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There's just nothing like it.
Gardens bring beauty, organic vegetables and herbs,
increased quality-of-life, beneficial wildlife, exercise, and fun.
Both my home town and our new town have populations hovering near 5,000...just a tad different from the island of Manhattan where I gardened for 18 years. But, the basics of gardening are the same no matter where you live.
I'm often asked, "Where can I plant flowers on my street?
Please click on Book Cover & Contents for private and public gardening ideas.
Every town has a Main Street and some public space to garden - a park or area set aside to honor our past. Whether placing a few tulips to herald spring in a container by the mailbox, growing ornamental grasses aside
a plaque recalling a Revolutionary or Civil War battle, or planting daffodil bulbs in memory of 9/11...inquire at
Town Hall, or call the park manager or local garden club.
Please maximize your window for your viewing pleasure!
Add the heady fragrance from the flowers you grew from seed,
the beauty of a cultivated street tree bed.
the thrill of tasting your first organic tomato,
or let time slip away observing Eastern Bluebirds feed their young,
while watching a Monarch butterfly dance on the wind a few feet away.
Now you really are a gardener!
Garden Your City is a down-to-earth, how-to-get-gardening primer.
Don't think you have a place? You do. And learn where to expand your horizons.
You really can garden anywhere you live.
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Community Involvement, Interviews
Garden Design, Lectures, Articles
Putnam County Farm Tours October 6th - Cold Spring Farmer's Market
Barbara will be signing books at the ticket booth & answering your questions
Secret Garden Tour, PARC June 2007
Barbara Hobens Feldt, organic garden and forestscape designer, donated time and talent offering consultations from resident and tourist photographs, sketches, and descriptions. Many a "I never thought of that!" led to on-site consultations, Garden Your City sales, and trips to local nurseries to aid in selecting the best plants for the right place. "Learn what to look for, avoid, and what will thrive for you," suggested Barbara on her oft played radio interview with WHUD's Kasey.
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Speaker, PHILADELPHIA FLOWER SHOW Lecture Series 2006, 2007
www.theflowershow.com
Presentations
Philipstown Garden Club
Hudson Valley Festival
The New York Times Great Read in the Park;
Lectures & booksignings at Gardens, Nurseries, and Bookstores in Chicago & New York City
Hosted Volunteer Gardeners in NYC Parks Party, The Arsenal rooftop, Central Park
Launch Party, Smith & Hawkin, SoHo
Email (click on Contact Us page) to schedule personalized lectures (PowerPoint presentations), Gardening Classes, design consulations, and nursery trips.
Television
Author, Barbara Hobens Feldt, featured on two episodes of
Home & Garden Television - (HGTV)
Paul James' Gardening by the Yard
Roof Gardening first aired August 5; Hillside Gardening September 16, 2006
Click Contact Us to the left for details & rerun dates!
Magazines
Better Homes & Gardens' Garden Ideas & Outdoor Living, Summer 2006,
Horticulture, and The American Gardener (American Horticultural Society)
Click Contents & Cover and Garden Your City for reviews
. . . articles written for Mother Earth News, Habitat, Manhattan Living,
Las Vegas Home & Design
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Lecture Series Speaker at PHILADELPHIA FLOWER SHOW - 2006 and 2007
www.theflowershow.com
Presentations and signings:
Philipstown Garden Club, Hudson Valley Festival
Signing booth at The New York Times Great Read in the Park;
Lectures & booksignings at Gardens, Nurseries, and Bookstores in Chicago & New York City
Hosted Volunteer Gardeners in MYC Parks Party on The Arsenal roof, Central Park
Launch Party held at Smith & Hawkin, SoHo
Email to book lectures, interviews, and television spots.
GARDEN YOUR CITY is ideal for volunteer projects, school gardens, and food garden beginners.
Hardcover | 232 pages | 50 illustrations; color photos
Illustrations by talented illustrator & fabulous gardener PAULA BRINKMAN.
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Garden Your City is available everywhere books are sold.
Click on these links - if not in, they can order for you.
Booksense | Amazon | Barnes & Noble
BooksAMillion | Borders | Bookstore List
This is the official website of the book, Garden Your City
and for inspiration for personal and public gardening projects.
REBUILT PIER 84 OPENS - NY STATE, NYC & COMMUNITY MADE IT HAPPEN
The Hudson River Park Trust rebuilt the collapsed pier and the joyous ribbon-cutting was held October 17, 2006. Friends of Pier 84 had formed to ensure safe public access, but soon faced the challenge of defeating plans for a tourist heliport to operate on an enormous aircraft carrier that would have destroyed Pier 84. They won. It took a mere twelve years of volunteer enthusiasm to celebrate "mission accomplished." The viewing garden at the entrance was designed by the founder and director of the Manhattan Botanical Garden, Barbara Feldt. The Greenacre Foundation and The New York City Environmental Fund provided support for native trees, shrubs, and perennials.
Pier 84 is the largest public pier in the five-mile Hudson River Park that stretches from 59th Street to Battery Park City. The End Hook that juts out into the Hudson River estuary offers commanding views and welcome summer breezes; it was beautifully restored. There is a spiral dancing fountain to run through, a dog run, a gentle (real grass!) hillside to catch some rays on, a fascinating all-age play area, community boathouse, and coming soon - a park store and restaurant.
The original structure was built in the mid-1920's at the end of West 44th Street for commercial ships and passenger liners. Grace Kelly sailed from Pier 84 to marry the Prince of Monaco. The historic WWII carrier,Intrepid, will return to the north (being restored) and Circle Line tours are to the south.
Photo of pre-reconstruction of Pier 84, Summer 2003
Garden Your City is for those who want to, but don't think they have a place to garden, for those that have their own private space to grow but no idea how to start, and for individuals or groups who want to beautify their building, block, park, community, or city. Beautification through gardening is an activity for all ages and is an ideal volunteer projects for every community.
Every place you stand has history...
research and learn about it,
then celebrate through gardening.
Garrit's Parterres, researched and designed by
Barbara Feldt, is part of the reconstructed gardens
of Striker's Mansion (1818-1872)
in DeWitt Clinton Park
overlooking the Hudson River in Manhattan.
In 2006, horticulture-savvy Speaker of the NYC Council, Christine Quinn and Mayor Mike Bloomberg earmarked funding for needed renovations in DeWitt Clinton Park.
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