Why visit
The New York Botanical Garden was founded in 1891 and occupies a 250-acre National Historic Landmark landscape in the Bronx. It functions simultaneously as a museum of living plants, a horticultural display garden, an education center and a research institution with major library and herbarium collections.
What to see
The glass-and-steel Enid A. Haupt Conservatory contains tropical, desert and aquatic environments beneath a sequence of domes and wings. Outside, the Native Plant Garden, Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, conifer collections and seasonal displays demonstrate planned horticulture across very different soils, forms and flowering cycles.
Plan your visit
The fifty-acre Thain Family Forest preserves the city's largest uncut remnant of its original wooded landscape, including glacial traces and trees rooted before the American Revolution. Its active restoration and research distinguish the forest from a picturesque backdrop, connecting the institution's public beauty with long-term study of urban ecology, plants and fungi.
