A dear friend took me to an amazing garden in New York City yesterday that in all the years I have lived there I had never visited before. Penn Station and the Empire State Building are six blocks away. Adams at Columbia Garden. The hotel is one block from Madison Square Park.

I wanted to be all of them! The area has done well out of gentrification. The Conservatory Garden is especially enchanting with bowers of blooms and seemingly endless rows of flowers. New Orleans and the expressways.

George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1888 and 1895. THE CONSERVATORY GARDEN in Central Park. Each offers its own unique charm to the fragrant art of floricultural seduction. Have a blast at your reception.