Waking up in Winter

Yesterday was brilliantly sunny and lured me into a walk to The Greenway Fort Point Channel gardens. The Galanthus, (snowdrops) are mid bloom, and the Hamamelis (witch hazel) are looking wonderful – almost at peak bloom. The Hamamalis are doing their best to pick up where last year’s aerial sculpture by Janet Echelman left off […]

Gardens in Winter; New Blooms Already

With the ground bare from melting snow you can see the earliest of flowers emerging on the Greenway. Mostly found in the Fort Point Channel Parks, these are true winter bloomers. The very first to appear are on the Witch Hazel, a small native tree. The flowers of the Hamamelis vernalis are just now emerging, […]

What’s In Bloom

The snow has melted, the ground has thawed and some of the first flowers to emerge in chilly New England gardens are blooming on the Greenway.