Hold the two dates: greening briefing and Green Streets Arts Festival
The Bolton Hill Garden Club and BHCA’s Greening Committee will host a neighborhood greening briefing on Saturday, March 16 at 2 pm at Unity Hall.
The Bolton Hill Garden Club and BHCA’s Greening Committee will host a neighborhood greening briefing on Saturday, March 16 at 2 pm at Unity Hall.
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) awarded two separate grants to provide detailed plans to renovate green spaces in Bolton Hill. One is Mounds Park in the 1400 block of Eutaw Place and the other is the southeast vacant lot and bus stop at the corner of Park and North avenues.
The fall bird migration is underway and for attentive residents of Bolton Hill, that means an opportunity to spot a wide range of birds that are passing through, heading south for the winter months. If not in your yard, look for them in neighborhood and other nearby parks where each night they come down from the skies in search of insects or berries, water and a safe place to rest.
Before Canada’s smoke disrupted those crisp, pleasant late spring days when neither heat nor air conditioning were needed, seasonal sounds of the neighborhood drifted through open windows.
The Bolton Hill Garden Club last month approved a record $7,500 in grants to create and improve publicly accessible green spaces to beautify the community. A total of eight projects will be funded throughout the neighborhood.
What a difference a coat of paint can make! In the next few weeks all eight monumental urns on the Park Avenue medians will be repainted by neighborhood and garden club volunteers.
Urban Forester Megan Carr visited the March meeting of the Bolton Hill Garden Club hosted by Amy Sheridan and discussed the impact of non-native plants on our environment.
Arts in the Parks; Fresh food source nearby; Garden Club speaker; Upcoming Midtown Town Hall; Yoga on Eutaw; Landlord Oversight
The Bolton Hill Garden Club, joined by BHCA, presented its first ever Greening and Beautification Award on Saturday to longtime resident and neighborhood advocate Lee Tawney.
For as long as anyone remembers, those graceful park strips that separate the east and west roadways along Park Avenue have just been called the Park Avenue medians or parks. But local historian Fred Shoken has uncovered new information…