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By Lorraine • Jan 14th, 2010 • Category: Favourite Gardens, Fresh Dirt, Gardens
I love New York City at Christmastime: the sidewalk vendors roasting chestnuts; skaters at Bryant Park; open-air craft booths that sprout up in Central Park — and now, the High Line.
Non-gardeners just shake their heads when I tell them one of the highlights of a recent pre-Christmas trip to New York (apart from the no-hassle flight on Porter Air…) was a brisk walk along the elevated park that runs from Gansevoort in the Meat Packing District to just beyond Chelsea Market. I admit, the grass-lined walkway wasn’t bustling, and the wind whipped the bitter cold air into an icy, body-numbing cold, but it made the subsequent lunch at a cosy little Soho bistro all the more warming. And, winter isn’t such a bad time to look at a garden. The ornamental grasses obligingly bent to the wind and you could clearly see the way designer Piet Oudolf wove the plants into the patterns made by the old rail lines.
Lorraine is a garden writer and Master Gardener.
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Lorraine, I’m looking forward to seeing the High Line one day soon, and oh yes you can bet I’ll be flying Porter if I can. Great opening shot with the ornaments.
Hi Helen,
Yes, the High Line is quite wonderful — even in winter. Can’t wait to see it in summer, too. The opening shot you like so much is taken at Columbus Circle, right on the edge of Central Park.
i have never been to NY… the roasted chessnuts sound great! Thanks lorriane!
Adam
Those roasted chestnuts do look warming on a chilly winter’s day, don’t they?
The High Line is wonderful. I saw it in the fall. Wouldn’t it fun if the Gardiner in Toronto could be garden? But then how would I get into town? Oh, well…
Cheers/Yvonne
The High Line is somewhere I’d like to visit in each season of the year to see the changes in plant material and ambiance.
Missed you at last night’s Matthew Wilson lecture!
Lorraine