Jardín comunitario del lado oeste

About two thirds of the property is devoted to flowers and one third to vegetables and herbs. Gardeners maintain and use the greenhouse at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine to raise almost all the flowers planted at the garden, and coordinate the work load and donate plants to the Cathedral gardens, the Broadway Mall Gardeners, Riverside Park gardeners, the 111th Street garden and other neighborhood gardens. In the gated vegetable garden area near West 90th Street, there are 87 individual vegetable beds,6 school class plots, a berry patch and a rose garden. There are also community compost bins where garden members a may deposit their coffee grounds and other vegetable waste. Along the west fence is a community herb bed, and espaliered fruit trees. There are more fruit trees planted along 90th Street and a large persimmon tree that produces fruit each autumn.

Outside the vegetable fence is a walkway between West 90th Street and 89th Streets, a favored mid-block easement pass-through for the neighborhood. Along that path near 90th street is a perennial garden by the vegetable garden fence. A shade garden holds river birches, Chinese cedar trees and ornamental shrubs along the buildings on the east side of the pathway. At the midpoint between 89th and 90th Streets is a large rockery designed by Nadia Zamichow, and a trellis on both sides with seating. All the plantings in these areas are Community plantings open to volunteers and members. Near 89th Street is a tiered floral amphitheater with 26 Flower plots assigned to individual Flower Committee members. In the middle of the amphitheater is a sunken lawn oval - which serves as a playing area for the yearly children's Shakespeare Festival, and a seating area for the Sunday Summer Concert series,"Music in a Garden."

The garden has two aerated-static compost bins. See Program section for more details.

The garden's greenhouse facility is located at the backyard of The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine.

The garden has composted from the early days of the garden, gathering food scraps and garden waste from the garden membership. In 2019, the garden started a weekly food scrap dropoff program for the community. The composting program is led by a NYC Master Composter, who leads a volunteer team of 130 garden members to manage has aerated static pile that create compost for use in the garden. The WSCG participates in the NYC Food Scrap Drop Off Network.^[2]

In 2023, the garden's compost program won a grant from Greenacre Foundation, which funded the construction of its two aerated-static compost bins.

El jardín organiza un evento benéfico anual cada junio, que es el único evento cerrado al público y al que solo pueden acceder quienes tengan entrada.

El jardín organiza a sus miembros para plantar tulipanes cada año, y su premiado festival anual de tulipanes ha atraído a visitantes de todo el mundo. ^{[ 3 ]}

El jardín también cuenta con una serie anual de conciertos de música que se lleva a cabo de mayo a junio. ^{[ 4 ]}