The use of the name "Covent"—an Anglo-French term for a religious community, equivalent to "monastery" or "convent" —appears in a document in 1515, when the Abbey, which had been letting out parcels of land along the north side of the Strand for inns and market gardens, granted a lease of the walled garden, referring to it as "a garden called Covent Garden".
A "garden passport" grants admission to the entire grounds with a tram tour: adults, $7; students and the elderly, $4.50; children 2 to 12, $2; under 2, free.
On the occasion of the publication of his most recent novel, Dissident Gardens, he granted me a charming and candid interview not only about the book, but also about some themes that have remained a force throughout his career.
Last year, through a grant from Organic Gardening magazine, the garden acquired a 1,000-gallon 1,000-gallonmakes watankcollection easier.
In exchange for allowing visitors in, on a limited basis, while restoration proceeds, the garden has also been granted tax relief by New Jersey's Green Acres program.
A "garden passport" combination ticket grants admission to the entire grounds, with a tram tour: adults, $10; students and the elderly, $7.50; children 2 to 12, $4; under 2, free.
The new garden, created with a $15 million grant from the Leon Levy Foundation, is on a site where Elizabeth Knight Britton, the wife of the Garden's founding director, Nathaniel Lord Britton, established a haven for native flowering plants; she is honored here by a bronze plaque from 1940.
The Garden chairman, James L. Dolan, deigned to grant reporters who cover the team a brief audience yesterday, but Thomas was only sharing with his players, during daylong meetings that stretched into rush hour.
The project floated in limbo for more than year before Charles Reinhart, the director of the American Dance Festival in Durham, N.C., suggested that perhaps the National Endowment for the Arts would award the festival a grant to stage "Garden"; the piece could open the festival as a work in progress in June 2007, and New York producers could see it.
Films After the LA riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers, mostly Latino immigrants, created a garden paradise on blighted land granted by the city.
Having already built two apartment blocks in the villa's garden, Abdelaziz says he was granted judicial approval to demolish the villa last March.
