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Market Garden Is Open to the Public Tuesday Through Sunday from April Through October JMG Horticulturist & Landscape Designer since 1999: Susan Sipos Weather permitting, Jefferson Market Garden is open to the public Tuesday through Sunday from April through October. Jefferson Market To learn more about Jefferson Market Garden, contact us at: Jefferson Market Garden 70A Greenwich Avenue PMB 372 New York, NY 10011-8358 Email: [email protected] Publication created by www.jeffersonmarketgarden.org Map: George Colbert Photographs: Laurie Moody, Bill Thomas, Linda Camardo Publication Design: Anne LaFond, Partnerships for Parks © 2014 facebook.com/jeffersonmarketgarden JefferSOn MArkeT GArden on Greenwich JOIn US! BeCOMe A frIend Of THe GArden! Avenue between Sixth Avenue and West 10th Street Jefferson Market Garden belongs to everyone. is a lush oasis in the heart of Greenwich Village, Whether you visit once a year, once a week or one of Manhattan’s great historic neighborhoods. every day, the Garden will be enriched by your The Garden and the neighboring public library are participation. Although New York City retains both named for an open farmers market located there in the early 19th century and leveled in 1873 ownership of the land through the NYC Department to make room for an ornate Victorian courthouse of Parks and Recreation, the Garden’s upkeep is the designed by Vaux and Withers. responsibility of a community group of volunteers. In 1931, a prison, The Women’s House of Detention, Gardens are fragile and require constant attention was built. In the 60’s when the City threatened to and renewal. Your contributions enable the Garden’s demolish the courthouse, the community organized plants, shrubs, and trees to be maintained in to save it for use as a public library and then splendid seasonal bloom. We hope you appreciate demanded that the prison be torn down and that our efforts, and we invite you to join us in keeping the space be used for a public green space. In the spring of 1975, the first flowers bloomed in what is the Garden alive. Your generosity will make a very now Jefferson Market Garden. visible difference and is deeply appreciated. Born of community activism and grassroots For details on how you can participate, please visit enthusiasm, the very existence of the Garden is www.jeffersonmarketgarden.org proof of what involved citizens can accomplish. Activities in the Garden Local residents and visitors from around the globe visit Jefferson Market Garden to enjoy the serenity of our green, dog-friendly space. You can meet your friends, read a book, listen to your music, do your homework, take photos of the flowers, watch the birds and listen to their songs, count the koi in the pond, work on your computer, stroll around our brick pathway, smell the roses, or simply sit and daydream. On select days during the summer, enjoy musical performances! Some of the Garden’s biggest fans are children. At our Fall Harvest Festival, children paint pumpkins and create their own bird feeders. At our Festival of Flowers in May, they parade through the Garden. We welcome school groups from late Our Green Leaf March, when the Garden is first waking up, till season’s Over the past decade, the Garden has steadily end in October. Field trips strengthened sustainability practices and is to our Garden are scheduled continuing to do so. All products used in the throughout the season. Garden are organic or natural! Our feeding program utilizes compost teas and organic microbes for our trees, shrubs, and flowers. Jefferson Market Garden hosts wedding ceremonies Many of our plantings are selected for the during our season. Couples purpose of attracting butterflies and birds. can join a growing list of New For our visiting birds, our koi pond and Yorkers that includes Miranda rose-garden fountain furnish hydration and Steve from Sex and the opportunities, and our bird houses provide City and take their vows on the possibilities for shelter. Throughout the year Garden’s lush center lawn. our small Garden hosts Blue Jays, Downy Details for planning a Garden wedding are available at: Woodpeckers, Cardinals, Purple Martins, Black-capped Chickadees, Red-eyed Vireos, Tufted Titmice, Robins, Mourning Doves, www.jeffersonmarketgarden.org Eastern PeWees, and many kinds of Sparrows. About the Garden Circle the Garden along the brick path. In the recent redesign, the primary planting areas are at the perimeter, with a green expanse in the center. To the east of the entrance gate is a herbaceous border of annuals, perennials, and seasonal flowering plants. New bulbs are featured every year, and there is always something in bloom in this area. Continue counterclockwise to a bed of native plants where indigenous ferns enjoy a cool place in the shade. Next, the rose garden is a June highlight. At the back of the Garden are evergreens, flowering shrubs, rhododendrons, and a changing display of annuals. The pond, just beyond the greenhouse, is a habitat for koi and shubunkin goldfish as well as water lilies and papyrus. Behind the pond, an elevated woodland garden thrives in the deep shade of Tenth Street. West along Greenwich Avenue is a second herbaceous border leading back to the entrance gate. Sculpting the space a little higher off the ground are some of the Garden’s trees: star and saucer magnolias, crabapples, and one rare American yellowwood. New York Public Library Sixth Ave (Avenue of the Americas) E Jefferson Market Branch S W Manhattan star green magnolias house magnolia pagoda tree pagoda butterflies AND GUENTER VOLLATH © GEORGE COLBERT tree yellowwood fountain zelkova rose garden fishpond stewartia Jefferson Market star West 10th St magnolia star Garden magnolia crabapple crabapple seven son saucer magnolia saucer magnolia weeping crabapples birch dogwood dogwood 40 FEET Greenwich Ave.
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