NY Botanical Garden Tour

The New York Botanical Garden is an iconic living museum and, since its founding in 1891, has served as an oasis in this busy metropolis.  As a National Historic Landmark, this 250-acre site's verdant landscape supports over one million living plants in extensive collections. Each year more than one million visitors enjoy the Garden not only for its remarkable diversity of tropical, temperate, and desert flora, but also for programming that ranges from renowned exhibitions in the Haupt Conservatory to festivals on Daffodil Hill.

The Garden is also a major educational institution. More than 300,000 people annually—among them families, school children, and teachers—learn about plant science, ecology, and healthful eating through NYBG's hands-on, curriculum-based programming. Nearly 90,000 of those 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.

Enjoy this day at the gardens, which will include the Guided Tram Tour, offering guests a relaxing and informative way to see much of this National Historic Landmark's beautiful natural terrain, including dramatic rock outcroppings, a river and waterfall, ponds, and rolling hills. Our tram will be narrated by Deanna Curtis MLA '10 MS '10, Curator of Woody Plants.

Deanna Curtis is Curator of Woody Plants at The New York Botanical Garden where she develops, documents, and helps manage the historic hardy tree and shrub collections. She holds a degree in horticulture from Michigan State University and graduate degrees in both horticulture and landscape architecture from Cornell University. Deanna is a Certified Arborist and a co-author with Nina Bassuk of Recommended Urban Trees: Site Assessment and Tree Selection for Stress Tolerance.

$25 per person.  1:00pm guided tour.  2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10458; attendees will meet at the Leon Levy Visitor Center located at the Conservatory Gate entrance.  The tour will last approximately one hour.