After multiple attempts, I finally made it into the Botanical Gardens in Brooklyn. If something is so close and accessible, it always seems a little harder to get to, and then the times I did go, the rest of Brooklyn was waiting on line to get in or it was closed (on Monday). It's Cherry Blossom season, which evokes thoughts of The Mall in DC and for those having gone to Japan--Japan.
The crowds were pretty thick throughout the gardens, yet they do a masterful job of creating vantage points, setting benches back off the path to create an illusion of privacy, peering into the a rose garden, a Shakespeare inspired walk, the shimmering meadow pictured below. There are green houses with desert, tropical and warm temperate environments, lily pools and a magnificent (though pricey) catering hall for a wedding.
The picture below is actually across Flatbush Avenue in Prospect Park. The bride is propped in the tree ready for pictures.
After multiple attempts, I finally made it into the Botanical Gardens in Brooklyn. If something is so close and accessible, it always seems a little harder to get to, and then the times I did go, the rest of Brooklyn was waiting on line to get in or it was closed (on Monday). It's Cherry Blossom season, which evokes thoughts of The Mall in DC and for those having gone to Japan--Japan.
The crowds were pretty thick throughout the gardens, yet they do a masterful job of creating vantage points, setting benches back off the path to create an illusion of privacy, peering into the a rose garden, a Shakespeare inspired walk, the shimmering meadow pictured below. There are green houses with desert, tropical and warm temperate environments, lily pools and a magnificent (though pricey) catering hall for a wedding. 
The picture below is actually across Flatbush Avenue in Prospect Park. The bride is propped in the tree ready for pictures.
