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If 10,000 NY Biters go outside to view nature one day a week instead of watching TV, we'll save enough energy to brew 3.64 mil pots of coffee.

Cherries have a higher antioxidant capacity than grapes, oranges, plums, raspberries, and strawberries combined.

Poppin’ Cherry Blossoms

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Remember your first time? If it was at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, you probably do...or will, if you've never seen the cherry trees blossom before. This Saturday, the annual month-long Flowering Cherries celebration starts, as BBG's 220-plus cherry trees pop open with breathtakingly lush blooms. In between oohs and ahhs, try an ikebana flower arranging class, check out a tea ceremony, or try your hand at Japanese calligraphy - events are scheduled throughout. Just track the blooming online with CherryWatch to make sure your timing's perfect: If you wait too long, they'll all be, um, deflowered.

Wanna Try

Flowering Cherries at BBG; Apr. 5-May 4; 1000 Washington Ave., Brooklyn (718-623-7200).

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