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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.
BABY BUGS
Time: Friday, May 6, for ages 5 and under and caregivers
2 sessions: 10:30 am start or 11:30 am start
Location: Native Plant Garden, 15th Street and Union Square West, Union Square Park
Guide: Lloyd Miller of the Brooklyn-based educational rock band The Deedle Deedle Dees
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Description: Baby Bugs is an introduction to the natural world featuring songs, stories, and hands-on explorations for younger children and their caregivers. Afterwards, there will be a tour of the native flora garden and every child will get to pot up a wildflower to bring home.
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WILDFLOWER GARDENING ADVICE, GIVEAWAYS & TOURS
Time: Saturday, May 7, 8:00 am – 3:00pm
Location: Union Square Greenmarket, Manager’s Tent
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Description: Pick up free NYC Wildflower Week goodies, get information on the week’s events and take home native plant seedlings for your garden while supplies last (one per person). We will provide native plant gardening advice and container garden demonstrations throughout the day. Tour the Native Flora Garden in Union Square Park and learn about the hundreds of ferns, grasses, shrubs and wildflowers that are native to NYC and call this garden home.
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EXPERIENCE LIFE AS A PLANT
Time: Sunday, May 8, 2:00 – 4:00pm
Location: Meet at the Native Plant Garden in Union Square Park at 15th Street and Union Square West, Manhattan.
Guide: Nina Wheeler-Chalfin
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Description: How does it feel to be a plant? Join us as we explore the lives of plants, pollinators, and soil organisms in the Native Plant Garden, a wonderful ecosystem at the heart of the world's busiest city. We will commune with our living, breathing, flowering friends through movement, drawing and poetry. Also, your artistic expressions will be recorded and published, inspiring other growing minds. Celebrate this Mother's Day with our Mother Earth. All are welcome!
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Native Plant Display Garden in Union Square Park
Located at East 15th Street and Union Square West, the garden features plants native to the New York City area. Showcasing that historically grew wild in lower Manhattan, it is home to large-leaved trillium, wild columbine, witch hazel, and maidenhair fern. It is a habitat haven for birds, bees, and butterflies, and engages New Yorkers with their local flora. The garden also reflects our local natural heritage, is a model for thoughtful, ecological designs in public parks, and encourages place-based nature education in our schools.
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To see the species being planting in the garden, click here.
Want to know more? Listen to the garden’s designer, Mariellé Anzelone, extol the virtues of wildflowers. To listen to the audio file, click here.
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