The Battery
State St & Battery Pl, New York, NY 10004, USA
The Battery has over 240,000 square feet of perennial gardens that are free and open to the public every day of the year. The majority of the gardens were designed by Piet Oudolf, starting in 2002. The newest gardens, designed for coastal resiliency projects, were created by Claudia West and Thomas Rainer. The Battery was one of the first public gardens in NYC to go pesticide free in 2017. Although the designers used native plants, we have acticely added more each year.
Learn more: https://www.thebattery.org/about-us/sustainability/
There are hundreds of natives throughout the park. Some highlights are:
Actea racemosa
Anttennaria neglecta
Asclepias species
Cephalanthus occidentalis
Corylus americana
Desmodium canadense
Doelingeria umbellatus
Diervilla lonicera
Erigeron pulchellus
Geranium maculatum
Linderia benzoin
Packera aurea
Tiarella cordifolia
Verbena hastata
Viburnum dentatum