The Back Bay Fens
Fenway Victory Garden
The "Victory Garden" is lovingly cared for by local residents and is the oldest remaining United States garden from WWII.

For info on plots, send a postcard/letter to:
Fenway Victory Gardens
P.O. Box 230038, Astor Station, Boston, MA 02123

Cost is $20/year
 Fenway Victory Garden

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The Kelleher Rose Garden is the setting for a fundraiser held each June. The Garden is also used for weddings (complete and submit the Special Event Permit Application).

  
As Olmsted’s engineering masterpiece, the Back Bay Fens was designed to solve the increasing problems caused by flushing out the stagnant Muddy River waterway at low tide.

Transformed from a salt- to a fresh-water marsh after 1910 with the creation of the Charles River Dam, the Fens encompasses a variety of features; the elegant Rose Garden, War Memorials, and the community "Victory Garden".
 Kelleher Rose Garden
The Kelleher Rose Garden, established in 1930, contains over 200 varieties of tea, floribunda, and grandiflora hybrids. It was designed by Arthur Shurcliff.
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This section at the western end of the Fens was covered by a parking lot used by Sears, Roebuck. In 1997, the asphalt pavement was removed, and planted with grass and trees. There is agreement on a plan to re-open, or "daylight", the flow of the Muddy River through this area as Olmsted had originally designed, as part of the Muddy River Project.

 

 

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The Back Bay Fens
http://www.emeraldnecklace.org/fenway.htm