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Fall Village Pride Garden Awards

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Elk Rapids Garden Club biannually recognizes individual efforts by business and home owners to beautify our Village. The Fall Village Pride Garden selections are announced early so all can enjoy their beauty before summer draws to an end, visitors return home, and school resumes.    The Fall Village Pride award winners are:

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The Home of Don Bielat and Rhonda Greiner

The home of Rhonda Griener and Don Bielat at 604 Bridge Street is an eclectic mix of rocks, vegetables, perennials, and whimsy.  Rhonda’s son, Al started the stone borders 5 years ago.  Don added rocks and stone walking paths, moving plants and designing as he goes.  He tries to grow two vegetable plantings a year.   In the back yard there is a large hosta bed, and by the alley Don’s “doctor’s office” has plants he is nursing back to health.

Submitted, Pat Jackson, Award Chair

Pearls Restaurant
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Pearl’s, located at 617 Ames Street, is popular during restaurant hours.  When quiet, neat simple grasses along the parking lot fence and container gardens in the outdoor waiting and dining areas are pleasant to drive by.  General Manager, Dane Porter, credits Evergreen Landscape for the parking lot design and assorted grasses.  Scott Hendrickson keeps the window boxes seasonally colorful with pansies to gourds.  For the cook, fresh herbs are grown in one and fresh mint lines the deck.

P.O. Box 534 Elk Rapids, Michigan 49629
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