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Gary & Ruth Neely

Gary and Ruth Neely, 75 Fox Willow Drive, Pinedale, received the Sage and Snow Garden of Beauty Award for their beautiful gardens and landscaping. Located on the banks of Pine Creek, the Neelys have highlighted the natural beauty of the water with trees, shrubs, and flowers, including many native species. Gary comes from a long and well-known family of gardeners. His mother, Lucy Neely (Neely’s Nursery), sold trees and shrubs to many Sublette County gardeners. His grandmother, Ethel David, meticulously recorded the results of her large vegetable gardens on Beaver Creek, north of Merna. This bold and rich gardening heritage encouraged Gary and Ruth to grow things that can thrive in Sublette County but are not often seen in the landscape. They have Swedish aspens, jack pines, ginella maples, crab apple trees, lilacs, chokecherries, and potentillas. Their flower gardens feature penstemon, daisies, coneflowers, flax, wallflowers, hollyhocks, poppies, catmint, peonies, marigolds, petunias, and dianthus. They also grow a vegetable garden full of potatoes, squash, beets, beans, and raspberries. Gardening is hard work but the beauty and pleasure which results from the work is the motivation for the Neelys to tend their beautiful gardens.