The Beauty Spot of the Month award for July goes to Betty and Bill Crawford at 3415 Andover Drive. They are longtime residents of CCH. In fact, Betty has been a member of the Country Hills Garden Club for forty-five years! Betty knows well the challenges and rewards of keeping garden areas looking their best in Virginia’s acidic, clay soil after temperature and precipitation stressors. The lush greenery surrounding her home is the result of her savvy care of a host of perennials, shrubs, and trees that she planted. Dogwood branches above front windows gracefully bow with brilliant blossoms, berries, and leaves as seasons change. Large azaleas growing beneath are abloom for weeks at springtime. The shoulder-high evergreen acuba shrubs standing nearby started as just small cuttings! This July the garden areas burst with excitement! Flowering stalks of lavender honeybell hostas and sun-kissed orange daylilies add their pops of color to the right fence line. To the left, a bank of profusely blooming hydrangea bushes steals the limelight. They are topped with stunning Lacecap powder blue pompoms, Annabelle white snowballs, and Oakleaf creamy fronds. Not to be upstaged, geraniums in decorative planters at the home entrance flash fire-red to complete a celebratory patriotic theme in the gardens for the 4th of July holiday. Unlike a short-lived fireworks display, the red, white, and blue summer flowers will last into autumn adding new rich tones to the landscape. The Crawfords enjoy watching the birds and butterflies drawn to their splendid garden sanctuary. They hope you find pleasure in it, too.
Happy 4th of July from the Country Hills Garden Club!
Anita Johnson and Nancy LeBow
