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By Kevin Allen
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The Washington Town Council announced last week that a new program is getting underway to beautify the town with new plantings.
Jack and Sally Price, master gardeners and Rappahannock County residents, have volunteered to help Washington leaders form a plan to beautify the town by suggesting native plant species that will require less maintenance and fare better than some of the current landscaping around town.
Washington Tbwn Council Member Claudia Mitchell said she plans to have a group of residents walk through the town With the Prices, and survey what can be done to spruce up some areas - especially at Washington’s main entrance from U.S. 211 on Warren Avenue.
“We have a lot of invasive trees and shrubs all around our [town] sign,” Mitchell noted.
The Prices have a special interest in native plants, and have worked on projects to install Virginia species at Rappahannock County Park. They have also coordinated with RappFLOW on a riparian buffer next to the Thornton River in Sperryville.
“Natives, being what they are, usually do a whole lot better in the environment here,” Jack Price said, adding that the plants are adapted to
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