Brooklyn Botanical Garden

The city's architecture critics have been weighing in on the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's new 20,000-square-foot visitor center, a modern, state-of-the-art building that blends the built and natural environments, which opens to the public on Wednesday, May 16. The Weiss/Manfredi-designed 20,000-square-foot center, a blend of architecture and landscape design, was a key component of BBG’s major renewal efforts launched in concurrence with the Garden’s centennial. “We knew, even in the early design stages Spring has come at last and with it comes all the blooms of trees and flowers. This time of year is an excellent opportunity to teach youngsters about the cycle of life and earth science and one of the best ways to get in touch with nature is by spending It’s that pervasive web of borders that makes the small but lovely new visitor center at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (which opens May 16) seem so quietly radical. The married team of Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi has created a border station between BROOKLYN - Signs of spring are becoming evident at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Buds are beginning to bloom, and trees are starting to blossom. The garden has been bustling with people in the last few days to take in the sights and sound of spring. The cherry blossoms are still in bloom at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, about 30 minutes from the Great White Way. On our recent Mother’s Day visit, the garden was crowded with strollers walking the esplanade under a canopy of blossoms. Cameras were .

BRANFORD >> The chairman of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden will be hosting a visit Saturday at his It was 1994, and the story compared the discovery to being “the botanical equivalent of finding a dinosaur alive today,” describing the species found Brooklyn Botanic Garden - Brooklyn, N.Y. Butchart Gardens - Victoria, B.C. Callaway Gardens - Pine Mountain, Ga. Cheekwood Botanical Garden - Nashville Chicago Botanic Garden - Chicago Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens - Boothbay, Maine Yesterday morning Gothamist's Tien Mao happened upon *the only blooming cherry blossom tree in Brooklyn Botanic Garden (pictured above and here's a mix we made for it)—so when will petals everywhere be briefly turning pink? We asked both the Queens Brooklyn Botanic Garden says that even in the wild in Southeast Asia, tiger orchids only bloom "reportedly once every two to four years." Check out the pictures below for a glimpse of the tiger orchid's blossoms. If you're in the New York City area .

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