The Brownstone Brooklyn Garden Walk
Sunday, June 4, 2006
The Brownstone Brooklyn Garden District’s Annual Garden Walk will take place on Sunday, June 4th, 2006 from 11:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Up to fifteen private and ten community gardens may be visited on the self-guided walking tour through the three historic Brooklyn neighborhoods of Prospect Heights, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Advance tickets may be purchased for $15.00 at Tillie’s (248 DeKalb Ave. at Vanderbilt Ave. in Fort Greene), and the Forest Floor (659 Vanderbilt Ave. at Park Place in Prospect Heights). Advance tickets may also be purchased by mail up to two weeks before the Garden Walk. Please send a check or money order and a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the Brownstone Brooklyn Garden District, 29 South Elliott Place, Brooklyn, New York 11217.
Tickets purchased on the day of the tour, June 4th, will cost $20 and may be purchased at Tillies, the Forest Floor, or the BAM Garden (intersection of Fulton Street and Lafayette Avenue). Advance ticket holders must pick-up a Tour Brochure at one of these locations before beginning the self-guided tour. Courtesy van service will be provided. For additional tour information please call the Garden Walk Hotline at (718) 707-1277.
The Brownstone Brooklyn Garden District, the sponsor of the Garden Walk, is an outgrowth of community efforts over the past few years to make the neighborhoods of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Prospect Heights greener and more beautiful. Gardens and green-spaces define the Garden District: public parks, community gardens, campus gardens, church gardens, tree pit gardens and hundreds of front yard gardens. Highlights of this year’s tour include a lovely shade garden belonging to world renowned garden writer Ken Druse, a hundred year old garden still planted with the original crabapple trees and many rare specimen plants, and a spectacular triple garden linked across three properties by paths and a stream. The Garden Walk calls attention to the unique quality of the District’s public and private gardens and provides residents and guests with the opportunity to share garden design and horticultural tips. Our Annual Garden Walk ticket sales support the Annual Fall Bulb Give-away, which encourages a signature array of flowering bulbs throughout the Garden District.
* For further information and photographs please call Peggy Elwert at (718) 622-2897. The Fort Greene Association is the 501 © 3 parent organization for the Brownstone Brooklyn Garden District.
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Other tour areas such as Cobble Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope, etc. will be announced here as information becomes available.
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