PHS flower beds get facelift
Nicole Tavenner
James Sagmiller, Westland Seed’s nursery manager, shows students how to plant perennial bulbs.
Nicole Tavenner
Montana Morigeau helps prepare flower beds at the eastern entrance of Polson High School.
Nicole Tavenner
Nicole Tavenner
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POLSON – The eastern entrance of Polson High School will soon be awash in Pirate Pride colors thanks to the efforts of thirteen senior students.
Purple, gold and green landscaping was completed to fill a service component of the students’ project-based Jobs for Montana Graduates II class. The class teaches career, leadership, social and civic skills.
Mark Rochin, instructor for the class, said that Delaney’s Landscape Center in Polson donated the landscape design for the project while Westland Seed of Ronan donated half the cost of the plants and soil.
“We are very appreciative of the help from Delaney’s and Westland Seed,” Rochin said.
With monies leftover from a first semester JMG I class, students decided to spruce up flower beds on the east side of the school along the faculty parking lot that had gotten “pretty shabby.”
Students dug everything out of the old beds, cleared the weeds and then planted new perennial flowers and shrubs.
Westland Seed’s nursery manager helped deliver the plants and showed students how to plant and care for them. Forty perennial bulbs were planted with room for 60 more to be added in the fall.
“It was a great service project for them,” Rochin said. “It was a lot of fun – I think they got a lot out of it … Giving back to the school and the community.”
“Now the challenge is just to keep the weeds out,” he said, adding that he hopes the challenge is one his next JMG class is up for.
