Fri Feb 03 2012
The Nordonia Hills Garden Club has completed a beautification project at the Northfield Village Fire Station. Major funding for the project came from proceeds from the annual plant sale. Additional funding and plant donations came from some 40 area businesses and the Olde Northfield Preservation Association.
The entire project was under the direction of Kerry Wichert, vice president of the NHGC, who announced the garden has been dedicated to Millie Schuster, village resident and active garden club member, who passed away last year.
Nine trees were planted and three foundation beds were prepared by G.E.N. Landscape of Northfield.
Club members designed and planted the three beds.
Trees that were planted include; maple, gingko, two pears, two weeping cherries and three Siberian spruces.
Perennials chosen included red knockout roses, Asiatic lilies, yellow daylilies, white hydrangeas, blood and other grasses, junipers, mugo pines and smoke bushes.
Foundation plantings include boxwood, arborvitae, grasses and plants from the Shuster garden.
Completing the project are a wooden bench, two red pots filled with annuals and a newly painted fire hydrant donated by the firemen.
The firemen will be busy with watering all these new plants this summer.
Wichert summed up the project.
"After the bed planting evening of July 1, a few of us stayed later to talk to the fire chief, Gary Vojtush," she said.
"As he told us about the dedicated flagpole and small brick bed next to the building, he described a little lady named Millie from the village, who brought plants and tended them in that small bed years back.
"Unbeknownst to us everything came full circle. Millie, we love you and know we had your blessing in this big endeavor."
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