The Plant City Garden Club presented its September award to Jack and Erma Zaiser.
When they moved into their home in 2005, Jack Zaiser got busy landscaping the yard. He enjoys a good card game, so he made four flowerbeds in the front shaped like the suits of a deck of cards.
The flower beds feature a different tree for each suit. The “club” garden features a queen palm with salmon-colored balsam impatience, which he grew from seed he brought from Maine. The “heart” bed has a date palm tree with pink vincas around it. The “spade” bed is home to a honey bell orange tree, with a century plant in front of it. Finally, the “diamond” flower bed has a Robellini palm with pink vincas around it.
His gardens include grapefruit, orange, lemon trees as well as an elderberry tree.