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Key art for The Orchid Show: Singapore

Saturday, February 23, 2019 – Sunday, April 28, 2019

The Orchid Show: Singapore

This dazzling tribute to the “City in a Garden” soars to new heights with thousands of orchids climbing to the sky.

A couple walking by colorful flowers during Orchid Evenings

March 16, 23, 30; April 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27

Orchid Evenings

New York City’s most spectacular evening outings exclusively for adults 21 and over are back, bringing the color and nightlife of Singapore with them.

Photo of Roberto Burle Marx

Saturday, June 8, 2019 – Sunday, September 29, 2019

The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx

Discover the lush gardens and colorful art inspired by the Brazilian modernist’s love of plants.

WHAT’S ON THIS WEEK

Key art for The Orchid Show: Singapore

The Orchid Show: Singapore

Featured Event

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

A couple walking by colorful flowers during Orchid Evenings

Orchid Evenings

Featured Event

A woman holding vegetables harvested from a community garden.

Putting Down Roots: Celebrating 30 Years of
Bronx Green-Up

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

A child in the Adventure Garden with a caterpillar made from flowers.

Budding Botanist

1:30 – 5:30 p.m.

Biophilia: Sharing Our #plantlove

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Butterfly path at ECAG

Everett Children’s Adventure Garden All-Day Exploration

10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Purple and pink orchids.

Orchid Insiders Tour

11 a.m., 12:30 p.m., & 2:30 p.m.

close up of a tanyosho pine tree

Notable Trees Tour

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

The Conservatory's Lowland Rainforest exhibit. Lowland Rainforest

A World of Plants

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

A guest listens to an Audio Tour.

Audio Tours

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Key art for The Orchid Show: Singapore

The Orchid Show: Singapore

Featured Event

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

A couple walking by colorful flowers during Orchid Evenings

Orchid Evenings

Featured Event

A woman holding vegetables harvested from a community garden.

Putting Down Roots: Celebrating 30 Years of
Bronx Green-Up

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Photo of a gardener spraying an orchid

Orchid Care Demonstrations

2:30 – 3 p.m., 3:30 – 4 p.m.

Biophilia: Sharing Our #plantlove

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Butterfly path at ECAG

Everett Children’s Adventure Garden All-Day Exploration

10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Potted orchids at NYBG Shop.

Orchid Basics Q&A

1:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Snowdrops near a stump.

Ladies’ Border & Perennial Garden Tour

2:30 – 3:30 p.m.

The Conservatory's Lowland Rainforest exhibit. Lowland Rainforest

A World of Plants

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

A visitor scouting for birds with binoculars.

Bird Walks

11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

A guest listens to an Audio Tour.

Audio Tours

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Key art for The Orchid Show: Singapore

The Orchid Show: Singapore

Featured Event

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

A woman holding vegetables harvested from a community garden.

Putting Down Roots: Celebrating 30 Years of
Bronx Green-Up

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Photo of a gardener spraying an orchid

Orchid Care Demonstrations

2:30 – 3 p.m., 3:30 – 4 p.m.

The LuEsther T. Mertz Library in the summer.

Landmarks of NYBG Tour

2:30 – 3:30 p.m.

Biophilia: Sharing Our #plantlove

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Butterfly path at ECAG

Everett Children’s Adventure Garden All-Day Exploration

10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Potted orchids at NYBG Shop.

Orchid Basics Q&A

1:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Native Plant Garden Waterfall

Native Plant Garden Tour

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

The Conservatory's Lowland Rainforest exhibit. Lowland Rainforest

A World of Plants

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

A guest listens to an Audio Tour.

Audio Tours

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

NYBG is closed on Mondays with the exception of special dates.

Key art for The Orchid Show: Singapore

The Orchid Show: Singapore

Featured Event

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

A woman holding vegetables harvested from a community garden.

Putting Down Roots: Celebrating 30 Years of
Bronx Green-Up

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

A child in the Adventure Garden with a caterpillar made from flowers.

Budding Botanist

1:30 – 5:30 p.m.

Biophilia: Sharing Our #plantlove

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Butterfly path at ECAG

Everett Children’s Adventure Garden All-Day Exploration

10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Purple and pink orchids.

Orchid Insiders Tour

The Conservatory's Lowland Rainforest exhibit. Lowland Rainforest

A World of Plants

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

People walking through the Conservatory.

Biophilia: Sharing Our #plantlove Tour

11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

A guest listens to an Audio Tour.

Audio Tours

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Key art for The Orchid Show: Singapore

The Orchid Show: Singapore

Featured Event

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

A woman holding vegetables harvested from a community garden.

Putting Down Roots: Celebrating 30 Years of
Bronx Green-Up

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

A leaft plant near the Edible Academy.

Edible Academy Winter Tours

2:30 – 3:30 p.m.

A child in the Adventure Garden with a caterpillar made from flowers.

Budding Botanist

1:30 – 5:30 p.m.

Biophilia: Sharing Our #plantlove

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The facade of the Mertz Library in winter with snow-covered trees surrounding it.

Mertz Library Tour

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Butterfly path at ECAG

Everett Children’s Adventure Garden All-Day Exploration

10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Purple and pink orchids.

Orchid Insiders Tour

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Native Plant Garden Waterfall

Native Plant Garden Tour

11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

The Conservatory's Lowland Rainforest exhibit. Lowland Rainforest

A World of Plants

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

A guest listens to an Audio Tour.

Audio Tours

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Key art for The Orchid Show: Singapore

The Orchid Show: Singapore

Featured Event

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

A woman holding vegetables harvested from a community garden.

Putting Down Roots: Celebrating 30 Years of
Bronx Green-Up

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Image of yellow flowers in a garden for Margaret Roach Winter Lecture Series

Winter Lecture Series 2019: Margaret Roach

10 – 11:30 a.m.

A child in the Adventure Garden with a caterpillar made from flowers.

Budding Botanist

1:30 – 5:30 p.m.

Biophilia: Sharing Our #plantlove

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Butterfly path at ECAG

Everett Children’s Adventure Garden All-Day Exploration

10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Purple and pink orchids.

Orchid Insiders Tour

12:30 & 2:30 p.m.

The Conservatory's Lowland Rainforest exhibit. Lowland Rainforest

A World of Plants

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Conservatory in Winter

Haupt Conservatory Tour

11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

A guest listens to an Audio Tour.

Audio Tours

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

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WHAT'S BEAUTIFUL NOW

Azalea Garden

Conifer Arboretum

Forest

Ornamental Conifers

UPCOMING

oxidized bronze sculpture of a man shooting with a bow

Preview Party: Thursday, April 11, 2019; 6 p.m.
April 12–14, 2019; 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

Garden Furniture & Antiques Fair

Continuing the tradition of NYBG’s acclaimed annual antiques fair, explore offerings from leading dealers, including classic furniture and fine garden antiques—some with a modern twist, both elegant and inspiring—for your own home and garden environment.

Someone taking a photo of lilies.

Friday, April 12, 2019

Nature at Your Doorstep: Celebrating the Public Participant in Research

Five speakers come together to discuss various approaches to environmental scholar- and stewardship, exploring the growing force of citizen scientists regionally in the Bronx and New York.

Single Ancient Ash Pollard Phoenix tree in fog

Sprout Lands: William Bryant Logan with Robin Wall Kimmerer

William Bryant Logan is an arborist on the faculty at NYBG and the award-winning author of four books. His most recent, Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees, is a poetic and practical global journey to rediscover and celebrate the lost traditions of tree pruning that sustained human life and culture for millennia.