Garden News

NYBG Is Reopening!

Posted in Garden News, Videos

We are reopening on July 21! We will welcome back Garden Members, our Bronx Neighbors, and Bronx Health Care Heroes for a special Appreciation Week ... Read More

Bronx Councilmembers Plant and Harvest Vegetables at NYBG’s Edible Academy for Produce Donations to the Community

Posted in Behind the Scenes, Garden News

During recent visits to The New York Botanical Garden, four New York City Councilmembers representing Bronx districts joined members of the Edible Academy staff in ... Read More

#LightItBlue with NYBG

Posted in Garden News

To our frontline and essential workers, thank you from everyone at NYBG for your tireless efforts in this challenging time. Read More

KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature Rescheduled to 2021

Posted in Garden News

KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature, originally planned for 2020, has been rescheduled for spring–fall 2021 in coordination with New York State’s efforts to contain the spread of ... Read More

Take Action to Support NYBG and Our Fellow Cultural Institutions

Posted in Garden News

NYBG is collaborating with the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the New York City cultural community, and our colleagues nationwide in asking Congress to allocate ... Read More

New Food Initiative: The Bronx Canasta

Posted in Garden News

The New York Botanical Garden’s Bronx Green-Up is excited to be part of an exciting new food initiative, The Bronx Canasta. Read More

Rarest of Them All: New Research Using Data from NYBG and Other Institutions Finds More Than a Third of All Plant Species Are “Exceedingly Rare”

Posted in Environment & Conservation, Garden News

An international team of researchers, including an NYBG scientist, has concluded that more than a third of all plant species are exceedingly rare, making them ... Read More

Pressed for Time: Herbaria & Environmental Threats Assessment

Posted in Garden News, Inside our Collections, Plant Science

Herbarium specimens are one of the very few tangible sources of information about how plants and fungi lived before industrialization, and during each successive period ... Read More

Beginning the Haupt Conservatory’s Palm Dome Restoration

Posted in Garden News

Starting April 29, the iconic dome of the 117-year-old, glass-and-steel Enid A. Haupt Conservatory will undergo restoration in accordance with routine maintenance and operations of ... Read More

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: A New Global Assessment by the United Nations

Posted in Environment & Conservation, Garden News

Before this week, most readers probably had not heard of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), but they certainly will know ... Read More