Museum Hill Stewards clean-up the Arroyo
Saturday, October 6th We want to say thanks to the Museum Hill Stewards Team volunteers who came out this weekend to pick up trash along the arroyo and its trails. The arroyo begins in the Santa Fe Botanical Garden and [...]
Pathways and sit rocks in orchard
Tuesday, September 18 We find this week new pathways marked out to surround the orchard and sit rocks to rest on.
North Ramada & Welcome Ramada beginnings
Saturday, September 8 View below the beginning of construction of the stucco walls which will enclose the North Ramada and the Welcome Ramada. Also, we follow the progress in the Dry Garden, which will have a facade of smaller rocks [...]
The first steps
Tuesday, August 28 For the first time, the steps leading up from the orchard to cross over to the meadow garden are now visible in the east section of the rock wall. With some imagination, one can envision walking up [...]
Santa Fe New Mexican “Pick of the Day” – After Hours Tour with Gary Smith
Wednesday, August 22, 6pm What a surprise! Our After Hours tour with landscape architect, Gary Smith, is the "Pick of the Day" in the local paper, Santa Fe New Mexican! We had over 70 enthusiastic participants who learned everything from [...]
Wall construction continues
Tuesday, August 21 Wear your boots! A little rain this week means there is mud some mornings on the site. The work on building the rock wall of the Orchard Gardens carries on. W. Gary Smith is visiting again to [...]
Dry Garden foundation and flagstone
Tuesday, August 14 The following two pictures show the construction crew digging the foundation for the concrete block wall of the Dry Garden (xeric plant collection). Scroll down to also see the large pieces of flagstone that have arrived and [...]
After hours tour with W. Gary Smith, Landscape Architect
Tuesday, August 7, 6pm Thank you to everyone who came out tonight for the sneak peek of the garden's progress! Isn't it fun to see it grow literally from the ground up!? After hours tour with W. Gary Smith [...]
The Orchard stone wall & the art of hand-chiseled masonry
Tuesday, August 7, morning. New Mexico Stone is the company working on carefully building the Orchard wall using the traditional hand-chiseled masonry on native New Mexican stone. This wall will entirely surround the orchard and is the heart of the [...]
Building the rock wall
August 2, 2012 Enormous moss rock awaits placement in the wall while stone masons chisel and fine tune precise positioning. Photos: Fran Cole
Week 6: Grading complete, Orchard wall rocks on site
July 31, 2012 Today the trenches for the footings for the Orchard Garden retaining wall were dug. Also, the blocky moss rock were delivered in preparation for setting the first rock course for the wall. Two Zuni bowl erosion [...]
