ABOUT OUR EVENTS

We offer tours, workshops, lectures, webinars, and more to provide meaningful opportunities for people to learn about plants and how essential they are to our lives and our well-being. Please read our cancellation policy here.

There are also ways to explore our gardens and grounds using our self-guided tour options.

Self-guided tour

Mar 23, 2025: Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes by Daina Taimina, PhD., associate professor, retired at Cornell Botanic Garden Nevin Welcome Center

Conceived and created as an aid for teaching her math students the properties of hyperbolic planes, Daina Taimina presents a colorful display of crocheted shapes, on display in the gallery of the Nevin Welcome Center. These artistically designed representations of hyperboli [...]

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Mar 27, 2025: Verdant Views: Growing the Onondaga Nation School Garden

In an effort to revitalize their language, culture, and practices, and to facilitate intergenerational engagement, the Onondaga Nation leadership, Onondaga Nation School, and Cornell Botanic Gardens partnered to co-create and install a medicinal and healing garden to be uti [...]

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Mar 28, 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 meditation focuses on nature and is a chance for reflection and renewal at the end of the week. Meditation [...]

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Apr 3, 2025: Cornell Botanic Gardens Tour and Workshop for International Students at Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center

This workshop will cover general houseplant care and how to transplant them. There will be a variety of houseplants you can choose from to pot up and take home. Weather permitting, a brief tour of the gardens may also be possible. All materials will be provided. Particip [...]

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Apr 25, 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 practice mindfulness by dedicating our attention to the present moment and fully observing and appre [...]

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May 8, 2025: 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 and eastern Asia. Discover the importance of trees and garden plants in East Asian culture, and lea [...]

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May 10, 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 in May and early June with the vibrant white, yellow, pink, and red blossoms of the Collection. Rhod [...]

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Past Events

Event

Verdant Views: Cultivators of Celebration

This webinar features several individuals profiled in the exhibit “Cultivators of Celebration.”

Conservation

Cultivating a Sustainable Future: Cornell Botanic Gardens’ Native Lawn

This episode of Verdant Views explores the journey behind Cornell Botanic Gardens’ native lawn project.

Video

Verdant Views: Global Climate Stories, 2024

Stories of the challenges and choices Cornell students face in their home countries, and actions being taken in response to the global climate crisis.