Butterfly Garden at Oakhill School/Plant Sale

WOW! What an exciting project, not only from a design and gardening standpoint, but also from the standpoint of helping the Oak Hill School students.

Oak Hill School is Tuscaloosa City School’s premier school for teaching students with special abilities.  Oak Hill was established in 1979 in order to provide an appropriate education for students with special needs.  The facility consists of 14 classrooms, fine arts department, adaptive physical education department, heated therapy pool, multi-sensory room, and Family and Career Center.

Fran and Les Duncan, worked with Teacher Julia Busch to design the butterfly and with the students to construct the wings and body. Then on Earth Day, the team, assisted by Master Gardner Pam Adams, set the plants and mulched the garden. They had enough edge bricks left to construct an herb garden on the berm of the fish pond. This was a wonderful gardening opportunity. We look forward to watching wings bloom and working with the students on future projects

Here are some photos that show the Butterfly Garden installation at Oak Hill School from beginning to finish. Fran Duncan sent these photos. She and her husband, Les, both MGS, were in charge of the project and contributed this article. Click on the picture to enlarge.