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Fall clean-up for all, swimming for your health
Neva Lindell offered several ideas for the Build a Better Bowie campaign.
“The Big Fall Haul”
Organize a weekend(s) in the fall to clean up the junk just lying around.
This could include old sofas, stoves, broken toys, non-working appliances, branches under four-feet long, etc. Haul ‘em away. Beautify Bowie.
•The Big Fall Haul would be free to residents.
• Put a bid out to hire (Montague County) one or four big truck teams to haul it away.
• Set up command posts in parking lots in all parts of town.
• Organize groups of volunteers to coordinate loading.
• The adult volunteers could be individuals or teams from VFW, Kiwanis, church groups, etc.
• Young adult volunteers could be Boy Scouts, FFA, 4-H or church groups.
• These volunteers could go out Thursday and knock on doors to see if folks needed stuff toted to the curb.
• Saturday, load it up and haul it away.
• Volunteers who help and residents who need their help would need to fill out a hold harmless agreement.
• The truck companies would have to sign a COI and hold harmless.
• The city could pay for the big trucks, dump fees and provide cookies and coffee for the command stations. Apply for a grant to help cover costs.
• Promote The Big Fall Haul heavily: Bowie News, 81/2X11-inch fliers for businesses and churches, and the radio station. Maybe Wendy can talk about it.
• If successful, it could be an annual event.
Summer Fun
The outdoor pool is beautiful. Consider having extended pool hours.
• Lap swimming from 7-9 a.m. or 7-9 p.m.
• Maybe a morning fitness class.
This could be a low-cost way to promote fitness and fun in the community. It would also provide employment and responsibility for guards.
Promote in the Bowie News, flyers and on the radio station. Maybe there is a grant to help fund this.
No plant has been more enjoyable in The Garden Guy’s trials than the Forged in Fire heliopsis or false sunflower. There have been a lot of varieties in recent years, but I am going to have to put this one on the must-have list.
Botanically speaking it is Heliopsis helioanthoides, native to the United States. Despite being native to 42 states, many new varieties, award winners and press coverage notwithstanding, it has not been an easy plant to find at the garden center.
Most likely you have never said, “Let’s go to the garden center and pick up a flat of false sunflowers.
Read the full Garden Guy column in today’s Bowie News.
As a card-carrying member of the Sons of the Republic of Texas, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on the Shadowland Giant Lone Star hosta.
Make no mistake, I don’t believe this hosta was discovered in the shady soil under a Texas Madrone in Guadalupe National Park. It was actually a sport or morphological change in s hosta named Key West. That sounds like a fairy tale story all its own.
But Shadowland Giant Lone Star has winner written all over it. It is large and has thick leaves. When 12 straight days of rain brought out a rainforest of slugs and other forest floor creatures, the bane of hosta growers everywhere, it didn’t load up with holes but simply got more beautiful.
Read the full Garden Guy column in Thursday’s Bowie News.
Supertunia Mini Vista Pink Cloud petunia is having its debut year or thanks to Susan Middleton Turner in south Georgia’s zone 9 Miller County it’s breakout year.
Susan’s house looks quite like a movie set, and you would have to think that Supertunia Mini Vista petunias play a prominent role.
Last year it was the award-winning Supertunia Mini Vista Indigo that dazzled with incredible color. The petunias were planted in banister baskets across the front of the house. I featured her photos in an article I wrote about Mini Vista petunias.
Read the full Garden Guy column in your Thursday Bowie News.
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