T1/Dahlia Park

General Location

Located at the intersection between Sims Way and 10th Avenue

General Description

A beautifully maintained pocket or mini park referred to variously as  Triangle I, Dahlia Demonstration Garden and Master Gardener’s Park.

History

The 1980 Port Townsend Parks Plan added the property called Triangle Mini Park I to park inventory. The property was maintained as a dahlia demonstration garden in the 1980s and 1990s by two dedicated citizens, Herb Heinle and Art Tickner, and various proposals were made to name the park after both of them or either of them.

In early 2005, the Master Gardeners indicated by letter to the City Manager that they had ‘been maintaining the Dahlia Garden on Sims Way...for several years’ and asked the City for permission to renovate the garden and improve the irrigation system. The City entered into an agreement in August 2005 with Washington State University, the Jefferson County Extension Program of Washington State University and the Master Gardeners Foundation of Jefferson County ‘for establishing and maintaining the Port Townsend Sims Way Master Gardener Demonstration Garden’. The City provides the water and Master Gardeners maintain the garden according to a design provided with the agreement.

Total Acreage

0.13 acres