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.
“Everything has been sourced from the wild,” Native Flora Garden curator Uli Lorimer said Tuesday when giving reporters a sneak peak behind the construction fence enclosing the dramatic new landscaping, which increases the total size of the native garden to three acres.