BBG's Plant Sale Is On

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is holding its annual benefit Plant Sale, starting today and running through tomorrow. The sale is the largest of its kind in the Northeast and takes place on Cherry Esplanade (currently covered with pink petals).

The sale boasts over 20,000 plants, a bonsai workshopw, BBG horticulture experts on hand and little red wagons ("plantsportation") to help consumers tote around their finds.

If you attend, try to seek out an orchid; when we asked BBG's Patrick Cullina what plant was best for a New York apartment, he told us, "That depends on how much light you can find in the average New York apartment, but why not try an orchid? They bloom for a long time and can be grown indoors easily."

Hours: Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Thursday, 9 a.m. to noon.

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By Jen Carlson in Arts and Events on May 7, 2008 3:25 PM

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saveBrooklynBridgePark15

They should be careful. There are plants that are dangerous to the local environment. They escape from gardens and wind up spreading to parks, killing off the indigenous flora. In years past nurseries were allowed to sell these plants but laws enacted fifty years ago restricted what plants could be imported. We are still removing foreign plants that act like weeds in our city parks. The Botanical Garden cant just sell what they have in their collection willy nilly.