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Most NYCWW events are free and open to the public. Space is limited for certain events, so advance registration is encouraged.
Does your community garden include native plants?
Let the public know by displaying a NYC Wildflower Week sign at your garden and highlighting your native plants with our plant markers. You can download the materials here.
If your garden doesn't include native plants, download our guide to Gardening with Native Plants.
NATIVE FLORA, FOREST & AZALEAS OF NYBG
Time: Friday, May 18, 10 am – 12 pm
Location: Meet at the Reflecting Pool in the Leon Levy Visitor Center, New York Botanical Garden
Guide: Native Plant Garden with Curator Jody Payne, Forest with Manager Jessica Arcate Schuler, Deanna Curtis, Curator of Woody Plants and Kristin Schleiter, Curator of Herbaceous Collections, NYBG.
Register for this event FREE with the price of admission to the NYBG
Description: Be one of the first to have a sneak peak at the not-yet-open Native Plant Garden, 3.5 acres of a modern, four-season garden. Then walk through the 50 acre old-growth Forest, which has been protected since the founding of NYBG in 1895. Lastly, stroll through the new Azalea Garden to see a variety of these shrubs in bloom. Free with admission to the grounds.
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NATIVE FLORA GARDEN AT BBG
Time: Tuesday, May 15, 2:30 – 4 pm
Location: Meet at the front entrance into the Native Flora Garden (by the wooden gates)
Guide: Ulrich Lorimer, Curator of Native Flora, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Register for this event Entrance to BBG is FREE
Description: Highlights usually include many spring ephemerals such as trillium (Trillium spp.), mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum), wild geraniums, terrestrial orchids and violets (Viola spp.). Indigenous azaleas will also be in bloom including the flame, pinkster and swamp azaleas (Rhododendron spp.). A wide variety of ferns will be emerging as well as aquatics such as golden club (Orontium aquaticum) and blue flag iris (Iris versicolor). There will be some surprises with the unusually warm weather.
Brooklyn Neighborhood Garden tour
Time: Sunday, May 13, 2 – 4 pm
Location: Begin at the Flatbush Reformed Church at the corner of Flatbush and Church Avenues.
Guide: Chris Kreussling, aka Flatbush Gardener, and Louise Bruce, Compost for Brooklyn
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Description: Self-guided tour. The two locations are about 1.5 miles from each other: a 40 minute leisurely walk through beautiful neighborhoods or a 30 minute bus ride (with one transfer) along Church avenue and Coney Island Avenue. In just the last year, Sustainable Flatbush has created a new community garden located on the grounds of the historic Flatbush Reformed Church property at Church and Flatbush Avenues featuring a native plant streetscape along Church Avenue. Compost for Brooklyn has transformed a vacant lot at Newkirk Avenue and East 8th Street into a community composting project and native plant garden. Get inspired!
Industrial Green Roof
Time: Friday, May 18, 5:00 - 6:15 pm
Location: Meet outside the Linda Tool & Die Corporation, 163 Dwight Street, Brooklyn New York
Guide: Paul Mankiewicz, Executive Director, The Gaia Institute
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Description: Come see the only process water/greywater treatment green roof in the world, featuring a native wetland meadow overlooking the lower New York Harbor. Please note: For adults only. No admittance to anyone under the age of 18. Attendees MUST arrive by 5:45.
Gardening with Wildlife in Mind Workshop
Time: Wednesday, May 16, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Location: Prospect Hill Senior Services 283 Prospect Ave.Brooklyn, NY 11215
Group Leader: Eliza Russell, Director of Education, National Wildlife Federation
Register for this event FREE!
Description: Whether you have an apartment balcony, a community garden plot, or a small backyard, you can create a garden that attracts beautiful wildlife and helps restore habitat in commercial and residential areas. By providing food, water, cover and a place for wildlife to raise their young your space also qualifies to become an official Certified Wildlife Habitat®. This workshop will show you how to create and maintain wildlife habitat for New York City, learn about our local wildlife, then tour an example garden at a local senior center.
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NYCWW Greenmarket Booth & Native Garden Tour
Time: Saturday, May 12, 8 am-3 pm
Location: Union Square Park at Union Square West Greenmarket
Description: Stop by the Manager’s tent to get information on NYC’s natural areas and native plants, and get free native seedlings (while supplies last). We'll have sustainable gardening demonstrations and share tips on attract butterflies and birds with native plants. Guided tours of the Native Plant Garden in Union Square at 10am and 2pm. Special guest Flatbush Gardener will share his native flora knowledge and experience transforming his backyard into a wildlife habitat.
THE BATTERY BOSQUE
Time: Monday, May 14, 8 – 9 am
Location: Meet at the flagpole opposite 17 State Street and adjacent to the playground
Guide: Gabriela Marin, Horticulturist, and Sean Kiely, Gardener, The Battery Conservancy
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Description: Our the Battery Bosque planted by Piet Oudolf. In early morning light, see swathes of native wildflowers such as twinleaf, trillium, labrador violet, golden alexanders, wild ginger, showy skullcap, Indian hyacinth and many other spring ephemerals in this horticulturally rich and unique New York City park.
NATIVE PLANT HABITAT AT LCBH COMMUNITY GARDEN
Time: Saturday, May 19th and Sunday May 20th, 12:00 – 1:00pm
Location: Meet at the Bowery Gate at Bowery and Houston Street
Guide: Meet at the garden’s Bowery Gate at Bowery and Houston Street
Guide: L. Brandon Krall, Garden Steward
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Description: The Liz Christy Bowery Houston Garden was established in 1973; making it one of the first community gardens in the country. In 1985 L. Brandon Krall initiated a native plant habitat and collection in the large shaded area beneath the landmark dawn redwood tree. May is an excellent time to visit LCBH Garden to see the early blooming wildflowers: Virginia bluebells, Dutchman's breeches, trillium, may apples, pinkster azaleas, native ferns and many other delightful specimens from the range of northeastern United States.
NATIVE POLLINATORS AND THEIR PLANTS
Time: Saturday, May 19, 12 noon – 2 pm
Location: Native Plant Display Garden, East 15th Street and Union Square West, Union Square Park
Guide: Judith Van Bers, Seed collector, Greenbelt Native Plant Center, NYC
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Description: Explore how the shapes and colors of flowering plants are related to the pollinators they attract and how maintenance of a vibrant and diverse ecosystem includes keeping ‘pests’ as well as butterflies. After all, a world without ‘pests’ would also be a world without chocolate. The walk should help participants create an insect-friendly sustainable garden. We will see native flowers and a variety of bees, butterflies, flies and beetles. In addition, there will be a small collection of insects typical of this region to look at.
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Native Gardens of Queens Botanical Garden
Time: Saturday, May 19, 1 – 3 pm
Location: Meet on the terrace of the Visitor & Administration Building, Queens Botanical Garden
Guide: Fred Gerber, Director of Education Emeritus
Register for this event Entrance to the Botanical Garden is free for this tour
Description: Visit the Garden's 39 acres to see native plants in bloom. Discover natives in the woodland, perennial gardens and the beautiful fragrance walk. See the Green Roof and the native plants around our LEED certified green building. Entrance to the garden is free for this tour (please announce that you are coming for the tour) Parking $5
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GREENBELT NATIVE PLANT CENTER
Time: Monday, May 14, 10 am – 12 pm
Location: Meet at the Nursery, 38-08 Victory Blvd in Staten Island
Guide: Timothy Chambers, Nursery Manager, GNPC, NYC Dept of Parks & Recreation
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Description: The Greenbelt Native Plant Center is the only municipal native plant nursery in the country. It is a 13-acre greenhouse, nursery, founder seed and seed bank complex owned and operated by NYC Dept of Parks & Recreation. Over the past fifteen years, the center has grown hundreds of thousands of specimens from locally collected seed of the city's indigenous flora for use in restoration, and replanting projects and is currently developing bulk seed mixes for the city. The GNPC is a partner in the establishment of the first national native seed bank called Seeds of Success.
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