HomeMy WebLinkAboutBeautification Week- 1993 Winter Springs is planting,
cleaning up, sprucing up
By Elaine Bennett Xeriscape (pronounced zir-a-
OF THE SENTINEL STAFF scape) is the grouping of clusters
of water-loving plants, flowers and
WINTER SPRINGS — Flowers plants and trees that 1 require
will spruce up entrance signs soon much less water. Xeriscape was
in Winter Springs, which begins initiated in Denver, Colo., in 1981.
its celebration today of Beautifica- It has been promoted in Central
tion Week. Florida for the past few years, and
Volunteers and members of the most counties and cities have in-
Beautification of Winter Springs eluded it in comprehensive land
(BOWS)board plan to spend about use plans.
$700 for 288 lantana plants, mulch Other activities planned this
and soil to plant around 14 city- week include the city's first Clean
owned signs. Up, Spruce Up Day on April 23,
The plants were chosen because when school children and their
they require little maintenance parents are asked to pick up trash
and water and go along with the and debris around their schools
city's efforts to Xeriscape, a pro- and neighborhoods.
gram geared toward conserving Volunteers also plan to pick up
water through creative landscap- debris along state roads 434 and
ing. 419 and Tuskawilla Road.
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