No, sadly I'm not back in NYC. This is a leftover post from our trip last October. I wrote about Little Island, the High Line, New York Botanical Garden and Wave Hill, but somehow never got around to sharing my visit to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, which was the first garden I visited on that trip...![]()
Inside the gates I first encountered the semi-formal Osborne Garden.
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The garden map indicated that sitting on the grass was allowed. This gets a big "thumbs up" from me. Public gardens that don't allow visitors to sit on, or even walk across, the lawn are way too caught up in some archaic idea of what a garden is.
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Walking along the overlook in route to the Steinberg Visitors Center...
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...and it's green roof.
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There was a great interactive display just outside the restrooms.
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I kind of wanted this t-shirt in the gift shop. If you only knew how many times I mean to type "plans" but it comes out "plants"...
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I really loved this container grouping on the patio outside the visitors center.
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Araucaria araucana (monkey puzzle) trees with Salvia discolor.
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Aka Andean silver-leaf sage.
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And chocolate cosmos, Cosmos atrosanguineus. Perfectly dreamy...
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I ever-so-briefly detoured through the Japanese garden.
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Enroute to the Shakespeare Garden and the Fragrance Garden.
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Things were obviously being cleared out, I was here at the end of October.
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This Furcraea foetida 'Mediopicta' was next in line.
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The largest Oxydendrum arboreum (sourwood) I've ever seen.
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Ah, the conservatories...
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And lily pool...
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There were four of those water-spewing verdigris fish heads.![]()
The first door I tried. It was locked. As near as I can tell (post visit online research) this beautiful space is only used for events.
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The second door I came too, also locked. At least there was an explanation as to why.
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And agaves, strappy ones.
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So the buildings weren't very welcoming, but the pool was lovely.
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Finally! Buildings I could get inside.
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There was an Aquatic House, Desert Pavilion, Tropical Pavilion, and a Warm Temperate Pavilion—but first, The Trail of Plant Evolution.
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Drynaria quercifolia/Aglaomorpha quercifolia
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Selaginella braunii and S. moellendorffii
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Cycas edentata
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Into the Aquatic House we go...
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Platycerium coronarium (I think... I tried to keep the ID on all these fabulous ferns correct but may have messed up).
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Platycerium grande
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Platycerium alcicorne
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Platycerium angolense
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Pretty fabulous, right? Friday we return to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and start in the Desert House...
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