PROSPECT HEIGHTS — A garden just for kids is re-opening this summer at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden after a restoration and expansion.
The newly rebuilt Discovery Garden will open in June on an acre of land as a place to teach children about local plant life, the BBG announced Friday.
A network of trails and boardwalks will connect three sections of the garden that mimic the marsh, woodland and meadow habitats of the New York area. A pavilion designed by the landscape architecture firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates — which also worked on Brooklyn Bridge Park — will offer kids a place to do hands-on gardening with soil, compost and food plants.
The Discovery Garden has 16,000 new plantings, the BBG said, including 9,500 perennials, 2,600 kinds of grasses and 250 new trees. It is four times larger than the former children's garden on the same site, rebuilt as part of larger restoration of the BBG’s southern end that will include a renovated Flatbush Avenue entrance.
To celebrate the new space, the BBG will hold a public festival on Saturday, June 6.
For more information about the new Discovery Garden, visit the Brooklyn Botanic Garden website.
