The Literary Garden: Mt. Shasta Garden Tour and Spring Hill Nursery and Gardens, Mt. Shasta
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Literature and gardening have long gone hand in hand. This weekend, and for the past five years, literature in Siskiyou County gets a helping-hand from the annual Mt. Shasta Garden Tour - organized by Katie Jessup, owner of Spring Hill Nursery and Gardens - the starting point for the tour. All of the costs of organizing and holding the tour are absorbed by Spring Hill Nursery and Gardens and ALL of the proceeds go to the benefit of the Friends of the Mt. Shasta Library, a branch of the Siskiyou County main library. As a result of on-going economic struggles, Siskiyou County is considering closure of their library system. An event that is “inconceivable” to Katie Jessup - who sees a library as an integral part of any town. And so this year, the garden tour takes on a slightly more pointed urgency. “But a library of some sort will always exist,” Katie states reassuringly- to herself (and me). “People will make it happen one way or another no matter what the county decides.” (more…)
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