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Medicinal Garden grows from Onondaga collaboration

View this presentation from the students and staff who collaborated with the Onondaga Nation School to hear first hand how ideas were transformed into a culturally significant garden space. A year...

Daffodils on Conifer Slope at Cornell Plantations (PLTNS).
Cultural Connection
Narcissus: A global symbol of spring, renewal, and resilience

Video by Jay Potter Cultures around the world welcome spring with daffodils. They are blooming now at Cornell Botanic Gardens, where yellow dominates the color palette from almost 100,000 daffodils...

Pedestrians stroll along daffodils in F.R. Newman Arboretum
Update
The F.R. Newman Arboretum opens April 11

Another sign of spring: The Arboretum gates will open from dawn to dusk, welcoming vehicle traffic, beginning on April 11, 2025.

Upcoming Events

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June 27, 2025: 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...

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July 11, 2025: Guided Mindfulness Meditation with Let's Meditate at the Cornell Botanic Gardens at Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center

All are welcome to join this free, guided meditation session, led by Travis Winter, LCSW, in partnership with Cornell Botanic Gardens and the Nature Rx Initative. This...

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July 12, 2025: Secret Lives of Plants at Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center

Did you know that some plants hire mercenaries for protection? Or that some plants can tap into their neighbors’ resources when they need them? Join Garden Guide Dana Kruser...

Connecting plants and peoples for a world of diversity, beauty, and hope.

Land Acknowledgement

Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' (the Cayuga Nation), members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

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Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts

Cornell Botanic Gardens embraces and actively works to increase diversity among all the communities with which we engage.

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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.

Cascadilla and Fall Creek gorges in summer.

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.