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Sep 6, 2008

"Where flowers bloom so does hope." --Lady Bird Johnson

Hope In Bloom

During the eight years Kathy Makiver has lived in her Garrison Colonial in Georgetown, she's had good intentions of planting a garden in the large backyard. But with lack of a green thumb and little free time because of a job, husband, and three kids, a garden never materialized -- until a recent Saturday. "This whole thing is a beautiful gift," said Makiver, as she watched family, friends, and volunteers plant a white star magnolia tree, climbing clematis, zinnias, daylilies, delphinium, and other perennial and annual flowers in a 10-by-12-foot garden and around her patio. It all was thanks to Hope in Bloom, a nonprofit that since last summer has been planting gardens, and supplying patio and indoor plants, free to breast cancer patients in active treatment.