OCTOBER 16, 2022/ TRAVEL, USA, NEW YORK

BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN

This 52 acre botanical heaven is located in the heart of Brooklyn near Prospect park and the Brooklyn Museum. The Brooklyn Botanic garden is home to more than 14,000 taxa of plants. The gardens opened in 1911 and were under the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences together with the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Children Museum and Brooklyn Institute of Music. When the garden opened it was only the Native Flora Garden (which still exists today). However, in 1912 Harold Caparn was appointed as the landscape archited, Caparn in the next 30 years designed the Brooklyn Botani Gardens as we know today.

The gardens is made out of multiple smaller gardens including: Cherry tree gardens, Japanese Hill and Pond Garden, Cranford Rose Garden, Water Garden, Alice Recknagel Ireys Fragrance Garden and many more. So it is safe to say that you would need at least half of the day to go through everything and enjoy the beuty of the gardens.

Apart from the gardens there are also green houses and conservatories such as the Bonsai Museum, Aquatic House and Orchid Collection, Tropical Pavilion and many more.

Best time to visit will be spring and fall, they currently have a fall foliage going on so you might want to check that. Tickets can be bought on the spot or online through their website.

 

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