Lafayette Greens

Voted Best Garden in Detroit 2022

by Quality Business Awards

Lafayette Greens is a green space and urban garden in the heart of downtown Detroit, next door to the famous Coney Islands and across the street from the fabulous Westin Book Cadillac Hotel. Visitors, city workers, and neighborhood residents enjoy and relax in the space,  watch veggies and flowers grow during the summer and enjoy seasonal programming. The award-winning garden, created by Kenneth Weikal Landscape Architecture, was donated to The Greening of Detroit by Compuware in 2014.

The Greening grows chemical-free fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers every year.   In 2019 we started focusing on pollinator habitat which is so rare in the city. We are a certified pollinator garden and focus on growing plants for butterflies, native and honey bees and birds. Our programming features classes on native bees, birds and pollinator plants. We also offer a series called DIG - Detroiters in the Garden - a community education program in partnership with Fort Street Presbyterian Church’s Open Door program. See more below.

Lafayette Greens is invaluable asset to the city of Detroit. This green space is a place of respite and solitude; a place where people reconnect with beauty and experience nature; a place of education and discovery. Stop in and see what we are up to.

Check out the drone video of Lafayette Greens from Iron Skys LLC. The Detroit Cobra’s played the garden in 2018 and it was super fun. Check it out! 

Events

Looking to get married?
Need a space for a pop up?
Hold a meeting outside?
Want a guided tour?

Lafayette Greens is open to helping you have a perfect time in a beautiful space

Contact info@greeningofdetroit.com for more information

ART and CULTURE

Lafayette Greens is an active community space, showcasing it’s creative installations of not only plants and flowers, but public art, music, and weekly community yoga classes. In 2020 look for the DIA Inside/Out to be in the garden

The gardens focus is on flowering plants and pollinator education. Look for classes on raising butterflies in your backyard. The importance of honey bees and wild bees and more!

Lafayette Greens is open to the public from April to September, Monday through Friday, 9 am- 7 pm.  Stop in and do a self-guided tour or come and drop by and have your lunch in a beautiful space. 

Volunteers

Attention: Master Gardeners and Volunteers ! Looking to log volunteer hours? Lafayette Greens is an approved project with MSU. We are looking for MG’s to act as docents so we can have the garden open on the weekends during June - September 2020. Flexible hours Saturdays and Sundays from 10 am to 6pm. For more information email info@greeningofdetroit.com

Generously Supported by

Americana Foundation

Mahindra North America

The Greening of Detroit Park in honor of Elizabeth Gordon Sachs 

The Greening of Detroit dedicated this park to Elizabeth Gordon Sachs in the late 1990s.  Sachs founded the organization in 1989 to reforest the city of Detroit.  This park is located at 1463 E. Jefferson, just east of downtown Detroit.

The pavilion or as local residents call "The Tubes" was designed by architect Andrew Zago. This space is used as a gathering spot for The Greening's  youth Green Corp. employees and residents of Lafayette Park neigborhood during the summer months.