For the birds: Oriole Garden opens with special mission

BALTIMORE– Rain has pummeled the Baltimore area throughout much of the spring, a big reason the Orioles’ home games have often involved cool weather, rain and wind — or all three at once.

But during three days of that kind of weather last week, several people spent lots of time planting about 12,000 plants — in 26 different species — in a garden that’s a long fly ball from a gate near right field at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. The Orioles and the Maryland Stadium Authority dedicated this new, native plant garden at the ballpark on Thursday morning.

• Photo gallery: Dedication of Oriole Garden at Camden Yards

The Orioles and the Maryland Stadium Authority have joined the National Wildlife Federation and its Maryland state affiliate, the National Aquarium, in dedicating this garden. It will be called “The Oriole Garden,” and it’s part of the National Wildlife Federation’s Grow Together Baltimore program, which works with local communities to create green spaces which help the residents of Baltimore in different ways.

Chante Coleman, the deputy director of the Choose Clean Water Coalition (hosted in the National Wildlife Federation’s Mid-Atlantic Regional office, the partner responsible for …

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