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Youth Horticulture Education / Daisy Scouts

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    "Lafayette Garden Club Bridge Memorial Garden Daisy Scout Project"


May 4, 2014

Twenty-seven Daisy Girl Scouts from the Acadiana area met with Lafayette Garden Club volunteers to

plant flowers at Lafayette Garden Club’s Bridge Memorial Garden, on East St. Mary Blvd. and Girard

Park Drive, near University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s Alumni House, on Saturday, May 3, 2014. The

event was coordinated by Genny Vaughn, Program Specialist for Girl Scouts Pines to the Gulf;

University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s Grounds Manager Mike Hess, and Horticulture Foreman Claude

Douglas; Manda Harson, Lafayette Garden Club’s Memorial/Honorary Garden’s Chairperson and

Lafayette Garden Club Daisy Scout Committee members Lorraine Allain, Margaret Hargroder, Julie Haack, Jeanie Richard, Mary Toce and

Henrietta Boriskie, Daisy Scout Chairperson.

Julie Haack addressed the group of Daisy Scouts. Lafayette Garden Club Daisy Scouts Committee members guided the young Daisy Scouts as

they planted red begonias and white pentas in the Bridge Memorial Garden flower beds. Mary Toce and Margaret Hargroder led the Daisy

Scouts as they planted individual pots of vinca flowers to take home. Margaret Hargroder then gave the Daisy Scouts their “I Love to Garden”

merit badges, which they earned by planting red begonias and white pentas in Lafayette Garden Club’s Bridge Memorial Garden


2013 DAISY SCOUTS PLANT RED AND WHITE FLOWER GARDEN ON ULL CAMPUS 

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Twenty-three Daisy Scouts from the Acadiana area, their

leaders and Lafayette Garden Club volunteers planted a

red and white themed Bridge Garden at the ULL Alumni

Center, on Saturday, April 27. Mary Toce, of Lafayette 

Garden Club, led the Scouts in planting potted dianthus

flowers to bring home, and Henrietta Boriskie presented

the young Scouts with their "Plant a Garden" merit

badges. Sarah Schoeffler addressed the group of Daisy

Scouts about gardening, before the young Scouts started

planting the flowers in the Bridge Garden.Lafayette Garden Club volunteers working with

the Daisy Scouts were Angel Broussard, Claire Moody, Sarah Schoeffler, Mary Toce, Jan Wyatt

and Henrietta Boriskie. Also pictured is Claude Douglas, ULL's horticulture foreman, who

provided plants, mulch and garden soil for this Daisy Scout planting day.

2012 Daisy Scouts Plant Flowers at ULL Bridge Garden

Thanks to Mike Hess, ULL Grounds Manager, and Claude Douglas, ULL Gardener, Girl Scouts

USA and Lafayette Garden Club.
Committee members, thirteen Daisy Scouts from the

Acadiana area, planted red begonias and white pentas at Lafayette Garden
Club’s Bridge

Garden on the ULL campus, on Saturday, April 28. The young Scouts were presented with the

pictured Girl Scouts
Plant & Garden badges, which they earned today, by Scout Leader,

Michelle Scott.


Vermilionville Butterfly Garden Daisy Scout Project

On Saturday, April 24, 2010,Daisy Girl Scouts planted a butterfly garden and

landscaped the entrance sign at Vermilionville Cajun/Creole Park in Lafayette. Julie

Haack spoke to the Daisy Scouts about gardening as they prepared individual pots of

flower seeds to take home. The event was coordinated by Shadon Hannie, Program

Specialist for Girl Scouts Pines to the Gulf, Margo Addison, Vermilionville gardener,

along with Jan Wyatt, Kathy Van Ness, Nancy Sleeth, Sarah Schoeffler, Claire

Moody, Stacy Lee, Margaret Hargroder, Julie Haack and Henrietta Boriskie, who

shopped for plants, helped prepare flower beds and guided the Daisy Scouts as they

planted the flowers. The National Garden Club Award for Youth Horticulture/ Daisy

Scouts, for comparable size Garden Clubs, was won by Lafayette Garden Club, for

this Vermilionville Daisy Scouts project in May 2010.

UL Memorial Garden Daisy Scout Project

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Volunteering Club members are partners with the

Lafayette Area Daisy Scouts to educate

approximately 40 young girls about horticulture

through planting seeds and potted plants in beds in a

civic area.

Chair: Henrietta Boriskie

Co-Chairs Sarah Schoeffler and Julie Haack.

Committee: Mary Toce, Claire Moody, Jan Wyatt.



On Saturday, May 21, eleven Daisy Girl Scouts planted daylilies, white begonias
 
and red pentas on the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s campus, as part of

Lafayette Garden Club’s work in promoting National Garden Club’s goal of

providing youth horticulture education,promote the love of gardening and civic and

environmental responsibility.  These Daisy Scouts today earned their Plant & Garden

Girl Scouts Badges, making them eligible to now become Brownie Scouts. Mary

Toce and Sarah Schoeffler addressed the Daisy Scouts about the planning and

planting of this garden project, which is located at a beautiful setting on the campus

complete with bridge, brook and one of the three honorary Gardens planted earlier

by Lafayette Garden Club under the direction of Honorary Gardens Chair Mary Toce.

The event was coordinated by Genevieve Vaughn, Program Specialist for Girl

Scouts Pines to the Gulf, and Henrietta Boriskie, Daisy Scout Project Chair,

along with Sarah Schoeffler, Claire Moody and Jan Wyatt, of Lafayette Garden

Club, who shopped for plants, planted the flower beds and guided the Daisy

Scouts as they planted.

The National Garden Club Award for Youth Horticulture/ Daisy Scouts, for

comparable size Garden Clubs, was won by Lafayette Garden Club, for the

Vermilionville Butterfly Garden and front entrance landscaping done by Daisy

Scouts and Garden Club Committee in May 2010.