A garden glows in Mellon Park

If you’ve walked by the Walled Garden in Shadyside’s Mellon Park recently, you’ve probably noticed that it’s beginning to look like a garden again.  The Management and Maintenance staff at the Parks Conservancy has spent a lot of the last four months in Mellon Park, working alongside Department of Public Works crews and contractors to [...]

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Mellon Park update

“We’re peeling back the layers like an onion.”
This is how Phil describes his outside-in approach to the Mellon Park Walled Garden construction project that’s currently in progress.  The work is moving in three stages: from the sidewalk around the garden to the garden wall, then from the wall to the lawn border, and then to [...]

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Annie’s Garden

I thought I’d take a minute to post about a new project that we’re really excited about at the Conservancy.  Typically we’ve defined ourselves as an organization working in the four regional parks – Frick, Highland, Riverview, and Schenley – but recently we’ve expanded our mission further into Pittsburgh’s great network of green space.  One [...]

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