Botanic Garden creates pine barrens, prairie in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is showing its love for native New Yorkers – the leafy, flowering ones.
The Central Brooklyn nonprofit is expanding its Native Flora Garden with a new acre of space meticulously designed to look like an untended bog and meadowland with wild-growing plants – about 15,000 in all, of more than 150 species.
The $2 million expansion, which opens to the public on June 12, was paid for with private donations from BBG’s capital campaign, president Scot Medbury said.