Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Brooklyn Botanic Garden in Bloom, coming soon! 🔜 Spring is almost here. Don’t miss the welcome return of cherry blossoms, magnolias, bluebells, and so much more!

Entry to BBG’s 2025 Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest is now open! 🏡 Gather your neighbors and enter your block in Brooklyn’s friendliest competition. The Greenest Block in Brooklyn is free and open to all residential blocks, commercial blocks, and community gardens in Brooklyn. The purpose of the contest is to promote streetscape gardening in the borough of Brooklyn through block associations and other community groups. Participants can attend a free workshop, How to Green Your Block, at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and host a free interactive, walk-and-talk block visit, led by BBG staff, to learn about their block’s greening opportunities.

Our partner high school, the Brooklyn Academy of Science and the Environment (BASE), is accepting incoming students for its freshman class of Fall 2025! 🍎 BASE is a small New York City public high school that integrates the mission and resources of Brooklyn Botanic Garden to support academic excellence and rigor for students in our community. The Garden’s living collections serve as a dynamic natural laboratory for project-based learning within a short walk from the school. Stop by an upcoming open house and learn more on March 13, March 22, March 29, or April 26. More info: https://lnkd.in/eQZ_ih7C

Last call for applicants for BBG's Performing Artist in Residence 2025! Application deadline: February 28.

Pull up Thursday February 27 to the Little Caribbean Winter Garden Fête! Dance, explore the Steinhardt Conservatory, sip a hot sorrel toddy, and celebrate the last call for BBG’s Trees of Little Caribbean exhibit. More info. 👇

Tree-t yourself to a special tour at BBG, celebrating trees in all their leafless splendor. ❄️ On our upcoming Naked Trees Tour February 8, visitors will take a wintry stroll through the Garden to look at the shape and architecture of BBG’s trees, including some not-so-naked specimens. Free with Garden admission, no registration necessary.

Making Brooklyn Bloom, BBG’s free annual gardening conference, is coming March 8! 🗓️ This year’s conference theme, Many Hands, Light Work, celebrates both the invaluable role light plays in the greening of our city and the beacon that is community. Participate in workshops, explore BBG’s grounds, and network with NYC greening organizations at a conference that has had Brooklyn lit up with excitement for over 40 years. We are delighted that Zoë Schlanger, acclaimed author of The Light Eaters and staff writer at The Atlantic, will deliver this year’s Wilbur A. Levin Keynote Address, illuminating the secret lives and hidden wonders of the plants around us. More info. 👇

Check out BBG’s Elizabeth Scholtz Woodland Garden from above, snapped by Lexi Van Valkenburgh from MVVA. 🗺️ Take a wintry stroll through here on your next visit to BBG. Through January 17, admission is pay-what-you-wish every day. From January 18 through February 28, enjoy pay-what-you-wish admission on weekdays.

Angela Ferguson, a member of the Onondaga Nation (Eel Clan), is supervisor of the Onondaga Nation Farm and a member of Braiding the Sacred, a grassroots network of Indigenous corn growers. 🌽 We spoke with Ferguson, who is working with Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Interpretation team as an advisor, about what food sovereignty means in her community, traditional Haudenosaunee agricultural practices in use at the Onondaga Nation Farm today, and the importance of saving seeds.

Lightscape at BBG is coming to a close—catch it before it’s gone for the season! 📣 Bundle up and celebrate new beginnings amidst a million lights at NYC’s most dazzling light show. Just three nights remain!