Photo by Amy DenneyGirl Scout Troop 2062 at Purple Sage Elementary School in the Anderson Mill neighborhood revitalized the butterfly garden at the school.
Saddened by the demise of the butterfly garden at Purple Sage Elementary School in Northwest Austin, Girl Scout Troop 2062 set out to revive the garden and bring back the butterflies.
"We wanted to make the Purple Sage garden look better because it had a lot of dead plants," said scout Aida Dance, a Purple Sage fourth-grader. "It was supposed to have purple flowers."
The girls wrote letters to Home Depot asking the company if it would be willing to donate the plants and supplies to help them revitalize the garden, which is in the Anderson Mill neighborhood. Aida's father works for the company, and he dropped off the letters. This spring, they learned Home Depot had decided to donate all the supplies for the garden, amounting to about $1,000 in donations.
Girl Scout Delilah Thornburg, also a Purple Sage fourth-grader, said the girls took some of the plants home to take care of the plants that had not yet died.
