Today Eric Sternfels is taking us to visit a beautiful community-created garden in Philadelphia called Ned Wolf Park. He introduced us to this lovely garden before (A Garden Made by a Community ), and I’m excited to take a trip back.
A few years ago you featured an ornamental community garden in Northwest Philadelphia, in a neighborhood called Mt. Airy. As the spring has progressed, I’ve taken more photos of new features. Ned Wolf Park is just 50 feet by 150 feet, but it manages to pack lots of rich planting combinations in successional planting strategies. Because of the pandemic, the park’s gardens have become a more special destination for the community to meet and to practice tai chi or yoga.
Another unusual tulip, this is the variety ‘Green Star’.
Another view of the beautiful flowers of ‘Green Star’.
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Comments
What lush and beautiful plantings! They create such a serene and welcoming space.
A few additional plant ID's:
The Heuchera beneath the painted emblem is "Berry Smoothie".
The purple tulips that feature a pale green margin are 'Caravelle Design'
The Heuchera underplanted with those tulips is 'Carnival Rose Granita'
The Japanese Maple is Acer 'Pung kil'
The orange tulips are 'Dordogne'
Planted with the 'Green Star' tulips are Euphorbia myrsinites and Pushkinia bulbs
Planted with the 'China Town' tulips are Sea Kale (Cranbe maritima) and Brunnera 'Sea Hearts'
Diverse and beautiful. Great job by whoever planned/ planted this . So much to enjoy
Oh, my, how very, very lovely.
I'm so impressed with this community garden.
I read the link about going from a gas station to garden...wow what an improvement, what a gem...there should be more of this kind of green space usage/improvement in residential areas.
What is also impressive is that the garden has been around since the 70s...I've seen community gardens get "un-done" so easily.
Great post!
Actually, the City parks department put in trees, and paving, a few azaleas and little else in the 1970s. The great gardens were begun by a neighbors group in 2007, so 14 years ago.
What a wonderful community garden! That tree peony is breathtaking! Thank you so much for sharing this lovely space with us.
Sorry there wasn't a better photo of the tree peony which is around 42" tall and wide and it had 20 flowers this year. It's a Paeonia rockii cultivar that translates from the Chinese as "Purple butterfly in the Wind"
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