Brooklyn Botanic Garden

BBG’s internship for teens is accepting applications right now! 🌱 The Garden Apprentice Program (GAP) at Brooklyn Botanic Garden is a great way for teens to learn about urban agriculture and the environment while working in one of the most exciting public gardens in the world.

"The exchange of knowledge extends beyond practical horticultural skills," says Tania Bagan, co-coordinator of GAP. "Gardening together offers apprentices from all different backgrounds a way to connect and share meaningful parts of their identities."

Lightscape at BBG opens in ONE MONTH! 🤯 Starts November 20! Lightscape at Brooklyn Botanic Garden returns this holiday season with a spectacular reimagined trail. Step into a world brimming with beauty, where luminous installations meet light-kissed landscapes, right in the heart of Brooklyn.

BBG’s bonsai collection is starting to show off fall colors! 🍁 Though most of Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s regular trees aren’t boasting autumnal hues just yet, maples and a brilliant Virginia creeper bonsai have already joined the party in the C.V. Starr Bonsai Museum.

BBG’s Fall Plant Sale is coming soon! 🪴 On Thursday, October 15, shop a curated and dazzling selection of plants for your home and garden. This year, shoppers can find native trees and shrubs fit for Brooklyn yards, unusual orchids, diverse tropicals and succulents, and much more.

Lightscape 2026 tickets are on sale now! ✨ This year’s newly imagined trail is a love letter to the Garden’s four seasons of splendor. Bring friends and family and step into a world brimming with beauty, where luminous installations meet light-kissed landscapes, right in the heart of Brooklyn.

BBG’s Fall Harvest Festival is just one month away! 🎺 On October 24, enjoy live music, a cider and beer garden, hands-on activities for families, pumpkin-decorating, and so much more. Come dressed in your best flannel—or a costume for an afternoon parade!

Across BBG, asters and goldenrods are shining! ✨ Both flowers provide sustenance, breeding sites, and overwintering spaces for numerous native species of bumble bees, long- and short-tongued bees, wasps, flies, butterflies, moths, beetles, spiders, and more. Plus, they’re nice to look at!

Happy first day of fall, NYC! 🍁 Brooklyn Botanic Garden doesn’t look like this just yet, but it will pretty soon.

Check out newly installed works up at BBG from Madjeen Isaac! 🖼️ Presented by the @climatemuseum.bsky.social and Brooklyn Botanic Garden, “We Can’t Dream Alone” is an exhibit of four large-scale reproductions of paintings installed along the Garden’s perimeter on Washington Avenue.

Combining experiences from her homeland of Haiti and her upbringing in Flatbush, Isaac explores how collective care, memory, and ecological knowledge are crucial to building a more just future.

New Yorkers: It's absurdly nice out. ☀️ It's time. It's time to visit Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Tickets are on sale now for BBG’s Fall Harvest Fest October 24! 🍻🎃 Enjoy live music, a cider and beer garden, hands-on activities for families, pumpkin-decorating, and so much more. Videos by Camilla Ffrench and Jeremy Weine.

25 years later, a day of remembrance for September 11. Along the edges of Cherry Esplanade are the Liberty Oaks, planted in remembrance of those who lost their lives. Each year, members of the FDNY and their friends and families gather for a memorial.

The Tree Peony Collection that blooms in the spring near Cherry Walk was presented to the Garden in 2002 by the Japanese town of Yatsuka-Cho in Shimane Prefecture to "bring peace of mind to the people of the United States.”

Did you know BBG has a library that’s open to the public? 📚 Regular library hours are Tuesday to Friday, 11 a.m.–5:30 p.m. by arrangement. All you need to do is email library@bbg.org ahead of your visit.

Stop by Gardens for Peace at BBG on September 12. ⛩️ As part of the North American Japanese Garden Association’s annual Gardens for Peace project, BBG presents free public programming in and around the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden.

Please welcome Sue Donoghue, Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s new president and CEO! 👋 A Brooklyn resident of nearly 30 years and one of New York City’s greatest champions for urban green spaces, Sue previously served as New York City Parks Commissioner and president of Prospect Park Alliance.

Sharing some sad news about one of BBG’s most fantastic trees. 💔 The American yellowwood located in the Plant Family Collection near the south end of Lily Pool Terrace collapsed during a recent storm. This special tree had been part of BBG’s plant collection since 1916.

Swipe for before and after! ➡️ BBG recently replaced 2.5 acres of grass near the Diane H. and Joseph S. Steinberg Visitor Center with wildflowers and fescues to reduce water use and create a habitat for pollinators.

Thanks for stopping by our first-ever free block party last week! 🎉 Despite the drizzle, we had a blast last week celebrating 30 years of Greenest Block in Brooklyn and our Block by Block exhibit. Major Sponsor, Block by Block: Brooklyn Org Videos by Evelyn Lin.