{"id":309961,"date":"2026-07-30T17:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/309961\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T17:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:14:10","slug":"queens-botanical-garden-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/309961\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens Botanical Garden events |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Queens Botanical Garden has an eclectic calendar of activity in August.<\/p>\n<p>Aug. 8 features Infinity Day, part of the Math In Bloom series, from 10 to 10:30 a.m. Later that evening, Movie Night will show the 1999 sci-fi thriller \u201cThe Matrix\u201d on the front lawn. Activities begin at 6:30. The movie starts at 8 p.m. Both events are free with regular garden admission.<\/p>\n<p>A Farm Workshop on the proper way to prune homegrown tomatoes takes place on Aug. 9 at 1:30 p.m. The cost is $4 for QBG members and $10 for nonmembers.<\/p>\n<p>Movie Night returns on Aug. 15 with a showing of the 2018 film \u201cCrazy Rich Asians.\u201d It is free with regular admission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaiwan: A World of Orchids\u201d returns for a 13th year beginning at 10 a.m. on Aug. 22 and 23 with a new display and rare species from the Taiwan Orchid Growers Association. Members are free. Other tickets range from $8 for adults to $2 for kids 4 to 12.<\/p>\n<p>QBG tickets are $6 for adults; $4 for students and seniors 62 and up; and $2 for ages 4 to 12. The main QBG entrance is at 43-50 Main St. in Flushing.<\/p>\n<p>Information and tickets are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/queensbotanical.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">queensbotanical.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Queens Botanical Garden has an eclectic calendar of activity in August. Aug. 8 features Infinity Day, part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,17693,124,123],"class_list":["post-309961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-botanical-garden","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309961","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=309961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}