Club has plans for Gardner Park | Local News

Members of Park Place Garden Club met recently with Elvin Ulmer, city parks and recreation director, to discuss plans to restore walkways, plants and trees and re-mark trees in Gardiner Park.

The club, organized in 1927 with the mission of preserving the natural beauty of Gardiner Park, has planted many memorial trees in the park through the years and has placed stone benches in the park.

In 1987, members of the club researched the history, species and geological readings of Gardiner Park, and the club was rewarded when the Mississippi Council of Garden Clubs designated Gardiner Park as the first native arboretum in the state. The purpose was to have a natural classroom for local children and adults in this area.

Permanent identification markers were added for the indigenous tree species located in the park by club members in 2003.

Gardiner Park was designed by the firm of Frederick Law Olmstead, the father of landscape architecture. It is the only park in Mississippi with that special distinction. However, Central Park in New York City and the gardens at Biltmore Estate were also designed by the firm.

Civic improvements/Gardiner Park chairman Peggy Gatlin and other club members discussed new plans to remark the trees and add other improvements to the park with Ulmer.

Park Place Garden Club is a member of the Garden Clubs of Mississippi, Inc., and the National Garden Clubs, Inc.

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