The Maben Home and Garden Club`s civic beautification committee chairman, Dottie Dewberry, and Lee Shuffield of Shuff Landscape Service`s crew were out making things happen on the city streets of Maben the first full week in May.
On Water Street, Shuff’s was finalizing a planting of three Sweetbay magnolia trees. This deciduous tree features creamy white spring and summer flowers with a lemony fragrance. The leaves have a silvery underside and drop off in the fall. The blooms are petite but look like the Magnolia grandiflora blooms. The blooms are about 2 inches wide and about 2 inches tall, and they smell wonderful.
The MHGC also moved two of its new planter boxes down the street to Juli Fulgham’s Reclaimed Vintage Woodwork and Design Shop, which is located in the rear of Springer’s Dry Goods showroom.
Fulgham has added summer flowers (lantana and Salvia) to the boxes already. She, with the help of Dewberry, salvaged two barrels from garden clubs of days gone past that will be filled with summer flowers and changed out periodically.
The Maben Public Library also will be getting a mini-facelift. Shuff Landscape has already removed the beautiful pansies and they will be replaced with more appropriate summer flowers; more than likely Vinca periwinkle. The shrubs will be shaped up and all will be beautiful at the library
