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Group to plant roses on Main Street
By
Johnathan C. Ryan - Reporter The
Lancaster News October 2, 2006
After a summer of doing landscaping work on entrance
signs for the city of Lancaster, the See Lancaster beautification committee
now has its sights set on adding a little color to downtown Lancaster.
Frank Keel, executive director of See Lancaster, and committee members
Elaine Adkins and Kim Robinson presented some plans to City Council on
Tuesday.
Plans include changing out plant beds on Main Street, building wood
planters for seasonal flowers and creating a garden to be called the
Carolina Fence in Sculpture Park on Arch Street.
Keel said See Lancaster won't need funds to complete the project,
though it might need some additional funding from the city later.
"Just from early figures we should be OK," he told council.
The new beds will contain hollies and roses.
Adkins is excited about having more roses on Main Street.
"We need a lot more roses on Main Street," Adkins
said. "The city of Lancaster is known as the Red Rose
City."
The goal is to plant a range of flowers of many colors that
are appropriate for different seasons.
"We're really going to add some color to Main
Street," Keel said.
He said the goal of the project is to help make downtown
a more enticing place to attract people downtown. Keel
said the total project will cost between $6,000 to 7,000.
Adkins said the Katawba Valley Land Trust is
contributing to the Carolina Fence. It will contain
plants native to the Carolinas.
"We want a wonderful, lush oasis downtown and
put benches
around it for people to enjoy," Adkins said.
The garden will combine state symbols into a lush
and serene foliage setting, including a
split-rail fence with yellow jasmine, the state
flower, adorning it.
A Carolina wren birdhouse will add to the
garden's South Carolina character, and
butterflies will be attracted to the garden's
blue granite rock.
The garden will also be full of goldenrods,
the state wildflower.
"It will be an interesting project,
and I think that people downtown and
throughout county can take pride in
it," said Lindsay Pettus of the
Katawba Valley Land Trust.
See Lancaster hopes to extend its
aesthetic touches to streets adjacent to
Main Street, like White and Catawba
streets, in the future, Keel said.
Plans call for many more years of work.
"We're looking at a three- to
five-year-plan," Keel said.
Contact
Johnathan Ryan at 416-8416 or jryan@thelancasternews.com
Article © The
Lancaster News, reprinted with
permission.
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