Owasso Library named Owasso Garden Club’s Yard of the Month for July

Owasso Reporter Editor Art Haddaway

Even with the onslaught of file-significant temperatures, the Owasso Library proceeds to retain its control attractiveness.

The facility a short while ago been given the title of Owasso Backyard Club’s Garden of the Thirty day period for July.

“We recognize the recognition, and are grateful for the volunteers who get the job done diligently to make our landscaping search so beautiful,” Owasso Library Supervisor Jennifer Ballard explained.

Those people volunteers — lots of of whom are Yard Club members — dedicate their time to cultivating the community grounds for library patrons to notice and love.

The Club begun caring for the residence in 1998 with only a couple of flower seeds. More than 20 years afterwards, the team has devoted a variety of fingers to are inclined to the soil. The team frequents the facility several times for every thirty day period to weed, fertilize, prune and cleanse the plant beds.

“It is important for a library to look open and inviting to all,” Ballard claimed, “and our stunning landscaping can help execute that.”

What’s additional, the Club labels each individual plant and flower as a resource to educate passersby, who can peruse ajugas, azaleas, hibiscuses, lantanas, lilies, nandinas, rudbeckias, viburnums and yarrows, among other folks.

“We are always encouraging persons to find out more … and this can help add to the ambiance of acquiring new awareness at the library,” Ballard claimed. “Your journey starts off ahead of you even enter the developing.”

The Owasso Library is the only general public library in Tulsa County whose flower beds are preserved by a nearby backyard garden club.