Home, Lawn & Garden 2011 A supplement to The Eunice News April 28, 2011
About The Cover Home, lawn and garden enthusiasts are pictured. In top photo are the Bursons in front of a flowering bed of snapdragons. Left are Matt and Lorita Johnson at their new home. Right are Bert Miller, a gardener, and Joyce Deshotel, known for her love of flower-足gardening.
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Gwen and Jack Burson relaxing in their favorite room of their home.
Burson home reflects color and beauty The large corner home rest- ing on five lots across the street from Highland Elementary belongs to Jack and Gwen Burson. Built in 1976, the home fea- tues 4,000 living square foot- age with four bedrooms, four complete baths, a TV/enter- tainment room, formal dining room, living room with fire- place, library room, kitchen/ breakfast room, and laundry room. Jack Burson purchased the lots from the late Mrs. L.C. Amy and hired Herbert Lafleur of Pine Prairie to landscape the grounds. He contracted Hosea and James Johnson to build the home. “It was the last home
Hosea built,” said Burson. The grounds, landscaped with flowering beds, fruit trees, live oaks, a pecan tree, and a red maple tree, holly bushes, elm trees, crepe myr- tles, a sweet olive tree and palms also features a tennis court on the front west side of the home. “We don’t play any longer, but when the home was built my children played and enjoyed the sport,” said Burson. The Bursons’ favorite room, the TV room, features a small kitchen area, complete with a stove, sink and small refrig- erator. The couple enjoy sit- ting and relaxing in front of a modern flat-screen TV, watch-
ing their favorite programs. This room opens to French doors onto a back-court yard area and a backyard filled with flowering bedded plants and fruit trees. The Bursons laughed saying, “We have a small fruit orchard here.” Their fruit-bearing trees include lemon, kumquat, four types of orange trees, mus- cadines, blueberries, plums, peaches, persimmons, satsu- ma, figs, and pear. “At one time we picked 300 oranges off of one tree,” said Gwen. Also located in the backyard area, the Bursons tend to a vegetable garden, which pro-
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Deshotel enjoys working outside surrounded by beauty Part of Deshotel’s landscape includes crepe myrtles, pecan and oak trees, peach tree, mag- nolia tree, and flowering beds of zinnas, petunias, ferns, Rose of Montana, rose bushes, calla lilies, cannas, lantana, camel- lias, day lilies, paper whites, azaleas, Dutch Iris, iron plants, Lily of the Nile,and amaryllis. Deshotel does not have any kind of secret with her flour- ishing flower beds. However, she does rake her leaves, not to bag them and put them at the
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Joyce Deshotel enjoys working in her flower beds.
Joyce Deshotel enjoys work- ing outside and is usually out -Âand-Âabout working and weed- ing flower beds and tending to a vegetable garden. Deshotel, 77, who lives on West Park Avenue, finds that outside yard work is therapy for her. “It’s relaxing, ther- apeutic and a hobby that I enjoy,â€? she said. In an average week, depend- ing upon weather and how she feels, Deshotel works outside four to five days, maintaining flower beds. She weeds and waters when needed, her many flower beds. She also tends to a spring and fall vegetable garden. This spring she will harvest toma- toes, cucumbers, bell peppers and okra. In the fall she plants turnips, mustard greens, and carrots. Deshotel never dreamed that she would be living in town again. Married to (the late) John Deshotel for 40 years, the couple first lived in the last block on West Park when their two children were young- er. The couple then moved to a large country home on Tasso Loop Road for 35 years. After her husband passed away five
years ago Joyce moved back to town. “I could not take care of a big house and yard by myself. It was too hard.â€? she said. Many Eunice citizens remember Joyce Deshotel as the owner of Joyce’s Dress Shop, which was located on South Third Street. Her hus- band was a 35-Âyear educator for St. Landry Parish Schools. He was a teacher, a principal at the Eunice Vocational Tech
roadside, but to use as mulch. She also applies Triple 8 fertil- izer to her beds in November and again in February. Deshotel is planning future gardening projects. “I plan to plant yellow cotton in May in one of my beds. I also want to try planting gladiolus.� Deshotel also has one son, John Deshotel and his wife Tammy who live in Lafayette.
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duces tomatoes, cucumbers, parsley and onions. In the back of the home a drive leads into a double-Âdoor garage featuring two storage rooms. The Bursons’ home is accent- ed with colorful spring beauty flowering beds of snapdragons, knock-Âout roses, sasanquas, azaleas, amaryllis, plumbago, pansies, hibiscus, bougain- villeas, geraniums, Rose of
Montana vining plants, garde- nia, hydrangeas, dianthus and Asian jasmine ground-Âcover. The Bursons enjoy living on Duck Avenue, and their home, even though large, is comfort- able for them. “Our house is home,â€? said Burson.
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Did you know Arbor Day history? While some might not think of Nebraska as a land of trees, Arbor Day actually has its roots in the Cornhusker State. A day now dedicated to public tree planting, Arbor Day can be traced back to one of the Nebraska Territory’s pioneers. Upon moving into the ter- ritory in 1854, journalist J. Sterling Morton, a lover of nature, quickly planted trees around his home. Soon after becoming editor of the territo- ry’s first newspaper, Morton eventually used his paper as
a forum to spread his enthusi- asm for trees and agriculture in general. While Morton loved trees, his advocacy ex- tended to trees’ practical pur- poses as well. For example, planted trees in the new terri- tory were used as windbreaks to help keep soil in place, and also provided strong sources of shade throughout the sum- mer months. By 1872, just five years af- ter Nebraska became a state, Morton had proposed the idea of Arbor Day to the State Board of Agriculture. Nebras-Â
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Miller plans to pick blackberries this June.
Bert Miller tilling an area for snapbeans in his vegetable garden. Bert Miller’s garden grows pretty well, as he tends to it almost daily, weeding, tilling and watering. “I enjoy garden- ing, and the fresh vegetables of course,â€? he said. Miller actually grows two sepa- rate vegetable gardens. One; lo- cated on the east side of his West Park home, produces cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers, and snap beans. Another garden located in his backyard will produce corn, okra, parsley and green onion tops. Alongside a fenced-Âin area Miller grows blackberries. “The variety is a Brazos which comes
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Johnsons, a move from east side of town to west end store closed, we decided to move,â€? said Matt. The Johnson’s backyard fea- tures flowering beds of gerber daisies, cannas, calla lilies, azaleas, potted sundials, pot- ted geraniums and petunias, potted ornamental cabbage and in a small corner of the backyard is a vegetable gar- den with tomatoes, bell and banana peppers, and cucum- bers. The front of the home is ac- cented with a large flower-Â
ing bed of camellias, day lil-Â ies, dianthus, New Guinea impatiens, petunias, aza-Â leas, knock-Âout roses, bridal wreath, loropetalum fringe flowers, daffodils, zinnas, Lily of the Nile, potted ferns, and calla lilies. The Johnsons enjoy their new home and find relaxation in their favorite room, the liv-Â ing room.
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Lorita and Matt Johnson at their home on B&B Avenue.
The Johnsons lived on the east end of Eunice for over 40 years before retirement took them to west end of the city. Matthew (Matt) and Lorita Johnson moved into their new home a little over a year ago. The couple’s new home, lo- cated at 1341 B&B Avenue, features 1,300 living square feet, three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a combined open-Âarea kitchen and dining room. The front door opens into a foyer and the living area fea- tures a 12-Âfoot tray ceiling and a large French-Âdesigned front window. The kitchen features gran- ite counter tops, a gas stain- less steel stove, a roll-Âout cab- inet for spices, and stone wall accents. The master bedroom is ac- cented with a walk-Âin closet and a private bathroom with a large vanity and private shower. The hallway features a closet which opens into a laundry room. The Johnsons hired South- ern American Builders to build their home. To compli- ment their home, the cou- ple’s son, Matthew Johnson, Jr. of Lafayette, landscaped the front and back yard ar- eas with flowering beds. “He wanted to do the planting. He enjoys yard work and land-Â
scaping,� said Lorita. The Johnsons, known for their family business John- son’s Grocery, which was lo- cated on East Maple Avenue, lived in a home directly be- hind the grocery store on Nimitz Street. The grocery store was owned and operat- ed by brothers Matt, Wallace,
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