What's this? Back at the Tokugawa gardens in Nagoya? Wrong! Brooklyn! This is the Japanese pond garden at Brooklyn's unbeatable 54-acre Botanical Gardens.
The Gardens, with flowers and herbs from all over the world, is a lush environs for spending a summer day with friends. You get to see all sorts of beautiful flowers and plants, from the lily pools to the rose garden and on and on.
BUT! There is excitement afoot! Big happenings! The BBG's Titan Arum plant (pictured here with people for a size reference) is about to bloom! This hasn't happened in NYC since 1939, and won't happen again for forty or fifty years! When it blooms, it produces a four-to-seven foot flower that is one of the largest in the world! Also, it will smell like death (hence its nickname, the "corpse flower."). I will go to see it when it blooms, and until then you can read more about it - and even watch it bloom online - right here at the Garden's website.
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