Does your GLO's house have its flowers/mascots in its yard?
 

Just something I began to notice a few weeks ago. In the front yard of ADPi and SAE they have lion statues and we (AOII) have little red and white flowers planted. Up until a few months ago, ZTA had pink ribbons hanging from their windows in the shape of the breast cancer ribbon. Also, Tri Delt has 3 pines in their yard.

Anyone else notice if your or other GLO's have their flowers,colors or mascots somewhere outside of their house?

Do the live squirrels count? ;):D

Our house was red and white brick...that counts, too, right?:)

Oh, and ditto on the ladybugs...(although in IL, they were those Japanese kind that bite).

I think most DG houses have anchors in the front yard.

I was at Vanderbilt not long ago and noticed the lovely pansies in the yard of the Theta house.

Those nasty ladybugs are no ladies! They're everywhere!!

Most Alpha Delta Pi houses have lions at the gate or door - at least, the houses I've seen. Our suite has them, and they're verging on TOO big!

I was a collegian during AOII's 100th anniversary. My chapter bought General Jaqueminot rose bushes to plant in front of the sorority dorm. We had always heard that they were a very deep red rose with NO thorns! Imagine our surprise when those thorny things started growing with pinky-red petalled flowers! Oh well, maybe that was the reddest rose around 100 years ago.

My chapter house has a lion statue in the front yard. At UCLA, there are matching lion statues on either side of the top stairs, if memory serves...

As our flower is the woodland violet, a wildflower, we don't tend to "plant" them. ;)

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I am sorry to say that two of our mascots don't grow outside of warm climates.

Strawberries won't grow well north of Missouri.
White Violets (better known as the confederate white violet) only grows in humid areas south of the MD-Line.

The DG thing is very true -- the DG house has a HUGE anchor that is literally 8-10 ft. long!


Maybe we could have a big crown or something? I know a lot of chapters have the Bunny as a symbol too, maybe the bunnies outside count too?

Well at least the house is grey stone -- that means 1/2 of the colors are covered.... maybe blue flowers or shrubs...

The Tri Delta chapter at Ohio State has pansies planted in the front yard of their home.

I don't know much about White Violets, but as far as strawberries go...

I grew up in Michigan, and some of my fondest summer memories as a child are going to the strawberry patch. I think my belly ended up being as full as my basket. :o I live in Ohio now, and have plans to take my kids next week to a local pick your own strawberry farm.

Though I suppose that "strawberry season" here doesn't coincide with the school year - perhaps that's more what you were getting at?

Yeah, sorry -- should have said that!

Gotcha - makes much more sense then. I was thinking...hmmn, if strawberries grow well in Michigan and Ohio, I'd imagine they would do so in Illinois. lol

We had one in the backyard, too.

Although not an official mascot of Delta, Delta Nu has an elephant fountain on our plot. His name is Bubbles. :)

Too cute! :D I can't wait to visit Bubbles!

Ditto for UNC-Chapel Hill

There's a sorority at Bama who has a beautiful cast iron railing around the front and supposedly, several of their secrets are worked into it--how cool is that?

One of my first glimpses of Alumnae Panhellenics was our next door neighbor, who insisted on growing pansies every summer! She also kept the latest Trident on the coffee table at all times!

Now that's TOTALLY cool!!! Wonder which one, and how secret those secrets are?

Please don't hate me for posting this, but I think it's gorgeous!:

http://www.alphadeltapi.org/uploads/...anager/175.jpg

I can't wait until our house is bulit so we can plant pansies in the front! :)

at fsu,the tri delta house has pansies as does the theta house, dg has the anchor.

when sae was on campus they had a lifesize lion statue that we sorority girls tried to paint-all the time.

gamma phi beta has a crescent just below the roof line-very cool!

think that is all in the way of symbolic yard decorations.

The DG house has an anchor in the yard- I have yet to see a DG house that doesn't. The Phi Sig house had these pyramids of dirt on either side of the entrace that were covered in flowers. It looked neat when they were in bloom. But then Phi Sig left campus and we (AOII) took over the house. However since we were just leasing it to start out with, we had to leave the pyramids. It made for interesting rush conversations!
The SAE house had two stone lions on either side of the front door that rival fraternities were always trying to paint.

Yeah, he is cute. He'd be even cuter if the buildings and grounds folks would run water to him.

oh yea...i forgot to mention that our DG chapter has a big anchor next to some benches in their front yard...if only we could have a giant panda statue lol!!!

We have a big pot of ivy sitting by our door. We have deferred recruitment, so I remember walking by and thinking that it was weird because ivy usually grows as a vine, but our houses are university owned, so I don't think we're allowed to do any of our own landscaping. Also, we have fake ivy garlands with bordeaux ribbons above all the windows in our chapter room.

The KKG house at William and Mary has a beautiful iris garden on the side of the house.

Every college campus we visited in the Admissions Process that had an SAE chapter with a house had lions.

You need to ask Carnation about those irises! ;)

The Gamma Phi house at USC (So Calif) has a brick wall in the shape of a crescent moon near the front doors!

i can't believe that i forgot this....

the fraternities used to paint their crests on the front walks of all the sororities every year, most often under cover of darkness. they were very orderly and fraternal and did not paint over another organizations crest.