This Day in History (1996): Dhahran Garden Group Yard of the Month

From the Feb. 14, 1996, edition of The Arabian Sun

Lovely color, meticulous care and attention to landscaping details earned Larry and Cree Duff and daughter Lauren, 594 Marjan Circle, the Dhahran Garden Group's Yard of the Month award for December. 

Vivid pink petunias ringing a banyan tree greet visitors and set the color scheme for pots of petunias, bougainvillea, hibiscus, and the lush hedge of health periwinkle that promenades across the front of the house.

When the Duffs moved to the house in 1988, Cree was dismayed by the dismal yard with almost no plants. She and Larry, who share a love of gardening, embarked on a landscaping project that really never ends, but they don't mind.

The devote some time each day to routine that includes weeding, pruning, watering, and fertilizing, and they replace faded plants and add new specimens when the seasons change.

The Duffs are regular speakers at DGG's Garden Room and their backyard patio and garden retreat were included in DGG's Secret Garden Tour held last spring.

Also on this date

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1990 — Voyager 1 takes the photograph of Earth that later becomes famous as the Pale Blue Dot

1966 — Australian currency is decimalized

1946 — The Bank of England is nationalized

1920 — The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago

1918 — Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar

1912 — Arizona is admitted as the 48th and last contiguous U.S. state

1899 — Voting machines are approved by the U.S. congress for use in federal elections

1876 — Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone

1849 — James K. Polk becomes the first U.S. president to have his photograph taken

1779 — James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii