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the garden entrance.
Amidst the music and refreshments,
the crowd spent the afternoon viewing
newly blooming lilacs, magnolias and
day lilies, and followed a path past a
fountain and sculptures to a screened-
in wooden and copper gazebo.
Surrounding the garden, designed
by Farmington Hills master gardener

urrounded by thousands of
brightly hued perennials, bulbs
and rainbow-colored flats of
annuals, 400 guests strolled
through the newly dedicated Rochelle
Blum Memorial Hospice Garden on
May 16.
The garden,
at the Michigan
Hospice Home
in Farmington
Hills, was the
idea of Elaine
Grohman, vol-
unteer services
manager of the
South Oakland
County team at
Hospice of
Michigan. An
avid gardener,
she suggested its
creation as a
The Rochelle Blum Memorial Hospice Garden
place for hospice
patients, their
families, friends and staff to enjoy the
beauty and privacy of nature. The gar-
den, built and maintained by volun-
teers with donations, was begun in
January 1998.
Grohman said a few months after
the garden's inception, Rochelle Blum,
a hospice patient at the 40-bed resi-
dence, died. .
"Her family wanted to memorialize
her in a special way," Grohman said.
Mrs. Bluin's sister, Bunny White, added
that they felt "very indebted and com-
mitted to Hospice for allowing her
Irving Blum attends the garden dedication
family to care for Rochelle in her
in his wife's memory
home.
They spoke with Rabbi E.B.
Carol Duffy, is a memorial walkway of
Freedman, spiritual caregiver at the
600 bricks. Each is etched with mes-
facility, about Mrs. Blum's love of gar-
sages
from donors, in memory of their
dening. Her husband, Irving Blum,
loved ones.
and her sister and brother-in-law,
Rochelle Blum "loved flowers and
Bunny and Phillip White, then made a
always had them in her home," recalled
contribution toward the 4,000-square-
Bunny White, adding that her sister
foot garden.
"brought beauty and sunshine into a
The event included the presentation
room." For White, the choice of a gar-
of a two-foot-long brass sign, with the
den
for Mrs. Blum's memorial feels
name of the garden, to Mrs. Blum's
very, very right." PI-
family. It will hang on the archway at

