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Conservatory Garden Review

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Conservatory Garden

  • Address: Near 5th Ave. and E. 105th St., Central Park, New York, NY | Map It
  • Phone: 212/360-2766

Fodor's Review:

These magnificent formal gardens occupy 6 acres south of the Harlem Meer in Central Park's northeast corner. The conservatory's entrance is marked by elaborate wrought-iron gates that once graced the midtown 5th Avenue mansion of Cornelius Vanderbilt II. The classic Italian-style Central Garden has a lawn bordered by yew hedges and cool crab-apple allées. Across the lawn is the large Conservatory Fountain, beyond which a semicircular wisteria-draped pergola rises into the hillside. The French-inspired North Garden marshals large numbers of bedding plants into elaborate floral patterns. The three bronze girls dancing in the Untermeyer Fountain are at the heart of a circular bed where 20,000 tulips bloom in spring and 2,000 chrysanthemums herald autumn. Perennials in the English-style South Garden surround a statue of characters from the classic children's book The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

  • Cost: Free
  • Open: Daily 8-dusk
  • Subway: 6 to 103rd St.

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