Climate Change Hits BBG’s Cherry Blossom Festival

March 22, 2012 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

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Because of this year’s unseasonably warm weather, the famous cherry blossoms at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden will be past their prime by the time the annual Cherry Blossom Festival comes around next month, according to the Daily News. The News quotes the Garden’s chief arborist, Chris Roddick, as saying that the trees are all a week to 10 days ahead of schedule. Still, he said, when the festival is held on April 28-29, “They could be raining down petals, which is almost as beautiful as seeing them on the trees.”