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Pryor is strategically located in Northeast Oklahoma, 15 miles from Grand Lake O' the Cherokees, 8 miles from Lake Hudson and 35 miles from Tulsa. The abundance of lakes, parks and waterfalls offers opportunities for all who enjoy nature, hiking, fishing, and all water sports at their finest.Additionally, Pryor is home to MidAmerica Industrial Park, one of the country's largest industrial parks and a leading center for manufacturing, processing and distribution. MidAmerica houses nearly 90 companies ranging from small entrepreneurial operations to Fortune 500 companies like Google, Chevron and DuPont.
Regional Innovation &
Collaboration Forum
Friday, July 29th from 8:30am-1:30pm
Rogers State University - Pryor Campus
2155 HWY 69A, Pryor, OK 74361
Registration $20.00
includes registration, continental breakfast and lunch
This forum will explore the
diverse resources
shared between Rogers,
Mayes, Delaware,
and Wagoner counties.
Our unique region of Oklahoma provides
the nation's most in-land port,
the state's largest industrial park,
and established institutions of
higher education.
It is a sought-after destination for business investments,
educational attainment and planting family roots.
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P.O. Box 367 | Pryor, OK | 74362
phone: (918) 825-0157 | fax: (918) 825-0158 | email


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Their designer, the late Edith, Lady Londonderry, who first laid out the gardens in the early half of the 20th century, took skilful advantage of this by experimenting with many half-hardy shrubs. Hard landscaping elements echo this exotic feel. The Dodo Terrace is one example: it's home to an extraordinary collection of elaborately carved statuary, including gryphons, dinosaurs and, hence the name, dodos.
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Located within a stone's throw of each other on the sloping southern flanks of the Lamb Hill in west Wicklow are two remarkable Irish gardens owned by sibling horticulturists June and Jimi Blake. The first wraps itself around June's home, a picturesque, 19th-century farm steward's cut-stone house and its adjoining courtyard of rugged granite outbuildings next to deciduous woodland.
Boldly contemporary and expertly planted with an intricate mix of ornamental perennials, grasses, bamboos and shrubs, this is a garden in the process of constant change, transforming itself (sometimes radically) season after season.
Her younger brother Jimi's garden, known as Hunting Brook, is equally exciting. Exuberantly colourful and charmingly idiosyncratic, Hunting Brook is filled with rare or unusual plants collected during Jimi's plant-hunting trips to China, as well as his regular forays to specialist nurseries both at home and abroad.
The contemporary, prairie-style planting around his modern timber house is at its very best from midsummer onwards, while the woodland planting leading to the nearby forest glen is lushly beautiful in spring.
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