Dewey Square Park Update
The immediate remediation work at Dewey Square Park will conclude today, and the remainder of the restoration work will wait for warmer spring temperatures. We look forward to reopening the park soon, following the Boston Police Department’s decision to remove the barriers. Visitors are encouraged to use the paths through the park as the lawn will be roped off to allow the new sod to take root.
Dewey Square : The Park Returns
The Conservancy will return Dewey Square Park to the public again this week after restorations with a new temporary lawn and continued programming – we look forward to welcoming back the hundreds of daily visitors to eat lunch, buy produce, and enjoy the park!
A Cocktail on the Greenway
It’s not easy being a garden in the middle of downtown Boston. A garden bed in Dewey Square Park is suffering from deficient soils and poor drainage, and will soon be getting some additional attention from our Green & Grow teens. We’re using the soil and irrigation remediation of this bed as an educational opportunity.
What’s in Bloom
April showers bring May flowers. Hit the Greenway this month to see unique blooms from the Dwarf Fothergilla to the Horned Tulip.
Part science, part art: enhancing the Greenway’s horticultural collection
Ask any gardener and they will tell you, horticultural collections take time to get established. As living, breathing creations they require maintenance, study, and experimentation. Part science, part art, caring for the Greenway’s newly created horticultural collection is the challenge Tom Smarr (Greenway Superintendent of Horticulture) has gladly taken on with the help of his […]
Dewey Square Parks/Fort Point Channel Parks Update
What’s in a name? Lately some misinformation has surfaced about the Conservancy’s plans for Dewey Square Parks, the section of the Greenway between Summer Street and Seaport Boulevard. In response we are thinking about ways to send and receive ideas more clearly and beginning with posting a few facts in this blog. We’ve discussed the […]
Planning for 2010 – gardens in a parkland
PLANNING FOR 2010 –gardens in a parkland In our previous post we talked about the challenges and opportunities the Conservancy’s Park Operations staff will address in 2010. In this entry, we look more closely at the Dewey Square Parks, just north of South Station (formerly called Parcels 19-22). The Dewey Square Parks comprise two segments, […]
