The variety of Hyde Park Gardens and Open Spaces, public and private

More gardens! And still more! with links to others. Park garden photo galleries: Park News home. The Garden Fair. Garden Fair site. Green page.

Berm Gardens along 55th Street University to Drexel
	Background Lutheran School of Theology; across the street is the U of C, which maintains the gardens and was the driving force behind their creation. Architect: Wolff- Clements

The Flamingo Hotel, 55th and South Shore: a highly formal garden that extends and yet contrasts with Burnham Park across the street and Promontory Point kitty corner.

A street edge floral burst enhances 1700 E. 56th condominium, across the street from Jackson Park while a mix of annuals and perennials gives life to the edge-fence of the City parking lot at 53rd and Lake Park (managed by the Hyde Park Garden Fair Committee).

Residents of this block east of the University have turned their lawns collectively into a blend of informal flower garden and wilderness with only some lawn. Whole blocks have lines of enormous trees, which lead to creative gardening solutions.

(One unfortunate trend in this reviewer's estimation is to haul in timbers to have raised beds of mostly ground cover smothering the bases and roots of the trees. Too many also use the "volcano" style of mulching rather than creating a berm to hold water and keeping mulch away from tree bases.)

You may wish to contrast the new Midway Plaisance Readers' and Winter Garden, in its setting of rows of stately trees and lawn panels, with both the Wildflower Meadow and the north formal English garden in Nichols Park (navigate from its main page.) Then again there is Jackson Park's Osaka Japanese Garden, contrasted with the Frederick Law Olmsted park template, Wooded Island's natural areas, and Bob-o-link Meadow.