Brooklyn Botanic Garden is gearing up and counting down to its first annual Lunar New Year Celebration and Flower Market, Saturday, February 10, 2007. The Garden is the ideal venue to welcome the Year of the Pig, providing not only a traditional flower market but also a chance for visitors to experience Asian cultures through music and dance and to learn about the significance of the plants that make the Lunar New Year so special.

The Native Plant Information Network (NPIN), already one of the most comprehensive online resources for native plant information, is now much more useful to landscaping professionals and home gardeners, thanks to a total redesign introduced this month by the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin.

Each spring at Kew, Mother Nature shows off the best she has to offer with five million different flowering bulbs bursting into life across the Royal Botanic Gardens. Two million purple and white crocuses (Crocus vernus) create the Crocus Carpet, while drifts of daffodils line the Broadwalk and Chionodoxa form an unbelievably vibrant sea of blue.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) announces the publication of the fourth volume of Urban Habitats, an open-access electronic journal launched in 2003 that focuses on current research on the biology of urban areas. The latest issue is available in its entirety online. Urban Habitats is published by the Center for Urban Restoration Ecology (CURE), a collaboration between Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Rutgers University.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) received its first-ever grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support an important new exhibition: Drawing From Life: Maud H. Purdy and Botanical Art at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, scheduled for exhibit from September 15, 2007 through November 11, 2007.