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Aug 27, 2024 · The hedges were introduced in 1926 when a UGA employee at the Rose Bowl noticed the red rose bushes surrounding the field. In Athens, Sanford had begun constructing what he felt would become...
Sanford Stadium's hedges have encircled the field since the stadium's first game against Yale in 1929. The idea to put hedges around the field came from the Business Manager of the UGA Athletic Department, Charlie Martin.
Aug 30, 2023 · Circumstances got more complicated when an Atlanta donor called with a gift of privet Ligustrum hedges to ring the stadium’s field. That’s when President Sanford hit upon a scheme that might not invoke the governor’s ire.
Sanford Stadium’s privet hedges, which cover about 5,000 square feet around the playing field have survived disease, winter weather and more than one move. The hedges are not just cosmetic there...
Mar 20, 2024 · As generations of Bulldogs would tell you, there’s no line of shrubbery as iconic to sports as the hedges of the University of Georgia’s Sanford Stadium. The Chinese privet bushes – Ligustrum sinense, taxonomically speaking – that frame Dooley Field have seen every Georgia home game since 1929.
Oct 12, 2009 · Healthy cuttings were nurtured into full-grown hedges and returned to Sanford Stadium, where they were transplanted in a ceremony involving Dooley and other Georgia dignitaries.
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Aug 28, 2018 · The famous hedges of Sanford Stadium get a trim. Sports in the South are inextricably linked to vegetation: think Augusta and its azaleas; Louisville and its roses; and Athens, Georgia, and its Ligustrum sinense , Chinese privet.
