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entrance of the Fauquier library in Warrenton, you’ve seen the value of Cedar Run Garden Club’s civic efforts. A stunning bronze sculpture of a young girl reading a book adorns the brick pool, surrounded by well-tended perennials and — always in spring and summer — annual bedding plants set out to add a dash of brightness.
“Our members take very seriously the purposes that our club was organized to achieve,” stateed Mrs. R. Martin Kremer. .“Civic and roadside beautification, environmental education and protection, and artistic and landscape design are our aims.
“Of course, we focus heavily on horticulture and we participate in local, state and national flower competitions,” Mrs. Kremer pointed out, noting that the mix of horticulture, education, service and activism hasn’t changed since Cedar Run was organized in the dead of winter in 1950.
The Blue Ridge Flower Club was a spin-off of the Piedmont Garden Club in 1935 when Mrs. Green, Mrs. Henry Baxley and other ladies from around Hume decided they would like a club of their own. They met at the old Hume Clubhouse at the comer in Hume “to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening among amateurs; to aid in the protection of native trees, plants and birds; and to encourage civic planting,” according to a history of the club
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