Offbeat Corporate Giving: A Park Inspired by Peanuts

A new park called Planters Grove, which opened on Monday in a public housing development in New York City, has an unmistakably peanut-inspired design, an effect created by the studied placement of poles amid beds of sage, rosemary and thyme.

In an offbeat act of corporate philanthropy, and self-promotion, Planters, the snack nut brand owned by Kraft Foods, developed and paid for the new park at the Lillian Wald Houses, a 16-building complex on Avenue D.