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Garden Club Park gets love it deserves Letter Share Thank you for your article about the park (“Tucked amid offices in a commercial area of Augusta, the Garden Club Park is getting cleaned up,” May 7). I am so happy to know that it gets the love and care it deserves. The designer was the legendary Maine horticulturist Lyle Littlefield, a professor at University of Maine. Marilyn Mollicone planted the waterlilies by attaching a brick to the roots, Ruth King donated the primroses in the children’s garden, and Mary Oatway was general adviser and historian. When you stand on the bridge you...

Updated May 7 increase font size Tucked amid offices in a commercial area of Augusta, the Garden Club Park is getting cleaned up The 2-acre park — half of which is a pond — had become overgrown in recent years, nearly becoming invisible to anyone passing by. 4 of 4 Bruce Berger clears brush behind his Maine Water Utilities Association office Thursday at Kennebec Valley Garden Club Park in Augusta. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal AUGUSTA — A 2-acre park hidden away in the heart of busy and heavily developed north Augusta, is getting spruced up by a combination of volunteers, businesses and ...