A Visit to an Amazing Fall Garden: Wave Hill - Gardenista
When you walk through the entrance gate at Wave Hill, a public garden located north of Manhattan in the Riverdale section of the Bronx... ...the first thing that draws your eye is the pergola overlook, surrounded by containers of tropical plants. Wave Hill exists, against all odds, in pristine and untouched condition. Roosevelt was a young teenager at the time and is said to have developed his love of nature while living at Wave Hill. Years later, when Roosevelt was governor of New York, the Palisades, a geological formation more than 30 million years old, was threatened by destructive industrial practices. In 1900 he created The Palisades Interstate Park Commission and appointed George W. Perkins, a dedicated conservationist and aide to financier J. P. Morgan, to run it. Perkins lived there until his death in 1920; 40 years later his descendants gave the property to the City of New York. Today’s visitor is the beneficiary of Perkins’ hard work and vision. Visit the flower garden in front of the Marco Polo Stufano Conservatory. Better yet, have a seat in one of the comfy wooden lawn chairs and listen to the birdsong while you watch the river glisten below. For flower beds that look this healthy at home, enrich your soil. Miracle-Gro Garden Soil for Flowers & Vegetables can be mixed in with existing soil at a 1:1 ratio.