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The Cranford Rose Garden
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The Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) is a botanical garden located next to Prospect Park near Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York. Founded in 1910, the 52 acre (210,000 m²) garden includes a cherry tree esplanade, a one acre (4,000 m²) rose garden, a Japanese hill and pond garden, a fragrance garden for the blind, a water lily pond esplanade, several conservatories, a rock garden, a native flora garden, a bonsai tree collection, and children's gardens and discovery exhibits.
Some of the more popular gardens at the BBG include:
1 The Cranford Rose Garden
The Cranford Rose Garden was opened in June 1928. It was designed by Harold Caparn , a landscape architect for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and Montague Free , the Garden's horticulturist. With 650 species then represented, many of the original plants from 1927 are still in the garden today. There are over 5,000 bushes of nearly 1,200 varieties of roses in the garden, including wild species, old garden roses, hybrid tea rose s, grandiflora rose s, floribunda rose s, polyanthas, hybrid perpetuals, climbers, ramblers, and miniature rose s.
2 Cherry Trees
The Garden has more than 200 cherry trees, of 42 species and varieties. The first cherries were planted at the garden after World War I, and were a gift from the Japanese government. Each spring, a weekend-long cherry festival called Sakura Matsuri is held when the trees are in bloom. Cherry trees are found on the Cherry Esplanade, the Cherry Walk, in the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, in the Osborne Garden and in many other locations in the Garden. Depending on weather conditions, the Oriental flowering cherries bloom at the Garden starting in late March or early April ending through mid-May. Many of the different species bloom at slightly different times.
3 The Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden
The Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden
at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
The Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden was designed by Japanese landscape designer Takeo Shiota (1881-1943). Shiota, who was born in a small Japanese village about 40 miles from Tokyo, spent his youth wandering Japan on foot to explore its natural landscape. In 1907 he came to America and designed this garden, which opened to the public in 1915. The Hill-and-Pond Garden includes a small ShintoShinto ( Japanese: ) is the native religion of Japan. It involves the worship of kami which could be translated to mean gods, nature spirits, or just spiritual presences. Some kami are very local and can be regarded as the spirit or genius of a particular temple, a carpA carp is any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae. The common carp Cyprinus carpio is the most common and best-known species of carp. Introduction of carp to North America Carp, native to Eurasia, were introduced into North America to grea-filled pond, hills, a waterfall, and an island, all of which werre constructed to designer Shiota's exacting specifications. Architectural elements found in the garden include wooden bridges, stone lanterns, a viewing pavilion, and the toriiItsukushima Shrine A Torii ( Japanese: ) is a traditional Japanese gate commonly found at the entry to a Shinto shrine. It has two upright supports and two crossbars on the top, and is frequently painted vermilion. Some torii have tablets with writing mou or gateway.
4 The Shakespeare Garden
An EnglishEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England cottage garden exhibits plants mentioned in ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare born April 1564; baptised April 26, 1564; died April 23, 1616 ( O. May 3, 1616 ( N. has a reputation as the greatest writer the English language has ever known. Indeed, the English Renaissance has often been called "the age of Shakespe's plays and poems. More than eighty of the plants mentioned in Shakespeare's writings grow there; the common or the Shakespearean names as well as the botanical name and references to relevant quotations are found on labels near each plant.
