Woodstock tradition is about more than landscaping and manucured lawns
Several categories to recognize the efforts of families and businesses
By Mark Schadenberg
A famous slogan is: “Give credit,
where credit is due.”
The credit I'm discussing today has
nothing to do with a plastic card in your wallet, but rather
recognizing hard work and efforts in local landscaping.
The nominations are on-going currently
for the annual City Beautiful Awards in Woodstock, which means until
July 10 you can nominate a neighbour or friend, business or even a
condo complex for its appearance.
Someone with a green thumb spends a lot
of greenbacks on their hobby of gardening, but at the same time must
also prune, purge, cultivate, clip, and edge the lawn to create an
overall stunning impression worth honouring.
The City Beautiful Awards are a
tradition in Woodstock, so just like an athlete wants to peak for
their main competition of the season, gardeners are sprucing up their
properties right now to gain a nomination this week and a top judging
result next week.
I remember a few years back when
Woodstock was winning awards with a program called Communities In
Bloom, which represented a concerted effort by an entire community to
'look its best.'
Nominations for City Beautiful Awards
are in various categories – residential, commercial, industrial,
multi-residential and new landscaping project (within the past year).
Another interesting division is for non-turf properties, which can
encompass rock gardens and English gardens.
There might be someone on your street
deserving of this accolade or maybe there's a business or residence
you drive by on a regular basis that will inspire you to nominate
their particular property.
Woodstock is called The Friendly City,
so you could be friendly and submit an address of someone you don't
even know.
Landscaping is a terrific hobby and
pastime, but not to cut down this process (pun intended), some people
certainly do water too much and forget the importance of conserving
water, which is a precious resource. The terms resource, recycle,
reuse, re-focus and reduce will be topics of another writing I'm
currently compiling.
LINKS:
Mark
Schadenberg, Sales
Representative
Senior
Real Estate Specialist (SRES designation)
Royal
LePage Triland Realty
757
Dundas St, Woodstock
www.wesellwoodstock.com
(519)
537-1553, cell or text
Email:
mschadenberg@rogers.com
Twitter:
markroyallepage
Facebook:
Mark Schadenberg, Royal LePage Triland
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