hillside along the western border of BBG just north of the Herb Garden, the Rock Garden features a number of alpine and montane microclimates, home to succulents, heaths, species tulips, and other plants that thrive in rocky, fast-draining soils.
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Rose Garden

The Cranford Rose Garden has been one of BBG’s most popular attractions since it first opened in 1928. In June, when the roses are in full bloom, tens of thousands of blossoms cascade down arches, climb up lattices, clamber over the pavilion, and pose in formal beds.
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Shakespeare Garden

More than 80 kinds of plants mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare grow in this English cottage–style garden. Many are labeled with the common or Shakespearean name, the botanical name, a relevant quotation from a poem or play by the Bard, and a graphic illustration of the plant.
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Tropical Pavilion

Modeled after a tropical forest, the Tropical Pavilion reaches 65 feet tall to accommodate trees and includes waterfalls and streams. Plants from the Amazon basin, African rainforest, and tropical eastern Asia are represented.
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Warm Temperate Pavilion

The Helen Mattin Warm Temperate Pavilion houses plants native to the Mediterranean basin, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, eastern Asia, western coastal regions of North America, and western coastal regions of South America.
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Water Garden

The Shelby White and Leon Levy Water Garden is small wetland and riparian environment with a meandering path that leads visitors past a babbling brook and tranquil pond surrounded by resilient plants that flourish at the water's edge.
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Woodland Garden

The Elizabeth Scholtz Woodland Garden features an open-air walled garden and an accessible path that meanders through a rolling landscape connecting the Lilac Collection, the Osborne Garden, the Native Flora Garden, and Maple Grove.
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