Brooklyn Botanic Garden : An Oasis within Brooklyn!
Who says New York is a concrete jungle? You just have to know where the oases are and find some time to enjoy them. One of the most idyllic locations in NYC is the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Yes! A full blown botanical garden just a few miles from Wall Street and Manhattan.
Experience one of the most beautiful gardens in New York, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. It is expressly designed to bring people in close contact with plants to stimulate the senses of smell and touch. Situated on 52 acres in the heart of Brooklyn, the Garden is home to over 18,000 kinds of plants.
The Garden’s central feature is the new visitor center with living roof design, conceived as a seamless, inhabitable extension of the Garden that merges landscape and architecture and redefines physical and philosophical relationships between visitor and garden, exhibition and movement, culture and cultivation.
Families can experiment, learn, and play together in different types of gardens inside the this botanical garden. It is easy to encourage kids to explore science and nature while having fun and seeing really interesting and spectacular plants.
Here is a sneak preview of the various gardens inside the Brooklyn Botanic Garden through the Interactive video. There is fun for the kids and facts in each video:
Discovery Garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden: This immersive landscape — created especially for the Garden’s youngest visitors.
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Water Garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden — Novus Laurus Cultural
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Herb Garden: The Herb Garden is both educational and lovely.
Herb Garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden — Novus Laurus Cultural
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Rock Garden: Features plants that thrive in rocky, fast-draining soils.
Rock Garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden — Novus Laurus Cultural
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Bonsai Museum at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden: World-class bonsai collection is displayed in the C.V. Starr Bonsai Museum.
Bonsai Museum at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden — Novus Laurus Cultural
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Lily Pool Terrace: Features two large rectangular pools bordered by the Perennial and Annual Borders.
Lily Pool Terrace at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden — Novus Laurus Cultural
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Magnolia Plaza at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden: The early-blooming star magnolias begin to flower, covering the trees with a multitude of white blossoms.
Magnolia Plaza at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden — Novus Laurus Cultural
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Fragrance Garden: Visitors are encouraged to touch and smell the plants here.
Fragrance Garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden — Novus Laurus Cultural
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Japanese Hill and Pond Garden: Was one of the first Japanese gardens to be created in an American botanic garden.
Japanese Hill and Pond Garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden — Novus Laurus Cultural
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Bluebell Wood at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden: In late April, the bluebells burst into flower and create an enchanting woodland display.
Bluebell Wood at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden — Novus Laurus Cultural
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Tree Peonies: These peonies are marvels of color, scent, and size.
Tree Peonies at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden — Novus Laurus Cultural
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Cherry Esplanade: One of the foremost cherry-blossom-viewing sites outside Japan.
Cherry Esplanade at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden — Novus Laurus Cultural
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Rose Garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden: The rose garden has over 5,000 bushes of nearly 1,400 kinds of roses, including wild species, old garden roses, hybrid tea roses, grandifloras, and polyanthas.
Rose Garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden — Novus Laurus Cultural
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See full Interactive video on the Brooklyn Botanic Garden below along with an interactive map and fun and fact features for each garden in Brooklyn’s botanical collection: https://nlcultural.com/brooklyn-botanic-garden/
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