Tulsa Mayor Saves Woman’s Wildflowers
TULSA, Okla. — Evelyn Connors’ paradise on earth is safe from city lawn mowers.
The city had threatened to cut the 50-foot-long strip of waist-high wildflowers that the 82-year-old woman has tended for 27 years, citing codes that say plants in uncultivated gardens can be no higher than one foot.
Mayor Susan Savage and a public works official toured the wildflower garden and decided that only a pink dogwood tree needed trimming among Connors’ patches of buttercups, Jacob’s ladders, blue larkspurs and purple yarrow.
“The wildflowers will remain intact. They’re not a problem,†Savage said Friday.
Connors said she was satisfied with the compromise.
“They can go ahead and do that, but they better not touch the wildflowers,†she said. “They can trim a little, but I’ll hit them over the head if they get reckless.â€
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