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Earth Day, on Sunday, April 22, is the culmination of High Line Spring Cutback, our biggest horticultural task of the year, and a celebration of the beginning of spring.

Join us in thanking our dedicated volunteers during a volunteer recognition ceremony, bring the kids for live music, seed ball-making, and a giant community mural, or witness Alison Knowles’ participatory art performance, Make a Salad, in which the artist mixes a giant salad and serves it to the crowd.

See a full schedule of events for the day.

Spring is a great time to visit the High Line. There are so many spring bulbs and blooms popping up throughout the park, with more appearing daily.

Make the most of your next visit to the High Line with our first full-color monthly bloom guide for April. This downloadable resource covers the full mile of High Line plantings, highlighting the blooms you’ll find currently on-view, with photographs and locations to help you with identification.

Download April’s bloom guideand a map.

Stop by the High Line in the coming weeks, and you will find a remarkable transformation underway.

High Line Gardeners are busily working with more than 300 community volunteers to complete High Line Spring Cutback – our biggest horticultural task of the year. The High Line’s plants are not trimmed back at the onset of the cold weather, as is typical in most gardens. Instead, the wild grasses, skeletal plant stalks, and dried seed heads define the High Line’s winter landscape. Now that spring has arrived, we must work quickly to cut back the plants to make way for new growth.

Learn more about High Line Spring Cutback.

Last night we unveiled the initial design concepts for the rail yards section of the High Line at a community input meeting in Chelsea.

More than 400 neighbors, supporters, members, and friends turned out to listen to James Corner and Ric Scofidio, of the High Line Design Team, present their concepts, share their feedback, and ask questions.

Learn more, view the designs, and share feedback.