A National Historic Landmark, The New York Botanical Garden maintains one of the world’s greatest collections of flora. Its 250 acres include some of the most beautiful natural terrain of any botanical garden in the world, including dramatic rock outcroppings, rolling hills, waterfalls and ponds, the Bronx River, and a 50-acre remnant of the forest that once covered New York City.

Its 50 gardens and plant collections contain more than 1 million plants and include extraordinary displays such as the Arthur and Janet Ross Conifer Arboretum; the Benenson Ornamental Conifers; the Rock Garden; the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden; herbaceous and mixed borders featuring groundbreaking designs and plant materials including the Jane Watson Irwin Perennial Garden and Ladies’ Border; 30,000 distinguished trees, many more than 200 years old; and an exquisite orchid collection of over 8,000 plants, most housed in the Nolen Greenhouses for Living Collections, which opened in 2005 and is the most sophisticated behind-the-scenes greenhouses of any botanical garden in the United States.