Bed 503 – North Conservatory Bed C

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Landscape Bed 503-the North Conservatory Bed C-contains: Trees Malus domestica (Domestic Apple) Shrubs & Subshrubs Lonicera nitida ‘Baggesen’s Gold’ (‘Baggesen’s Gold’ Honeysuckle) Calluna vulgaris ‘Kinlochruel’ (‘Kinlochruel’ Scotch Heather) Daboecia cantabrica ‘Cinderella’ (‘Cinderella’ Irish Heath) Cornus sericea ‘Hedgerow’s Gold’ (‘Hedgerow’s Gold’ Red-osier Dogwood) Hydrangea serrata ‘Tiny Tuff Stuff’ (dwarf serrata hydrangea) Hypericum x Inodorum ‘Summer Gold’…

The star-shaped light blue flowers of a hydrangea in a Bush's Pasture Park landscape bed

Bed 502 – North Conservatory Bed B

Conservatory and Gardens

The North Conservatory Bed B bed includes: Trees None Shrubs & Subshrubs Clerodendrum bungei (Rose Glorybower) Hydrangea serrata ‘Blue Billow’ (‘Blue Billow’ Mountain Hydrangea) Hydrangea serrata “Miyama-yae-Murasaki“ Hydrangea serrata cv. (Mountain Hydrangea cultivar) Erica x veitchii ‘Exeter’ (Exeter’ Heather) Erica arborea ‘Estrella Gold’ (‘Estrella Gold’ Tree Heather) Vaccinium sp. (Blueberry) Rhododendron sp. (Evergreen azalea) Rhododendron…

Small yellow flowers of Epimedium pinnatum subsp. colchicum in one of Bush's Pasture landscape bed

Bed 501 – North Conservatory Bed A

Conservatory and Gardens

Bed 501-The North Conservatory Landscape Bed- contains: Trees Quercus palustris (Pin Oak) Franklinia alatamaha (Franklin Tree) Acer palmatum (Japanese maple) Acer japonicum ‘Vitifolium’ (‘Full Moon’ Japanese Maple Acer palmatum cv. (Japanese Maple selection) Shrubs & Subshrubs Corylopsis pauciflora (Buttercup Winter Hazel) Viburnum ‘Summer Snowflake’ Punica granatum (Pomegranate) Rhododendron ‘Unique’ Enkianthus campanulatus (Redvein Enkianthus) Rhododendron (Evergreen…

Tying Climbing Roses

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We have several dozen odd, helical iron posts at Bush’s Pasture Park that hold climbing roses. The posts date from the early 1960’s. Each year, each rose has to be pruned to the ten strongest canes, then wound and tied to the posts’ crossbars. It takes about 40-50 knots per rose and takes anywhere from…

The Ravine Landscape Project Moves Forward

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The Ravine enhancement project is moving towards its installation phase, thanks to a supply of local boulders gifted to us by Betty O’Brien of Elton Vineyards and the folks at Willamette Valley Vineyards. Thanks, too, to the City of Salem for use of their trucks. The project is led by landscape designer Ron Miner. “The…

Featured Plant for October: Chinese Hawthorn Tree

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Bush Park’s Chinese Hawthorn tree (aka Crataegus pinnatifida) is at its peak fall color now. The Chinese use the fruit in candy, jam, jelly, and desserts. It’s common to see children eating sugar-coated Hawthorn berries on a stick. Chinese and Western herbalists also use the fruit to treat hypertension and coronary artery disease, to lower…

The Diversity Tree

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Recently, one of our Facebook Friends asked “Why is an apple tree at Bush Park called the Diversity Tree?” Turns out there are two Diversity Trees— planted in 1981 and 2005. The Salem Human Rights and Relations Advisory Commission, along with concerned members of the community planted both trees in response to hate activity occurring…

Conservancy Volunteer Gardener is Salem Art Association’s “Featured Artist”

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Jim Schomaker, a long-time volunteer with Mission Street parks Conservancy (previously Friends of Bush Gardens) is currently Salem Art Association’s Featured Artist. His exhibit focuses on capturing Bush’s Pasture Park’s roses through photography. “I wanted to show two things; roses start to atrophy and lose their health, withering with the onset of winter, and they…

An RFP for Rehabilitation of Rose Garden Brickwork

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Mission Street Parks Conservancy has issued a Request-for-Proposal to restore the brickwork that serves as the focal point for the Mae Tarter Old Rose Collection, one of three collections in the City’s municipal Rose Garden. The other two collections are the Sally Bush Rose Collection and the Hybrid Tea and Floribunda Collection. The brickwork restoration is the next step in a multi-year project to…

Summer Plant Sale Success

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The MSPC Art Fair Plant Sale, “Cool Plants in the Heat of Summer,” was once again held in the shade of the eastern white oaks south of Bush House Museum. Eleven local growers displayed their fabulous, unusual plants for the delight of would-be buyers for a net of $6,264.00. Sixty-five volunteers helped with everything from…