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Starry Nights tickets are now on sale! Experience

Starry Nights tickets are now on sale! Experience the timeless beauty of Van Gogh's art brought to life with an illuminated drone show! 💫

Starting THIS Friday, May 23, come relax to live music and performers evoking the Parisian bistros the artist frequented, stay for breathtaking photo ops while exploring the exhibition after dark, and enjoy cocktails and light bites for purchase. Overhead, a twinkling drone show—the first of its kind at a New York City cultural institution—transforms the sky with a celebration of light and color, conditions permitting.

Get your tickets now through link in bio.

#StarryNights #VanGoghsFlowers #VanGogh

The cast of Tony Nominated Musical @maybehappyendi

The cast of Tony Nominated Musical @maybehappyending hit the road on an adventure recently—this time to @NYBG!

@darrencriss, @helenjshen, and @thereal_hwaboon spent the morning with Zack, learning about plants like aeonium (HwaBoon’s species!) and the ways it makes the perfect companion to Oliver in the show. NYBG even shared some plant friends that match the personalities of the other characters... 👀 Let us know if you think they’re a good fit, and be sure to see @maybehappyending on Broadway soon before checking out NYBG’s next summer exhibition, Van Gogh’s Flowers, opening May 24!

#vangoghsflowers #vangogh #maybehappyending #darrencriss #helenjshen #hwaboon #broadway

Heads up that we've moved this weekend's Spring Un

Heads up that we've moved this weekend's Spring Uncorked event to Sunday, May 18, due to weather. Come enjoy spring in full bloom as we pop bottles of the rosé, chardonnay, and pinot variety. 🍷🍾

Spring Uncorked is our once-a-year day out among the beauty of the season where you get to try wines from the best wineries in our region, chill to live music, and play a few lawn games. Also this weekend, don’t miss collections like the herbaceous peonies and azaleas in dazzling bloom, and be sure to drop by the @LEGO Botanical Garden Pop-Up where you can build your own floral heart to take home.

Perfect spring color is fleeting! Get your tickets for this weekend through link in bio.

#SpringUncorked #LEGO #Paeonia

When you visit NYBG, you might spot some of the co

When you visit NYBG, you might spot some of the colors of Van Gogh's Flowers popping up! 🌼

Yellow is going to be BIG this year as we take inspiration from Vincent van Gogh's love of the natural world, and with the show opening May 24, we're hard at work getting things ready indoors and out (incredible botanical displays, large-scale contemporary art, it's a whole thing!). During your visit, you can’t miss some of the new and vibrant works coming together.

Don't wait on tickets! Get yours for the opening weekend celebration through link in bio.

#VanGoghsFlowers #VanGogh

The Azalea Garden is in FULL BLOOM, just in time f

The Azalea Garden is in FULL BLOOM, just in time for our Mother’s Day Weekend Celebration. 💐🌿💗

Bring Mom this Saturday and Sunday, May 10 and 11, to bask in the brilliant hues of the collection—so full of reds, fuchsias, and purples that you’d swear you were wandering through a painting. Then hit Daffodil Hill nearby for local food truck options, family-friendly lawn games, gift crafting, and face painting. Don’t forget to stop by the @LEGO Botanical Garden flower truck for a make-and-take mini rose experience while supplies last, too!

Spring doesn’t last forever, and you know she deserves ALL the flowers. Tickets through link in bio.

#Azalea #Rhododendron

If you’re starting out in the workforce, or look

If you’re starting out in the workforce, or looking to swap careers for something that gets you in touch with nature, applications to our School of Professional Horticulture are now OPEN. 🧑‍🌾🌱

In this two-year program, you learn everything you need to know about landscape management, ecological and sustainable practices, and how to network. And with guidance by expert faculty members and professionals in the industry, you get the practical skills you need to address the complex challenges facing our planet.

With a 100% job placement rate after graduation, it’s the country’s premier horticultural training program for a reason. Learn more through link in bio.

This week on #PlantPeople, we put peat in the spot

This week on #PlantPeople, we put peat in the spotlight—and share ways that we can move past this extractive and unsustainable horticultural staple.

Come join Chad Massura, founder of @rosysoil, and Kurt Morrell, VP of Horticulture Operations at NYBG, for a chat about the importance of peat-free soil for a carbon-neutral world. Massura shares the story behind potting products like his that are more sustainable options for home gardening and the industry at large, while Morrell elaborates on eco-friendly practices in horticulture. You’ll leave the conversation with a new tactic in hand to make your own garden greener!

Hit the link in our bio to listen to our podcast now, and don’t forget to rate and subscribe!

The spring scenery’s even better with a glass of

The spring scenery’s even better with a glass of wine, and Spring Uncorked combines the best of both. 🍷🌼🐝

Make it a day at NYBG on Sunday, May 18*, and grab a glass for unlimited samples from some of the best wineries of the Hudson Valley, Brooklyn, and Long Island. We’ll have live music to relax to as you soak up the seasonal color, plus crafts, lawn games, and talks on the science behind making great wines. We’ll even have the @LEGO Botanical Garden flower truck here for a make-and-take experience while supplies last. And be sure to grab lunch for sale from a lineup of local food vendors.

Tickets do sell out, so get yours through link in bio now!

*This event has been moved to Sunday, May 18 due to inclement weather.

A bouquet is nice, but this Mother’s Day, wouldn

A bouquet is nice, but this Mother’s Day, wouldn’t giving her MILLIONS of flowers be better? 💐🎁

Next weekend, May 10 and 11, treat Mom to our Mother’s Day Garden Celebration for an afternoon of unmatched spring beauty with collections at peak color, plus music, lawn games for the whole family, gift crafting activities, and a lineup of local food trucks and beer and wine for purchase. You can even stop by the @LEGO Botanical Garden Pop-Up to get her a make-and-take rose while supplies last. 🌹

Don’t miss this weekend of flowers and fun! Tickets through link in bio.

#MothersDay

“If we have more green spaces we can breathe bet

“If we have more green spaces we can breathe better. If we have clean soil we can grow more healthy food. It’s symbiotic, we take care of each other. That’s the liberation part.”

As we close out #EarthMonth, join Arvolyn Hill (@arvolyn), Associate Director of our Everett Children’s Adventure Garden, for her latest #PlantsAsLiberation interview with @sherylldurrant. Serving as the Board Director of @justfoodnyc—and an urban farmer, educator, and food justice advocate—Sheryll talks about how she works to connect her community to nature, giving them the skills and sovereignty to grow their own food sustainably.

Watch the full discussion, along with all of our past interviews, through link in bio.

Good news for people who love flowers with extreme

Good news for people who love flowers with extremely poetic names: the tree peonies are blooming. 🌸🌟

With cultivar names like ‘Lotus That Shines in the Sun’ and ‘Smiling in the Thicket’, these fleeting flowers’ artful names match their big, bold blooms—some of the most stunning of spring. They won’t last long, so get to the collection near the Rose Garden soon. 👀

#Paeonia × suffruticosa ‘Lotus That Shines in the Sun’ | ‘Smiling in the Thicket’ | ‘Red Cliffs’

Thanks to photosensitivity, tulips are just as bus

Thanks to photosensitivity, tulips are just as busy during the day as we are. 🌷🏃

As the temperatures rise through morning and into afternoon, tulips open their blooms wide to attract daytime pollinators. And as the day wears on, they wrap up their work—closing again as the sun sets for a well-deserved night’s rest.

Tulips are blooming all around the Garden right now, but they’re especially gorgeous in the Perennial Garden. Get here soon!

#Tulipa ‘Banja Luka’

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