GARDE ROSE

A not-too-sweaty August afternoon was the perfect time for Garde Rose, a flower exchange led by the aproned Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay and Mark Clintberg. Guests were asked to bring a single flower to the garden, be it a pedestrian rose or sultry orchid. The artists then catalogued the floral offering and set it on its […]

BULB PLANTING DAY!

On October 21st, the garden participated in the planting of daffodil bulbs donated by Hans van Waardenburg, a Dutch bulb supplier in memory of 9/11. Yellow is the color of remembrance, and much thanks to New Yorkers for Parks, who distributed the bulbs for us and other parks and gardens throughout NYC.

OKTOBERKORE — WHIP’D UP HARVEST CREAMY DELIGHTS, BAKED MUSIC FOR LOVE

The Losaida United Neighborhood Gardens (LUNGS) presented the Harvest Arts Festival in the Gardens, a beautiful fall festival that showcased 24 community gardens in the Lower East Side. Each garden designed its own creative program for the festival. One of Le Petite Versailles’s offerings was the musical stylings of Whip Whipperton on piano and autoharp, […]

LPV FAERIE WORK DAY(S)

Le Petit Versailles is not all about music and art and parties, kweens! It’s about work too! The compost isn’t going to turn itself! Although there is work to do, it doesn’t mean we don’t have to have fun doing it. The arbor needed a serious cleaning, and we definitely had enough hands to bring […]