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Season recap part five. September: A gallery on the fence

2025-11-17Karin Kiontke

Aside from beautiful flowers, our garden grows a variety of fruit and vegetables. Everybody who has the tiniest bit of land wants to grow their own delicious tomatoes. Some of our gardeners plant much more than that: different varieties of… Continue Reading →

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Season recap part four. August – September: Monarchs!

2025-11-16Karin Kiontke

As in previous years, Johannes, our butterfly expert, collected eggs and small caterpillars of monarch butterflies to let them grow up in a safe environment (his apartment), free of predators and parasites. This is not an easy feat! Each little… Continue Reading →

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Season recap part three. August: A favorite flower of visitors and bees

2025-11-16Karin Kiontke

A few years ago, one of our gardeners introduced the native passion flower (Passiflora incarnata) into the garden. This plant is fascinating and also a bit of a menace. It seems to really love it in our garden. Thus, it… Continue Reading →

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Season recap part two. A symphony of colors all summer long

2025-11-16Karin Kiontke

While in Spring and early summer, the color palette of our flowers is dominated by pinks and pale blues, in summer, the garden got really bright with different colors. As soon as the Helianthus, Heliopsis (sunflowers), Rudbeckia (black eyed susans… Continue Reading →

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Season recap part one. July: A rabbit!

2025-11-09Karin Kiontke

The growing season is winding down for real now. This coming week, the first frost is expected in our area. All summer long, we were busy gardening instead of adding to this site. But now, the evenings are long and… Continue Reading →

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LaGuardia Corner Gardens is an award-winning community garden in the heart of NYC’s Greenwich Village. It is a place of natural beauty, where the visitor can find an oasis of calm in urban surroundings. Read more...

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The garden is now closed for the season. The gates may be open when a gardener is there, and you are welcome to come in and see how the garden looks in winter. We will resume regular open hours in April.

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511 LaGuardia Place (bet. Bleecker & Houston Streets). Google Map

If you are interested in gardening with us, please contact us at LGCgardens@gmail.com and fill out the application form that you will find if you click "read more" above.

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