Brooklyn Botanic Garden announces Hanami, the Cherry Blossom-Viewing Season, April 5–May 4, 2008. Hanami is the Japanese cultural tradition of viewing and cherishing each moment of the cherry's flowering season—from the first buds, to the luminous blossoms, to the waterfall of petals cascading from the trees. At Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Hanami includes a series of seasonal events that pay tribute to the Garden's iconic collection of Japanese flowering cherry trees.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden is counting down to its second annual Lunar New Year Celebration and Flower Market on Sunday, February 3, 2008. Because plants are such an important element of a traditional Lunar New Year celebration, the Garden is the ideal setting to welcome 4705.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden's extraordinary winter landscape beckons visitors with the hushed beauty of the season, including the sculpted architecture of the plants and landscapes in the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden and the Osborne Garden.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) announces its Second Annual Lunar New Year Celebration & Flower Market, on Sunday, February 3 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. What better way to usher in 4705—the year of the Rat—than with an exciting program of Asian entertainment and a special cut-flower market featuring plants used in the Lunar New Year celebrations of China, Korea, and Vietnam?

Bring your costumes, instruments, and silly attitudes to Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and prepare to be charmed by New York's wackiest Halloween party for the whole family on Sunday, October 28, 2007, from Noon to 6 p.m.

Nancy Seaton, curator of Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Lily Pool Terrace and Judith D. Zuk Magnolia Plaza, was approached by a fellow Garden staffer with a question: "What are some examples of native northeast annual plants?"

Only Brooklyn Botanic Garden could host such a diverse homage to the chile pepper with sizzling musical and dance performances, spicy culinary demonstrations, tantalizing exhibits, and workshops from chile-loving regions around the world. Get a taste of the chilehead lifestyle and see why chiles are all the rage from Brooklyn to Bombay!

From April 7 to May 6, Brooklyn Botanic Garden celebrates Hanami, the Japanese cultural tradition of viewing and cherishing each moment of the cherry blossom season-from the first buds to the pink blossoms that fall like snow.

What could be more romantic and sensuous than a single rose? How about tens of thousands of them? Delight the senses with a multitude of blooming roses during June Is Rose Month, a celebration honoring the beauty and history of the rose at Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Cranford Rose Garden. Kick off this monthlong homage to America's favorite flower with Jazz and Roses on Sunday, June 3, Noon-5:30 p.m.