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Cultural Connection
Narcissus: A global symbol of spring, renewal, and resilience
People across cultures through the ages have been attracted to this springtime beauty, which has come to embody hope, resilience, and renewal.
In the News
How to Plan a Garden With Climate Change in Mind
New York Times – March 28, 2025
Sonja Skelly, director of education and academic initiatives, shares solutions to gardening in increasingly erratic weather, based on Cornell Botanic Gardens’ experience and practices.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Mindful Botany Walk at Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center
Join Cornell Botanic Gardens staff to observe the beauty and drama of nature unfolding on monthly nature walks. While exploring various paths and gardens each month, we will...
Gardeners’ Labyrinths: On Plants, Poetry, and the Printed Book at Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center
William and Jane Torrence Harder Lecture Jessica Rosenberg, Associate Professor, Department of Literatures in English Why have printers and poets long seen an affinity...
Spring into the Gardens! at Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center
Come celebrate spring and National Public Gardens Week with plant and nature-inspired activities, a scavenger hunt, a bulb and houseplant sale (first come, first served), and...
Land Acknowledgement
Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' (the Cayuga Nation), members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts
Cornell Botanic Gardens embraces and actively works to increase diversity among all the communities with which we engage.
News
Seeds of survival: Botanic Gardens honors the Black experience
This garden display and exhibit shares the knowledge, skill, and resilience of enslaved Africans, their descendants, and today’s Black community and their deep connections to plants and the cuisines they inspired.
Our Gardens and Natural Areas
We are responsible for the natural beauty of the Cornell University campus including cultivated gardens, an arboretum, and natural areas. Together these comprise one-third of campus, and with off-campus natural areas, a total of 3,600 acres.
WHAT TO SEE IN SPRING
As the temperature warms, flowering trees and shrubs and primrose blooms cover the landscape. By late spring our Rhododendron collection shines along with the opening of the gorges.