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Featured Programs

Follow the Spring Bloom

Cherries, daffodils, and lilacs now flowering!

The flowers of spring are on the move, and each day reveals new beauty across our 250 acres. Keep up with the progress of your favorite collections using our all-new bloom trackers to plan your next visit.

LEGO® Botanical Garden Pop-Up

May 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, & 25
Van Gogh's Flowers Member Preview: May 23

On select weekends in May, step into a vibrant flower truck blooming with the LEGO® Botanicals collection—designed to spark joy and inspire unexpected surprises for those you love. Explore the power of connection and creativity with a hands-on make-and-take experience, including a brick-built rose, a floral heart, and a mini Vincent van Gogh sunflower creation. First-come, first-served and while supplies last.

Van Gogh's Flowers

Opening May 24 | Get Tickets Now

NYBG becomes the canvas for the colorful brush strokes of one of the world’s most revered artists, where you’ll revel in the beauty of the flowers that inspired Vincent van Gogh's iconic paintings—by day, and by night. Find yourself immersed in botanical displays and large-scale art as you wander through a breathtaking lawn of monumental sunflowers, and see his expressive masterpieces bloom in recreations made of living flowers.

Earth Month Celebration

Throughout April

Celebrate Earth Month with NYBG and learn to better care for our shared environment now and all year round. Discover how our scientists are advancing research on plants, from the molecular level to a global scale, to protect and restore the natural world.

Listen to Plant People: An NYBG Podcast

Season 2 Is Here!
New Episodes Every Other Monday

Featuring NYBG’s CEO & President, Jennifer Bernstein, Plant People brings together scientists, gardeners, authors, activists, and experts in a wide variety of subjects to share the ways plants impact our lives. Get closer to the natural world with us, and learn how we rely on plants to thrive as people. Together, we’re discovering what we can do in ways big and small to return the favor.

Welcome to Welikia 2.0

Explore New York City—400 Years Ago

The Welikia Project aims to illuminate the rich ecological history that underwrites the development of New York City, drawing awareness to how drastically our own neighborhoods have changed over time, and suggesting possible alternative futures. Join us as we reconstruct the ecology of this extraordinary landscape, layer by layer, map by map.

Become a Member

Support the City's Most Beautiful Escape

Members get more of what makes NYBG great! While you support the Garden's good works, you can visit all year round, as many times as you’d like, with free admission and exclusive benefits.

NYBG Shop

Bring the Garden into Your Home!

Check out NYBG Shop’s curated selection of stunning live orchids during The Orchid Show: Mexican Modernism, and peruse NYBG apparel, home decor, gardening tools, and perfect gifts. All purchases support our work in science, horticulture, and education.

Register Now for Spring Classes

Discover Your Passion

Make this the time you pursue a new passion, hobby, or career! NYBG's Continuing Education offerings cover everything from gardening, landscape design, and floral design to hands-on craft workshops and more—with online, on-site, and blended programs available.

Explore Children’s Education

Drop-In and Registered Programs Available

Kids grow their love of nature at NYBG! From camps that get them outside to explore the wonders of the plant world, to drop-in activities harvesting veggies and planting seedlings, young botanists get their start here.

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About NYBG

The New York Botanical Garden is a museum of plants, a center for learning, and a plant science leader in the Bronx.

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Tuesday – Sunday; and select Monday holidays

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