MEET MARIO + SPRING TOUR OF A WHITE AND PALE PINK GARDEN

Neighbors

MEET MARIO

Many of the faces we see simply glide by us. We glimpse them briefly and then they're gone. But not this one.

Meet Mario, whose smiling face and friendly attitude you don't forget. That smile and that friendliness are two of the reasons we do our local shopping at Pak's Grocery, in the Saint George Gardens Stores on the west side of Westervelt Avenue near Hamilton, where Mario's a counterman.

When I spotted Mario taking a break the other day, I knew I wanted him to be the focus of this second installment of WIT's new feature, Neighbors. Thanks, Mario.

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SPRING TOUR OF A (MOSTLY)
WHITE AND PALE PINK GARDEN

Colors in the garden will soon become riotous, but for now everything's very demure, very discreet, and very virginally white. (Or pale pink--close enough.)

Bridal Veil
Front garden,
One St. Marks Place,
St. George

Viburnum
Small side yard
facing east side of Westervelt Avenue
between Carroll and St. Marks places,
St. George

White and Pink Rhododendrons
and a screaming red Azalea
Broadleaf evergreen bed,
patio, rear  garden,

Skimma Japonica
Perennial bed,
rear garden, lower level

Hardy Geranium
Perennial bed,
rear garden, lower level