International Baccalaureate students partner
with city, club to create butterfly garden
What started out as a small service project for three International Baccalaureate students at Carrollton High School has turned into a true partnership with the City of Carrollton that will provide years of pleasure for visitors to the Greenbelt and help the environment in the process.
The collaboration, initiated by IB seniors Adeline Lewis, Emily Chesser and Pate Duncan last school year, has produced a butterfly/pollinator garden at Laura's Park on Hay's Mill Road. Loved by butterflies and bees, the plot of perennials and annuals is colorful and bright, welcoming visitors to the park, a trailhead for the Carrollton Greenbelt walking/biking path.
Kent Johnston, superintendent of the city's Parks and Facilities Maintenance Division, said the garden idea the students presented to the city was a great complement to his department's efforts to improve parks with pollinator gardens to attract beneficial bees and butterflies.
"Our plans just morphed together to create this great feature for the park," said Johnston, who also shared the city's plans to expand the park's garden to include more native plants and seating areas. The trailhead park is the site of the long-gone Hay's Mill that operated on Buffalo Creek there for many years.
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