Private and community gardens in Prospect Heights, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.

The Brownstone Brooklyn Garden District, sponsor of the Garden Walk, evolved from a decade of community environmental concern to green and beautify the neighborhoods of Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights and Fort Greene. Gardens and green spaces--public parks, community gardens, campus gardens, grade-school gardens, church gardens, restaurant gardens, tree-pit gardens and hundreds of street gardens--define the Garden District.

Highlights of Garden Walk 2008 include: two American cottage gardens separated by a hedgerow of roses, a courtyard garden with decorative potager, an 1830s cottage in a charming eminent domain-endangered garden now before the U.S. Supreme Court (within Bruce Ratner's troubled Atlantic Yards proposed borders), a master potter's astonishing mini-BBG (in creation) garden spanning three verdant lots back of his house-and-kiln, a montane stream falling over mossy rock ledges into a stocked (goldfish/carp) pond on a Brooklyn backyard mountain, and an 1839 farmhouse in a double-wide garden with century-old trees and carriage house.

The Garden Walk brings attention to the singular qualities of the district's community and private gardens. The Walk provides gardeners and garden walkers with an opportunity to share gardening tips, cuttings, and nursery finds. Ticket sales support the Annual Fall Bulb Give-away, which adds thousands of spring-flowering bulbs to the streets of the Garden District.

The Fort Greene Association is the 501(c)(3) parent organization for the Brownstone Brooklyn Garden District.

• Advance tickets: $15 Sundays at The Brooklyn Flea (Lafayette between Vanderbilt and Clermont Avenues); also online at BrownPaperTickets.com.
• Day of walk tickets: $20 at Thirst (187 DeKalb Ave. at Vanderbilt, Fort Greene) and The Forest Floor (659 Vanderbilt Ave. at Park Place, Prospect Heights). Advance ticket holders must pick up a Garden Walk Map Brochure at one of these locations before starting the self-guided Garden Walk. For more information call (718) 219-2137.
• Press contact: Patti Hagan (718) 219-2137 ph.brooklyn@gmail.com.