Kathy and Jenna work to close out an unneeded landscape bed. Gabrielle carries an armful of Spirea clippings to the debris bin. Jaylene pauses from her work of pruning an overgrown Spirea thunbergii. Debbie, too, is tackling overgrown spirea in the beds east of the Bush House Museum. Janet shows off her new hat. Gary…
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MSPC has withdrawn its proposal to install a small rock scramble in the Ravine area of Bush’s Pasture Park, immediately downhill from the Crooked House playground.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.
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…
After 18 months, the Ravine landscape project at Bush’s Pasture Park opened on May 11, 2019, with a community ribbon-cutting event, cake and lemonade, and the opportunity for children to pot up garden thyme for mom. Park-goers begin to gather for the Ravine public opening.
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…
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…