With spring at hand, we are gearing up for the season and making the garden shipshape for our visitors. A substantial effort is required to make our five current water features operational: the gardeners have been cleaning the canals, mucking out pits, and charging water lines. Our plan is to turn the water on this weekend if all goes well.
Dear Friends of Untermyer Gardens, With spring at hand, we are gearing up for the season and making the garden shipshape for our visitors. A substantial effort is required to make our five current water features operational: the gardeners have been cleaning the canals, mucking out pits, and charging water lines. Our plan is to turn the water on this weekend if all goes well. The daffodils below the Temple of Love are a vivid harbinger of spring, with their sunny colors and captivating fragrance. If you look in the woods, you can see remnants of a simpler type planted by Samuel Untermyer more than 100 years ago. They live a long time! Not to be outdone, some charming low-growing bulbs are flowering near the Temple of the Sky. The stairs flanking the Temple of the Sky and leading to the lower terrace are based on the design of the monumental stairs in the courtyard of the Doge’s Palace in Venice. As part of the Persian Pool construction, we have added lighting to the stairs. I couldn’t be more pleased with the simple, unobtrusive fixtures selected by our lighting designer, Jerry Kugler. The pool itself will be fitted with underwater lights, which will be a splendid addition to our Holiday Illumination come December. Starting this weekend, our stalwart volunteer greeters will be in the welcome tent to answer questions and help visitors enjoy all the delights of the garden. Also at the tent, our book, Forgotten No More: The Restoration of Untermyer Gardens, may be purchased for $20 or picked up if it was purchased online. Our schedule of public tours begins on Sunday, April 23. As we did in 2022, we will offer two separate history tours; the improved garden is now too big to cover in a single tour. One covers the Walled Garden to the Vista, the other the Vegetable Garden to the Temple of Love. Both tours offer outstanding interest and beauty; tickets may be purchased here.
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