Northern Spur Preserve: Ramp revealed!

   [View looking north at the Northern spur over 10th Avenue.] Work is quickly progressing at the Northern spur, a horticultural preserve located on a portion of the High Line that juts across 10th Avenue, just north of Chelsea Market.  The landscape at the Northern spur is designed to recall the self-sown landscape that grew up on the High Line after [...]

(Return of) Photo of the Week

[The planting team hard at work on Section 1, getting perennials into the ground last fall. Photo by Barry Munger.]

Planting on the High Line!

High Line grasses and perennials arrived onsite at 6am this morning. Friends of the High Line Deputy Director of Horticulture Melissa Fisher is working on the installation of the plants along with the High Line construction and landscape team including: SiteWorks, Kelco Landscaping, Inc., The Plant Group, planting designer Piet Oudolf, and landscape architects Field Operations. [Grasses and perennials arrived on site at 6am this [...]

Dispatches from the Nursery

[Gay Kepple from Millane Nursery, tagging the tented Hamamelis Pallida for a planting area on the High Line] Sierra Bainbridge and Maura Rockcastle at Field Operations, the landscape architecture firm leading the High Line design team, have been traveling to plant nurseries around the east coast in search of native plants for the High Line. [...]

Gardens Inspired by Nature

On Tuesday night we had our first membership event: a lecture with the High Line’s planting designer, Piet Oudolf. You may have seen Piet’s beautiful work in the gardens at Battery Park City, Millennium Park in Chicago, or at other sites elsewhere around the world. Piet discussed his theory of planting design, which he describes [...]

“Brown is also a color”: Planting Designer Piet Oudolf Accepts Death

The New York Times ran a weekend profile on Dutch planting designer Piet Oudolf, who is now at work on plans for the High Line. The Home & Garden piece paints Piet as somewhat of a revolutionary in his holisitic approach to plant life cycle. He claims,“The skeletons of the plants are for me as [...]