These articles highlight the success of early Olivette in Bloom volunteers. We couldn't have done it
without these pioneers.
| 17 Jan 2005 |
Olivette is set to begin three-year project to restore
tall-grass prairie |
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One day tall wild grasses bending in the wind,
wildflowers, dragonflies and butterflies will greet the runners and dog
owners who use the trails at Stacy Park, at Olive and Warson roads in
Olivette.
The city's Parks and Beautification Committee
will embark on Saturday on a three-year project to restore part of the
park to tall-grass prairie. The committee will begin seeding two acres of
the 35-acre park's northwest...
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| 3 May 2003 |
Small Is Beautiful but Big is Good, Too, In the
2003 Great Garden Contest |
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...(3) PHOTO by JERRY NAUNHEIM JR. / POST-DISPATCH - Gardens
done by a group are an important category in the Post-Dispatch Great
Garden Contest. Last year's top winners were 30 volunteer gardeners with
"Olivette in Bloom."...
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| 29 June 2002 |
Inspired Effort |
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TO GARDEN as a group, members must get along. And the 30 or
so volunteers with Olivette in Bloom do just that, even though their
leader, Esther Pruett, says, "We found it's really hard for a
committee to design a garden.
"We all discovered," she adds, "that
we each have our favorite plants and other plants that we don't like as
much."
But they've cooperated so well over the past two years that they brought
home to Olivette a first-place prize in the 2002 Great Garden Contest's
category of "best garden tended by a group."...
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| 22 June 2002 |
AND THE WINNERS ARE... |
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...BEST GARDEN TENDED BY A GROUP
1st place Olivette in Bloom, led by Esther V. Pruett, Olivette...
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