Diane Valle is a Boston resident, an avid urban horticulturist, and an enthusiastic community organizer and collaborator. Diane has been beautifying greenspace and building community in the City of Boston for decades, spearheading the first private/public partnership at the historic Bunker Hill Monument site; starting the first Crime Watch in her neighborhood, and serving as President and Founder of many urban horticultural organizations.
Discovering the joy of improving open spaces, as Chair of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Gardens on six acres of the newly reclaimed land, Diane’s focus is on bringing fine horticulture to the public where they work, play and live.
In ways that none could imagine, The Boston Marathon tragedy caused unfathomable loss of innocent life, injury, and affected the BAA marathoners, the City of Boston residents, workers, and visitors. To welcome the BAA Marathon the following year, as an act of hope, recovery, and a tribute to Boston Strong, Diane organized the eight communities along the marathon route and with the help of hundreds of remarkable Garden Club Federation members, Massachusetts Master Gardeners, horticulturists, volunteers and donors, planted over 130,000 Marathon Daffodils along the route.
The generous public support of Marathon Daffodils inspired the distribution potted Marathon Daffodils along the Finish Line and Back Bay, to great marathoners and visitors, and to lift spirits for the historic weekend. This 2020 BAA Marathon will be the seventh year of Marathon Daffodils celebrating Spring, and Boston Strong.
Home Types:
Condo, House, Townhouse, Lot/Land, Co-op
Years of Experience:
19
