The Kingfisher Lions Club has recently announced Bridget Keast as its May Silver Spade winner.

Keast’s yard and flowerbeds contain an assortment of trees and flowers, including hydrangeas and azaleas.

Many evergreen plants fill her flowerbeds, but the trees that really make the yard special are her redbuds and maples, she said.

The large redbuds in her front yard have a special story behind them, said Keast.

When Keast first purchased them, she brought home eight redbuds in a brown paper sack.

Keast has been able to nurture them into the large trees that now provide lots of shade in her yard.

In one of the redbuds sits a birdhouse.

“The birds love it out here,” she said. “Which I like.”

She has also planted two maple trees, a Bloodgood Japanese maple and a Coral Bark maple.

She loves the Coral Bark maple, she said, because its bark adds a pop of color in the winter.

Keast said her garden is especially pretty at night when all of the lights come on and illuminate the flowerbed.

She lives next door to her sister and this has contributed to several aspects of her yard.

In front of her flowerbed is a stone and brick walkway.

This walkway connects the front porch of Keast’s house to her sister’s driveway.

“It keeps us talking,” she said. “We used to both have cats and they would walk back and forth along the path so we call the pathway the ‘cat walk.’”

The two sisters also share one large backyard with three porches.

Keast said they love having family over and spending time out in the backyard.

She also added that they have seven dogs that love to run around in the yard.