Brooklyn Botanic Garden Reviews

I have been coming to Brooklyn botanical gardens for years. Once your inside the gardens the people and atmosphere is more relaxing. The staff are always friendly and helpful. The park stays clean. Would highly recommend this park. I also recommend Tom's a few blocks away for nice quick breakfast or lunch.

Lobed this place. Must see for cheery blossom festival

We had a wonderful afternoon here. The Japanese gardens are my favorite. We were too early for the roses. The conservatories are interesting, I liked the bonsai exhibit. The botanical gardens are kind of like an oasis in the city. They do have cafes but we didn't try them.

Love this place. The serenity is relaxing, the crowds are pleasant and family friendly

Loved it. Even though the cherry blossoms were falling the lawn was covered with a pink blanket. Gorgeous.

I had an amazing time when I visited BBG yesterday. Since it was winter, there was not many outdoor attractions or flowers that were alive. However, the indoor parts were just as normal, and it was completely fine considering the weather and that they are still under renovation. What I loved was that they gave us 2 free tickets for another visit since they were renovating, and I will sure go back again once the weather gets better!

Beautiful and peaceful place. Not very big variety of trees, mostly smaller plants.

It was a pleasant surprise and we recommend the Cafe Magnolia for its excellent atmosphere and food.

Just beautiful!! Such a picturesque place with all kinds of gardens. Wasn't crowded at all on our last visit. I would try to go in the spring!

A Beautiful, tranquil, calming Oasis escape from the Crazy.

This garden is beautiful, great for photos. Tip: if your a student you are able to get a student discount and not pay full price.

Botanical garden immense and beautiful. Although we went in the middle of winter, we were impressed by the tropical plants and bonsai inside the greenhouses. In the spring it must be spectacular to visit it. Highly recommended

Week days are for free.. Its such an amazing park to relax and walk between nature!

Not blosso. season yet, they should let you know at the entrance or let you come back

Smaller than the Bronx Botanical Garden but a great extension for locals.

Really nice place to enjoy your day. I came during the cherry blossom festival and everything looked amazing. The kids had a great time, a lot of room to run around, see colorful trees, a Japanese drum show, and they even had a fan painting event for kids.

Beautiful spot. Very well maintained. Love the greeb house rooms with exotic plants, really made it extra special.

The botanical gardens are always a great place to visit especially in the spring! All three flowers were in bloom and three gardens were immaculately kept as usual. If you're a uni student like me you can also get discounted admission!

Really a great Garden Place just walk around enjoyed the View beautiful day will definitely be back

Because it is very wonderful for children and adults

Very small ... but good .... in expensive theory but it's ok

My son's wedding was there...what a gorgeous setting! So beautiful!

A very beautiful place. A stunning botanical collection. I most liked the Japanese. A quiet corner if a pond full of fish and cherry trees.

They were renovating a lot when I visited but it s beautiful. Heads up for the free admission Fridays before noon.

I will definitely be going to see the cherry blossoms this year (2018)

I attended Sakura Matsuri in 2019 and it was gorgeous!

I was expecting more after reading the reviews but that was pretty lame. Half of the things are close, a huge area in the open are inaccessible, the rose garden was pathetic with half of the flowers dead (and 3 people were cutting the grass while the customers are there which take away the quietness). Discovery garden must be cool if you re with a kid and the water lilies were beautiful but I was already fed up when I was there. Add to that a pool without water. When you re out of season for cherry threes and Magnolias forget it not worth it at all. Very disappointed.

A treasured NYC institution with beautiful grounds and enjoyable programming.

You'd be surprised how quiet it is when you're here. Check the website for special events.

Beautiful grounds, not as immersive as the NYC Botanic Garden.

Beautiful garden with a wide selection of botanical life

A very beautiful place to visit with friends and family!

This is NOT a park, it's is a living museum of plant specimens from all over the world.

So of course you can't play a game of softball or have your child running around crushing the blue grass species from the Midwest or plucking flowers from that rare plant only found in Australia.

Get a grip people, just because it's green doesn't mean it is yours to conquer and destroy for your private pleasure!

Again, it's a garden museum NOT a park!

Great way to spend an afternoon. Surprisingly, there was a lot to see. Especially liked hands on exhibit for children and herb garden. There is a lot of ground to cover so bring a drink. Went with three generations of family. All had a good time, but walking was a bit too much for the oldest of our crew.

We didn't realize that there were major garden renovations, and didn't have access to parts that we wanted to see.

What is not to love about this manicured oasis in the middle of Brooklyn? Sakura Matsuri is the cherry on top!

Unfortunately, did not get a chance to get in that day. Could not book tickets, though I have a membership. Happened that my email was not linked to their app. Then they gave me a phone number, which confirmed that it should be working. Still two weeks later can not book myself in because of the same reason. Also the hours have changed. We came before 10am that day. And I could not go any other time because my mother can not tolerate heat. So - not easy.... You can not plan the weather for too many days in advance... Will try again maybe at the end of October.

What a beautiful place to spend your time with your kids and family and take nice pictures, go on Friday's from 8am-12pm to gain free access!

Nice park, a lot of great plants there. The location is not the best

A great park which offers free walking tours. Check out the bloom calendar to know which flowers season is it.

As a member of BBG, my opinion is a little biased. I love the manageable size of the property which allows you to walk the entire grounds in one afternoon, or alternatively just focus on one or two areas. It's interesting to see how the garden changes as the seasons pass. They are regularly introducing new areas to keep things interesting. If you live in Brooklyn, a membership pays for itself after a few visits.

I enjoyed my walk through the garden and the greenhouse rooms were awesome. Free in the winter as well.

Second time and I can't wait to go again. Lovely place with lot's of interesting things to see. I recommend to visit to the conservatory.

It was beautiful, flowers, trees, bushes grass. Nice place with family and friends.

Beautiful gardens, great family events in the heart of Brooklyn

This is not the time of year to go to the garden! Nothings there all the plants are hibernating. Disappointing! Not a place for people with walking issues.

I went here twice in two weeks. The light pink and deep pink cherry blossoms are sizzling and amazing! It is the day before the cherry blossom festival of the Botanical Garden. Walking on the cherry blossoms on the back of the cherry blossom avenue, it is very rare to stop by the centuries-old cherry trees and raise your eyes.

The gardens are lovely, they are just a bit smaller than I thought they would be. Made me really miss the Longwood Gardens.

Always a pleasure to be here! Nice first or anytime date place.

Take an umbrella in case you need it. It is a beautiful, quiet place in the middle of the city.

The most favorite cherry blossom garden in the world. It is not traditional Japanese cherry blossoms. But, I love the strong pink of double cherry, which gives me energy so much.

Lovely gardens and typically well taken care of. We did our engagement photos here and were vendors at one of their big events. The events, unfortunately, really ruined their grass because of foot traffic but they attend to it the very next day (i overheard the staff talking about it). They were also really great towards the vendors, providing food and water all day, picking up boxes, and vendor only Porta potties.

About 6 months ago, my husband and I got married at The Atrium at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. If you're considering to get married at BBG, we highly recommend that you read this review.

We had booked our wedding for October 2017 a year prior to our wedding day, specifically with Emily Piuggi from Patina Group(PG), the point person for wedding food catering/events at BBG). Like all business workers, she was initially kind upfront. As time passed, around 6 months to even weeks before the wedding, she became very minimally responsive, only responding to us for payments. My husband and I were frustrated, but remained cordial. Just days before the wedding we finally got in touch with her, and she talked as if everything was going well and that it will all go smoothly. We had a whole outline for the wedding day planned, decorations that they were going to set up (which was also preplanned & dropped off at the venue beforehand), with confirmed meals/food/drinks and the whole timing of events.

The wedding day comes. Our ceremony was started late, some of our table decorations were not set up, they served the ENTIRELY WRONG ENTREE, MY HUSBAND AND MY DINNER WAS THROWN OUT, and there was no "captain" (for which they charged a fee to have) throughout the event. I spent my entire reception distressed. Instead of spending time with my guests, I was hunting down any food waitress to speak with the "captain" or Emily who had already disappeared. We ordered swordfish as our main fish entree, and instead received salmon with a completely different order on the side of custard that I specifically said I DIDN'T like at the tasting. A number of my guests had to leave early, so I asked for the meals to be packed (as BBG does not allow refunds for guests) THREE times throughout the reception and no one came back to follow up. The $500 Captain Fee was useless, as well as everything we had paid money for at this so-called grandeur wedding venue at BBG.

As the event ended and husband and I were leaving, for the last time I requested to see someone in charge. A completely new face, also by the name of Emily, had appeared. When I asked, "I've been asking for a point person all throughout my wedding, and none of you guys showed up." She responded, "Oh, you seemed busy so we didn't want to bother you. I'm sorry, but if you want you can come back here sometime for a dinner." I left that night at 1AM and ended up eating leftover pizza that my husband and his groomsmen ate the night before.

Immediately after the wedding, we contacted Emily Piuggi, and she heard of all our complaints from the PG food servers, yet pretended like she didn't know about it saying, "That was a beautiful wedding!" After expressing the issues from the wedding, she had put the blame on us stating, "You guys should have reconfirmed the meal with me again right before the wedding." We were outrageous; our food choices of what we WANT and DONT want was communicated IN PERSON and IN WRITING, confirmed, with a proof of document entailing all these details months prior to the wedding. We immediately asked for a refund, and sure enough, she said she'd get back to us, yet we never heard from her since.

I spent every minute I had (over 1 week) before flying off to our honeymoon calling, leaving messages, requesting to speak with the supervisor of PG. Finally, Emily's manager Bonnie Rozales picked up; I explained the entire history of events before and after the wedding and she INITIALLY apologized saying she will have everything taken care of by the time we return from the honeymoon. We returned only to hear from her, "Well your guests still enjoyed the salmon", insisting that they do not wish to refund us the money. After ongoing debate, a month later she informs us that she will only refund us for the salmon. Again, with no follow up I had to hunt down for the refund which took 2 whole months.

I have never written a review in my life, but this was by far the worst experience I've had. We don't ever wish for another husband/bride to go through this in the future on their special day.

Pure tranquillity, & free to enter on Wednesday. If you can clean up after yourself, it is the best picnic location weather permitting in Brooklyn NY.

Beautiful garden! We came early since majority of the blossom trees and plants didn't bloom yet. Otherwise, a go to place to get away from the city and enjoy nature in its prettiest form!

I really enjoy this place on earth. Serenity in the city. Great vibe.

I walk through 3 or 4 days a week, it's the one of the delites of retirement. It's not the biggest garden in New York city but it's a gem.

I love walking by the large variety of plants and enjoy shopping at their shop.

Always a lovely time, especially the Japanese garden/pond area. Even when it's a little cooler there are still things to see. Spring/summer are better visiting times, of course.

Simply beautiful. The one downside, you can't sit on grass except for in the cherry tree garden, and you can't eat anywhere except in the food court