Description
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is a garden of 21 hectares in Crown Heights, next to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Museum, opened in 1911 on the site of an old ash dump. It is a sequence of themed gardens, from a Japanese pond to roses, scents and cherry blossoms.
The Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, by Takeo Shiota, has hills, a waterfall, a pond full of koi, a torii and a Shinto shrine. More than 200 cherry trees of 42 kinds flower along the Cherry Walk and the Cherry Esplanade, celebrated each spring with the Sakura Matsuri festival.
The Steinhardt Conservatory holds a bonsai museum, and the Cranford Rose Garden has thousands of rose bushes. The Fragrance Garden of 1955 was the first in the United States designed for visitors who cannot see, with plants to touch and smell and signs in braille.
The Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, by Takeo Shiota, has hills, a waterfall, a pond full of koi, a torii and a Shinto shrine. More than 200 cherry trees of 42 kinds flower along the Cherry Walk and the Cherry Esplanade, celebrated each spring with the Sakura Matsuri festival.
The Steinhardt Conservatory holds a bonsai museum, and the Cranford Rose Garden has thousands of rose bushes. The Fragrance Garden of 1955 was the first in the United States designed for visitors who cannot see, with plants to touch and smell and signs in braille.