18 | June 2020
18 | June 2020
When Sue Priest and her husband
Larry moved to Clarendon House
12 years ago from Pinehurst, there
wasn't much to the little yard outside
their first-floor double apartment.
O
h, the birds, the squirrels,
the flowers and, most of
all, the memories. And Sue
Priest is here to enjoy them
all while sitting on the porch
overlooking her peaceful and lovely Clarendon
House garden.
"Wherever I am, I like to try to beautify it,"
she said.
When she and her late husband Larry, both
Hope Mills natives, moved to this spot 12
years ago from Pinehurst, there wasn't much
to the little yard outside their first-floor double
apartment. Sue took a gardening class at then-
Fayetteville Technical Institute and took a field
trip to a Southern Living gardening show.
She and Larry would go on to add azaleas,
camellias, roses and hostas, as well as pots and
hanging baskets of annuals, such as impatiens
and petunias.
And then they added friends as numerous as
all those blooms in their garden. And strangers
who would become friends, including actors
These days, caregiver
Dennis Hutchinson
sees to it that the
weeds that pop up
in the garden are
pulled, and
the flowers are
watered.
