The New York Restoration Project is holding its NYC Grows event at Union Square tomorrow. NYC Grows will give people the opportunity to learn more about gardening, urban farming, organic cooking and more through demonstrations and activities. And Woolly Pockets—which makes recycled gardening containers for indoor and outdoor use—has put up a “Living Green Wall” of edible plants and lush Native New York plant species on the Southern plaza of Union Square. And if you sign up to be a member of NYRP tomorrow, you get a free plant, too! more ›

Our earlier photo gallery looked at the buildings and benches of the High Line- let's take a closer look at some of the pretty flowers! [PS: if you're going to visit the High Line and take some pictures, tag them Gothamist on Flickr-- we'll post the best ones tomorrow or Wednesday.] more ›

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden has picked through the weeds for the 14th time, to find The Greenest Blocks in Brooklyn, and they announced the winners of the annual contest this morning. more ›

The worldwide Guerrilla Gardening movement has been around in some form for quite a while, in New York the Green Guerillas even took over a vacant lot on Bowery in the 70s. Since then some residents of the city have been embracing the idea of secretly beautifying the landscape and beginning their own guerrilla groups here. There's solo mission seed bombings and joining community tilling troupes like Bushwick's Trees Not Trash...but what about the more "illicit cultivation," the more underground nocturnal planting. more ›

First Lady Laura Bush was in Battery Park yesterday to help the National Park Foundation launch First Bloom, a program to encourage children in urban centers to learn about the environment and what they can do for their parks and neighborhoods. more ›

Tishman Speyer, the real estate company that bought Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village for $5.4 billion in 2006, is going on a landscaping binge at the sprawling housing complex. The company plans on planting approximately 200,000 plants across the property's 80 acres, including 10,000 trees and more than 3,000 shrubs. The net effect on one resident was that it feel as if she were in a suburban oasis in the city. more ›