Memory Care at Springmoor with Gail Ramsay, R.N.

Gail Ramsay

It’s no secret that Springmoor residents actively enjoy walking our peaceful grounds, dancing at our fun events and swimming at our brand new Pathways Wellness Center, but if you ask residents what else they like about our Northwest Raleigh community and they will tell you that it’s peace of mind, knowing that supportive services are there for them when they need them. 

This month we’ll feature the community’s memory care services, the Seay Wing within our Stewart Health Center.

January Landscape Blog: Planting Seeds for 2015

By: Thom Morgan, Springmoor Landscape Manager 

Thom Morgan

  

Each year the big nurseries offer up new plants that they think will be the next big thing in the landscaping industry, and each year I get excited to try all of their new specimens.

For 2015, those that are considered “new” have actually been around for a few years as trial plants in places like North Carolina State University’s JC Raulston Arboretum. There, staffers graded the trial plants on whether they performed as promised, and if the plants were marketable. If a plant made the grade, it became available to you and me.

This year, we have a group of more compact and disease-resistant forms of our old favorites.

Here is a list of the various growers that contributed and their new specimens: