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TUPELO â When Lee Pryor Caldwell and her husband, Rudy, moved to Tupelo in 1972, they built a big rose bed at the end of their driveway. I d always had a rose or two, but that bed probably had 30 roses in it, she said. When we moved to a new house in 91, I told Rudy I wanted a rose garden for our 30th wedding anniversary. It took three years, but I got a gazebo with a rose garden around it. I probably had 45 or 50 roses, but that counts everything â drift roses and Knock Outs, as well as hybrid teas.
Three years ago, the Caldwells downsized and moved again. The first thing they did was build her a rose garden.
Yesterday was a beautiful day for a ribbon cutting on the Music Bend Nature Trail, as the city of Tupelo received its first Mississippi Arboretum Certification from the Mississippi Urban Forest Council.
Together with Keep Tupelo Beautiful, the Tupelo Garden Club, Tupelo Parks & Recreation and the Mississippi Urban Forest Council, we celebrated this amazing project at the Music Bend Nature Trail Elvis Overlook.
Keep Tupelo Beautiful and the Tupelo Garden Club collaborated on this project to bring Lee County its first and only certified Arboretum. They included the expertise of Bob Marion and Dr. Crofton Sloan, who identified and tagged 42 trees of distinct species with labels that list each treeâs common name, scientific name and a brief description of the tree qualities, a requirement for Arboretum certification.
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