The flowers on Stacy Boulevard are stunning.
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Summers planters on Main
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The Generous Gardeners do it again
Here come the new flowers at the boulevard thanks again to the work of the Generous Gardeners!!!
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Taking a walk on our beautiful Stacy Boulevard
Thank you Generous Gardeners for the beautiful flowers.
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Around town #174
The Generous Gardeners are working to get the boulevard summer ready again… and other people at the boulevard.
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Around Town #167
The Generous Gardeners working hard..and “What a difference a day makes makes!”
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Beautifying O’Maley School
Generous Gardeners made it to O’Maley Saturday morning to install grasses in the front school beds, after the great reconstruction job completed by the DPW. I’m sharing the whole process with you to see how it evolved. Today I was working with Susan Kelly and Jamie Friend who were patient with the layout process and then we planted. We put in feather reed, zebra, muly, and Japanese forest grasses which have different heights and colors for interest against the building. It should be beautiful. We did all this in three hours!
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Return to the boulevard to see the work of the generous gardeners
I had to return to shoot few more photos of the work of the Generous Gardeners …Fabulous!
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The Generous Gardeners have done it again
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springtime Stacy Boulevard | Fishermen’s Wives memorial, Man at the Wheel, and all those tulips & blooms thanks to Generous Gardeners volunteers #GloucesterMA
photos: © Catherine Ryan, 2020
May 2020, Gloucester, Mass.
Original concept designs for Stacy Boulevard in 1908 were by Thomas Warren Sears, major 20th century landscape designer and Olmsted student. Recent garden expansions were designed by Ann Gilardi Johnson with DPW for the City of Gloucester and with Generous Gardeners. The Betty Smith Garden has sprung, too!
Gloucester’s Fishermen’s Wives memorial by Morgan Faulds Pike
Gloucester’s Fisherman at the Wheel Memorial (Man at the Wheel) by Leonard Craske
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Spring calling on Stacy Boulevard: Triton bronze by Walker Hancock #GloucesterMA
Before/After
March 2019 (below) vs May 2020 (above)
Excerpt from my post March 2019 about the garden revamp-
The Elizabeth Gordon Smith (Betty Smith) park & gardens were cleared and the small Picture garden past Stacy Boulevard’s Avis R. Murray tennis courts was unearthed. Because Gloucester garden groups pre-date 1900, it’s especially moving to see the work in progess shoring up inspiring legacy connections. Incredible volunteers past and present serve the city’s Department of Public Works (DPW). Stacy Boulevard & Stage Fort Park advocates like Betty Smith, Louise Loud & the Gloucester Civic & Garden Council tended and protected Gloucester’s natural beauty — the very same grounds that are so lovingly served now by dynamos like Ann Gilardi Johnson and Susan Kelly & the Generous Gardeners. Plaques for Lucy Brown Davis, tribute by her sister Catalina Davis, and for Lucy P. Rogers, “president of the Gloucester’s Woman’s Club 1927-29″, are nearby.
Walker Hancock TRITON TRIBUTE PLAQUE / PAINTED SIGN TRANSCRIPTION:
THE SCULPTURE- Triton was the son of Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea. He was thought to be able to control the sea’s wild movement by blowing his conch shell.
THE SCULPTOR- Walker Hancock a sculptor of international reputation and a long time resident of Gloucester
THE PARK- The Gloucester Civic & Garden Council created this park to honor Betty Smith its founder, a woman who has dedicated more than thirty years of her life to preserving the natural beauty of Gloucester.
We hope this small island of beauty will inspire visitors to cherish and create their own beauty wherever they go.
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Fitz Henry Lane Park
Generous Gardeners and the DPW have worked together to renovate the gardens at the base of the Fitz Henry Lane House property. It looks great already after being cleared out, planted and edged. I’m sure there will be many blooms to follow.
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Thank you Generous Gardeners
Love the color of this flower from Stacy Boulevard.
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Around Town #134-Generous Gardeners at the boulevard
The Generous Gardeners working again ….planting tulips for next spring…They are great many times over!!! And a couple of sky photos for fun.
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Thank you Generous Gardeners
Stacy Boulevard looks so beautiful thanks to Generous Gardeners.
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Generous Gardeners 2019 Garden Tour
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Thank you Thank you Generous Gardeners
Thank you to Generous Gardeners for all their hard work on all the gardens in the city.
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Take a walk on Stacy Boulevard
The other day it was so nice and decided to take a walk on Stacy Boulevard, thank you to Generous Gardeners, love Harbor View Inn’s new decorations and of course some pretty Eiders.
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Generous Gardeners Plant sale
The Generous Gardeners run a plant sale at the boulevard and do very well while it appeared all were having a great time.
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Beautiful day on Saturday
The tulips on Stacy Boulevard are beautiful and doing clean up at Good Harbor early in the morning was the only way to start your day.
Good Morning Gloucester 