|
 |
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.
BRONX
WAVE HILL GARDEN TOUR- WILDFLOWER WALK
Time: Tuesday, May 10, 2:00 – 3:00pm
Wednesday, May 11, 2:00 – 3:00pm
Thursday, May 12, 2:00 – 3:00pm
Friday, May 13, 2:00 – 3:00pm
Location: Meet at the Perkins Visitor Center, Wave Hill
Guide: Charles Day, Horticultural Interpreter
Description: Experience the floral splendors of spring on a garden tour with a garden interpreter. Observe favorite native wildflowers making their fleeting spring appearances and meet some of their close relatives from overseas. Free with admission to the grounds. These Wildflower Walks continue through Friday, May 6.
Get Subway, Bus, and Rail Directions from HopStop.
NATIVE FLORA OF NYBG
Time: Friday, May 13, 11:00 am – 1:00 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. This event is free with the price of admission to the NYBG.
Register for this event
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.
Get Subway, Bus, and Rail Directions from HopStop.
back to top
BROOKLYN
NATIVE FLORA GARDEN AT BBG
Time: Tuesday, May 10, 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, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Register for this event
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).
Get Subway, Bus, and Rail Directions from HopStop.
Brooklyn Neighborhood Garden tours
Time: Sunday, May 15, 12:00 – 3:00 PM
Location: Meet at either location (see map) for self-guided tour
Guide: Chris Kreussling, aka Flatbush Gardener, and Louise Bruce, Compost for Brooklyn
Register for this event
Description: Self-guided tour. The two locations are about 3/4 miles from each other: a 30 minute leisurely walk through beautiful neighborhoods or a short bus ride along Coney Island Avenue.
Over the past 6 years, Chris has transformed a dusty, weedy backyard into a garden oasis of over 50 species of native trees, shrubs, ferns, grasses and wildflowers. He's documented the process on his gardening blog, Flatbush Gardener. The garden will be at or near peak Spring bloom for the tour.
Compost for Brooklyn has transformed a vacant lot at Newkirk Avenue and East 8th Street into a community composting project and native plant garden.
Directions
Industrial Green Roof
Time: Monday, May 9, 5:00 - 6:00pm
Location: Linda Tool & Die Corporation, 163 Dwight Street, Red Hook
Guide: Paul Mankiewicz, Executive Director, The Gaia Institute
Register for this event
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.
Get Subway, Bus, and Rail Directions from HopStop.
back to top
MANHATTAN
THE BATTERY BOSQUE
Time: Tuesday, May 10, 8:00 – 9:00am
Location: Meet at the flagpole opposite 17 State Street and adjacent to the playground, The Battery
Guide: Sigrid Gray, Director of Horticulture; Gabriela Marin, Horticulturist, The Battery Conservancy
Register for this event
Description: Tour 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.
Get Subway, Bus, and Rail Directions from HopStop.
NATIVE PLANT HABITAT AT LCBH COMMUNITY GARDEN
Time: Saturday, May 7, 12:00 – 1:00pm
Location: Meet at the Bowery Gate at Bowery and Houston Street
Guide: L. Brandon Krall, Garden Steward
Register for this event
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.
Get Subway, Bus, and Rail Directions from HopStop.
WILDFLOWER GARDENING ADVICE, GIVEAWAYS & TOURS
Time: Saturday, May 7, 8:00 am – 3:00pm
Location: Union Square Greenmarket, Manager’s Tent
Register for this event
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.
Get Subway, Bus, and Rail Directions from HopStop.
back to top
QUEENS
Native Gardens of Queens Botanical Garden
Time: Wednesday, May 11, 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Location: Meet on the terrace of the Visitor & Administration Building, Queens Botanical Garden
Entrance to the Botanical Garden is free for this tour
Guide: Marianne Kristoff, Supervisor of Gardeners
Register for this event
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.
Get Subway, Bus, and Rail Directions from HopStop.
back to top
STATEN ISLAND
GREENBELT NATIVE PLANT CENTER
Time: Wednesday, May 11 10:00am - 12:00pm
Location: Meet at the Nursery, 38-08 Victory Blvd in Staten Island
Guide: Timothy Chambers, Nursery Manager, GNPC, NYC Dept of Parks & Recreation
Register for this event
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.
Directions
back to top
|
