Tag: Ramler Park
The Buzz Around Boston
One of the curious aspects of native plantings in Boston parks is that they fascinate one prominent non-native insect; the honey bee. Over the weekend I observed honeybees swarming over the mountain mint (Pycnanthemum virginium) on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Wharf District parks; on Wednesday, I saw another honeybee convention on the Joe Pye weed [...]
Winchester’s Arboretum
Some of Boston’s most intriguing landscapes are invisible to casual passers-by. Ramler Park sits quietly on a side street near a block from the Back Bay Fens; the Howard M. Ulfelder Healing Garden is tucked away on the eighth floor of Mass General Hospital’s Yawkey Center. In Winchester, the Cotton-Arbo retum nonchalantly waits to pounce [...]
