Gwinnett garden club will plant dry-weather trees, shrubs

With an eye toward education and the environment, a garden club will plant dozens of drought-tolerant native trees and shrubs Thursday in a newly created garden at the Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center in Buford.

About 50 plants, from sweetshrub to beautyberry, will go into the ground at the Memory Garden starting about 9 a.m. The Stonehedge Garden Club, a local women’s group, is funding the $3,000 project, publicity coordinator Kathy Vashaw.

Every plant will be marked with an information card as a learning tool for visitors, Vashaw said, and the 75-square-foot garden has the potential to grow.

“We want it to be something that the community at large will enjoy and learn from,” Vashaw said. “It’s really going to be beautiful.”

— Shane Blatt