For more than 150 years, people have walked the same footpaths circling the towering trees, serpentine flower beds, and manicured lawns, which make up a ...
The Halifax Public Gardens: The Creation, Destruction and Restoration of North America’s Finest Victorian Public Gardens is co-authored by Peter Twohig, Robert Salah and Robert Pace. - ContributedFor more than 150 years, people have walked the same footpaths circling the towering trees, serpentine flower beds, and manicured lawns, which make up a treasured public space for residents of Halifax, and one of the few surviving Victorian gardens in North America.
“People were in tears looking at the destruction,” Twohig recalled. “It speaks to people’s deep emotional connection to the space.” “Everything slows down when you push open one of the iron gates and set foot on the gravel paths that meander throughout plantings of astonishing variety. For a few minutes — for that is all it takes to traverse the Gardens — you can imagine that you are in a space that has hardly changed since it was established in the nineteenth century. The immutable nature of the Gardens is, of course, an illusion. The space has changed a great deal over time,” the authors write.
The Halifax Public Gardens owes its original design to landscape gardener Richard Power. Once described as “Halifax’s most famous gardener,” he oversaw the gardens from 1872 to 1915 and from 1920 to 1922. Subsequent superintendents maintained the aesthetic and ensured that changes to the design or layout were incremental.
The plan would be to replace the existing greenhouses, located beside Power House, with a new 990-square-metre-working horticultural centre that’s open to the public year-round. It would have a 900-square-metre underground facility to support operations and maintenance of the entire Halifax Common, as well as other redevelopments. The project is estimated at $8 million.
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