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Wicked Plants at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Shedding a Dark Light on Suspicious Species
Shedding a Dark Light on Suspicious Species
Sunday, May 31, to Sunday, September 6, 2009
Events and Activities
A Stroll Among Wicked Plants at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
BBG's summer interpretive program highlights plants in the Garden that will thrill and entertain with their awesome abilities. Download and print the self-guided tour and information brochure or pick one up when you come to the Garden.
Self-Guided Audio Tour
Look for the cell phone tour symbol.
Garden experts give crucial advice, disclose fatal facts, and share close encounters with wicked plants. Listen on your own cell phone or download an mp3 to your player. The tour is free but uses your minutes.
Prints by Briony Morrow-Cribbs
Tuesday–Sunday | 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Steinhardt Conservatory Gallery
Originally created to illustrate the book Wicked Plants, these hand-tinted botanical etchings evoke the potentially menacing—albeit often curative—aspects of plants.
Guided Tours
Tuesdays | 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays | 1 and 3 p.m.
Meet in front of the Visitor Center
Take a seasonal highlights tour featuring Wicked Plants at Brooklyn Botanic Garden with a highly trained Garden Guide. Free with admission.
Discovery Carts: Eat or Be Eaten!
July 14–August 21 | Tuesday–Thursday
Near the Lily Pool Terrace
Learn how carnivorous plants capture their prey, identify potential wicked plants, and find out how not to order a dangerous dinner at these hands-on Discovery Carts.
Gardener's Resource Center
Tuesday–Friday | 1–4:30 p.m.
Get to the roots of Wicked Plants with this collection of books and artifacts on the second floor of the Administration Building.
Garden Shop and Gift Shop
Tuesday–Sunday | 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
In the Garden Shop, pick up a copy of Amy Stewart's Wicked Plants: A Book of Botanical Atrocities. And—if you dare—select a wicked plant or two.
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