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By RACHEL PARKER DICKERSON
LOG CABIN STAFF WRITER
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 The Conway Garden Club held its final meeting for the year Tuesday at 13 Birchwood Drive in the Westgate subdivision.
Elizabeth Rose Black is the owner of the lot next door to her home, where she has created a garden. She bought the lot two years ago, at which time it was covered with bushes. She cleaned out two tons of bushes, she said, but left a small area of bushes for a bird sanctuary. Several towering oak trees have been in place for a very long time. Black planted dogwoods, willows, maples and crape myrtles, as well as impatiens and ferns.
"I have birds nesting, I have all kinds of bird houses. I try to have things that bloom all through the year," she said. "I enjoy every minute of it. I think the neighborhood has enjoyed it as well."
At Black's garden, the Conway Garden Club held its annual garden party. The members set up tables and umbrellas, brought a potluck luncheon and wore decorated hats.
Paulette Herring of Conway said the Conway Garden Club was founded in 1948 and is the oldest garden club in Conway. At a typical meeting, a guest speaker is present, and one member presents a floral design, which the rest of the members critique, she said.
Kay Mayes of Conway said the club meets nine times a year on the first Tuesday of the month. The club's flower is the daffodil, and the members host a daffodil show every year at the Faulkner County Library on Tyler Street. They also take annual field trips to gardens and hold a plant sale every first Saturday in April.
Black said the club will also come dig up unwanted plants in people's yards.
On Tuesday, however, club members were simply enjoying one another's company and being thankful it did not rain on their picnic.
(Staff writer Rachel Parker Dickerson can be reached by e-mail at rachel.dickerson@thecabin.net or by phone at 505-1277. Send us your news at www.thecabin.net/submit)
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