Cherry Walk Esplanade walking tour during the Sakura Matsuri Cherry Blossom Festival of Brooklyn Botanic Garden Prospect Park New York City USA April 23rd 2021 video
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Cherry Walk
First planted in 1921, this path has long been a popular spring destination for viewing flowering cherries. Two of the Garden’s original trees still grow at the north end of the walk. Prunus ‘Kanzan’ and other cultivars planted nearby display the diversity of ornamental trees.
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Cherry Esplanade
Cherry Esplanade is a broad green lawn bordered by allées of flowering cherry and red oak trees. The double-flowering ‘Kanzan’ cherries typically bloom at the end of April, one of the highlights of spring.
Cherry Walk is a meandering path east of Cherry Esplanade and behind the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden. The trees here include double rows of ‘Kanzan’ cherries at the northern end and a wide variety of other cultivars along the southern end. Some of these are the earliest to bloom during cherry blossom season.
Along the eastern and western edges of Cherry Esplanade are allées of scarlet oak trees, the Liberty Oaks, planted in remembrance of the events of September 11, 2001, and to those who lost their lives that day.
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Sakura Matsuri, the Garden’s annual cherry blossom festival, celebrates Japanese culture with a rich program of events.
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The Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden is one of the oldest and most visited Japanese-inspired gardens outside Japan. It is a blend of the ancient hill-and-pond style and the more recent stroll-garden style, in which various landscape features are gradually revealed along winding paths.
The garden features artificial hills contoured around a pond, a waterfall, and an island, along with carefully placed rocks. Architectural elements include wooden bridges, stone lanterns, a viewing pavilion, a Shinto shrine, and a dramatic vermilion-colored wooden torii.
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) is a botanical garden in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City. It was founded in 1910 and is in Mount Prospect Park in central Brooklyn, adjacent to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Museum. The 52-acre (21 ha) garden holds over 14,000 taxa of plants and has nearly a million visitors each year. It includes a number of specialty “gardens within the Garden”, plant collections, the Steinhardt Conservatory that houses the C. V. Starr Bonsai Museum, three climate-themed plant pavilions, a white cast-iron-and-glass aquatic plant house, and an art gallery.
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden
990 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225
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Brooklyn New York City USA
April 23rd 2001
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