Green-Wood Cherry Trees better than BBG! Go this w-end!!

lostingreenwoodhts

(taken yesterday next to Battle Hill in GWC)

At their peak this weekend! Not to bash BBG, but Green-Wood has better, older and quite frankly, a larger selection of flowering cherry trees (and other flowering trees and greenery...478 acres, over 10 times the size of BBG).

So if you want to beat the BBG crowds or want a double shot of spring blossom beauty, heat to Green-Wood.

I'm lucky, I get to look at it all day long!

And heck, I'm biased

8thandprez

Thanks for the tip. It's a gorgeous picture!

shishkab

absolutely gorgeous, LGWH! thanks so much for sharing. now i'm sorry to be away this weekend, but i hope everyone else gets the chance to enjoy the blossoms!

caaahyoko

Very nice! I was going to go there anyway to cart home more mulch, so thanks for giving me a reason to stroll around first! And I think you tipped me off to the mulch, too, so THANK YOOOOOU!!!!! You're so damn helpful its frightening.

karl the druid

awesome!

i bet people are dying to get in

lemur11215

mulch? what is this mulch you speak of?

I was going to go buy mulch from Lowe's next weekend, but Green-Wood is just a block away....

lostingreenwoodhts

Don't let the weather throw off your game this weekend. Sunday is supposed to be lovely!

Mulch can be obtained year round for FREE inside the 25th St./5th Ave entrance, take the first left.

pitu

LiGH, we need an update.
Did last week's weather blow all the petals to the ground?

Most of BBG just went into first bloom . . .
http://www.bbg.org/exp/cherries/map.html

lostingreenwoodhts

Cherries are IN FULL BLOOM TODAY! Don't miss-out...(sounding like a car ad here )

caaahyoko

I went on Saturday and it was really nice. Plenty of trees not yet past peak. I am a crazy maniac, so I went to Shannon's nursery on the Fort Hamilton ave side, bought some stuff, and walked alllll the way to the 5th ave side through the cemetery with my cart in tow.

kaiserkai

I went Yesterday, spent about 3 h in there.
Its like being in a different world.

A nice man at the gate gave us a map which helped tremendously.
Next week Ill bring some bread for the Ducks, they seemed dissapointed we didnt have any.

Guess this is gorgeous in the wintertime as well when all is snowy.

lostingreenwoodhts

Note to all: you can ALWAYS ask for a Green-Wood map at the 25th St. entrance, or the others, if they are open. generally 25th St and 34th St (at 4th Ave) are always open. The other two gates are TBA.

The main office also has walking tour books and The History of Green-Wood Cemetery book (among others) on sale in the main office.

My fav place, if you hadn't noticed

lostingreenwoodhts

PS. quite a few of the cherries are still in full bloom. So if you have the day/afternoon off (they are open till 7pm now) go for a stroll!

kaiserkai

lostingreenwoodhts wrote:
My fav place, if you hadn't noticed

Now that you mention it...... :P

kaiserkai

Just saw a sign this morning about a Memorial Day concert in GWC.

Anyone have some more details about that?

lostingreenwoodhts

Made an official announcement:

http://brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=367846#367846