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Recently I was asked
to help out with planting flowers for my school, the Miller Education
Center – East “Connect Program”. I believe it was a very
good opportunity for me to learn something new. 
I participated in
going with my teacher and fellow students to Al’s Garden Center to
pick out different types of flowers to plant for our butterfly Garden.
While we were there looking at all the different types of flowers and
wondering which ones would work best with the type of environment our
school is located in an employee came over and helped us decide what would
work best. The employee that helped us showed us all the types of flowers
that we could plant that people could step on with out them being
destroyed. She also helped point out the different types of flowers that
would grow best in the area we were 
planting in yet
leaving the decision to us on which ones we really wanted to use. It
was very helpful that six plants were donated by Al’s Garden Center
and that the SOLV program helped us with providing tools and a $100 grant
to purchase the rest of the plants to make our project happen. I
learned a lot the day we planted the flowers from Weston Miller a master
gardener with the OSU Extension services. Weston took time out of his
busy day to come and teach us how to plant correctly. He taught us how
big the hole needed to be compared to the flowers and that we needed to
make the sides around the hole inside soft so that the roots can grow
through the dirt. For me I loved the chance to have people come out 
and teach us how to
do something to help better our school. I didn’t have to participate
in this project but I am vary glad I did for the fact I learned stuff that
I didn’t know and I learned a lot more about team work. When you
have a team to work with where everyone is participating things go a lot
faster and come out a lot better. Now we have a beautiful butterfly garden
and I can’t wait to see how our work turns out when winter is over.
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