New York Botanical Garden

The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is a botanical garden located at Bronx Park, in the Bronx, New York City. The 250-acre (100 ha) site's verdant landscape supports over one million living plants in extensive collections. The garden has a diversity of tropical, temperate, and desert flora, as well as programming that ranges from exhibitions in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory to festivals on Daffodil Hill. As of 2016, over a million people visit the New York Botanical Garden annually.
New York Botanical Garden

Visitor Center in June 2012.The Garden is also a major educational institution, teaching visitors about plant science, ecology, and healthful eating through NYBG's hands-on, curriculum-based programming. Nearly 90,000 of the annual visitors are children from underserved neighboring communities, while more than 3,000 are teachers from New York City's public school system participating in professional development programs that train them to teach science courses at all grade levels.
NYBG operates one of the world's largest plant research and conservation programs, with nearly 600 staff members. Since 1967, the garden has been listed as a National Historic Landmark.
Mission statementEdit
The New York Botanical Garden is an advocate for the plant kingdom. The Garden pursues its mission through its role as a museum of living plant collections arranged in gardens and landscapes across its National Historic Landmark site; through its comprehensive education programs in horticulture and plant science; and through the wide-ranging research programs of the International Plant Science Center.[3]
History
GroundsEdit

The Stone Mill, within NYBG
The Garden contains 50 different gardens and plant collections.

There is a serene cascade waterfall,

as well as wetlands and a 50-acre (20 ha) tract of original, never-logged, old-growth New York forest.[34]

Garden highlights include the 1890s-vintage Haupt Conservatory (designed by Lord & Burnham); the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden (originally laid out by Beatrix Jones Farrand in 1916); an alpine rock garden; a Herb Garden (designed by Penelope Hobhouse),[35] and a 37-acre (15 ha) conifer collection. The NYBG's extensive research facilities include a propagation center, 550,000-volume research library,[36] and an herbarium of 7.2 to 7.8 million botanical specimens dating back more than three centuries, among the largest in the world.[37][38]At the heart of the Garden is the Thain Family Forest,[39] an old-growth forest. It is the largest existing remnant of the original forest which covered all of New York City before the arrival of European settlers in the 17th century. The forest, which was never logged, contains oaks, American beeches, cherry, birch, tulip and white ash trees, some more than two centuries old.[40][41]
The forest itself is split by the Bronx River, the only fresh water river in New York City, and this stretch of the river includes a riverine canyon and rapids.[34] Along the shores sits the Stone Mill, previously known as the Lorillard Snuff Mill, built in 1840.[42] Sculptor Charles Tefft created the Fountain of Life on the grounds in 1905.[5]:9
PublicationsEdit
The NYBG published The Garden Journal(ISSN 0016-4585) from 1977 to 1990.
Landmark statusEdit
The New York Botanical Garden was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1967.[2][67][68]In addition, three structures are designated as individual New York City landmarks: the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory (designated in 1973),[17]:1 the LuEsther T. Mertz Library(2009),[5]:1 and the Lorillard Snuff Mill(1966,[42] also separately on the National Register of Historic Places).[69]