Your Day: Pearl Fryar | ETV Road Show (2008) | ETV Classics
In this ETV Classic, the ETV Road Show expedition travels to Bishopville, South Carolina where Your Day! visits the topiary garden of Pearl Fryar. Host Bob Schuster talks about the hour-long program, and we listen to guitarist Don Bowen.
Next, Rowland Alston host of Making It Grow, introduces Pearl Fryar, Master Topiary Gardener who talks about the gardens, and considers success and making a difference.
Clemson Extension Agents, Randy Cubbage, Gary Forester and Carlin Munnerlyn conduct a Making It Grow segment on the Your Day Road Show! Later in the production, we see Pearl with elementary students who have created sculptures that might work in his topiary garden. We hope you enjoy this jewel as much as we have in bringing it to you!
View the broadcast of the documentary on Pearl Fryar, 145 Broad Acres Road, at these dates and times:
SCC Tue, 4/28 9:00 PM
- ETVW Thu, 4/30 9:30 AM
Side Notes
- Pearl Fryar, Iconic Topiary Artist has died at 86.
- Pearl Fryar's Living Legacy Continues - Pearl Fryar’s medium is plants. His message is crystal clear even among his forest of swaying green creatures, his topiary garden spread across three acres in Bishopville, South Carolina. Now in his eighties, Fryar planted his garden over decades and opened it to the public in the 1980s.
- June 27 was recognized as Pearl Fryar Day by the South Carolina General Assembly for his “humanitarian ideals and artistic influence” (1998)
- Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Governor’s Award for the Arts (2013)
- Award of Excellence - National Garden Clubs Inc. (2017) - "My goal when I started my garden was to win Yard of the Month," Fryar said chuckling. The chuckles come because the 77-year-old man with no gardening experience was awarded the Award of Excellence, the National Garden Clubs' highest honor.
- Pearl Fryar's Topiary Oasis in Rural South Carolina.
- Efforts to save a SC Landmark Could Play a Role in Transforming The Nation's Commemorative Landscape. South Carolina Public Radio.
