Elizabeth Nichols and her Cherokee Rose

By Albany Herald News

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April 10, 2016

The Cherokee Rose, Georgia’s state flower, is noted for its tiny, stark-white petals and yellow insides. (Photo courtesy of Bill Denson)

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Elizabeth Nichols proudly displays her huge Cherokee Rose bush.

Thousands of tiny flowers fill the huge Cherokee Rose bush on Elizabeth Nichols’ Pine Avenue property in Albany. (Photo courtesy of Bill Denson)

The Cherokee Rose was brought from China to what is now Georgia in the mid-1700s. (Photo courtesy of Bill Denson)

Elizabeth Nichols talks with a visitor in front of her mammoth Cherokee Rose bush that has grown over the past three decades-plus on the corner of her Pine Avenue property. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

Elizabeth Nichols put this fountain on her property to water her pets and the wild chickens that hang around her Pine Avenue home. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

Cherokee Roses, which are Georgia’s state flower, have a very short blooming season in early spring. (Photo courtesy of Bill Denson)

Elizabeth Nichols pushes back a thorny Cherokee Rose branch from the sidewalk path adjacent to her Pine Avenue home. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

Elizabeth Nichols just turned 89, but she and her 15-year-old buddy, Cody, take daily walks around her property in downtown Albany. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

This huge Cherokee Rose bush has taken over the southeastern corner of Elizabeth Nichols’ Pine Avenue property. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

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