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Views From The 2019 Breakfast Garden Tour

Felicia Hunter’s tree stump garden display.

Historical September–October 2019 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.

Felicia Hunter took an old large useless tree stump and turned it into a display area for a bright and lovely garden and everyone passing by can enjoy her creativity because there are no fences to block the view.

This formal garden planted by Darell Hartke and Nancy Farmer is lovely and surprisingly low maintenance because of the plants that they have chosen – boxwoods, ferns, liriope, columbine, and some annuals like begonias- as well as being a shade garden. Opal Hebron has the oldest garden that has been on the Breakfast Garden Tour, started in 1962.

In 1971 Opal turned two used tires into clever planters well before the word “upcycling” had been coined.

Original photograph caption

Felicia Hunter’s tree stump garden display.

Formal shade garden planted by Darell Hartke and Nancy Farmer.
Formal shade garden planted by Darell Hartke and Nancy Farmer.
Opal Hebron’s garden, begun in nineteen sixty two; tire planters introduced in nineteen seventy one.
Opal Hebron’s garden, begun in nineteen sixty two; tire planters introduced in nineteen seventy one.

Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, September–October 2019.

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Original source: SD_Times2019_09.pdf, printed page(s) 2; PDF page(s) 2.

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