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Ag Museum Gardens Beautiful Again! What would you do if you were suddenly responsible for highly visible gardens and all the plants were dead or dying? Charla Jordan, Public Relations Chairman Brandon Garden Club, Inc. 90 • JUNE / JULY 2024
This was the situation facing Theresa Love in 2023 when she was appointed executive director of the Mississippi Agriculture & Forestry Museum by Andy Gipson, commissioner of agriculture and commerce. She had worked for the Ag Museum for over 25 years, and her vision was “wow factor” gardens that would encourage more visitors and more income from rental of its facilities. Brandon Garden Club, Inc. and Richland-Florence Garden Club, both based in Rankin County, came to the rescue. This was a logical partnership, since Jim Buck Ross, the commissioner responsible for the creation of the Ag Museum, his successor Lester Spell, and Andy Gipson, current commissioner of agriculture, are all from Rankin County. The gardens renovation project was completed on May 17, 2024. This was just in time for the meeting of The Garden Clubs of Mississippi, Natchez Trace District, hosted at the Ag Museum on May 22, 2024, by BGC. BGC members Sheila Everett, 2nd vice president/projects chairman, and Brenda Brooks, landscape designer, were instrumental in the creation of the landscape plan and fundraising. The landscape plan for the formal gardens and Small Town included over 1,500 shrubs, trees, bulbs, annuals, and perennials that were planted by garden club members with the help of labor provided by the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Hometown RANKIN • 91
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