The Hammond Garden Club awards the front gardens at the Scelfo home near Southeastern Louisiana University as the “Garden of the Month”. Club members Sheila Reno, at left, and Margaret Hawkins, at right, present the award to a surprised and gracious Holly Scelfo on June 11. The front of the home is framed by gardens with pink “KnockOut” roses, blue agapanthus, foxtail ferns as well as sculpted holly trees, crape myrtles and magnolias.
Even with summer heat, drenching rains and high humidity, the gardens in the front of the Scelfo home near Southeastern Louisiana University were colorful, healthy and well-tended.
A ring of the doorbell was answered by a surprised and gracious Holly Scelfo who accepted the garden honor and had her photo made with Hammond Garden Club members Sheila Reno, Margaret Hawkins and the official garden club sign.
The Scelfos' garden honor will last until mid-July when other members of the Garden of the Month committee select a new recipient. The award is made throughout the year.
Recommendations for suitable gardens may be made by contacting any Hammond Garden Club member.
Holly mentioned that the yard was overgrown when they moved to Hammond several years ago, but with the help of Angelo’s Landscaping in Baton Rouge, the yard and gardens were tamed and planted.
A lush St. Augustine front lawn now frames pink “KnockOut” roses, with height in the gardens from numerous blue agapanthus blooms.
Interspersed are foxtail ferns as well as sculpted holly trees at the home entrance. Accents of caladiums and dwarf azaleas add seasonal color under mature crape myrtle and magnolia trees.
Head football coach Frank Scelfo and wife Holly are Louisiana natives - he hails from New Iberia, and she from Monroe, so the weather has no more effect on them than it has on the beautiful plantings in the front of their white brick home on University Avenue.
A ring of the doorbell was answered by a surprised and gracious Holly Scelfo who accepted the garden honor and had her photo made with Hammond Garden Club members Sheila Reno, Margaret Hawkins and the official garden club sign.
The Scelfos' garden honor will last until mid-July when other members of the Garden of the Month committee select a new recipient. The award is made throughout the year.
Recommendations for suitable gardens may be made by contacting any Hammond Garden Club member.
Holly mentioned that the yard was overgrown when they moved to Hammond several years ago, but with the help of Angelo’s Landscaping in Baton Rouge, the yard and gardens were tamed and planted.
A lush St. Augustine front lawn now frames pink “KnockOut” roses, with height in the gardens from numerous blue agapanthus blooms.
Interspersed are foxtail ferns as well as sculpted holly trees at the home entrance. Accents of caladiums and dwarf azaleas add seasonal color under mature crape myrtle and magnolia trees.
Head football coach Frank Scelfo and wife Holly are Louisiana natives - he hails from New Iberia, and she from Monroe, so the weather has no more effect on them than it has on the beautiful plantings in the front of their white brick home on University Avenue.