JAMESTOWN – Flower and vegetable gardens are featured on the 34th Jamestown Garden Tour on Wednesday, July 10. The garden tour highlighting four yards runs from 4 to 8 p.m.
and is sponsored by the Jamestown Branch of the American Association of University Women. “I am pretty excited this year because of the variety of and great ideas that participants will get going through the gardens,” said Connie Lillejord, AAUW co-coordinator with Erin Klein on the event. “We look every year for big and small gardens, something that when people come on the tour, there’s something for everyone,” Lillejord said.
This year, she noted there are many flowers plus vegetables and garden art. Proceeds from the tour support the AAUW Educational Foundation and the AAUW Scholarship Endowment at the University of Jamestown. ADVERTISEMENT Jack and Yvonne McGregor Jack McGregor said when he and his wife, Yvonne, were younger, gardening was a way for them to feed their family of four.
But tending to a garden became a burden with their full-time jobs and they scaled back. Now, four years into retirement, gardening is anything but a burden. “We love the work and we love the food that comes out of it,” McGregor said.
“My primary interest in the garden is food and Yvonne actually is kind of more focused on the flowers and the arrangements and things like that.” McGregor said wind mitigation is “really important” where they live. “We live out on the tundra,” he said.
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