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Bruce Swee designed the Interbay P-Patch flag donated to the garden by John and Vickie Bjorkman in 2005. Garden fundraising events also funded Bruce Swee's design and construction of the steel gates on the chipper/shredder storage shed in 2007. Volunteers who garden at Interbay built and maintain the structures and community areas at the garden.
Low-maintenance landscaping has been the biggest trend in the last few years, and with this stone and gravel layout, a simple sweep is all you need to get this garden back to looking tidy ...
In 1987, the City of Seattle bought the garden from the Kubota family, and it is now maintained by the Department of Parks and Recreation as well as volunteers from the Kubota Garden Foundation. In addition, 17 acres (69,000 m 2 ) surrounding the park has been purchased by the Open Space Program in the City of Seattle in order to protect Mapes ...
Picardo Farm is a 98,000 sq ft (9,100 m 2) parcel of property in Wedgwood, Seattle, Washington, consisting largely of 281 plots used for gardening allotments. [1] It is the original P-Patch (the local term for such community gardens): the "P" originally stood for "Picardo", after the family who owned it. [2]
The garden serves over 70 low-income, primarily non-English speaking gardeners. The average age of the community gardeners is 76 years old. While the gardens primarily serve low-income seniors, the Danny Woo International District Community Garden also has a Children's Garden in which 265 K-12 children go through Inter*Im's Seed-to-Plate program.
Lakewold Gardens was designed by the owner, Eulalie Wagner, with assistance from renowned landscape architect Thomas Church, to be a place for people, full of hidden spaces, eye-catching details and framed vistas. The gardens include a variety of gardening styles, from the European boxwood parterres and topiary, to Asian-inspired shade gardens.
Denny-Blaine Park (One of the "improved parks" mentioned in the Seattle Park Board's annual report for 1909) The City of Seattle Parks and Recreation department lists a number of other parks, playgrounds, and playfields "influenced or recommended" by the Olmsteds, including the city's largest park: 534-acre (2.16 km 2) Discovery Park. [1]
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