Brooklyn Botanical Garden, Native Flora Garden

[Gloria]

I never know where to place a thread but this is about a botanical garden collecting,growing and saving the seed from New York Metropolitan region.
This effort dates back to 1911.

I would so like to see this garden. Has anyone been there?
If you live in the area what a great resource...Gloria

Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Native Flora Garden

Dating back to 1911, the Native Flora Garden isn't just another wildflower display. In 1931, this wild retreat was ecologically designed to support nine distinct plant communities found within a 100-mile radius of New York City: serpentine rock, dry meadow, kettle pond, bog, pine barrens, wet meadow and stream, deciduous woodland, and limestone ledge, as well as a border mound with several representatives of the region's coniferous forests.

All plants in this garden are appropriate for their particular ecological niches, determined by environmental factors such as topography, geology, soil acidity or alkalinity, moisture, drainage, and light.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden: New York Metropolitan Flora Project

While most of the botanical community concentrates on tracking the threats to biodiversity in the tropics, scientists at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden are undertaking the most comprehensive study ever of the plant biodiversity in metropolitan New York.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden What Plants Grow Where

BBG scientists have compiled a list of woody plant species in the New York Metropolitan region.
Use the pulldown menu or click on the map below to bring up a list of woody plant species by county.

The pull down lists include all woody plants found growing...each marked native or non-native.


YouTube - Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Collecting Seeds

A four minute video about their native seed collection.

Historic Image Collection
Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Historic Image Collection
Historic pictures 447 images
Your search criteria: only show plants that are native to New York.

[milkweed]

Excellent. Nice to hear scientist are finally worrying about our natural diversity.
I didn't know anyone was even interested in native plants in 1911.
Great article.