Starting in 2014, Jay (the 'Jay' in Jay Gardens) was hired by The Voelker Orth Museum, Bird Sanctuary and Victorian Garden to manage and redesign their extensive gardens. The Voelker Orth is a New York City landmark located in Murray Hill, Queens that preserves a German immigrant family’s 1890s home and garden. Part of Jay's mission at the Voelker Orth is to give the sometimes wasteful Victorian garden sensibility a modern touch of eco-friendly sustainability and design.
THE REDESIGN
In the fall of 2016 the museum went through it's biggest design change to date when a privacy hedge of Leyland Cypress trees fell ill and had to be replaced.