Jeanne Holliday, 2nd Vice President

Horticulturalist History:

• Daughter of gardening parents, Dorothy and Dr. Rudolph Jones of Macon. Mother a prize winning rosarian; Father a peony plantsman.
   
• '72 Graduate of Stratford Academy; savored Advance Biology
   
• '76 Graduate of Agnes Scott College; BA Biology; special interest in Botany
   
• Wife of Dr. Peter Holliday, neurosurgeon, who as a teenager built arbors and rooted English boxwoods from Great Hill Place (the former Waddley Farm, now owned by the Otis Ingram family). While dating we enjoyed touring gardens. Our dream as newlyweds was to have our own boxwood garden.
   
• Student of floral design under Bennie Bahnson in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, while my husband completed his 7 year residency program. Mrs. Bahnson taught me how to design floral arrangements using strictly yard flowers, shrubbery, and native fresh plant materials.
   
• As returning Maconites, my husband and I purchased the historic home of Dr. Earnest & Pauline Pierce Corn. Accomplished flower show judge and Garden Ventures writer for the Macon Telegraph, Mrs. Corn planted a parterre boxwood garden in her terraced back yard. Though the garden was in disrepair due to Mrs. Corn's age and ill health, her English and American boxwood hedges were the deciding factor in purchasing our home.
   
• Avid gardener enhanced by time spent in my garden - the pleasure & rewards of the activity; by the joy of plants, insects, and birds; by the wonder of Creator God revealed in the intricacies of his creation right outside in my backyard.
   
• Vineville and Federation Garden Club member since 1985 - legacy of my Grandmother Jones, Grandmother(-in-law) Holliday, and mother. I advocate "Garden Clubbing" for the educational enrichment and social outlet and outreach in the community. Being a garden club member has bettered my life:
  Enrichment of meeting some of my best friends in life who share common interests
  Growth in learning new horticultural and floral techniques
  Challenge of competition in the Federation flower shows- many 4th, 3rd, and 2nd place ribbons as well as 1st place, Designer Choice and Tri-color Awards.
   
• Children Dorothy and Peter IV grew up as gardeners-in-training in our secret garden. They claim they were "forced labor", locked out of the house to dig holes in the flower beds. Now, as young adults, they love returning to the garden as a retreat for reading, meditating.  Our garden has also been the site for our son's and his bride's wedding reception.

Favorite Quote:

…God Almighty first planted a garden…and man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

-Sir Francis Bacon 1625