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Generous grant helps efforts to beautify downtown Tryon

 

TRYON—Efforts to beautify the intersections of Trade Street and Pacolet Street in downtown Tryon continue, and the Tryon Garden Club recently thanked the Polk County Community Foundation for a generous grant from the Special Projects Fund of the Kirby Endowment Fund that enabled the club to participate in the Morris project, improve the stairs plantings and clean-up along Pacolet, and the maintenance and enhancements within the Depot Garden. 

Over the last several years, the Kirby Endowment Fund has enabled the Tryon Garden Club’s Civic Beautification Committee to renovate the Depot Garden, one of Tryon’s parks. Projects have included repairing the drainage and watering systems, adding landscape lighting and post lights in the Depot Garden, redesigning several planting areas, and adding plant identification signage.  

Headed by Jane Herman, the Civic Beautification Committee is currently focused on installing and highlighting existing native plants. They also continue to label the plantings so visitors to the park can learn the names of NC friendly varieties. 

Along the sunny borders by Pacolet and Depot Streets are native perennials, shrubs, and understory trees that provide food and shelter to birds and insects. These gardens have been designated as a Homegrown National Park and are also an official Monarch WayStation. As a result, the beds feed both migrating and local birds and wildlife. 

On your next visit to downtown Tryon, take a few minutes to stroll through the garden or sit for a while and enjoy the oasis of trees, shrubs, and flowering plants. Or walk up to Morris, take a photo, and enjoy the new stepping stones. You will appreciate the results of a community working together. 

 

Submitted by Lucy Brannon