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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.
Please note: We recommend shoes for muddy walking. You may also like to have sunscreen, camera, water. Children under 16 welcome if accompanied and supervised by an adult. If inclement weather, contact the trip leader for updates.
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.
BRONX
Spring Wildflowers – East Meets West
Time: Friday, May 7 - 1:00pm
Saturday May 8th - 1:00pm
Location: Meet at the Perkins Visitor Center, Wave Hill
Guide: Charles Day, Horticultural Interpreter
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Description: See the recently restored Shade Border where spring-blooming wildflowers, ferns, and shrubs emerge in an intoxicating medley of color shapes and scents. Compare and contrast the spring blooms of our native woodland plants with some of their close relatives from overseas. Free with admission to Wave Hill. Tour will commence rain or shine.
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BROOKLYN
Industrial Green Roof
Time: Monday, May 3, 5:00 - 6:00pm
Location: Linda Tool & Die Corporation, 123 Dwight Street, Red Hook
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.
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Native Flora Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Time: Wednesday, May 5, 2:30 - 4:00pm
Location: Meet at the front entrance into the Native Flora Garden (by the wooden gates)
Guide: Ulrich Lorimer, Curator of Native Flora
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Description: Highlights will include many spring ephemerals such as trillium (Trillium spp.), mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum) 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).
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MANHATTAN
The Battery Conservancy
Time: Tuesday, May 4, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location: Meet at the flagpole, Battery Park opposite 17 State St. adjacent to Battery playground
Guide: Sigrid Gray, Director of Horticulture, The Battery Conservancy
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Description: Tour Battery's gardens designed by Dutch plantsman Piet Oudolf and the First Bloom native plant meadow. See floristic displays of golden alexanders, fragrant woodland phlox, trout lilies, showy skullcap, and Indian hyacinths among many other late spring blooming wildflowers in the gardens of this horticulturally rich NYC park. Divisions of selected perennials from the gardens for sale this day.
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Liz Chrystie Native Plant Habitat
Time: Saturday, May 1, 12:00am - 1:00pm
Saturday, May 8, 12:00am - 1:00pm
Location: Meet at the Bowery Gate at Bowery and Houston Street
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Description: The Liz Chrystie Native Plant Habitat was established in 1973; it is the first community garden in New York City, and one of the first in the country. In 1985 a native plant collection was started under the shade of our well known Dawn Redwood tree. May is an excellent time to visit and see the early blooming wildflowers: Virginia bluebells, Dutchman's breeches, both the large and small-flowered merrybells, wake robin, mayapples, Carolina allspice and pinxter azaleas, among others.
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High Line Walking Tour
Time: Tuesday, May 4, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: For meeting location, purchase tickets at www.thehighline.org/events - Free for FHL/$5 for non-members
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Description: Take a walking tour with the High Line's gardeners, who will discuss the park's one-of-a-kind horticulture design and the unique challenges tending a garden in the sky. NYC-area native spring bloomers will include smooth shadbush (Amelanchier laevis), bluestar (Amsonia tabernaemontana), wild quinine (Parthenium integrifolium) and Pennsylvania sedge (Carex pennsylvanica).
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Wild Project Green Roof
Time: Saturday, May 1, 10:00am - 2:30pm
Sunday, May 2, 10:00am - 2:30pm
Location: The Wild Project Theater - 195 East 3rd Street (between Avenues A & B)
Guide: Marni Majorelle
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Description: The Wild Project Theater lives up to its name with one of the city's few green roofs that features native wildflowers, including marsh marigolds (Caltha palustris), wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) and others. It is 1500 sq feet with a small deck area, solar panels and lightweight pavers made from recycled materials. The roof was installed by the green roof installation company Alive Structures in September 2007.
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Native Plant GardeN AT UNION SQUARE
Time: Sunday, May 2, 11:00am - 3:00pm
Location: 15th Street and Union Square West
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Description: Learn about the hundreds of ferns, grasses, shrubs and wildflowers that are native to NYC and call this garden home. The designer will also be available to answer questions about your own wildlife native plant garden. If you can’t make it on May 2nd, we'll have seasonal videos and a podcast will be available for self-guided tours to meander at your own pace later in the year. We'll also have floristic face painting and other crafts for kids!
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QUEENS
Native Gardens of Queens Botanical Garden
Time: Tuesday, May 4, 1:00 - 3:00pm
Location: Meet on the terrace of the Visitor & Adminstration Building, Queens Botanical Garden
Guide: Marianne Kristoff, Supervisor of Gardeners
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Description: Visit the Garden's 39 acres to see native plants in bloom. Discover natives in the woodland, perennial and meadow gardens on what used to be a site operated by the Brooklyn Ash Company. Free with admission to gerden.
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Sustainable Landscapes and Building Tour
Time: Tuesday, May 4, 3:00 - 5:00pm
Location: Meet on the terrace of the Visitor & Administration Building, Queens Botanical Garden
Guide: Susan Lacerte, Executive Director
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Description: Visit the Garden's LEED® Platinum Visitor and Administration Center and learn about the role native plants play in storm water management, grey-water recycling and mitigating temperature extremes on the 3,000 square foot green roof.
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STATEN ISLAND
GREENBELT NATIVE PLANT CENTER
Time: Monday, May 3, 12:00-2:00pm
Location: Meet at the nursery, 3808 Victory Blvd
Guide: Timothy Chambers, Nursery Manager, GNPC, New York City Department 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 Parks & Recreation. Over the past fifteen years, the center has grown hundreds of thousands of specimens from locally collected seeds 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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