Plants & Gardens Blog

Sweet, crunchy, juicy snap peas are a special seasonal treat. Grow your own or look for them at the farmers’ market under their French nickname, mange-touts. Read › Eat Local: Snap Peas and Garlic Scape Mint Dip

Plants have evolved in a complex world and are very sensitive to particular and subtle cues. Decisions about where we put buildings and how we build them have a much larger impact than we often realize. Read › Plants, Sunlight, and Buildings

As we continue our journey through geologic time, we will start to see plants that are more familiar to us: plants that reproduce with seeds, such as conifers and ginkgos. Read › Great Moments in Plant Evolution, Part 3: Extinction to Ginkgo

The Lily Pools were drained last year for upgrades. Now a brand-new planting of water-lilies and sacred lotuses, both of which bloom throughout summer, is underway. Read › Return of the Water-Lilies

Flatbush Avenue will be a leafier, shadier place for years to come thanks to a collaboration between Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the NYC Parks. Read › New Trees Along Flatbush Avenue

After a lonely 2020, flowering cherries, crabapples, late magnolias, and early lilacs are all in bloom once again. Peonies, azaleas, bluebells, and more lilacs coming soon. Read › See Spring in the Garden Again

The blooms in the Annual Border represent 11 of the 13 daffodil divisions first established in 1908. Cultivars are still classified by flower shape and size, color, and number per stem. Read › Bloom Alert: Daffodil Divisions

Brooklyn Botanic Garden will be planting dozens of trees donated by the city along Flatbush Avenue in the coming weeks. Read › More Trees On the Way to Flatbush Avenue

The yellow magnolia tree that came down last year was planted in 1979 and was one of only two in the Garden. It came directly from the Garden’s plant breeding program in the 1970s. It was a true original. Read › Saying Goodbye to the ‘Elizabeth’ Magnolia

Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Native Flora Garden features ecosystems that evolved within 200 miles of New York City. Gardener Will Lenihan introduces us to the garden and some of the unique and important plants grow here Read › Native Flora Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden (Video)