Want an escape from hectic life in New York City?
This Washington Post article will tell you about some of the best flower gardens to tour.
Look no further than the Battery itself!
Category Archives: Gardens
The Battery made the list of top 10 best public gardens and parks in NYC by Business Insider!
Read the full article at http://www.businessinsider.com/public-gardens-new-york-city-2011-7
22Jun
A Tour of the Battery
Let Warrie take you on a tour of the Battery –
See the bosque
See the War Memorial
See the fountain
See Castle Clinton
See it all here on Battery Park TV
Although the deadline for ordering bare root plants has passed, gardeners should be happy to know that the Battery is still accepting orders for potted plants!
01Mar
Battery Horticulture on the radio!
Check out the February 27th episode of the “We Dig Plants” radio show, which featured Pat and Sigrid discussing the Battery’s perennial gardens and plants, farming-influenced care methods, the 2011 custom-propagation Battery Plant Sale and more!
Eryngium yuccifolium ‘Rattlesnake Master’;Echinacea tennesseensis ‘Rocky Top’;Silphium terebinthinaceum (Prairie Dock);Eupatorium maculatum ‘Gateway’;Schizachrium scoparium ‘The Blues’
To view and learn more about the 81 different plants that the Battery Conservancy is offering for sale this year, please visit Plants for Sale.
Reserve your order online via the 2011 Battery Plant Sale Order Form. Please fill in your name, phone number and email contact information on the form; a Battery Gardener will contact you with information on total cost (including shipping, if applicable) and payment, and will answer other questions you may have.
The Battery Conservancy’s horticulture team will custom-propagate your orders from the Battery’s current four acres of perennial gardens designed by plantsman Piet Oudolf.
Most species will be propagated by division of the gardens’ mature plants, while a few others will be harvested as well-rooted seedling plants. Pint-size equivalent bare root divisions will be available in mid-March, while pint-size potted divisions will be available during the first week of May. All plants are available at $11 each.
We will be happy to take potted or bare root plant orders. There is no minimum for pick-up orders; orders of 30 plants or more can be shipped to you for your convenience.
If you’ve been through the Battery’s gardens in the past few months, you’ll understand why designer Piet Oudolf says, “The garden in winter is an emotional experience.” Last week, the New York Times featured an extensive Q&A with Piet on winter gardening. Read the full interview here.
We took our camera out in the snow today. Here’s what we saw in the park:
Undulating Deer Brown Granite seating wall enclosing grove of London Planes
Merchant Marine Memorial
Jerusalem Grove of Atlas Cedars surrounding the Labyrinth
Historic Pier A
Green grasses amidst snowfall
On the Promenade with sculptural panels of the North River steamboat and Black Ball packets
Hello! Meet my friend Alex, who works at the Battery Conservancy. I'm made entirely from reused items. Come down and build me a family! Yours, Mr. Snow
19Nov
Sign up Now for the Battery Online Plant Sale
Persicaria virginiana ‘Lance Corporal’
To be sure you receive the Battery Plant Sale List and Order Form in February 2011: Send Sigrid your email address now at plantsale@thebattery.org.
The Wall Street Journal’s Ralph Gardner, whose “Urban Gardner” column appears daily in the Greater New York section, walked the gardens with Warrie and Sigrid this week. You can read all about his visit by clicking here, “Perennial Fascination,” WSJ, 11/11/10.
As for his own experience with perennials, Gardner wrote: “To walk down to the garden in the early morning to discover what’s bud overnight is a small, daily blessing. And on the off chance that the plants do return a second year, and a third, they become like old friends whose loyalty and idiosyncratic personalities you grow to prize and depend on.”
We couldn’t agree more!