West TV Girl Scout Troup plants tree with Cedar Mill Garden Club
also covered by the Oregonian 5/25 “Girl Scouts plant tree at West Tualatin View Elementary“
The Cedar Mill Garden Club contacted the Washington County Tree Code Group looking for an opportunity to donate and help plant a tree in honor of Arbor Day 2011. One of the tree group members had a daughter who’s Girl Scout Troop was attempting to earn their Eco-Action Girl Scout badge. So Paulette Busch from the Garden Club worked with Sandi Schmunk, co-leader of the 4th grade Girl Scout Troop 1606 from West Tualatin View Elementary school, to arrange a tree planting on school grounds during Arbor Week, 2011.
Replacing the dirt
Paulette came to the site and selected an appropriate planting location and worked with her garden club to select an appropriate tree for the partially shaded location, a flowering native dogwood cultivar.
Six of the Garden Club members met with the girl scout troup at the school on April 20 and introduced the tree and tree care to the girls. Erik Mace from the Tree Code Group also presented materials on the importance of trees in the urban settings. One of the Garden Club members surprised the girls with the information that she had also gone to school at West TV when she was a child, and another reported that she had been the school Librarian there many years ago!
Planting with the Guidance of Paulette Busch (right on ground)
Then the girls completed digging the hole at the planting location and planted the tree under the expert instruction of the Garden Club members.
The girls will also be responsible for taking care of and watering the tree through the summer and the next school year, their last year at this school. This should be enough time for this particular variety of tree to become self sufficient and no longer need regular watering.
Join me in thanking the CM Garden Club for their contribution to our community by attending their plant sale on May 7th and 8th at the John Quincy Adams Young House (118th and Cornell).
