In today's world, it's possible to enjoy and appreciate the beauty of nature even if you live in the most metropolitan of areas and cities like New York. When your soul needs soothing from the hustle and bustle of city life, there's always the New York Botanical Garden to go to.

You would be happy to know that this botanical garden is one of the first in the United States. It's set in the Bronx where about 250 acres of it is home to a myriad of plant laboratories. If you're in need of a vision of green and flower inspiration, there are many exhibitions and shows hosted in this location every year. The New York Botanical Garden is also one of the largest botanical gardens in the world. There are 47 gardens here with giant collections of various herbs, native plants and annuals.

New York Botanical Garden Information

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Additional Information

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As of today, the exhibitions offered at the garden are The Edible Garden exhibition, Botanicals: Environmental Expressions in Art, the Alisa and Isaac M. Sutton Collection, Stone Mill Open House Weekends and many more. While the Garden is open year round, its hours are from 10 to 6, Tuesdays to Sundays. You do have to check with their website for holidays that they're closed.

Whats Going on in the New York Botanical Garden

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If you're having a hard time appreciating nature, the New York Botanical Garden is the best place to start. Enter a world of green and beauty that only nature can provide.

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The New York Botanical Garden is one of the most famous landmarks in the city of New York. Located in Bronx, this beautiful botanical garden is spread across 250 acres of land under the Bronx Park. Apart from conducting exciting exhibitions and gorgeous flower shows throughout the year, the New York Botanical Garden also houses some of the world's most well known plant laboratories.

For all plant kingdom lovers, this place is like a dream come true. It is the epitome of all plant inspired institutions in the world. Most people look at the New York Botanical Garden as a kind of a living plant museum that contains some of the finest species of plants in the world to study and learn from. More than 50 different kinds of plant collections can be found at this botanical museum.

New York Botanical Garden on Wikipedia

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Visitors to the New York Botanical Garden spend the whole day covering the large landscape that offers beautiful cascading waterfalls, large tracts of never harvested oaks, white ash trees, American beeches, birch trees, wetlands, tulips, cherry trees and so much more.

There is always so much to see and learn. Not to be missed are the Peggy Rockefeller memorial rose garden, the conifer collection, the crystal-palace styled greenhouse, the rock garden, the Pfizer Plant Research Laboratory research facility which includes the propagation center and the herbarium archive.

If you are in the mood to catch some history of the garden, head to the virgin woodlands located in the heart of the New York Botanical Garden to catch a glimpse of the original forest that used to cover New York City. The Bronx River which flows through the forest and the Lorillard Snuff Mill situated on its shores are famous landmarks, not to be missed.

New York Botanical Garden

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New York Botanical Garden News

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden

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