Garden in the Woods

A new garden opened today at Garden in the Woods, the 45-acre home of the Native Plant Trust and one of New England’s outstanding public gardens. The Curtis Cottage Garden honors the legacy of Will Curtis and Dick Stiles, the garden’s creators, by transforming the foundations of their cottage into a domestically scaled garden where visitors can spend time with native plants.

Wolf Landscape Architecture designed the garden in collaboration with the Trust’s expert staff, laying out its paths, walls, and plantings. The garden’s plants will extend the surrounding Woodland Garden’s season of bloom late into the summer. Even in its first spring, the Curtis Cottage Garden provides a quiet stopping place and a foreground to dramatic woodland views.

Did the Big Dig deliver?

In today's Boston Globe, Anthony Flint asks whether, ten years after its completion, the Big Dig has delivered on its promises. In his candid assessment, he saves his highest praise for the Big Dig's creation of the Rose Kennedy Greenway:

“The greatest success of the Big Dig is this: It established a new landscape for the city to flourish around. Buildings once overlooking a clogged highway now have a beautiful park at their front door. Buildings that had little value are now suddenly on a gold coast."

We've had the privilege of working on the Big Dig and the Greenway for nearly twenty years. Under various affiliations, Toby Wolf designed the Greenway’s Fort Point Channel Parks, Urban Arboretum, and Dewey Square Park, and over a mile of its streetscapes. Even when the project ended, his work continued, through Wolf Landscape Architecture's recent designs for new plantings on behalf of the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy. Ten years on, thanks to their innovative management, the Greenway continues to deliver.