Visitors Guide to New York Botanical Garden: The Best Place for Gardening Enthusiasts

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Botanical_Garden

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

http://www.nybg.org/

New York Botanical Garden News

http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/new_york_botanical_garden/index.html

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

http://www.bbg.org/