Ridgewood residents Nancy Reilly and Paul Brennan receive Homescape Awards
FRIDAY JULY 27, 2012, 1:06 PM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
There’s an answer to the mystery of those nearly 5-foot-tall wooden sunflowers that suddenly appear in village gardens each summer. They are the work of the Project Pride Committee, which for the past 12 years has been giving Ridgewood homeowners with especially attractive front yard gardens surprise Homescape Awards. Recipients can display the sunflowers in their gardens for two weeks.
Five-foot-tall wooden sunflowers have been placed in the gardens of village residents who are recipients of this year’s Homescape Awards.
According to Ridgewood resident Nancy Reilly, the award has prompted a playful competition with her neighbor Paul Brennan, who both won this year. They each have now won the award at least twice, Reilly said.
So now, “it’s (jokingly) on.”
“When he plants his garden and I plant my garden, we say, ‘May the best man win,'” said Reilly, a science teacher at Ridgewood High School. “It’s all in good fun.”
Reilly, who loves to garden and has won the award three times, said that getting the award on June 24 – her wedding anniversary – was especially exciting.
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Forget the flowers this year, bumper crop of tomatoes coming in.
Where are yours…