About Early Cherry Blossom Season at the Botanic Garden in Brooklyn, NY
April is generally a wonderful month for visiting the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. For both harried New Yorkers and out of town visitors, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is always a refuge. That's especially the case as spring starts to pop, with magnolias, daffodils, and of course the gradual flowering of weeping cherry trees and the spectacular double-blossom cherry trees for which the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is famous.
What Happens in Cherry Blossom Season at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden?
The entire month of April is a celebration known as Hanami. Borrowed from Japanese culture, it is a slow-motion festival of appreciation of the gradual flowering of the cherry blossoms.In contrast to the usual hustle and bustle of the Big Apple, this celebration encourages visitors to "enjoy each moment" of the spring cherry blossom season.
And indeed, it is lovely to visit the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in early April, when buds are beginning to bloom and before throngs of visitors appear.
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden hosts a terrific weekend-long celebration of Japanese culture called Sakura Matsuri, usually scheduled for the last weekend of April or first weekend of May.
When is the Cherry Blossom Festival this year?
