Bronx Park near 200th Street

The New York Botanical Garden, commonly known as the Bronx Botanical Gardens, consists of 250 acres of plants with forty acres of old–growth forest—an example of what New York used to be like three centuries ago. The garden was patterned after the famous Royal Botanical Gardens of England, and has indoor sections enclosed in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. It’s five times larger than the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens and is particularly magnificent in the spring and mid–summer, when fields of flowers bloom simultaneously.