Bed 547-the Yew Bed-contains: Trees Chamaecyparis obtusa (Hinoki Cypress) Shrubs & Subshrubs Viburnum ‘Chesapeake’ Mahonia aquifolium Taxus sp. (Yew selection) Euonymus cv. Philadelphus coronarius Perennials Polystichum munitum (Sword Fern) Sisyrinchium striatim Epimedium cv.
Bed 546-the Pieris Bed-contains: Trees Magnolia soulangeana (Saucer Magnolia) Tsuga sp. (Hemlock species) Shrubs & Subshrubs Pieris japonica ‘Variegatus’ (Variegated Japanese Andromeda) Pieris japonica (Japanese Andromeda) Enkianthus campanulatus (Redvein Enkianthus) Viburnum opulus ‘Nanum’ (Dwarf Cranberry Bush) Perennials Polystichum munitum
Shrubs & Subshrubs Buxus sempervirens Rhaphiolepis indica
The Conservancy has started the much-needed rehabilitation of the park’s historic crabapple collection, which likely dates back to the 1940’s. The collection was first inventoried and mapped in 2003 by crabapple expert Arthur Jacobsen. He determined that the collection included at least 44 individual trees representing 42 different species or cultivars of Malus. Several trees have…
Winter Jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum) is a cascading deciduous shrub with tiny non-fragrant bright yellow flowers that bloom on bare bright green stems in late winter before its leaves appear in spring. It can be grown as a mounding shrub or trained on a support, though it doesn’t have tendrils for climbing. If left as a…
Last month, we removed a dead Thundercloud flowering plum, likely planted by the landscape architects Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver. This month, we planted its replacement. This was one of many actions MSPC is taking to rehabilitate the park’s flowering tree collection.
The City and MSPC plan to rehabilitate the historic brickwork that encircles and defines the focal point of the Lord & Schryver-designed garden, which houses the Mae Tarter Old Rose Collection. The work includes removing the existing bricks, installing a concrete base, then reinstalling the bricks in the exact pattern in which they were originally…
The Ravine Enhancement Project broke ground in late October 2018, but work planning the project, preparing the landscape, selecting plants, and sourcing boulders began almost a year earlier. These photos document the project.
The Ravine Enhancement Project is continuing this week with the modest widening of the existing seasonal (seep) stream bed and placement of native erratic boulders at the channel’s edges. The addition of boulders will slow down the water and allow it to infiltrate into the ground and also improve the areas’s appearance. Later, MSPC will…
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…