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Holiday garland brigade readied

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10 years ago

11/02/2016

The Main Street Christmas Festival Committee is getting ready to launch the holiday season in Bowie with the “Hanging of the Green” on Nov. 12.
During this annual event, volunteers decorate all 92 lamp posts in the downtown area with lighted Christmas wreaths and garland. Several community organizations as well as students from Bowie schools take part.
Main Street Bowie welcomes everyone to participate in Hanging of the Green to get ready for the holidays. Volunteers meet at the City of Bowie Auditorium at 9 a.m. on Nov. 12.
There will be a brief demonstration of how to hang the garland plus instructional sheets and supplies. However, stepstools are appreciated. If you have one, then bring it.
Students and groups looking for community service credit can find it with Main Street Bowie. To participate, call Shannon Skiles at Main Street Bowie, 872-6246 or email her at: sskiles@cityofbowietx.com.

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Giant Lone Star: A heavenly hosta

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2 weeks ago

06/25/2026

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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.

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Pink cloud in the garden is beautiful

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3 weeks ago

06/18/2026

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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.