FLAGLER

Selection of the Month announced for September

Staff Writer
The Daytona Beach News-Journal
Linda and Dave Markey of Egan Drive have been recognized as September 2018 Selection of the Month by The Garden Club at Palm Coast. [Photo provided]

Linda and Dave Markey of Egan Drive have been recognized as September's Selection of the Month by The Garden Club at Palm Coast.

Dave moved to Palm Coast from Michigan in 1989. Linda moved from upstate New York in 2003. They met in 2008 and were married at Washington Oaks State Park in 2009. They purchased their home on Egan Drive in 2011. Much yard work had to be done as the grass and gardens were mostly dead and a circular driveway had to be finished.

The previous owner, a custom home builder, designed and built his “dream castle" and when his wife died he built a brick castle memorial next to the house along with a medieval knight in armour. The Markeys decided to add a medieval fountain along with a red hibiscus, firecracker plant and morning glory.

Linda researched plants for a theme and chose English rose gardens. A center island was created with concrete brick shaped border, a majesty palm in the center and a bird bath with two blue birds surrounded by roses. Asiatic creeping jasmine green and varigated were planted throughout the bed and a small battery operated fence had to be installed to keep deer out, the release states.

Inside lanai area there are two shamrock plants — purple leaf with pink flowers and green leaf shamrock — along with bromeliads, pencil tree, peace lily, spider plant and aloe. For the outside pool area a bordered garden was created with Bird of Paradise, gardenia, hibiscus, bush daisy, periwinkle, pink angel trumpet, red and orange camellia, blue agapanthus, orange milkweed and Mexican petunias. The latest addition was a wood arbor with bleeding heart vine, honeysuckle, climbing red roses and white Jasmine.

— Submitted by Nancy Iandoli