{"id":182215,"date":"2026-04-01T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/182215\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:00:12","slug":"brooklyn-botanic-garden-shakes-off-the-winter-blues-with-blooms-and-blossoms-this-spring-brooklyn-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/182215\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Botanic Garden shakes off the winter blues with blooms and blossoms this spring \u2022 Brooklyn Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Brooklyn Botanical Garden announced its 2026 program line-up, including \u201cBBG in Bloom,\u201d featuring its cherry blossom from April 1 to May 10. <\/p>\n

File photo courtesy of Getty Images<\/p>\n

After New York City\u2019s coldest and snowiest winter in eleven years, New Yorkers have an opportunity to shake off the winter blues and cabin fever at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, which announced its lineup of public programs, exhibitions, events, education programs, and seasonal highlights for 2026.<\/p>\n

The celebrations kick off with BBG in Bloom<\/a> from April 1 to May 10, featuring the garden\u2019s famed cherry blossoms as well as magnolias, daffodils, tulips, bluebells, lilacs, peonies and roses. There are some new additions, too, an iris planting on Fawcett Terrace in the Osborne Garden and a rose-testing bed near the Rose Arc. The not-to-be-missed rite of spring offers extended morning and evening hours and special programs to make the most of the season.<\/p>\n

The popular Hanami Nights<\/a> returns from April 21 to 24, when BBG\u2019s cherry blossom trees are in peak bloom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"cherryHanami Nights, the celebration .Photo courtesy of Michael Stewart\/Brooklyn Botanic Garden<\/p>\n

The Japanese tradition invites visitors to enjoy the beauty of the cherry blossom season, go for a stroll in the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden and along Cherry Walk, and enjoy live performances and Japanese snacks, dinner, and sake for purchase.<\/p>\n

On May 3 and 10, Weekends in Bloom<\/a> celebrate the spring blooms at BBG with casual, pop-up music and dance performances, morning programming for kids and families in the Discovery Garden, and Garden tours. The programs are included with Garden admission.<\/p>\n

On May 23, BBG launches the Heidi Nitze Art \u00d7 Environment Fellowship<\/a>, a biennial program that invites visionary artists and environmental thinkers to collaborate on site-specific installations that inspire ecological stewardship, promote scientific discovery, and spark public engagement.<\/p>\n

The inaugural fellows, Brooklyn-based artist Olalekan Jeyifous and the environmental art and architecture practice AD-WO, are presenting \u201cAncestral Ecologies,\u201d a series of installations in BBG\u2019s north end that explore how Latinx and African Diasporic rituals and beliefs about nature can inform contemporary ecological knowledge and stewardship, on display from May 23 through Oct. 25.<\/p>\n

\"sculpture\u201cAncestral Ecologies\u201d by Olalekan Jeyifous and AD\u2014WO will be on display at BBG from May through October. Photo courtesy BBG<\/p>\n

On June 2, BBG\u2019s Spring Gala<\/a>, the garden\u2019s largest fundraiser of the year, will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Greenest Block in Brooklyn<\/a> contest. In honor of the milestone birthday, BGB is hosting \u201cBlock by Block,\u201d an exhibition on view from May 23 through Oct. 25 celebrating the gardeners, organizers, elders, kids and families, activists and neighbors who turn stoops and sidewalks into beautiful, green community spaces.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

After a busy spring, BBG will kick off summer with sunrise and sunset Summer Solstice<\/a> performances on June 21, presented in partnership with Metropolis Ensemble, and Jazz in July<\/a> returns with live jazz on Thursday evenings, presented in partnership with local arts organizations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

During the summer months, the Garden offers extended evening hours, live music and performances, and pop-up programs for kids and adults. Visitors can stay late on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from May through September; BBG members also enjoy Members\u2019 Summer Evenings<\/a> on Wednesdays in the summer with exclusive access and special programming, including Members\u2019 Rose Night, Pride Night, and Movie Night.<\/p>\n

\"brooklynBlock by Block celebrates 30 years of community greening. Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Botanic Garden<\/p>\n

The fifth annual Little Caribbean Last Lap Garden F\u00eate<\/a>, presented by BBG and I AM caribBEING, on August 25, closes out summer by celebrating Brooklyn\u2019s West Indian community, featuring live DJs, a curated cocktail and food menu inspired by Caribbean flavors, and a tour of tropical and Caribbean plants.<\/p>\n

Though spring has just begun, BBG is already preparing for cooler days. Its fall line-up includes free public programming in BBG\u2019s Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden on Sept. 12, as part of Gardens for Peace<\/a>, organized by the North American Japanese Garden Association<\/a>, and the Fall Plant Sale<\/a> on Oct.\u00a0 15 offers a curated selection of plants for your home and garden.<\/p>\n

Aspiring gardeners can practise their green-thumb skills through the year with a variety of educational programs, such as the Children\u2019s Garden Classes<\/a>, where kids plant their own crops and flowers and harvest them under the guidance of instructors, the Family Gardening Hours<\/a> one-day programs, or the Garden Apprentice Program<\/a> for teens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brooklyn Botanical Garden announced its 2026 program line-up, including \u201cBBG in Bloom,\u201d featuring its cherry blossom from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[6879,73450,98,640,100,99,73451,72776,4619,4874,65214,73452,5883,9,24,12,370,63,10481,6089,11304,904,73453],"class_list":["post-182215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-6879","tag-bbg","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-botanic-garden","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-cherry-blossom","tag-cherry-blossoms","tag-events","tag-fall","tag-greenest-block-in-brooklyn","tag-hanami-nights","tag-nature","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newsletter","tag-nyc","tag-prospect-heights","tag-spring","tag-summer","tag-things-to-do","tag-weekends-in-bloom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}