Youth Horticulture Education / Daisy Scouts
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.
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
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.
