The porte-cochere landscape bed was installed after the Bush House and property became a City park. Roughly one-third of the bed consists of annual plantings, often tulips in the spring followed by a second planting of later annuals, while the remaining two-thirds consists of trees and shrubs, including: Trees Betula pendula (Silver Birch) Cornus sp. (Dogwood) Shrubs…
Bed 512-the Trident Maple Bed-contains: Trees Trident maple (Acer buergeranum) Shrubs & Subshrubs Silver Showers Mock Orange (Philadelphus x lemoinei ‘Silberregan’) Bridalwreath Spirea (Spirea x vanhouttei) Perennials, Vines & Grasses Barrenwort (Epimedium), Unknown species or cultivar Bronze Peacock Rodgersia (Rodgersia pinnata ‘Bronze Peacock) Huechera cvs. Golden Panda Fumewort (Corydalis flexuosa ‘Golden Panda’) ‘Brilliance’ Autumn Fern…
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…
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…
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…
The Salem City Council unanimously approved a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Mission Street Parks Conservancy on Monday, July 12. The MOU provides the Conservancy with its “operating license” in Bush’s Pasture Park. The agreement’s main features include: A recognition that Bush’s Pasture Park is and will remain a City park A city employee…
Several Tuesday Gardeners visited Northwest Garden Nursery, west of Eugene, to see their beautiful display gardens and to purchase their hellebores, which are prized worldwide. We wandered the paths through woodland and rock gardens, interspersed with ornamental grasses, conifers, and flowering shrubs and trees. Among the garden beds are whimsical metal statues, stone mosaic work,…