The volunteer gardeners with the Mission Street Parks Conservancy returned today to the corner of Church and Bellevue, where we’ve been working to improve the landscape. Last year, the team came in to weed and mulch. We returned today to remove any remaining weeds and plant some shrubs and native ground cover. Plants include an…
Mission Street Parks Conservancy and the City of Salem reviewed the Bush Pasture Park tree collection this summer. We identified 12 trees for removal. These trees fit one of several criterion: dead or dying, hazardous, or impinging on another, more valuable tree. (There are other criterion that did not come into play, such as diseased…
The start of the raining season in the Willamette Valley means that it’s time to start planting trees and shrubs. The cool, wet weather allows plants to get established before they face the stress of our hot and dry summers. The first trees to arrive for fall 2019 include ‘Golden Glory‘ Cornus mas, ‘Prairifire‘ crabapple,…
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 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.
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…
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.
MSPC has withdrawn its proposal to install a small rock scramble in the Ravine area of Bush’s Pasture Park, immediately downhill from the Crooked House playground.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…
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…
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.