Highly recommend visiting this garden solo, or with family/friends. There is a small paved walkway throughout, but most of the area is grass. There are benches throughout where you can sit down and read a book. Parking is along the street, and I only saw one entrance down along the street on the high school side. There is a building on site that's their Museum and gift shop, however when I went yesterday it was closed and locked. Lots of different people and animal-shaped topiaries, as well as regular small decorative topiaries in pots, like ones you'd find outside residential homes. There is many visually and mentally appealing, from the landscape to the animal life. But they kept to themselves and weren't being rowdy.īut it's well maintained and was beautifully designed. Now keep in mind, this is next to a uniformed high school, so you may find lots of kids there hanging out during or after school. This is a very nice garden you can tour and take photos, or just sit back and enjoy the serenity. Columbus should be proud of the work and should promote it more. This unique attraction is worth being more well-known. Admission is free, though street parking is metered through mobile app. Of course, one could spend more time in the park.
COLUMBUS LIBRARY PARKING FULL
We walked around leisurely covering the full park in less than an hour. I understand this Topiary Park is the only topiary representation of a painting in the world.
Visitors can compare the topiary garden with the painting looking at the relief bronze plaque of the original painting from the top of a slight hill in the park. One can walk among the topiary plants to view closeup how the plants are trained to all the different shapes of people, animals, and objects depicted in the painting. The park site previously had been the home of the Ohio School for the Deaf, and one will see placards on the history of the school along the paths in the park. Topiary Park in Columbus is an unusually beautiful garden that amazingly recreates a scene of a painting through topiaries - the scene in Georges Seurat’s famous painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
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