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Artist in Residence: Yoshihito Kawase
The the 2019 Ronin | Globus Artist-in-Residence, Yoshihito Kawase, will use Brooklyn Botanic Garden as inspiration and as a plein air studio during a two-week residency.
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Q&A with Brooklyn Botanic Garden President Adrian Benepe
This month, Adrian Benepe joins Brooklyn Botanic Garden as its seventh president. At a time of historic challenge, he shares his thoughts on the role botanic gardens can play in sustainable cities, resilient communities, and our collective mental health.
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What Are Pussy Willows, Anyway?
These little nubs are an early sign of spring, but what is their botanical role?
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Winter Nature Walks
Naturalist Brad Klein guides short audio walks through the Shelby White and Leon Levy Water Garden, Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, and Osborne Garden.
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Revisiting the Plant Family Collection
The Plant Family Collection is open again. It retains its historical design principles while incorporating a new brook as part of the Garden’s water conservation efforts.
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Pondlife: How to Spot Microbes
Look for signs of microscopic life in the Garden and beyond.
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Deer-Resistant Plants: Shrubs and Trees for the Deer-Plagued Gardener
Over the past few decades, plant damage caused by deer has risen to alarming levels in North American rural and suburban gardens.
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Irises for Summer and Fall
Reblooming and late-blooming iris cultivars extend the season for this garden favorite.
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How Did the Cherries, Magnolias, and Other Plants Handle the Snowstorm?
A late winter snowstorm hit after an unusually mild February. How did the Garden’s plants handle the stress?
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A Potted Water Garden—Beautiful Aquatic Plants in Containers
Want to grow water-lilies and other beautiful aquatic plants at home but don’t have space for a permanent water feature? Cultivate them in pots instead.
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Native Groundcovers: Sustainable Choices for Sun and Shade
Two of the most common groundcovers, English ivy and periwinkle, are invasive. But there are many native plants that make wonderful and sustainable alternatives.
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Eat Local: How to Shop for and Prepare Persimmons
Persimmons are in season now. Learn how to tell when they’re ripe, and try this recipe for honey-roasted spiced persimmons on toast.
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Search for Plants from The Secret Garden
Lilies, late roses, delphinium, and other plants described in the The Secret Garden can be found at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Go on a scavenger hunt and find some!
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Caring for Ferns as Houseplants
Plant-lovers have adored ferns since Victorian times. They have a reputation for fussiness, but with a little thought and attention, they can thrive as houseplants.
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All About Bugs: Native Praying Mantises on the Way?
In years past, most of the praying mantises at BBG have been a species from China. This year, egg cases of a native species have been spotted. Learn more about both!
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Climate Change in Brooklyn: Fall
Powerful storms bring severe winds, damaging salt sprays, and heavy rains to our area. If they become more common, how will this affect the city? Can public gardens help mitigate damage?
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The Benefits of Playing in Nature
Something wonderful happens when children spend time playing in a natural area—they get to relax and enjoy themselves.
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The Asparagus Pea
This pretty legume has deep red flowers and lovely frilled seedpods, which are edible and taste like asparagus. They are delicious in a salad with shrimp, tofu, and chile paste (recipe included).
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Isamu Noguchi at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brooklyn Botanic Garden hosts a Garden-wide installation of sculptures by the renowned Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi.
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Garlic Mustard: A Palatable Pest
Native to Europe, this cool-season biennial is wreaking havoc on deciduous forests from New England west to Wisconsin and south to Tennessee.
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Start a Rooftop Container Garden
If you have access to a flat rooftop, you can create a simple, sustainable container garden where you can entertain guests, grow food, and enjoy the view. Learn how to choose the hardiest plants, the safest planters, and most practical watering system.
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Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden
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Growing Vines Successfully
Vines are a diverse group of plants. Most are easy to grow and require little care; however, a basic knowledge of their cultural needs is important for success in your garden.
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Designing A Hummingbird Garden: 15 Ways to Keep Them Coming
Hummingbirds prefer openings in the forest and forest edge, and so are readily drawn to suburban and rural gardens that offer a mix of tall trees, shrubs, and patches of meadow and lawn.
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Witch-Hazels: Winter Flowers, Fall Foliage, and Lovely Form
Witch-hazels have a lovely natural form, smooth gray bark, and vibrant fall foliage. Maybe best of all, they have unusual, fragrant flowers that bloom when few other flowers do.
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Get to Know These Buds
No need to wait for spring flowers and foliage. Buds offer much to observe and appreciate right now.
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Mountain Laurel: A Shade-Tolerant Native With Beautiful Blossoms
This lovely native shrub produces exquisite late-spring flowers, and it can thrive in a wide range of locations, including small, shady Brooklyn gardens.
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Hellebores: Flowers from Winter into Spring
Christmas-roses, Lenten-roses and other hellebores bloom in cold months, providing lovely, lasting flowers just when you need them most.
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Natural Pesticides
Most yard and garden pesticides available today are synthesized chemicals. Because some of these pesticides have been associated with health and environmental hazards, interest in alternatives has been increasing in recent years.
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Hardy Terrestrial Orchids
There is a hardy terrestrial orchid for practically every conceivable setting: woodland landscapes, lightly shaded perennial borders, stream banks, rock gardens, cold alpine houses, and cool-grown household terrariums.
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Taking Photos at BBG
Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s 52 acres of world-class indoor and outdoor gardens and iconic architecture, conveniently sited in the heart of Brooklyn, make it a desirable location for photography and film projects. Learn about BBG’s photography policy and fees.
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Using Vines in the Garden
It’s often said that vines are the best friends of a passionate gardener with a small urban lot. And it’s true: There’s no better way to splash color and texture around a postage-stamp property than by collecting plants that grow skyward rather than sideways. But this doesn’t begin to give…
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Chase Away the Winter Blues with a Walk in the Garden
Time outside can brighten mood, boost energy and sharpen the mind. Read more about it and enjoy a self-guided winter walk at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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Aspidistra—An Alluring and Enduring Favorite
Aspidistra can endure temperatures as low as 23 degrees Fahrenheit and as high as 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Aspidistra can survive extreme levels of urban pollution and dust, as well as light levels as low as 25 footcandles. Finally, as if attuned to the contingencies of modern living, they are forgiving…
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Twelve Ways to Design a Bird-friendly Garden
Twelve general guidelines on how to design a garden that appeals to both birds and people.
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How to Create an Herb Garden in the Shade
Some herbs thrive in the shade. Learn more about them so you can grow a wonderful herb garden even if your garden has very little sun.
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Plant Spotlight: Sacred Lotus
Dive into the biology and cultural significance of these remarkable aquatic plants.
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Cutleaf Staghorn Sumac
This native shrub is known for its gorgeous foliage. It’s easy to grow and produces distinctive flowers and pretty winter berries.
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Grow Aquatic Houseplants in a Mini-Aquascape (with Shrimp)
An aquascape is a small aquatic ecosystem in a glass container—like a terrarium but water-based instead of soil-based. These instructions are for a simple version with plants, algae, and small shrimp.
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Palms in the Parlor
Of all the members of the plant kingdom suitable for use as houseplants, none evoke a feeling of the tropics like the palms. With their large, architectural leaves and strong outlines, palms can help create an indoor Garden of Eden wherever you live.
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Drought-Proofing Your Garden: Essential Water-Saving Strategies and Plant List
A drought emergency is a time to take steps to substantially reduce water use in the garden. Here’s some tips on how to conserve water with drought-tolerant plants and longer-term solutions to your garden more compatible with natural precipitation patterns.
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Responding to Climate Change in New York City
With global climate change upon us, New York City is already feeling the effects. We will need to be resilient in the face of these new environmental stresses.
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Gardens & Collections
Japanese Collections at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brooklyn Botanic Garden is home to world-renowned Japanese horticultural collections and cultural programs.
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The Four-Square: A Classic Kitchen Garden Design
Like a country kitchen, a four-square kitchen garden evokes thoughts of hearth, home, and abundance. It is a garden design based on a very simple layout that provides a rich, unpretentious display of color, form, and, quite literally, good taste.
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Native Witch-Hazel
Witch-hazels flower when few other plants do, and there are two native species that make wonderful garden shrubs.
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Get to Know the Garden’s Green Roof
On top of the Garden’s Visitor Center is a beautiful and functional green roof that looks like a prairie and helps reduce water pollution stormwater.
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Gelsey Bell and Joseph White: Meander
Meander is a site-specific sound walk created for Brooklyn Botanic Garden that guides listeners on a meditative stroll into the natural landscape.
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Mad About Moss—The Simple Art of Moss Gardening
…and started looking for opportunities away from housework and garden hoeing to sit and pick awhile.
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Heavenly Hibiscus: Long-Lived, Easy-Care Beauties
Hibiscus are getting more popular. Vigorous. Tough. Easy to grow. Long-lived. Their spectacular flowers bloom in a rainbow of colors throughout the growing season.
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Designing with Summer-Flowering Bulbs
Summer-flowering bulbs come into bloom at the same time that many perennials and annuals are at their best, and by adding them to your garden you can multiply the colors, textures, scents, shapes, and contrasts in your palette.
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Ask a Gardener: What Is Mulch, and When Should I Use It?
In our summer installment of Ask a Gardener, gardener Laura Powell answers your questions about mulching, watering, and plants that bloom after spring.
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Tree Peony Collection
…the periphery of BBG’s Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden and the north end of Cherry Walk. The plants were presented to the Garden in 2002 by the Japanese town of Yatsuka-Cho in Shimane Prefecture “to bring peace of mind to people in the United States” after the events of September 11, 2001.…
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Four Indoor Garden Designs
The indoor landscape can form an integral part of your interior and, naturally, reflect your personal preference and style.
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Curbside Gardens—Transforming Your Hell Strip
Heated by pavement, often assaulted by salt and sand during winter, these ribbons of city-owned real estate are not prime gardening spots. Indeed, they have been dubbed “hell strips” by writer Lauren Springer.
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Education and Activities
Free Virtual Tour Resources for Teachers: Japanese Garden
Free virtual visit resources for teachers, including an 18-minute video tour through the Japanese Garden supplemented by guiding questions and pre- and post-visit activities.
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Gardens & Collections
Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden Centennial
In 2014, Brooklyn Botanic Garden celebrated the centennial of its iconic Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden. This extraordinary and beloved place was the first Japanese garden in an American public botanic garden, and today it remains of one of the finest examples of its kind outside Japan.
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Make Your Garden a Haven for Insect Diversity
Create a habitat for pollinators as well as the amazing array of less beloved, but still important, insects out there.
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Cherry Esplanade
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.
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Drought-Resistant Plants for Pots
Choose the right plants and you can have a container garden that will require little, or even no, watering.
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Nine Keys to Plant Disease Prevention
Prevention is the key to plant-disease control. This is true whether a disease is infectious (involving host-parasite relationships between plants and pathogens such as certain fungi, bacteria, or viruses) or non-infectious (involving disorders such as nutrient deficiencies or winter damage).
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Branching Out: Trees as Community Hosts
Check out six site-specific works inspired by the theme of trees as community hosts in our 2023 exhibit Branching Out.
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Handbooks
Japanese-Style Gardens
This delightful guide includes profiles of iconic Japanese-style public gardens, a primer on the historical roots of various styles, commentary by the most respected names in Japanese garden design, and practical information on designing and caring for a Japanese-inspired home garden.
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The Why and When of Pruning
Many gardeners never think about training or cutting back plants until the neighbor is bleeding from a head-to-limb encounter with the crabapple (Malus) someone planted too close to a path or it’s impossible to get past the eastern white pine (Pinus strobus) and through the front door.
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An Herb Garden for Tea Time
In our frenetically paced modern lives, making time for growing herbs and savoring herbal infusions may seem like an anachronism, a quaint throwback to a more unhurried age. But we need such time-tested tonics, places to slow down and enjoy nature’s bounty, seemingly more than ever.
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Gardens & Collections
Cherry Blossoms at BBG
A complete guide to cherry blossom season at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Check the cherry blossom status map. Learn where all the flowering cherry trees are located within BBG and how you can tell them apart.
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Celebrity Path
Across from the Shakespeare Garden is the start of Celebrity Path, where stepping-stones are inscribed with names of famous Brooklynites past and present. The path meanders through Austrian pines, rhododendrons, and daffodils, just south of the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden. At irregular intervals along the way, approximately 100 artists, poets, performers,…
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Water Conservation Project
Innovative new infrastructure will allow the Garden to collect, filter, and recirculate fresh rain and ground water, reducing outdoor water consumption by almost 96%.
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People
Brian Funk
Brian Funk is a landscape designer and master gardener. He is also the curator of the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden and the Japanese Tree Peony Collection at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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Features
Blue Heron Triangle
Artists Chen Chen and Kai Williams created this piece to provide a fishing platform for the great blue herons who frequent the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden.
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Gardens & Collections
Art Collections
Since its earliest days, Brooklyn Botanic Garden has employed artists to capture the essence of the Garden and its plant collections.
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Tributes & Dedications
Brooklyn Botanic Garden holds a special place in the hearts of those who have come to know and love the beauty of this 52-acre garden. Many friends choose to make contributions in honor or in memory of loved ones. Gifts can celebrate marriages, births, retirements, graduations, and many other special…
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T. Meghan Ray
T. Meghan Ray, the gardener in charge of the Fragrance Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, also cares for Prunus mume ‘Kasugano’ located outside the Japanese garden.
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Gardens & Collections
BBG’s Plant Collection
Search BBG’s plant collection and learn more about plant records and accession numbers.
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Handbooks
Great Natives for Tough Places
Find native plants that thrive in challenging growing conditions! This comprehensive guide offers portraits of more than 120 gorgeous and low-maintenance plants, as well as strategies for selection and care.
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People
Doug Dudgeon
Doug Dudgeon is the assistant horticulturist at the Dawes Arboretum in Newark, Ohio. For nearly 14 years, until early 1999, he worked at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where he was in charge of the chile pepper collection, the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, the Fragrance Garden, and the Shakespeare Garden.
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Education and Activities
Teachers & Schools
The Garden offers free admission to registered school groups and a variety of programs for teachers and schools.
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Handbooks
The Tree Book for Kids and Their Grown-ups
…postconsumer recycled paper Winner, Garden Writers Association Gold Award The Tree Book’s beautiful illustrations show buds, leaf, flower, fruit, and seed of 33 trees that grow in North America. Histories of each tree bring to life its character and significance to us, while introductory chapters explore the science and magic…
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Corporate Membership
BBG’s Corporate Membership Program provides vital support to the Garden and its programs while offering a variety of benefits to your company and employees.
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Gardens & Collections
Historic Images
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden Historic Image Collection consists of glass plate negatives, lantern slides, film-based negatives, and works on paper created during the first half of the 20th century. These images document all aspects of the Garden: the growth and development of the physical plant and grounds, horticultural displays, special…