Hillsboro Garden Club announces 2021 landscaping awards
Lead Summary
By
Jennifer West-
The Hillsboro Garden Club, in association with the Ohio Association of Garden Clubs, have announced their 2021 Landscaping Award selections.
• In the Community Category: Bill and Lynn Musser for the window boxes at 138 South High Street and the “pocket gardens” along the first blocks of East and West Main Streets. Also, Jenny Hart, Jennifer Howland and Buck Wilkin for the planters and hanging baskets in uptown Hillsboro.
• In the Residence Category – Pat Lawrence and Larry Cadle at 404 North High Street, Robert & Patty Griffith at 407 North East Street and Katie and Melissa Hilderbran at 234 West Pleasant Street.
• In the Commercial Category – Wendy’s Restaurant on North High Street.
These recognized promoters of beauty will receive a certificate thanking them for enhancing the community.
Of special interest is the garden at North High Street. Pat Lawrence and Larry Cadle moved into their 1875 Hillsboro home in 2006. Pat says “the yard had a privet hedge, some boxwood, a patch of Royal Standard hosta and fifty million wild onions.”
She transplanted dozens of her favorite hostas from their yard in West Virginia. Now the property is filled with over 100 different hosta varieties, along with a profusion of other native plants and flowers, including pink, white and coral peonies; day-lilies; bee balm; roses; pulmonaria; Solomon’s Seal; irises; and a towering limelight hydrangea in the backyard.
Large container arrangements replaced the aged ash and fir trees removed last fall, and potted geraniums brighten the porch.
The Hillsboro Garden Club’s next meeting will be Aug. 24 at Floral Hall at the Highland County Fairgrounds in Hillsboro. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m.
The evening’s program will be to clean and prepare the hall for the county fair. All gardeners are invited to attend. Bring rags!
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• In the Community Category: Bill and Lynn Musser for the window boxes at 138 South High Street and the “pocket gardens” along the first blocks of East and West Main Streets. Also, Jenny Hart, Jennifer Howland and Buck Wilkin for the planters and hanging baskets in uptown Hillsboro.
• In the Residence Category – Pat Lawrence and Larry Cadle at 404 North High Street, Robert & Patty Griffith at 407 North East Street and Katie and Melissa Hilderbran at 234 West Pleasant Street.
• In the Commercial Category – Wendy’s Restaurant on North High Street.
These recognized promoters of beauty will receive a certificate thanking them for enhancing the community.
Of special interest is the garden at North High Street. Pat Lawrence and Larry Cadle moved into their 1875 Hillsboro home in 2006. Pat says “the yard had a privet hedge, some boxwood, a patch of Royal Standard hosta and fifty million wild onions.”
She transplanted dozens of her favorite hostas from their yard in West Virginia. Now the property is filled with over 100 different hosta varieties, along with a profusion of other native plants and flowers, including pink, white and coral peonies; day-lilies; bee balm; roses; pulmonaria; Solomon’s Seal; irises; and a towering limelight hydrangea in the backyard.
Large container arrangements replaced the aged ash and fir trees removed last fall, and potted geraniums brighten the porch.
The Hillsboro Garden Club’s next meeting will be Aug. 24 at Floral Hall at the Highland County Fairgrounds in Hillsboro. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m.
The evening’s program will be to clean and prepare the hall for the county fair. All gardeners are invited to attend. Bring rags!
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