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NYBG at Home

Stay connected with NYBG at Home, our content hub featuring videos, online exhibits, plant guides, virtual events, recipes for kids, and more.

CURRENT HIGHLIGHTS

Black History Month

NYBG’s annual Black History Month celebration goes virtual this year with engaging digital programs you can enjoy at home. Throughout the month we will showcase cultural traditions of the African diaspora and explore the influential contributions of Black people to botany, horticulture, ecology, and our collective understanding of the natural world. Discover captivating dance, creative and inspirational children’s programs, important historical narratives, and fascinating plant stories.

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21st Annual Winter Lecture Series: Gardens of Meaning

This year the speakers approach the garden from non-traditional perspectives—healing, inclusiveness, and music—that add new layers to our notions of beautiful spaces and the gardening experience.

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GET GOING GROWING

Now is the best time to put those green thumbs to work. We have lots of ways for you to tend to plants at home, including answers to your questions from the Plant Doctor.

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Learn from Home with Online Classes

Whether you’re an aspiring rooftop gardener or looking to start growing veggies indoors, there’s an online NYBG class for you! Taking a class is a great way to support the Garden while expanding your plant knowledge.

Find a class

Start a New Plant Project with LibGuides

Get Growing Help from Our Plant Information Experts

Explore Our Video Archive on YouTube

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The Plant Doctor Is In

Read & Watch

Catch up on blog posts, enjoy a lecture, and read fascinating plant stories. Browse all.

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Go Behind the Scenes on Our Plant Talk Blog

Learn Something New with Our Lecture Library

Discover Our Herbarium Collections with The Hand Lens

Keep Kids Growing

Kids at home? We can help with recipes, videos, lessons plans, and more. Browse all.

Dig into Teacher Resources

 Fresh vegetables grown from a garden

Try a New Recipe

 Wide view of garden beds that are filled with soil and some with small green low plants. Two people are crouching down by one bed. There is a small red barn like structure near the garden beds with a green roof. Large trees are in the background.

Building Your Own Garden 101

 Herbarium plants making the english alphabet

Get Creative with Herbarium Projects

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Virtual Workshops

Connect with Our Collections

Explore our digital resources for an in-depth look at many of our treasures, from rare books and captivating herbarium specimens to beautiful indoor and outdoor living collections.

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Browse the Mertz Library's Digital Collections

Examine Specimens from the Steere Herbarium

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Explore Our Collections with Garden Navigator

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Engage with Our Collections with the Bloomberg Connects App

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Get an Inside Look at the Palm Dome

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See the Perennial Garden through the Seasons

JOIN YOUR FELLOW PLANT LOVERS VIRTUALLY

Get video and image highlights and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.

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See the Seasons Unfold

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Journey Through Fall

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Journey Through Summer

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Garden Sets: Musical Performances at NYBG

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Make Music New York

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Journey Through Spring II

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Mother's Day Virtual Azalea Garden Tour

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Journey Through Spring

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Orchid Evenings Highlights:
Happy Hour at Home

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Chorus of the Forest Watch Party

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Orchid Show Virtual Tour

Get Involved

Show your love for plants by participating in a virtual research expedition or taking part in an EcoQuest Challenge.

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Join a Virtual Research Expedition

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Take the EcoQuest Challenge from Home

Bring the Beauty of NYBG to your Virtual Meeting

Download and save one of these backgrounds and share NYBG on your next virtual call.

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Native Plant Garden in Winter

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Conifer Collection

Haupt Conservatory Palm Dome

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Thain Forest

Native Plant Garden in Fall

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Great Pumpkin Path

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Dahlias

 An abundance of roses in bloom in the Rose Garden.

Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden

 Yellow flowers in bloom in the Native Plant Garden

Native Plant Garden

 Pink and purple Azaleas

Maureen K. Chilton Azalea Garden

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Perennial Garden

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Cherry Trees

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Magnolia Trees

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Enid A. Haupt Conservatory