Plants & Gardens Blog

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

The ubiquitous Ailanthus altissima, the weedy tree immortalized in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, is being put to use against this dreaded pest. Read › Brooklyn Weed Tree Employed to Monitor Lanternflies

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

On top of the Garden’s Visitor Center is a beautiful and functional green roof that looks like a prairie and helps reduce water pollution stormwater. Read › Get to Know the Garden’s Green Roof

Three hundred activists came together in the Palm House earlier this month for the 2020 kickoff of Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Fight for Sunlight campaign. Read › Fight for Sunlight Campaign Opposes High-Rise Towers

Teens in BBG's Garden Apprentice Program harvest produce for food banks, build accessible planting beds for nearby park visitors, and teach people how to root out invasive weeds. Read › GAP Teens Take Environmental Action

A group of us who work for Brooklyn Botanic Garden gathered Friday in lower Manhattan for the Global Climate Strike to support action to stop climate change. Read › Supporting the Global Climate Strike and Action

Fresh water is now circulating throughout the Garden as the Water Conservation Project has opened. Read › The Water Conservation Project Is Open

Spring came late to Brooklyn this year, and so did the cherry blossoms. Globally, though, April was the third warmest on record. Studying how plants and animals respond to climate variations may be help experts adapt and remain resilient. Read › Climate Change in Brooklyn: Spring

Multispectrum LED lights have been installed in BBG's greenhouses. They're very efficient and use the parts of the light spectrum most beneficial to plants. Read › What Is That Colored Light Coming from the Greenhouses?