A healthy relationship between residences and businesses plays a critical roll in sustaining the inviting culture of a functioning urban neighborhood. In Old Town, no location better exemplifies this relationship than Old Town Gardens. With its tiny city lots and many 3 and 4 story buildings, often built lot line to lot line, opportunities to enjoy the natural world are greatly appreciated within Old Town.
Old Town Gardens has been providing Old Town with beautiful flowers in the spring, fresh vegetables in the summer, and even a healthy selection of pumpkins come October. Located at 1555 N Wells Street, immediately south of the busy North Ave. and Wells Street intersection, Old Town Gardens is a surprisingly calm and peaceful retreat.
The Old Town Gardens are happily placed between a 3 story brick building to the south, that provides adequate shade in the summer months, and the Galleria liqueurs to the north, which serves an excellent visual buffer between the Old Town Gardens and another 3 story brick building to the Galleria's immediate north. This generous placement creates an intimate but not confining space for serious gardeners and "window" shoppers alike.
All of these photographs are from my recent visit to the gardens, as I prepared for early spring flower planting. Currently the Old Town Gardens only has a small fraction of its future stock, but as you can see, a healthy selection of pansies are already in bloom. I'll certainly be back for some young tomato plants in the upcoming weeks.
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