The Common Area and Architectural Review Committees jointly judged various community private gardens to determine this year's winners. The criteria were the same as before –- neatness, plant choice, and overall appeal. Winners couldn't be board or committee members or recent past winners. All our houses have size constraints for gardening and the same builder clay and rock fill dirt underneath. As trees get bigger, gardening in shade is a more common challenge. Even so, many residents have applied considerable ingenuity to limited space and put in ongoing maintenance hours to produce lovely results. This year we had four winners.
First winner is 130 Tull Place. This end townhouse has a side garden with a shade challenge. A mix of lime green hosta and bright touches of violas was both suited to the shady space, and colorful.
130 Tull Place
The next winner is 472 Ferdinand Day, last year's honorable mention. This year they went all out with bright colors, with containers in every possible spot front and rear, all inside a very attractive stone border.
472 Ferdinand Day
239 Murtha made the most of a very small front patch with color, containers, and a brick border.
239 Murtha
264 Murtha Street uses absolutely every available inch for in-ground plants or containers, both front and rear. Rear plants are visible from the Linear Park.
264 Murtha Street
Kathy McCollom has lived in Cameron Station since 2003 and been a member of the Common Area Committee since 2012. She’s an enthusiastic gardener of her small side patch and balcony deck. Kathy has been a volunteer with Friends of Beatley Central Library since 2015, working their book sales and sorting donations year-round. She retired from work in 2012 after both a 20 year Air Force career (mostly Public Affairs) and subsequent private sector and government years, mostly project management for software development.
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