Jim Schomaker Gives Us a Tour of Fall at Bush’s Pasture Park
It’s fall at Bush’s Pasture Park and photographer Jim Schomaker gives us a tour of the exciting fall color. View the photo album.
The Tuesday Gardeners are Hard at Work
The Tuesday Gardeners are in the seventh month of their nine month season and are still going strong. In September, we’ll be working in the garden beds east of the Bush House Museum and then out in the Orchard. View the photo album here: The Tuesday Gardeners at Work.
Keeping Up with the Conservancy
At little over a year ago, MSPC signed a memorandum of understanding with the City of Salem to help maintain the northwest corner of Bush’s Pasture Park (among other things). We’ve been busy since then. Here’s a short guide to what we’ve been up to: Landscape Bed Rehabilitation Project. The park’s northwest corner contains more…
Conservancy Readies Terrace Proposal
MSPC is preparing a proposal to submit to the City’s Bush Pasture Park master plan process that would make several improvements to an area immediately east and south of the Bush House conservatory, including the nearby parking lot. Read more about the Terrace proposal here.
Children’s Rock Scramble Proposal is Withdrawn
MSPC has withdrawn its proposal to install a small rock scramble in the Ravine area of Bush’s Pasture Park, immediately downhill from the Crooked House playground. In our meeting with the City to discuss the project, we learned that the City does not have a ‘nature play” policy that would permit the installation of non-standard…
MSPC Responds to SJ article on Oregon White Oaks in Park
On July 25, the Statesman-Journal published a news story on the Oregon white oaks in Bush’s Pasture Park that drew heavily on a report commissioned by Mission Street Parks Conservancy (MSPC). Since the story’s publication, there has been a debate on social media that focused specifically on the impact of Salem Art Association’s Summer Art…
Statesman-Journal Reports on Park’s Oregon White oaks
The Statesman-Journal has asserted their copyright on their story and asked that we remove it from our website, which we’ve done. Interested readers can find it on the SJ’s site here. You can read MSPC’s report on the Oregon white oaks here.
Ravine Public Opening
We celebrated the Ravine public opening today when MSPC volunteers, members, and guests gathered to cut the ribbon and take down the orange fencing that surrounded the project. MSPC’s events committee provided cake and lemonade to participants and passers-by under a canopy strategically placed across from the children’s playground. The Ravine public opening marks the…
Salem Reporter Profiles Mission Street Parks Conservancy
After overhauling ravine, Mission Street Parks Conservancy has ambitious plans for Salem parks A longtime group of volunteer gardeners in Bush’s Pasture Park has formed a new nonprofit organization that wants to do more to take care of the park’s historic trees, roses and other plants. By Rachel Alexander – Salem Reporter May 10, 2019…
Azalea Sawfly Makes Its Appearance
There are a lot of tasks that go into managing a public gardening, including monitoring for pests. Here, City Horticulturist Brian Smith finds azalea sawfly larvae on one of the park’s Exbury deciduous azaleas. These hungry critters have defoliated entire groups of deciduous azaleas in past years. Here’s what OSU says about the critter: “It…