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Great Escape: Brooklyn Botanical Garden

Help yourself bloom in one of the city's most entrancing environments.

For 100 years the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) has been a respite for those who walk through its 52 acres of greenery and rainbow of colors. This summer, BBG will celebrate its centennial by showcasing its history through stories, photographs, and personal memories. There will be numerous events taking place from June through August. It’s an ideal escape that is home to more than 12,000 kinds of plants set within an extremely busy borough. It’s well worth the drive out of Bayside.

The “100 Years, 100 Stories” celebration highlights a number of parts of the park including the Native Flora Garden. This was BBG’s first garden originally installed in 1911 and the place to see plants native within a 100-mile radius of New York City. The new herb garden is a recent expansion as part of the centennial.

Aromatherapy fans should head to the Alice Recknagel Ireys Fragrance Garden The senses are overtaken here and visitors are encouraged to touch and smell the plants. The Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden mixes winding paths with many landscape features, including a waterfall, wooden bridges and a Shinto shrine. Few visitors miss the Cranford Rose Garden, one of the largest collections in North America with more than 5,000 bushes of nearly 1,400 varieties.

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BBG is open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. It is closed on Mondays except public holidays. Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for seniors 65 and older and students with ID. Children under 12 are free.

Visit bbg.org or call 718-623-7200.

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