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BEDC breaks ground at business park
Dirt flew on Friday afternoon as community members gathered to celebrate the ground-breaking of the Bowie Business Park. Pictured are: Dean Myers, Randy West, Bert Cunningham, Charles Tyson, Larry Slack, Ted Murday and Chad Wilson. The new park will be located along U.S. Highway 287 and Farm-to-Market Road 1125. (Photo by Dani Blackburn)
At the Sept. 21 meeting of the board, the BEDC signed a contract with Wilson Contracting to build infrastructure in the park located along U.S. Highway 287 and Farm-to-Market Road 1125.
In August the board accepted a low bid from the Wichita Falls company at a cost of $2,258,866.15. The project will install an eight-inch concrete road in the park and all utilities, which will be located underground. It is the culmination of two years of planning for the park, which is scheduled for completion in February, barring any weather delays. BEDC officials are excited to have a potential new toll in their arsenal to attract and develop business and jobs for Bowie.
Dirt work has already begun at the business park site. (Photo by Barbara Green)
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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