Jay community pride awards

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Have you ever visited Benny Russell Park on West Spencer Field Road? You should, because it's lovely. 

The park has several covered picnic areas but the highlight of the park is the huge play area for children that you have to see to believe. It makes you want to be a kid again.

The Milton Garden Club this month presents the Community Pride Award to Benny Russell Park. Some time after building the amazing children’s play area, various trees, shrubs and perennials were planted. Now after many years the crepe myrtles, oak and maple trees have matured and give shade and color to the park. There is also a very pretty area planted around a birdbath with blooming perennials like hibiscus, black-eyed Susans, butterfly bushes, hydrangeas and roses. Even in this incredible heat, the flowers bloom unaffected, because the area was planted with the “right plant, in the right place” rule.

Stop by Benny Russell Park and bring a kid with you!

This month the Community Pride Award was also presented to Bret and Susan Lomax at 4135 N. Cambridge Way, Pace.

The Lomax's enjoy their property. They carefully tend the grounds, which they use for entertaining and a place to relax.

Plants in the front yard show off Bret and Susan's regular trimming, which keeps the holly, loropetalum and podocarpus in perfect shape. Junipers by the front door are clipped into a spiral topiary. The podocarpus shrubs have a perfect Christmas tree shape.

To the side you can see the care that the confederate jasmine vines receive; they are trimmed into an arch which one walks under, traveling to the back yard.

If you are a neighbor who is invited into the back yard in the spring you will be delighted with the wisteria that covers a swing in fragrant blossoms. Trimming this plant is a never-ending chore but the results are worth it.

The Lomax yard has many lovely garden beds with all kinds of plants. They do all the gardening themselves and enjoy it.  Susan Lomax says, “I am working in my yard every day. It may only be 30 minutes but I am out there.”

The Milton Garden Club hopes you join us in honoring the Lomax home this month.