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Letter to the Editor

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Check out Heirloom Garden                         
We enjoyed reading John Darling’s Feb. 2 [Daily Tidings] story about the soon-to-open Ashland Creek Park and his mention of the many other Ashland parks adopted by other community organizations and individuals. I’d like to add one other community garden to that list, which is the Heirloom Garden at North Mountain Park.

Inspired by gardens from the late 1800s, this particular garden was largely designed by Ashland Garden Club members in the late 1990s, and is solely maintained year-round by our members. According to Linda Chesney, Stewardship Coordinator at North Mountain Park, “The Heirloom Garden is really the front door of the entire park as its entrance is right on the Mountain Avenue entrance.”

Like other service organizations, AGC serves our community in other ways, including but not limited to the following:

  • At club meetings from October to May, we offer free programs open to the public about various aspects of gardening.
  • We fund both a high school and SOU scholarship (with money raised from our annual plant sale in May).
  • We do all floral arrangements for the annual Feast of Will (with all flowers donated by club members from their gardens).
  • We participate in gardening and environmental programs at the regional, state and national levels.

Anyone wanting more information can check out our website at www.ashlandorgardenclub.org. And we’re always looking for new members!

Susan Zane, President
Ashland Garden Club

Published in the Daily Tidings 2/10/2015

Garden of the Month: May 2014

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The First United Methodist Church of Ashland, at 175 N. Main Street, is especially lovely at this time of year when the dogwood is in bloom.IMG_1

The gardens surrounding the church are lovingly tended by church members, notably Brad Inman, Beth Hite, Toby Deller, and Evelyn Moore.  Last year, we caught pictures of Brad Inman and Charlie Brown manicuring the boxwood hedges out front.  Volunteers from the congregation attend work parties at the church the last Saturday of each month, tending the facilities inside and outside.IMG_2
The sanctuary of the church was built in 1908, but when more modern structures were added in 2008, a formal landscape plan was formulated by John Galbraith and Byron Williams of Galbraith & Associates and implemented by Seth Barnard of Solid Ground Landscaping.
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The front of the church features Japanese maples, rhododendrons, maple and magnolia trees, in addition to the boxwood and dogwood.  A courtyard on the Laurel street side has a lawn for people to gather on, a low wall, many Japanese maples and crepe myrtles.  Also viburnum, azaleas, daylilllies, dogwood, iris, and hydrangeas.  Annuals are added for color each year by the volunteers.

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The garden on Laurel nearest the street is called the Memorial Garden, where church members’ ashes can be interred. Included there are more Japanese maples, mugo pine, false cypress, mock orange, kinnikinnick, barberry, nandina and sedum.  Even the parking lot has been landscaped.

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Submitted by Ruth Sloan
 With thanks to Sherri Morgan for plant identification.

Nan Quick’s Travel Diary: Chapter Seven

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CHAPTER SEVEN: THE GREAT CANOPY OF LONDON’S SKIES; GETTING OLDER IN GREENWICH & GARDEN-STROLLING AT HAMPTON COURT PALACE.
Here’s the link–
Happy Holidays, and Best Wishes- Nan