![]() Would I come back? Yes, I would if my family was here and they wanted to go someplace like this. I would say go into the visitor center first and ask if there's any closed off areas before wandering around. If you could please exit we would appreciate it, sorry for the inconvenience." See how easy and nice that is? But no, she came in like "You all need to get out of there right now, get out!" I mean, that is really uncalled for considering your own ineptitude for not putting out a barrier or at the very least a giant sign saying the area was closed. You know it would be very easy for someone, especially one who works in such a quiet place, to walk into the area and say "excuse me, I'm sorry to say this area is closed for a private event. Glad I was not in there when it happened. ![]() I saw an employee run straight in there and just started yelling very rudely to everyone to get out, waving her arms madly. There was absolutely positively nothing to say it was a private area. However, there is NO signage whatsoever to state this and when I was there, the cute little gates which look decorative and not like an actual obstacle were wide open. They have a very nice garden area a little off to the side but actually still very close to the visitor center, and apparently it's a private or reservation only area. However, I give it 3 stars because of something I witnessed. It's definitely not a tourist destination, it's just not big or grand enough for you to go out of your way to get here unless you happen to be staying in Flushing for your stay. I would say you should go if you live in the area and want to see some nice flowers because they can't do anything about planes. That alone would make it 4 stars, but that is not the fault of the garden. The planes are so close you think they will crash into the buildings nearby. The garden itself is very quiet but expect every 2 minutes to hear a very loud jet engine and see very close by the planes coming in to land. The problem is it is located directly in the flight path of LaGuardia airport so it is very loud there. Plus you can walk around the gigantic meadow, which is more plain but still nice. I've been to larger more prominent botanical gardens that are of less quality. The garden area can be covered in about 15-20 minutes, and it is kept up better than you would expect. It's very easy to get to and on Saturdays it's FREE!!!!!! If anyone gets the chance to go please do. It even beats the Bronx and that's saying a lot. We left and decided to go to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens instead which I have to say blew us away!!!! By far the best one yet. The festival was a farce with armature designers. We got there at 10:00am and finished walking the whole park in under 30 min. It could not have been more disappointing to say the least. I'm still trying to figure out how they have the audacity to call it a Botanical Garden, when it looks more like someone's overgrown backyard. It was a sloppy cluster of very badly maintained plants n trees. The park is the size of an average back yard. Actually $4 was more than what it was worth. Well u know that saying "you get what u pay for"? That stood true in every sense of the word. Was very surprised to hear that admission to the park was only $4. In all the years I have lived in Queens, I have never been there so I was very excited to go. So Mom & I were invited to the Queens Botanical Garden this weekend for a flower festival.
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