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The Pell City Garden Club invites you!
David Atchison
06-13-2008
The Pell City Garden Club is hosting a home garden tour to help raise money for local garden club projects.
“This is our first year to try this,” said Fran Wilson, president of the Pell City Garden Club.
The local garden club has tackled numerous garden projects throughout Pell City, including building butterfly gardens at elementary schools, sprucing up around the old Pell City Board of Education office, making a rose/seasonal garden in front of the Pell City Civic Center and a memorial garden at Lakeside Park.
The volunteer organization also planted a section of Bruce Etheredge Parkway, and recently pepped-up the outside of the Pell City Animal Shelter with a variety of plants.
Wilson said each year the group spearheads efforts to raise money for special garden projects around Pell City.
She said the group generally raises money from plant sales at the annual Pell City Chamber of Commerce Block Party and once at the Fall Festival.
Wilson said the garden tour, slated for Saturday, June 21, is ideal for any flower or garden enthusiast, and the tour offers a variety for people to see, do and buy.
The tour is from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m., and people can go through the garden tour at their own leisure. Participants can cap off the day with an afternoon tea and refreshments at the Pell City Center, which is located near the high school. Tickets are $20.
There are five stops on the tour, including a home tour at Ann and Phil Thomas’ log home, filled with antiques and bird houses.
In the Thomas’ front yard, visitors will find hundreds of different plants, vines and flowers with two koi ponds connected by a stream.
Off the Thomas’ back deck, visitors will view a wall of impatients.
“You want find anything like this anywhere,” Wilson added.
The garden club is also holding a barn sale at the residence.
“We have a collection of yard sale items, plants, rain barrels and ‘froggy’ creatures, so you may want to plan to stay awhile,” Wilson said.
She said the barn sale will include Avondale Mills momentos, bricks and planks.
“We have a certificate that goes with them,” Wilson said.
Another stop is at Linda and Rusty Mathews’ residence where visitors can see a beautiful collection of the old, lilac and spider plants from grandmother’s garden, to the new, “Endless Summer” a re-blooming hydrangea.
“I have mentioned only three of the many, many plants that will delight your senses as you wander through her garden,” Wilson said.
She said people on the tour will be amazed at the hundreds of beautiful hybrid tea roses of all colors and sizes at the Tariq and Rubina Siddiqui rose gardens.
“They have won numerous awards, including the Grand Prize, for their roses,” Wilson said. “Tariq also likes the challenges of Bonsai, the Japanese art of taking trees and shrubs and making them into miniature works of art.”
The tour will also stop at the Benjamin Moore Company “certified” wildlife habitat.
“They have planted perennials and annuals that attract bees, butterflies and birds,” Wilson said. “Their mission is to create a place of refuge and beauty. It is also a great place for school children to visit, so they can see nature at work.”
She said tours at Benjamin Moore Company Wildlife Habitat start at 10 a.m., and guided tours are held every 45 minutes during the day Saturday.
Tea and refreshments will await participants in the garden home tour at the Pell City Center. The afternoon tea is from 3 until 4:30 p.m.
Wilson said restrooms are only available at the Pell City Center.
She said people interested in participating in the tour can obtain tickets from her or from Donna Sargent.
Wilson said the tickets can be mailed or picked up at the day of the tour at any of the tour stops.
If you would like more information about the home garden tour or to order/purchase tickets, call Wilson at 884-0384 or Sargent at 525-0144.
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