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==Description== [[File:Strawberry Fields in the Central Park with The Dakota behind.jpg|thumb|left |Strawberry Fields with The Dakota in the background]] The entrance to the memorial is located on [[Central Park West]] at West [[72nd Street (Manhattan)|72nd Street]], near where [[murder of John Lennon|John Lennon was murdered]] outside [[The Dakota]], the apartment building in which he lived. The memorial is a triangular piece of land falling away on the two sides of the park, and its focal point is a circular pathway [[mosaic]] of inlaid stones, with a single word, the title of Lennon's most famous song "[[Imagine (John Lennon song)|Imagine]]". The mosaic, in the style of [[Portuguese pavement]], is based on a Greco-Roman design. It was created by Italian craftsmen and was donated as a gift by the Italian city of [[Naples]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.centralpark.com/guide/attractions/strawberry-fields.html|title=Strawberry Fields|website=centralpark.com|access-date=July 20, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.centralparknyc.org/things-to-see-and-do/attractions/strawberry-fields.html|title=Strawberry Fields|publisher=Central Park Conservancy|language=en|access-date=October 17, 2019}}</ref> A "floral border" surrounds Strawberry Fields.<ref name=":0">{{cite news|title=A living memorial for Lennon|last=Lewis|first=John|date=August 30, 1981|work=New York Daily News|pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30641037/ 246], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30641093/ 254]|via=Newspapers.com {{open access}}}}</ref> Along the borders of the area surrounding the mosaic are benches which are endowed in memory of other individuals and maintained by the Central Park Conservancy. Along a path toward the southeast, a plaque on a low glaciated outcropping of [[schist]] lists the nations which contributed to building the memorial. Lennon's widow [[Yoko Ono]], who still lives in The Dakota, contributed over a million dollars for the landscaping and the upkeep endowment. The mosaics at the heart of a series of open and secret glades of lawn and glacier-carved rock outcroppings, bounded by shrubs and mature trees and woodland slopes, all designated a "quiet zone". A woodland walk winds through edge plantings between the glade-like upper lawn and the steep wooded slopes; it contains native [[rhododendron]]s and [[Ilex|hollies]], [[Calycanthus floridus|Carolina allspice (''Calycanthus floridus'')]], [[Kalmia latifolia|mountain laurel (''Kalmia latifolia'')]], [[viburnum]]s, and [[jetbead]]. Wild shrub roses and a mature pink ''[[Magnolia Γ soulangeana]]'' flank the main walk. At the farthest northern tip of the upper series of lawns enclosed by woodland are three [[Metasequoia glyptostroboides|dawn redwood]] trees, which lose their needles but regain them every spring, an emblem of eternal renewal. The trees can be expected to reach a height of {{convert|36|m|ft}} within 100 years, and eventually they will be visible from great distances in the park.
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