Tuesday 8 July 2014
Brooklyn Botanic
Garden (BBG) is a botanical
garden in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. Located near the Prospect
Heights, Crown Heights, Flatbush, and Park Slope neighborhoods, the 52-acre garden includes a number of specialty "gardens within the
Garden," plant collections, and the Steinhardt Conservatory, which houses
the C.V. Starr Bonsai Museum, three climate-themed plant pavilions, a white cast-iron
and glass aquatic plant house, and an art gallery. Founded in 1910, the Garden
holds over 10,000 taxa of plants and each year welcomes over 900,000 visitors
from around the world. Source
