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Floral fans can enjoy a triumphant bust of color before winter turns the world gray with today's deal: a $10 admission ticket to the New York Botanical Garden and its 26 game-changing gardens, including access to the special exhibit Kiku in the Japanese Autumn Garden. This exhibit expires the same day your Groupon does—November 15—and this will be the third and final year that the NYBG features it.

Kiku is Japanese for chrysanthemum, and you still have a handful of days to see four traditional 'mum styles in all their autumnal brilliance: shino-tsukuri (driving rain), ozukuri (thousand bloom), ogiku (single-stem), and kengai (cascade). When surrounded by glowing scarlet Japanese maples, Japanese black pines, and golden bamboo, these kiku evoke the meticulously designed landscape gardens of Kyoto, while undulating masses of ferns and perennials echo the elegant complexity of classical Japanese topography. Amid this sea of scarlet, electric orange, pink, yellow, and white, you'll come across exquisitely handcrafted uwaya pavilions housing kiku carefully trained to grow into amazing sculptures. A few of these flowers have also been trained to slice a man into two symmetrical halves with just their stamen, so don't touch; just look, smell, and ponder the mono no aware (sadness of things) as you savor the fleeting beauty of the season.

Beyond the kiku, you won't find many plants in flower at this time of year beyond giant reeds and Thunberg's allium. So while you'll need to come back in a few months to see NYBG's famous rose garden and orchids, you can still spend hours exploring perennial gardens, such as the Jane Watson Irwin perennial garden, the Everett Children's Adventure Garden, and the Arthur and Janet Ross Conifer Arboretum. With 250 acres to gambol in, there's always something worth frolicking among at the New York Botanical Garden.

Reviews

A mainstay recommendation in travel guides, the New York Botanical Garden gets five stars from Yelpers and Citysearchers, and four stars from TripAdvisors:

• Went there to see the orchid display, which was nothing short of spectacular!...children's area...is a must, even if you don't have kids and the rock garden. Can't wait to go back in June when the rose garden is in bloom. – Kitsaattheshore, TripAdvisor
• This the super bowl of gardens [sic]. The best of everything, don't miss it on any trip to NYC – bill_guthrie, Citysearch
• My friend and I visit at least a handful of botanical gardens each year, and the New York botanical garden is one of the largest and most impressive. Gorgeous garden: beautiful landscape and an exquisite greenhouse with plants from all over the world. – nuio, TripAdvisor