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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.

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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’...

Upcoming Events

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May 17, 2025: 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...

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May 18, 2025: Spring Wildflower Walk at Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center

Tour the woodland pathways and plant habitats of the Mundy Wildflower Garden, a 25-acre natural area and naturalistic garden managed by Cornell Botanic Gardens. The garden is...

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May 23, 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...

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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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.

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.