Magnolia Award honors Jones landscaping

Special to Wesson News

Jo Jones (far right) and her granddaughter Kate Norwood (second from left), who is Wesson Founders’ Day Queen, accept Wesson Garden Club prestigious Magnolia Award from WGC’s Cherry Heard (far left) and Marilyn Britt (third from left).  The Magnolia Award recognized landscaping of Steve and Jo Jones.

Steve and Jo Jones are recipients of Wesson Garden Club’s annual Magnolia Award.

The Magnolia Award, the most prestigious award presented by the Club, recognizes and honors home gardeners for the best landscaped yard of the year and their love of gardening.  

The Jones are known for their outstanding hard work in constantly maintaining a well-groomed landscape year round that includes seasonal flowers, native trees and plants, accents, and shrubs.  

The primary basis for receiving the Magnolia Award is consistently maintaining a manicured yard, curb appeal, originality, use of native and seasonal plant material and creativity.  Recipients of the award must have received the Club’s Yard of the Month award within the same calendar year. 

WGC also recognized Elise Bell at 2168 King Road for her gardening and landscaping.  Her yard, graced by her skills, won the club’s Rural Yard of the Month honors at the end of 2025. 

The WGC awards programs spotlight maintenance principles and elements of landscape design practiced by Wesson area organizations and residents towards encouraging ongoing beautification and cleanliness and cultivating a citizenry that values and protects natural resources and assumes responsibility for enhancing the environment. 

The Garden Club's Yard of the Month awards honor properties in organizational, town residential and rural residential (limited to Wesson School District) categories during the spring, summer and fall.

The Wesson Garden Club is a member of the Natchez Trace District, Garden Clubs  of  Mississippi, Inc., and the National Garden Clubs, Inc.