 The Cranford Rose Garden in Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York City The Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BCG) is a botanical garden located next to Prospect Park near Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Founded in 1910, the 52 acre (210,000 m²) garden includes a cherry tree esplanade, a one acre (4,000 m²) rose garden, a Japanese hill and pond garden, a fragrance garden for the blind, a water lily pond esplanade, several conservatories, a rock garden, a native flora garden, a bonsai tree collection, and children's gardens and discovery exhibits. Cranford Rose garden, Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, June 2003,© 2003, by Wikipedia user:alex756, all rights reserved; the license granted herein is to Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. ...
Cranford Rose garden, Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, June 2003,© 2003, by Wikipedia user:alex756, all rights reserved; the license granted herein is to Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. ...
Inside the United States Botanic Garden Inside the Rio de Janeiro Botanic Garden (Brazil), 1890 Botanical gardens (in Latin, hortus botanicus) grow a wide variety of plants primarily categorized and documented for scientific purposes, but also for the enjoyment and education of visitors, a consideration that has become essential to...
Prospect Park is a 526 acre (2. ...
The Soldiers and Sailors Arch at Grand Army Plaza Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York forms the main entrance to Prospect Park. ...
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1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ...
A cherry is both a tree and its fleshy fruit, a type known as a drupe with a single hard pit enclosing the seed. ...
Species Between 100 and 150, see list A rose is a flowering shrub of the genus Rosa, and the flower of this shrub. ...
Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or psychological factors. ...
genera see text Nymphaeaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. ...
A rock garden, also known as a rockery or an alpine garden, is a type of garden that features extensive use of rocks or stones, along with plants native to rocky or alpine environments. ...
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The Cranford Rose Garden The Cranford Rose Garden was opened in June 1928. It was designed by Harold Caparn, a landscape architect for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and Montague Free, the Garden's horticulturist. With 650 cultivars then represented, many of the original plants from 1927 are still in the garden today. There are over 5,000 bushes of nearly 1,200 varieties of roses in the garden, including wild species, old garden roses, hybrid tea roses, grandiflora roses, floribunda roses, polyanthas, hybrid perpetuals, climbers, ramblers, and miniature roses. Species Between 100 and 150, see list A rose is a flowering shrub of the genus Rosa, and the flower of this shrub. ...
Cherry Trees The Garden has more than 200 cherry trees, of 42 species and varieties. The first cherries were planted at the garden after World War I, and were a gift from the Japanese government. Each spring, a weekend-long cherry festival called Sakura Matsuri is held when the trees are in bloom. Cherry trees are found on the Cherry Esplanade, the Cherry Walk, in the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, in the Osborne Garden and in many other locations in the Garden. Depending on weather conditions, the Asian flowering cherries bloom at the Garden starting in late March or early April ending through mid-May. Many of the different species bloom at slightly different times. Species Several, including: Prunus apetala Prunus avium (Wild/Sweet Cherry) Prunus campanulata Prunus canescens Prunus cerasus (Sour Cherry) Prunus concinna Prunus conradinae Prunus dielsiana Prunus emarginata (Bitter Cherry) Prunus fruticosa Prunus incisa Prunus litigiosa Prunus mahaleb (Saint Lucie Cherry) Prunus maximowiczii Prunus nipponica Prunus pensylvanica (Pin Cherry) Prunus pilosiuscula Prunus...
The Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden
 The Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden
 The tea house of the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden in 1915
 The "Yuki-yoki" of the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden in 1922. This device, actually a yuki yoke (雪避け) in Japanese, is a snow deflector for trees The Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden was designed by Japanese landscape designer Takeo Shiota (1881-1943). Shiota, who was born in a small Japanese village about 40 miles from Tokyo, spent his youth wandering Japan on foot to explore its natural landscape. In 1907 he came to America and designed this garden, which opened to the public in 1915. The Hill-and-Pond Garden includes a small Shinto temple, a carp-filled pond, hills, a waterfall, and an island, all of which were constructed to designer Shiota's exacting specifications. Architectural elements found in the garden include wooden bridges, stone lanterns, a viewing pavilion, and the torii or gateway. Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, Brooklyn Botanical Garden, New York City, June 2003, 400x300 pixels, © 2003, by Wikipedia user:alex756, all rights reserved; the license granted herein is to Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. ...
Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, Brooklyn Botanical Garden, New York City, June 2003, 400x300 pixels, © 2003, by Wikipedia user:alex756, all rights reserved; the license granted herein is to Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. ...
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Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ...
Tokyo , literally Eastern capital) is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, the home of the Japanese Imperial Family, and the de facto[1] capital of Japan. ...
1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
Shinto() is the native religion of Japan and was once its state religion. ...
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A famous floating torii at Itsukushima Shrine Multiple torii at Osaka shrine Torii are widespread in Japan, to the extent that modern architecture sometimes emulates their form. ...
The Shakespeare Garden An English cottage garden exhibits plants mentioned in Shakespeare's plays and poems. More than eighty of the plants mentioned in Shakespeare's writings grow there; the common or the Shakespearean names as well as the botanical name and references to relevant quotations are found on labels near each plant. oo Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2006 est. ...
Cottage gardens are attributed to English origin and are typically random and carefree in form. ...
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The Fragrance Garden Next to the Shakespeare Garden is the fragrance garden, complete with braille information signs for visitors with sight disabilities. All are encouraged to rub the leaves of various odiferous plants between their fingers. There are four sections in the garden each with a theme: (1) plants to touch, (2) plants with scented leaves, (3) fragrant flowering plants, and (4) kitchen herbs. The garden is wheelchair-accessible and all the plantings are in beds at an appropriate height for people in wheelchairs. A fountain provides a calming sound and a place to wash one's hands after experiencing the various plants. PREMIER - first The information about the historic site of Safdarjung’s tomb in Delhi, India. ...
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Visitor and gardener information BBG not only has a gift shop and visitor center, it provides reference information about gardening at its Gardener's Resource Center to home gardeners and professional horticulturists. During the spring and summer, an outdoor cafe that provides a variety of refreshments and meals. A Beaux-Arts style conservatory hall known as Palm House has catering for up to three hundred guests. Less apparent to the casual visitor is BBG's diverse programs in scientific research, youth education, and community environmental horticulture, all of which command a substantial share of the staff (BBG as a whole has 175 full-time staff and 100 part-time) and the annual operating budget ($16.5M). The Latin words hortus (garden plant) and cultura (culture) together form horticulture, classically defined as the culture or growing of garden plants. ...
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See also This list of botanical gardens in the United States is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States of America. ...
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