The Hinton Wednesday Club will once again beautify the streets of Hinton with floral displays, but this year those displays will look a little different.
According to Barbara Parmer, president of the Hinton Wednesday Club, members will plant flowers in new, larger resin planters beginning on May 14.
Many of the original 55 wrought iron flower boxes, made by Sandstone resident Lloyd Enoch of Mountain Metal Works, will be retired to make room for these new bigger boxes, Parmer stated.
The new boxes will be placed in central locations throughout Hinton and along business storefronts. Cannas, Vincas, Coleus and Petunias will be some of the flowers featured in each box.
“We want flowers that have a big splash of color,” Parmer said.
Going with tradition, each planter will be dedicated to a Hinton area resident who has passed away.
The Hinton Wednesday Club undertook the project to beautify Hinton streets in the late 1980’s.
In 1992, under the leadership of Katherine Brown, Enoch manufactured the wrought iron planter boxes, according to Parmer.
For the past thirty years or so, under chairpersons Joyce Meador, Parmer, and Barbara Bowling, the Wednesday Club has fulfilled their aim to beautify the streets of Hinton. Meeting twice a year at the rear entrance of Hinton Floral, graciously provided by Donna Pivont, the ladies of the Wednesday Club have energetically filled the flower boxes, assisted by Jim Bowling who gathers the flower boxes and returns them to designated places in town.
The ladies of the Wednesday Club also acknowledge the help of the street department of the City of Hinton for watering the plants as well as the business owners who have the flower boxes in front of their stores.
Later in the year, the club will plant evergreen trees in the planters to celebrate the Christmas season.
“People greatly appreciate them and what they do for the city,” Parmer said of the planters. “We are happy to be a part of it.”
