Plants & Gardens Blog

Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March had gardens as different as their personalities. Which of their plant choices would suit you? Read › Garden Plants in Little Women

Brooklyn Botanic Garden says goodbye to outgoing president Scot Medbury who leaves Garden after 14 years. Read › Bidding Farewell to Scot Medbury

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

Get a behind-the-scenes look at how plants are reproduced at the Garden. Read › Plant Propagation at Brooklyn Botanic Garden (Video)

The ascending garden includes a switchback pathway that leads visitors through a landscape of native grasses and perennials as well as late-summer blooming crape-myrtles. Read › New Overlook Now Open

Look down and around. It’s not just tall trees that change color in the fall. Small shrubs and herbaceous plants also go from green to reds, oranges, and yellows. Along Belle’s Brook, you'll find wonderful autumn color, especially red, at eye level and at your feet. Read › Bloom Alert: Autumn Color Along Belle’s Brook

Brooklyn Botanic Garden is working to preserve the beloved hybrid oak tree on Daffodil Hill. The tree was damaged in August and needs extra support so that a three-foot crack in its trunk doesn’t split and give way. Read › Preserving Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Hybrid Oak

Be sure to visit the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden to see the new machiai designed by master builder Paul Discoe. Read › A New Machiai: A Traditional Japanese Waiting Bench

Lovely flowers in a wide variety of colors and forms bloom throughout summer along Belle’s Brook. Read › Bloom Alert: Belle’s Brook

What does a cactus sound like when you pluck its spines? Or tap its stem? What would make you even try to find out? Artist Adrienne Adar talks about her work Sonic Succulents. Read › Talking with Artist Adrienne Adar