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.  

• 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 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.