Schools & Youth

As part of our mission to beautify Bucks County, Bucks Beautiful strives to plant the horticultural seed in our youth, for they are truly the future. We engage students in various ways by providing hands-on learning opportunities.  Below are just some examples of school projects, with all the latest reported in our Newsletters and on our social media accounts.

  • Scholarships to Bucks County students pursuing study in horticulture and associated fields.
  • In June 2024, Bucks Beautiful teamed up with students from CB East High School to create a native pollinator space within the Buckingham Township wetlands.  The project was co-funded by students from Holicong Middle School’s 7th Grade Penn Program, who raised money dedicated for native trees.  
  • We sponsored multiple horticultural endeavors between 2022 and 2024 at Jamison Elementary School in Warwick.  These included a Sensory Garden, a sustainable Vegetable Garden, Bulbs for Bucks Daffodil installation and a Wildflower Meadow  to memorialize former student Shane Sloms.  This beautiful tribute serves the students as a wonderful outdoor classroom setting, where students conducted a butterfly release.    
  • In 2021, our nonprofit hosted “Daffodils for Dominic” at Kutz Elementary School in Doylestown.  Ten thousand bulbs were installed on school grounds to memorialize former student Dominic Liples, who passed away from brain cancer.  Students, staff, friends and family members participated by hand planting 500 daffodil bulbs in honor of Dominic around the school flagpole.  
  • Bucks Beautiful donated 5,000 daffodil bulbs in 2019 to Bridge Valley Elementary School in Furlong.  This important project was to memorialize student Aum Kalanuria, a first grader who tragically passed away 6 months before.  Students participated by planting a portion of the bulbs near the flag pole in honor of their former classmate.  We installed a memorial planting at Groveland Elementary School in Doylestown in 2018.  We were honored to bestow the school families with these perennial blooms as an everlasting tribute to their lost students.     
  • Bucks Beautiful has a history of providing support for public gardens. In 2017, we expanded our community garden support to provide our first educational garden at Central Bucks West High School.  Westylvania is the inner courtyard garden at West, where Vice Principal Cantrell works with his students, Matt Benzie from Indigenous Ingenuities and other volunteers to create a peaceful native habitat that is beautiful to view from inside the building as well as function as an outside classroom.  Another school garden installation we provided was for the New Hope-Solebury Middle School.  

  • Our engagement with schools provides opportunities for children to learn about gardening, such as the second-grade class of Willow Dale Elementary School in 2017.  The kids really enjoyed the experience as shown by the almost 100 handmade Thank You notes sent to us; sweet little works of art!