Brooklyn! Don’t Miss It’s Botanic Garden.

Who says New York is a concrete jungle? You just have to know where the oases are and find some time to enjoy them. One of the most idyllic locations in NYC is the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Yes! A full blown botanical garden just a few miles from Wall Street and Manhattan.

Experience one of the most beautiful gardens in New York, at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. It is expressly designed to bring people in close contact with plants to stimulate the senses of smell and touch. Situated on 52 acres in the heart of Brooklyn, the Garden is home to over 18,000 kinds of plants.

The Garden’s central feature is the new visitor center with living roof design, conceived as a seamless, inhabitable extension of the Garden that merges landscape and architecture and redefines physical and philosophical relationships between visitor and garden, exhibition and movement, culture and cultivation.

Families can experiment, learn, and play together in different types of gardens inside the this botanical garden. It is easy to encourage kids to explore science and nature while having fun and seeing really interesting and spectacular plants.

Here is a sneak preview of the various gardens inside the Brooklyn Botanic Garden through the Interactive video. There is fun for the kids and facts in each video: