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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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.

A luminous display of many fountains in a water feature surrounded by illuminated trees.

A glassy conservatory space illuminated from within during winter, with a fountain with string lights hanging from the top imitating water in front.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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!

A composite image showing a festively dressed band playing brass instruments with various illustrations superimposed over them, including an apple, jack-o-lantern, drum, and more. Below reads text "Fall Harvest Festival."

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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!

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Cranford Rose Garden’s fall flush is arriving! 🌹 In September, a second flush of roses blooms in Cranford and the Rose Arc, alongside delightful dahlias, hibiscuses, lilies, and more. These blooms will last until mid-October.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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.

A person standing on a sidewalk in front of large works of art attached to a fence which encloses a garden area and glassy conservatory space.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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.

A group of people wearing uniforms place rocks at the base of a tree amongst greenery and a lawn.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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.

Several people in a large indoor atrium with orange walls and white classical accents like columns outside the door to a library.

Two people in the foreground standing over a table laden with books and papers, with other people in various nooks of a small library.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

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.

A water feature ringed by a path and many green trees and shrubs. In foreground on the near side of the shore, there's a small house, and on the opposite shore, another structure, with wisteria growing on a pergola jutting out into the water.

A person shows a few other people a green leafy bonsai tree in a bright room with many other bonsai on tables.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

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.

A person standing and smiling outdoors in front of an array of green bushes, some blooming pink.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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.

A tree seen from a path by several people. The tree has broad branches with green leaves with many light white blooms cascading from the canopy.

Tree branches with many light white blooms cascading from the canopy seen in the foreground, with other greenery and a path beyond.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

BBG’s Little Caribbean Last Lap Garden Fête, presented with I AM caribBEING, is coming September 1! 🎉 Enjoy a curated cocktail and food menu and party to Caribbean beats. Plus activities for adults and kids throughout the night! Event included with Garden admission. More info. 👇

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Little Caribbean Last Lap Garden Fête - Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Celebrate Brooklyn’s West Indian community with a Tuesday Night Fête at the Garden featuring live DJs.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I keep forgetting to tag these so I'm just going to do a whole thread of the ducks I've seen at the @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social starting with the video of this one being quite rude #BirdOfTheDay 📷🌿🪶🦉

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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.

A hill with several people in green attire working to lay down wilflower sod. At the top of the hill, several green trees.

A hill filled with green grassy plants and yellow flowers in the foreground. Another structure with a green roof and trees are in the background.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

POV: You are relaxing at a Members’ Summer Evening at BBG! 🧺 Wednesday evenings May 27 through Sept. 2 are for members only! On select Members' Picnic Nights, blankets and outside food and drink are permitted in certain locations across the Garden. Join today: buff.ly/Qb2CB1u 🎥: IG @/andieekent

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Heather Wolf @heatherbirds.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Join me for Beginning Birding this fall at #Brooklyn Botanic Garden! Register here: www.bbg.org/classes/begi... @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social #birds

Join me for Beginning Birding this fall at #Brooklyn Botanic Garden! Register here: https://www.bbg.org/classes/beginning_birding

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

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.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

And the 2026 Greenest Block in Brooklyn is… 👀 Lincoln Place between New York Avenue and Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights! 🎉

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Unique native blooms abound at BBG! 🌼 Check out native perennials throughout the Garden, like those seen here: cardinal flower, narrow-leaf ironweed, cutleaf coneflowers, Joe-pye weed, and wild bergamot.

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Heather Wolf @heatherbirds.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Excited to be teaching at Brooklyn Botanic Garden again this fall! Class registration opens this Monday, Aug. 3rd at 9am here: www.bbg.org/classes/begi... @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social #birds #nyc #brooklyn

Excited to be teaching at Brooklyn Botanic Garden again this fall! Class registration opens this Monday, Aug. 3rd at 9am here: https://www.bbg.org/classes/beginning_birding

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Bloom alert! 💗 BBG’s crape-myrtles are in bloom now. Crape-myrtles have long been favorite garden plants in the South, but many cultivars can grow in NYC, too. Find them at BBG near the Robert W. Wilson Overlook and along Lily Pool Terrace.

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Nonesuch Records @nonesuch.com · 21/07/2026

Attacca Quartet performs music from its GRAMMY-winning album with Caroline Shaw ‘Evergreen’ surrounded by green and under the night sky at @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social. 🌳

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Celebrate Brooklyn’s Greening Heroes with a photography exhibit at BBG! 🖼️ Brooklyn’s Greening Heroes features portraits and oral history interviews by Zachary Schulman from Brooklyn residents who have turned gardening into community-building. 👇

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<strong>Brooklyn’s Greening Heroes</strong> features portraits and first-person stories from residents who have turned gardening into community-building.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Jazz in July kicks off this week! 🎶 Celebrate summer at the Garden with live jazz on Thursday evenings in July. Bring a blanket to stretch out and enjoy the music, presented in partnership with local arts organizations. More info. 👇

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Jazz in July - Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Celebrate summer at Brooklyn Botanic Garden with jazz performances, tours, and more.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

A Block Party is coming to BBG! 🎉 To celebrate 30 years of the Greenest Block in Brooklyn, we’re throwing a block party on Jul 30. Catch summer vibes with DJ Mamoudou spinning 90s classics and live music by BrownstoneJAZZ + games and more. Free admission! Major Sponsor, Block by Block: Brooklyn Org

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Bloom alert! 🪷 Water lilies are blooming beautifully in Lily Pool Terrace right now. These pools at BBG are planted with nearly 100 varieties of hardy and tropical water-lilies and sacred lotuses. These plants will bloom through July into early August.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Spend a serene midsummer evening at Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s soundbath. 💆 On July 20, Forever Green Soundbath will present a life-affirming meditation on the impermanence of nature featuring Attacca Quartet performing original improvisations and music from their album Evergreen with Caroline Shaw.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Celebrate Brooklyn’s community greeners at BBG! 💚 For 30 years, the Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest has demonstrated how small collective actions can build communities and transform neighborhoods, block by block. This summer, Block by Block applauds Brooklyn’s greening stars.

A recreation of a stoop scene, featuring brick stairs and various container plantings, situated in a green garden space.

Two outdoor displays of photos consisting of a metal frame featuring three panels, six sides of which are viewable, situated amongst green trees and grass.

A party scene featuring many people in summery outfits moving amongst a water feature in a garden.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Spend summer at BBG! 🌞 Read on for details on art in the Garden, evening performances, and our first-ever Block Party. 🧵👇

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Four new multisensory art installations, open now at BBG! 👀 Created by Brooklyn-based artist Olalekan Jeyifous and the environmental art and architecture practice AD—WO, Ancestral Ecologies explores ancient Latinx and African diasporic beliefs around the intelligence of the natural world.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Enjoy a summer solstice celebration at BBG June 21! 🌇 Welcome the longest day of the year with special sunrise and sunset musical performances at the Garden. 👇

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Summer Solstice Celebration - Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Celebrate the longest day of the year with sunrise and sunset performances on Cherry Esplanade.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The Greenest Block in Brooklyn entry deadline has been EXTENDED to June 5! 📣

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Bloom alert! 💐 The Cranford Rose Garden is hitting peak bloom. The Cranford Rose Garden is one of the broadest collections of rose species and cultivars in North America, hosting well over 5,000 individual plants. These roses will bloom through June, with some blossoming throughout summer.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Roses have juuust started blooming at BBG! 🌹 Early-blooming roses in the Cranford Rose Garden and Rose Arc are opening up, and look wonderful even in the rain. Keep an eye on our socials and newsletter for more updates.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Irises are blooming right now throughout the Garden! 💜 These plants can be found all around BBG, but look for a stunning variety of 197 irises on Fawcett Terrace, located on the west side of the Osborne Garden.

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kms @karmso.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

🌱I spent yesterday at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden…in peony heaven🌿 #flowers #BrooklynBotanicGarden #gardens #PeonyHeaven #bloomscrolling

Exquisite Japanese tree peony at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Pure white ruffle-edged petals, with delicate brushes of rosy pink, emanating out from the yellow center. Surrounded by deep green foliage.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Bloom alert! 💙 Bluebell Wood is blooming right now. Stop by BBG soon to see thousands of Spanish bluebells nestled under the dappled shade of beech, elm, and birch trees. These blooms should last another couple weeks.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Bloom alert! ❤️ Azaleas are in full bloom across the Garden. Stop by soon to see these flowers in the Osborne Garden, Rock Garden, Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, and Shelby White and Leon Levy Water Garden.

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Jeff @jeffhovis.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Some peonies today at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Peak season!

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Bloom alert! 💗 Tree peonies are popping at BBG right now. Located at the north end of Cherry Walk, the Tree Peony Collection at Brooklyn Botanic Garden is a rare planting of more than 300 specimens, highlighting six different colors. These blooms are marvels of color, scent, and size.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

CherryWatch 2026 update! 🌸🚨 Pink petals are falling on Cherry Esplanade and Cherry Walk, and the Kanzan cherries are almost done flowering. See the last days of this year’s bloom this week.

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Shop Rat by Emilia Petrarca @emiliapetrarca.skystack.xyz · 27/04/2026

When the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Becomes a Public Photo Shoot • Photographer Hannah La Follette Ryan was on the ground for the cherry blossom boom.

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When the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Becomes a Public Photo Shoot

Photographer Hannah La Follette Ryan was on the ground for the cherry blossom boom.

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Peter Clothier @brooklyn001.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Peak lilacs with fragrant floral odor in the air 😊 . . #lilacs 🌺 @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social 🌼 #flowers #springtime #brooklyn 🌳

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Bloom alert! 💜 BBG’s Lilac Collection is blooming (and smelling) beautifully right now. Come experience their intoxicating fragrance in person! Gardener Julia Czaplewski estimates blooms should last another week or so.

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