CONNECTING PLANTS AND PEOPLES FOR A WORLD OF DIVERSITY, BEAUTY, AND HOPE.
The Nevin Welcome Center will be closed Monday, March 31 through April 7.
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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.
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Winter melts into Spring
The transitions between seasons are among the most magical at Cornell Botanic Gardens.
Moments of Connection
Plant Discovery through Science Connections
Team members create successful community outreach event at Sciencenter.
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...
Cornell Botanic Gardens Tour of Chinese and Asian Plants at Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center
Cornell Botanic Gardens Tour of Chinese and Asian Plants Join this guided outdoor stroll exploring different areas of the garden to highlight several plants endemic to China...
Rhododendron Ramble at Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center
Join us for a stroll through the Botanic Gardens' picturesque Bowers Rhododendron Collection, located behind the Nevin Welcome Center on Comstock Knoll. The Knoll is ablaze...
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.