Brooklyn Botanic Garden Herb and Vegetable garden
“The Herb Garden serves as a vibrant living classroom where the community can learn practical urban food gardening techniques and tips for making sustainable food choices. The garden is designed to be a decorative but utilitarian potager, or kitchen garden, that freely mixes medicinal and culinary herbs, vegetables, berries, fruit trees, and flowers.”
— Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brooklyn, New York
modern reinterpretation
Richard Hartlage led the design and development of the first new display garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden since 1954. Created as a replacement for the original Herb Garden displaced by the new Visitor Center, this modern reinterpretation was designed and constructed in advance of the center's completion.
Richard Hartlage’s design set a bold new aesthetic direction that informed the broader master plan for the garden. Through visionary leadership and close collaboration with horticultural staff and donors, he created a dynamic space that has been widely embraced and is now a celebrated highlight of the garden.
