南側には年中を通して観賞できる植物が植えられたイングリッシュ・ガーデンが広がります。
庭の中心にはあのFrances Hodgson Burnettの書物「シークレット・ガーデン」に登場する子供たちメアリーとディコンのブロンズ彫刻が飾られるバ−ネットの泉があります。春はこの噴水の周囲に何千ものラッパスイセンと他の球根植物が咲き、夏には100以上の異なった植物が咲き乱れます。

春と夏の到来をまじかに感じたら、この『Conservatory　Garden』を訪問して素晴らしい眺めをお楽しみ下さい。帰る時には、ここＮＹシティであたかも魅惑的なのヨーロッパの庭園を去るかのような気持ちにさせてくれる場所です。

The Conservatory Garden is a six-acre oasis. This is Central Park’s only formal garden. The name came to fruition of what was once a huge glass conservatory, built in 1898. In 1934, it became too costly, so they tore it down and built what is the present Garden which was opened to the public in 1937. There are three gardens with different
landscape styles: Italian, French and English.

When entering the Garden from the main entrance on Fifth Avenue at 106th Street, one passes through the Vanderbilt Gate which originally stood at the Vanderbilt Mansion at Fifth Avenue and 58th Street which is now the world renowned high-end women’s store Bergdorf Goodman. Once you enter, an Italian style Garden envelops you immediately. It is a formal green lawn with clipped hedges, and is boarded by crabapple trees. Their bloom times vary from mid-April through the first week of May, depending on the weather. A geyser fountain provides a contrast to the rows of hedges. The Italian style Garden is very popular during the spring and summer months for wedding photos.

The north side of the Garden is the classical French - style garden. In the center of the garden is German sculptor Walter Schott’s Three Dancing Maidens, which dates from approximately 1910. (It is also called “The Untermyer Fountain,” after the family who presented it to the City in 1947.) During the spring months, 20,000 tulips bloom, so in the coming months is the time to view the wonderful array of flowers.

The southern garden is English in style. This garden is planted to be viewed for year round interest. In the center of the garden is the Burnett Fountain, a bronze sculpture of two children, Mary and Dickon, characters from the Frances Hodgson Burnett book, Secret Garden. Around this fountain are seasonal planting beds with thousands of daffodils and other types of bulbs during spring, and over 100 different annual plants during the summer months.

In the anticipation for the spring and summer months arriving shortly, one should visit the Conservatory Gardens to take in the brilliant garden landscape. When you leave you will feel as though you just left some enchanted European garden right here in NYC.

For more information:

http://www.centralparknyc.org/virtualpark/northend/conservatorygarden/