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AVON, Ohio – The Avon Garden Club presented their annual Beautification Awards on Oct. 18 to residents of the city who take special care to beautify their yards.
The awards represent the beautiful gardening and talented arranging of flowers and plants in Avon residents’ yards, both at houses and condominiums.
The winners were honored at the award ceremony that was held at Miller Nature Preserve. The room was filled with lovely tables each with a spectacular centerpiece. There was also a beautiful feast of appetizers and desserts for the members after the presentation of the awards.
Avon Mayor Bryan Jensen helped to give out the awards and thanked everyone for their efforts in maintaining and beautifying their homes and yards on their own. He said he realizes how much work went into their beautifying projects because of his own family’s history of garden center ownership.
Ivana Rose, one of the beautification winners took home an award for her yard work at her condominium. She said people commented on her four, very large planters placed at each corner of her yard. She also has a “welcoming front porch” as she calls it, with wicker chairs, ferns and window boxes. Her flower preferences include geraniums and black-eyed Susan’s as well as other flowers that complement her red wicker porch chairs.
Tracy Adams, another winner of a beautification award in the category of homes 20 years old or younger, noted she had to rip out everything in her yard when she bought her home because the landscaping “was no good” so she planted everything new.
In addition, Adams has a love affair with flowers. “My vice is flowers,” she said. “They bring joy to my heart, and I like to cut them and pass them along to others like neighbors and teachers. That is how you share.”
Adams’ whole yard, front and back, “is always done,” she said. She loves color and adds something more to her gardens every year.
She describes her yard as “a mix of perennial bushes and plants with annuals for splashes of color. I love to find unique and colorful flowers.” She mentions Lantana, a deer and heat resistant flower as one of her favorites. “Put it in the ground and it just loves you,” she said.
The Avon Garden Club also awards two $1,000 scholarships to students who will be majoring in fields such as agriculture, environmental science studies and horticulture, according to Cynthia Murnyack-Czarnecki, chairman of the scholarship committee and a member of the beautification awards committee. “I am happy to be able to recognize all the efforts put into the gardens in our community,” she said, “to make our community a more beautiful place to live and work in. The winners all work hard on their gardens.”
When asked what it takes to join the Avon Garden Club, Murnyack-Czarnecki said, “One doesn’t have to be a gardening expert or a talented gardener to join. You can join if you simply have an interest.”
The mission statement of the club notes in part, “The purpose of the Avon Garden Club is to promote knowledge of and enthusiasm for gardening. Also, to acknowledge our responsibility for stewardship of the earth and all its natural resources. Further, we will contribute to the beautification of our community. We will encourage an atmosphere of friendliness and kinship with all gardeners.”
The results of being a member of the garden club, though, apparently can yield some unexpected results. Kathleen Harbak has been a member for three years and is now the treasurer of the club. She paid one of the highest compliments possible to the club, a compliment with a sense of humor, when she said, “I have learned so much. I don’t kill my plants anymore.” Clearly, she speaks for many.
For more information on the Avon Garden Club visit https://avongardenclub.webs.com/.
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