If you've been to the Cloisters, the Met's reconstructed monastery, you probably couldn't resist a walk through the gardens of Fort Tryon Park. The 67-acre public park has thousands of blossoms bursting into Technicolor glory each spring--sunflowers, snapdragons, tulips, roses, irises, hydrangeas, begonias, azaleas. There are, in fact, more than 500 varieties of plants growing on this historic Revolutionary War battleground. The most impressive array of blooms is found in the Heather Gar... More »
