Free plants! Join Cove Park’s ‘Big Dig’ in Fauntleroy tomorrow

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Before the Barton Pump Station expansion project takes over little Cove Park on the beach north of the Fauntleroy ferry dock (map) for about two years, the park’s plants need new homes – and you are invited to be part of the “adoption” effort. As Mardi Clements summarizes it, “”Free plants! Take them to a good home before they are bulldozed!” The plants fill border gardens along the pathway down to Cove Park’s tiny slice of beach. You dig ’em, you take ’em, 9 am-noon tomorrow (Saturday). Once the pump-station project is over, the park will be restored – the Fauntleroy Community Association has been working with the county for a long time to make sure that happens – with new art among other features (as reported in this story last September).

dbsea March 2, 2012 (1:22 pm)

Some free mature plants would be swell.

The clash of shovel weilding plant lovers once the horn sounds maybe not so much.

Sonoma March 2, 2012 (2:16 pm)

So the original artwork along the side will be destroyed? A shame – we helped out with that. It wasn’t anything fancy, but it had a nice, homespun look. And it didn’t cost the city/taxpayers a cent.

westseattledood March 2, 2012 (2:52 pm)

Free sounds good to me as well, but does anybody out there have some idea of what the plant inventory includes? Grasses? Senecio??? It’s been eons since I’ve been there.

It’d be nice to have some kind of clue ahead of time because if lots of spring-crazed gardeners wanting to adopt plants show up, the parking near the terminal is dismal at best. Unless there is a secret place to legally park I don’t know about :)