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Community Study Club visits Williamsons' garden The Community Study Club held the last meeting of the club year in Mrs. Ruth Williamson's garden. Mrs. Williamson began the tour in a section of hard-to-find wild flowers. The gray-green of the fuzzy mullein and the yellow in splotches on the zebra grass caught the eye. The tour passed, then circled a large raised bed of cacti all set about with pieces of crushed concrete from a construction site. Clumps of a variety of sedum clung to the mound. The woods began and a wellworn path through natural growth reminded guests of violet hunting days. Ladies left the path to examine Clarke County plants that they recognized. A fallen tree -without bark- rested peacefully among its own. A tree's root ball (Katrina's victim) stood in the air with only a few stabilizing ties. Small plants sprang from all parts of the exposed soil. A curve in the trail led back toward the house. A series of natural steps made of roots and soil dipped into a niche ringed with magnolias, oak leaf hydrangeas and an assortment of azaleas. Climbing from the niche with its canopy of shade the strollers heard trickling water. They turned a corner and saw water falling from a cluster of native rocks and disappearing into a pool of darting fish and lazy lily pads - guarded by a frog! The bark path on the pool's edge seemed to integrate the pool into the new area. Clusters of daylilies, sedum and other clump-forming perennials pulled the eye to an expansive spread with a gazebo on the crest of a rise. Steps of aggregate concrete divided by ribbons of dwarf ivy and outlined with a stunning array of blue rug juniper, gumpa azaleas and rosemary led to the crest.
Club members entered the gazebo, enjoyed a picnic box supper prepared by Mrs. Suzanne Cox and Mrs. Sherry Hamilton and appreciated the many talents involved in landscaping and in managing Mrs. Williamson's masterful mix.
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