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The High Line at Gansevoort and West 13th Street, straddled by The Standard Hotel
Watch a brilliant video posted on YouTube to announce the event. Link to another radiant New York City destination by Dutch designer, Piet Ouldolf: The Battery Gardens
Parliament of Reality – A permanent installation by artist Olafur Eliasson …
in the Hudson River Valley. In this environmental artwork – completed between 2006-2009 – Eliasson achieves a clarity of design with elements focusing upon an island of bluestone encircled by a pond. Commissioned for the Bard College campus in upstate New York by the Center for Curatorial Studies, the setting is embraced by a ring of 24 trees.
Access to the island is via a bridgeway covered by a steel latticework passage.
In the center of the pond, the island’s circular form resonates with distinctive stone paving, forming a 12-point pattern that references the meridian lines of nautical charts and the compass.  Eliasson Installation: Deborah Esrick Photo
The Parliament of Reality is located on the north end of Bard’s campus, in a field near the Frank Gehry-designed Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts building.
New York City - Battery Park Gardens  Battery Bosque - Stony Creek granite bench (Alice Joyce photo) At the southwestern tip of Manhattan, the gardens of Historic Battery Park rise up from a once neglected area of New York City. Since the completion of the Battery gardens, its rebirth so to speak in 2005, much has been written about the exuberant, flower-filled planting plan created by the brilliant Dutch plantsman, Piet Oudolf.  The Battery Bosque (Alice Joyce photo) A sunlit area – The Gardens of Remembrance – pays tribute to those who perished on 9/11, and to the survivors who gathered here. Stony Creek – a granite bench runs 1,500 feet along the length of the promenade, configured as the “prow of Manhattan Island.”
 Battery Conservancy photo
Parthenium integrifolium Panicum ‘Dallas Blues’ & Helenium ‘Rubinzwerg’
 Bosque Garden (Battery Conservancy photo) The Battery is built on top of 3 subway lines and 2 major transportation tunnels. The Oudolf-designed gardens comprise 4 acres, while a the 6-acre Perimeter Bikeway garden should be completed in 2012.
 Allium (Alice Joyce photo)  Epimedium .. Battery Bosque (Alice Joyce photo) The Battery landscape is maintained free of chemicals and fertilizers. A wealth of woodland and prairie plants are nurtured within these 4 acres, to produce an astounding annual surplus of 75,000 perennial plants that can be planted in other public gardens in New York City. In essence, the parkland is a 100 per cent sustainable farm! The history of this land goes back hundreds of years to the Dutch settlers, and earlier still, to the region’s Native Americans.  Swathes of Alliums - Bosque Garden The Battery Conservancy photo Swathes of Allium ‘Globemaster’ & Allium ‘Purple Sensation’commingle in the Bosque gardens with drifts of complementary perennials; key elements in an Oudolf design, which preserved a stately grove of plane trees.
 Gardens of Remembrance - Battery Conservancy photo In August, Astrantia ‘Roma emerges along with Sanguisorba ‘Red Thunder,’ and Tricyrtis ‘Togen.’ Moving on to Fall, the choice cultivars & species include a host of Asters, Korean feather reed grass, & Panicum v. ’Shenandoah.’ November brings the golden leaves of Ginkgo, fall crocuses, the textural wands of Miscanthus and wispy muhly grass.  Gardens of Remembrance - Battery Conservancy photo Battery Gardens … Landscape Architects: Saratoga Associates |
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