May 21, 2014 (Florence, SC) ─ After a walk on the wild side at the Riverbank Zoo and Garden in Columbia, residents at Pee Dee Gardens, a DePaul Senior Living Community in Florence, stopped and smell the roses at the Pearl Fryar Topiary Garden in Bishopville.

It was a busy day as Pee Dee Gardens residents learned about some of the 2,000 animals which call the Riverbanks Zoo and Garden home. On their trip back to Florence, residents switched gears for a visit to Lee State Park and to Pearl Fryar Topiary Garden in Bishopville where they took in more than 300 plants which were created by Pearl Fryar in the 1980s. Fryar is known for rescuing plants from compost piles at local nurseries and transforming them into artistic masterpieces and abstract shapes.

Pictured above at the zoo are Pee Dee Gardens residents Florence Barton, Ann Cully, Evelyn Floyd, Faye Howle, Jennie Graham, Waddy Baroody and Pat Kale at the Riverbank Zoo and Gardens.

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