About the Battery Plant Database
The Battery Plant Database was created by The Battery Conservancy to provide information about the perennial plantings in The Battery, the first waterfront park at the tip of Manhattan. The database includes information on specific perennials, including horticultural and popular names, families, colors, native range, planting zones, bloom time, moisture and light requirements and dimensions. Plant photographs were taken by Battery staff at The Battery (with a few exceptions).
The Battery Conservancy would like to thank all those who contributed the talent, time and energy so necessary to the database creation: Lindsey Boise for the design and development of the database; Sigrid Gray, Battery Conservancy director of horticulture, and the horticultural staff who manage and update the data; Alyssa Siegel for her research and fact checking.
Support
The Battery Plant Database is an ongoing project that welcomes your support. Your gift will help us maintain and update the database. You may donate on-line and specify that you want your gift to support The Battery Plant Database.
About the Battery Conservancy
The Battery Conservancy was created in 1994 as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit educational corporation to rebuild and revitalize The Battery and Castle Clinton National Monument, the park's major landmark.
The Conservancy spearheads the improvement efforts in partnership with its public and private partners. The Conservancy plays a pivotal role in the future of The Battery, Lower Manhattan, the waterfront, and the quality of community life for residents, workers and visitors. New York City owns and maintains The Battery through the Department of Parks & Recreation; the U.S. government owns and maintains Castle Clinton through the National Park Service; and both are major sites in New York State's Harbor Heritage Area.
Warrie Price, founder of the Conservancy, serves as President, and as the City's Battery Administrator and the State's Harbor Park Director.
The Battery remains one of the oldest public open spaces in continuous use in New York City. American Indians fished from its banks, and the first Dutch settlers built a low, stone wall with cannons, a battery to protect the harbor and New Amsterdam. The transformations of The Battery and that of the Castle tell the history of New York and, by association, the growth and development of our nation.