Plants & Gardens Blog

Robin and red-tailed hawk chicks are thriving at the Garden, as these photos show. Read › Baby Birds at BBG

This vocal bird not only meows, it mimics car alarms and sirens. Learn to tell the difference between its song and those of the mockingbird and brown thrasher. Read › Birds of Brooklyn: Gray Catbird

Enjoy a look at BBG’s new Discovery Garden! Read › Discovery Garden Sneak Peek

Grow this mallow family member in your garden and use its unusual seedpods to make a tasty Caribbean beverage. Read › Red Sorrel

This lovely, sweet-smelling mint relative will add color and attract pollinators to you garden in summer and fall. Read › Agastache: Fragrant Foliage and Colorful Blooms

These placid, plodding reptiles are gradually disappearing from landscapes across eastern North America. Gardeners can help ease their plight. Read › Box Turtles in the Garden

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). Read › The Asparagus Pea

Easy to grow and delicious to eat, this vigorous vine is unrelated to true spinach but produces abundant large leaves that are remarkably spinachlike. It's also much better suited for summer growing than its better-known namesake. Read › Red-Stemmed Malabar Spinach

Reblooming and late-blooming iris cultivars extend the season for this garden favorite. Read › Irises for Summer and Fall

Two, or possibly three, red-tailed hawk chicks recently hatched in the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden. Read › Baby Hawks Spotted at BBG