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BBG Free Winter Weekdays

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The center hall of BBG’s landmarked Lab and Admin Building, decorated for the winter season in December 2007.
Center Hall, BBG Lab Admin Building

Admission to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is free Tuesday through Friday (the grounds are closed closed Mondays, though offices are open) all Winter, from November 20 through February 29. Both the Native Flora Garden and Cranford Rose Garden are closed all Winter, but there’s still stuff happening to see.

Come January, the Witchhazels put on their show.
Hamamelis x intermedia 'Jelena'

Check out the Bonsai Museum any time.
Camellia japonica Julia Drayton, Bonsai, Literati style

And this is the best time of year to enjoy the Japanese Garden in contemplative solitude.
Pond and Torii

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Solstice (the sun stands still)

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Illumination of Earth by Sun at the southern solstice.

It’s the longest night and shortest day of the year for my half of the world. This season’s Solstice (Winter in the Northern hemisphere, Summer in the Southern), is at 6:08 UTC on December 22, 2007. That’s 1:08 Eastern Time, my time zone. For folks on the West coast of North America, it will occur late Friday, December 21, at 22:08. That’s right now.

Etymology: Latin solstitium (sol “sun” + stitium, from sistere “to stand still”)