The Antique Garden Furniture Fair opened last night with the annual Benefit Preview Party & Collectors’ Plant Sale, an elegant evening for admiring beautiful pieces for the home and garden while enjoying fine cocktails. Connoisseurs of the arts, or simple garden enthusiasts, can enjoy a similar soiree this Saturday at our all new Young Collectors’ Night. Tickets are available now, and entitle guests to a complimentary glass of champagne!
The Fair is open to All-Garden Pass ticket-holders throughout the weekend, so come admire the antiques on display after enjoying a brisk spring walk through the pink and white petals cascading from our flowering trees. The flowering cherries have joined the magnolias on grounds to brilliant effect, and this weekend is the best time to take in this dramatic phase of the spring season.
Click through for more information about the Antique Garden Furniture Fair, plus the full schedule of weekend tours and programs.
And while you’re here, take advantage of the weather by soaking in the sun while delighting in the budding cherry blossoms, blooming magnolias, and breathtaking rhododendrons. Programs abound to help guide your weekend activities, so read on, and see what piques your interest!
The magnolias are just beginning to open, colorful blossoms are steadily spreading across the Perennial Garden and Ladies’ Border, and a few of our ever-popular daffodils are already trumpeting the long-overdue arrival of spring at NYBG! The forecast for this weekend is sunny and mild, so we have plenty of walks and tours lined up to enhance your experience of the Garden, from the Ross Conifer Arboretum to the Native Plant Garden.
Meanwhile, time is running out to see The Orchid Show: Chandeliers, which is on display in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory through April 19. Get your tickets today and don’t miss your chance to experience this captivating exhibition of beautiful and unique flowers! Tickets are also still available for tomorrow’s Orchid Evening, for those who want to enjoy a date night on this lovely spring weekend. Read on for more!
This weekend, NYBG kicks off the spring blooming season with three days of Orchid Show programs, brisk walks, and interactive family fun! That’s right, we are open on Monday, April 6—so come celebrate the holiday and share the Garden with your loved ones!
Dig! Plant Grow! is back, just in time for kids to enjoy playing outside again, with a new session entitled Wake Up, Garden! The Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden is filled with interactive gardening fun, while in the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden, Little Landscapes continues through Monday. Get more information about family programs.
Monday promises to be absolutely gorgeous, so we have two brisk walking tours scheduled to enhance your experience of the Native Plant Garden and the Thain Family Forest, the two areas of the Garden that best showcase the beauty of our region at all times of year. See the full schedule of upcoming tours and begin planning your time in the sun.
Meanwhile, The Orchid Show: Chandeliers continues through April 19, so don’t miss your chance to see this soaring floral display and enjoy the fragrance of thousands of orchids filling the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. Only four Orchid Evenings remain if you’re looking to plan the perfect evening with someone special.
Read on for more details about this weekend at the Garden!
April is almost here, and the weekends are only getting sunnier! Brisk tours and walks with expert Garden Guides help you enjoy the outdoors and gain a deeper understanding of the beauty that surrounds you here at NYBG.
Within the constant warmth of the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, The Orchid Show continues to dazzle and delight visitors. Come experience the color and fragrance of hundreds of orchids, whether during the day with a full schedule of complementary programs including live demonstrations and dance performances, or in the evening with music and cocktails at Orchid Evenings.
Click through for this weekend’s full schedule of special programs and tours.
Tomorrow is the first official day of spring! Today’s unwelcome encore of winter notwithstanding, the forecast for the rest of the weekend is clear and mild, so check out What’s Wonderful in Early Spring at NYBG and plan your visit to the Garden for spring’s first weekend!
The Orchid Show: Chandeliers is going strong, with another one of our popular Orchid Evenings Saturday night. Saturday afternoon will also include a whole new way to complete your orchid experience, with three afternoon screenings of Vanilla: The Sacred Orchid, a beautiful short film about the only commercial crop to come from an orchid. Click through for the full schedule of special programs and events this weekend at NYBG!
Orchid Evenings kicked off last week, and the next of these popular evening events is this Saturday, March 14—and tickets are still available! Come enjoy the lingering sunset through the glass of the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. Admire The Orchid Show: Chandeliers alongside a live DJ with a cocktail in hand. The Pine Tree Cafe has a full bar and menu of snacks available for purchase while a live band sets the mood with Latin Jazz. Shop in the Garden will be open for those who wish to bring home an orchid or some orchid care products.
This year, Guerlain’s famed makeup artists will be on site offering free lipstick touch-ups. You can also visit the Guerlain Rare Orchid collection and post your pictures to Instagram with #GuerlainOrchid for a chance to win a couple’s spa day at the Waldorf Astoria. Visit our Guerlain page to get more information, and learn how you can also text for a chance to win luxurious Guerlain products!
Orchid Evenings have all you need for a night of romance and adventure under the intoxicating fragrance of New York’s favorite flower exhibition. Use your MasterCard to buy tickets and attend a pre-party at Shop in the Garden with a complimentary glass of champagne. Click through for more information about Orchid Evenings and the rest of this weekend’s schedule of tours and programs.
This weekend we want to wish a happy birthday to our friends at Let’s Move! This year marks the fifth anniversary of the First Lady’s initiative to raise a healthier generation of kids, so come celebrate with NYBG at Carla Hall’s Culinary Kids Week through February 22.
This Sunday is also the final day of two popular winter exhibitions, Wild Medicine in the Tropics in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory and Flora Illustrata: A Celebration of Botanical Masterworks in the LuEsther T. Mertz Library. Complete your experience of these beautiful exhibitions—highlighting the Garden’s permanent collection of medicinal tropical plants and the Library’s rare manuscripts and botanical artworks—with special tours.
Continue reading for details on the full tour schedule for Saturday and Sunday, as well as the family-friendly cooking demonstrations and workshops happening in Conservatory Tent this weekend at NYBG.
It’s a veritable ice box out there right now, but you’d never know it inside our tropical Conservatory. Tickets are still available for both of NYBG’s Valentine’s Day Experiences from Priceless New York—a romantic evening of champagne and tropical plants for adults, and a fun-filled daytime chocolate workshop for kids—so if you’re still making plans for tomorrow, plan your visit to the Garden!
Monday, February 16, is Presidents’ Day, and the Garden will be open for regular hours, making this one a long weekend with plenty of opportunities for exciting activities. Come enjoy the day off at NYBG and join us for the start of Carla Hall’s Culinary Kids Week with a special appearance by the celebrity chef herself, who will lead a live cooking demonstration to kick of this weeklong family-friendly food festival.
NYBG is ready for the extended holiday weekend, and I’m sure you are too, so click through for details on all of our special programs and activities.
This weekend includes several ways to escape the cold. In fact, step out of your entire ecosystem and into Wild Medicine in the Tropics in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory to admire a stunning variety of medicinal plants in the rain forest galleries. With tours of the exhibit and the Conservatory, a journey awaits within the warm glasshouse. Shutterbugs can even participate in Photography Tips & Tricks in the Tropics and enjoy a tour along with photo advice from NYBG’s experts. Submit your best shots for consideration in our Wild Medicine Photo Contest!
The Haupt Conservatory will also be the center of next week’s Valentine’s Day Dates, exclusively for MasterCard® cardholders. Kids can also celebrate the sweetest holiday with our Budding Masters Valentine’s Day Chocolate Adventure. Click through for this weekend’s full schedule of special tours and programs.
The Antique Garden Furniture Fair opened last night with the annual Benefit Preview Party & Collectors’ Plant Sale, an elegant evening for admiring beautiful pieces for the home and garden while enjoying fine cocktails. Connoisseurs of the arts, or simple garden enthusiasts, can enjoy a similar soiree this Saturday at our all new Young Collectors’ Night. Tickets are available now, and entitle guests to a complimentary glass of champagne!
