And the 2026 Greenest Block in Brooklyn is… 👀 Lincoln Place between New York Avenue and Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights! 🎉

Unique native blooms abound at BBG! 🌼 Check out native perennials throughout the Garden, like those seen here: cardinal flower, narrow-leaf ironweed, cutleaf coneflowers, Joe-pye weed, and wild bergamot.

Excited to be teaching at Brooklyn Botanic Garden again this fall! Class registration opens this Monday, Aug. 3rd at 9am here: www.bbg.org/classes/begi... @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social #birds #nyc #brooklyn

Bloom alert! 💗 BBG’s crape-myrtles are in bloom now. Crape-myrtles have long been favorite garden plants in the South, but many cultivars can grow in NYC, too. Find them at BBG near the Robert W. Wilson Overlook and along Lily Pool Terrace.

Attacca Quartet performs music from its GRAMMY-winning album with Caroline Shaw ‘Evergreen’ surrounded by green and under the night sky at @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social. 🌳

Celebrate Brooklyn’s Greening Heroes with a photography exhibit at BBG! 🖼️ Brooklyn’s Greening Heroes features portraits and oral history interviews by Zachary Schulman from Brooklyn residents who have turned gardening into community-building. 👇

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<strong>Brooklyn’s Greening Heroes</strong> features portraits and first-person stories from residents who have turned gardening into community-building.

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Jazz in July kicks off this week! 🎶 Celebrate summer at the Garden with live jazz on Thursday evenings in July. Bring a blanket to stretch out and enjoy the music, presented in partnership with local arts organizations. More info. 👇

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Celebrate summer at Brooklyn Botanic Garden with jazz performances, tours, and more.

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A Block Party is coming to BBG! 🎉 To celebrate 30 years of the Greenest Block in Brooklyn, we’re throwing a block party on Jul 30. Catch summer vibes with DJ Mamoudou spinning 90s classics and live music by BrownstoneJAZZ + games and more. Free admission! Major Sponsor, Block by Block: Brooklyn Org

Bloom alert! 🪷 Water lilies are blooming beautifully in Lily Pool Terrace right now. These pools at BBG are planted with nearly 100 varieties of hardy and tropical water-lilies and sacred lotuses. These plants will bloom through July into early August.

Check it out! 💚

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Experience a collaborative soundscape exploring the connections between Brooklyn Botanic Garden and its community. Find a spot on the grass of Cherry Esplanade, lie back, and soak up the multisensory ...

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@brooklynbotanic.bsky.social is hosting a sound bath night. Y’all already know I’m there 🥹💃🏽

Spend a serene midsummer evening at Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s soundbath. 💆 On July 20, Forever Green Soundbath will present a life-affirming meditation on the impermanence of nature featuring Attacca Quartet performing original improvisations and music from their album Evergreen with Caroline Shaw.

Celebrate Brooklyn’s community greeners at BBG! 💚 For 30 years, the Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest has demonstrated how small collective actions can build communities and transform neighborhoods, block by block. This summer, Block by Block applauds Brooklyn’s greening stars.

Spend summer at BBG! 🌞 Read on for details on art in the Garden, evening performances, and our first-ever Block Party. 🧵👇

Four new multisensory art installations, open now at BBG! 👀 Created by Brooklyn-based artist Olalekan Jeyifous and the environmental art and architecture practice AD—WO, Ancestral Ecologies explores ancient Latinx and African diasporic beliefs around the intelligence of the natural world.

Enjoy a summer solstice celebration at BBG June 21! 🌇 Welcome the longest day of the year with special sunrise and sunset musical performances at the Garden. 👇

Summer Solstice Celebration - Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Celebrate the longest day of the year with sunrise and sunset performances on Cherry Esplanade.

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The Greenest Block in Brooklyn entry deadline has been EXTENDED to June 5! 📣

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The 2026 Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest is OPEN! 🪴 The Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest encourages neighbors to green up their front yards, stoops, and sidewalks together. We’re celebrating its 30th year in 2026 and want you to be part of it. 👇

Bloom alert! 💐 The Cranford Rose Garden is hitting peak bloom. The Cranford Rose Garden is one of the broadest collections of rose species and cultivars in North America, hosting well over 5,000 individual plants. These roses will bloom through June, with some blossoming throughout summer.

Roses have juuust started blooming at BBG! 🌹 Early-blooming roses in the Cranford Rose Garden and Rose Arc are opening up, and look wonderful even in the rain. Keep an eye on our socials and newsletter for more updates.

Irises are blooming right now throughout the Garden! 💜 These plants can be found all around BBG, but look for a stunning variety of 197 irises on Fawcett Terrace, located on the west side of the Osborne Garden.

🌱the bluebells were also heavenly! #BloomScrolling #gardens #flowers #FlowerPhotography #EastCoastKin #Brooklyn #BrooklynBotanicGarden

🌱I spent yesterday at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden…in peony heaven🌿 #flowers #BrooklynBotanicGarden #gardens #PeonyHeaven #bloomscrolling

Bloom alert! 💙 Bluebell Wood is blooming right now. Stop by BBG soon to see thousands of Spanish bluebells nestled under the dappled shade of beech, elm, and birch trees. These blooms should last another couple weeks.

Bloom alert! ❤️ Azaleas are in full bloom across the Garden. Stop by soon to see these flowers in the Osborne Garden, Rock Garden, Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, and Shelby White and Leon Levy Water Garden.

Some peonies today at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Peak season!

Bloom alert! 💗 Tree peonies are popping at BBG right now. Located at the north end of Cherry Walk, the Tree Peony Collection at Brooklyn Botanic Garden is a rare planting of more than 300 specimens, highlighting six different colors. These blooms are marvels of color, scent, and size.

CherryWatch 2026 update! 🌸🚨 Pink petals are falling on Cherry Esplanade and Cherry Walk, and the Kanzan cherries are almost done flowering. See the last days of this year’s bloom this week.

When the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Becomes a Public Photo Shoot • Photographer Hannah La Follette Ryan was on the ground for the cherry blossom boom.

When the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Becomes a Public Photo Shoot

Photographer Hannah La Follette Ryan was on the ground for the cherry blossom boom.

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Reminder! Entries to the Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest are open through June 1. 🏡 There are lots of ways to win Brooklyn’s friendliest contest! Enter today. 👇

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Garden together with your neighbors to make your block more beautiful and green, and enter your block in Brooklyn’s friendliest contest.

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Peak lilacs with fragrant floral odor in the air 😊 . . #lilacs 🌺 @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social 🌼 #flowers #springtime #brooklyn 🌳

Bloom alert! 💜 BBG’s Lilac Collection is blooming (and smelling) beautifully right now. Come experience their intoxicating fragrance in person! Gardener Julia Czaplewski estimates blooms should last another week or so.