Garden News Blog
Bee-Day at BBG!
Help BBG celebrate its 100th birthday with a bee-inspired party for all ages! Enjoy honey tastings, lectures, presentations, tours, and live music throughout the Garden with free admission all day. For event details visit Centennial Bee-Day Party.
Photos from Sakura Matsuri 2010
With more than 40,000 visitors enjoying great weather and 60-plus events and performances at the Garden, this year's Sakura Matsuri was an incredible weekend-long celebration, even without cherry blossom petals blowing in the breeze. We've put together a slideshow of some of the many performances and inspired costumes we
Mother’s Day at BBG
Not sure what to do for Mother's Day this year? Come take a Garden tour and celebrate the many blooming plants of spring! The tour meets at 3 p.m. in front of the Visitor Center on Sunday, May 9. Highlights include the 45,000 blooming Spanish bluebells in Bluebell Wood, lilacs, wisteria, azaleas, crabapples, Japanese tree
Art and Scientific Correspondence: Methods, Metaphors, Missives
On May 16th at 3:30 p.m. Brooklyn Botanic Garden's inaugural artist-in-residence program presents a panel exploring the intersection of contemporary art and the history of natural science. Join artists Alexis Rockman and Emilie Clark, whose exhibition My Garden Pets is currently on view in the Steinhardt Conservatory
Taiko Masala Sneak Peek Video
As if we weren’t already over-the-top excited for next weekend’s Sakura Matsuri Festival, Taiko Masala came by the Garden this morning for a preview! They’re called the "Thunder Drummers” for good reason⎯their performance of Japan’s traditional drumming, taiko, rumbles like
Tulip Time
The tulips planted in the Annual Bed have begun to open and create a gorgeous color display in the Lily Pool Terrace. Planted by curator Cayleb Long last fall, these spring bloomers have made a bit of an early debut thanks in part to the unseasonable warm 80-degree weather enjoyed in Brooklyn this past week. Of particular
