Sylvene Fleming has been blooming for nearly a century

  • Sylvene Fleming (above and below), who turned 99 on Tuesday, sits in front of a huge azalea bush on the side of her home off of Old Highway 29 on Thursday, April 10. She planted the flowers a few years after moving there in 1956. (Photo/Rose Scoggins)
    Sylvene Fleming (above and below), who turned 99 on Tuesday, sits in front of a huge azalea bush on the side of her home off of Old Highway 29 on Thursday, April 10. She planted the flowers a few years after moving there in 1956. (Photo/Rose Scoggins)

    At first, Sylvene Fleming said she “didn’t know what to tell.”

    The then almost 99-year-old sat in her home off of Old Highway 29 on a Thursday afternoon – one of the days a week she travels back to Har…