NYC Wildflower Week, the largest celebration of National Wildflower Week in the country, takes place the first week of  May every year.  This event brings together thousands of New Yorkers to experience an extraordinary range of activities celebrating the hundreds of native flowers, trees, shrubs, and grasses that call The Big Apple home.

To celebrate the botanical heritage of the five boroughs, NYC Wildflower Week brings together local citizens and visitors, botanists and landscape designers, political leaders, environmental advocates, community educators and artists. Participants meet their foliar neighbors in the city’s forests and meadows; tour the Native Plant Display Garden in Union Square Park featuring plants native to New York City; learn about urban nature from a variety of speakers; and engage in discourse to shape a more sustainable local landscape.   NYC Wildflower Week also features public artwork, gardening workshops, wildflower give-aways, children’s events and more.  All events are free and open to the public.

NYC Wildflower Week is dedicated to creating a framework to engage and connect people to their local environments and aims to inspire and empower New Yorkers to create a landscape that is sustainable, beautiful and ecologically sound.  It is part of National Wildflower Week, an initiative begun by Lady Bird Johnson.